It’s on. You’re in it. Fight it.
Why we fight the budget battle this week cannot be a process fight. A both sides fight. The media will frame it that way because that’s what the media does. LOLGOP with help from Marcy Wheeler and Anat Shenker-Osorio suggested last week that you, Dear Reader, have a roll to play:
We must say loudly and proudly, “No dollars for dictatorship,” emphasizing that this fight isn’t just about Trump ripping healthcare from those who need it most to bail out billionaires. It’s also about restoring Congress’s place in our Constitutional order and rejecting the normalization of authoritarianism.
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From the links we click to the posts we share, to the words we say on any platform, to whatever following we have, it all matters. It all makes the reality that the mainstream media will be feeding back to Democratic members, who must be motivated not to cave.
“We must act as if we are part of the fight, that we have some agency, and we’re not just victims of our often feckless Democratic leadership,” Jason Sattler explains.
As Marcy notes, hectoring weak Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer will not advance the ball. Our pressure campaign on this budget has to focus on Republicans and the war they are waging against the American people. In Anat-speak, “Continuing to finance fascism means … that this isn’t fascism.”
Check out Marcy’s and Anat’s vids on this.
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Our friend Susie Madrak is experiencing a cash crunch. She’s looking for whatever help you might lend this week. Making things worse is an insurance settlement delayed on account of paperwork. Plus:
In the meantime, my neurologist suspects I have an obscure lupus-like autoimmune disorder that’s causing all kinds of weird symptoms (for one thing, she says the signals my brain are sending to my feet aren’t making it through and I’m off balance) but first she has to rule out blood cancers, etc. There’s also a lesion on my lung and they want an MRI.
Susie has been posting at Suburban Guerrilla and Crooks & Liars for 20 years. It’s a calling, not a great-paying gig. We need to stick together. Help out Susie if you can.