Short diary.
Three things have happened in the last week that lead me to conclude that Republians both at the national level in congress and in the Q-verse are working towards fomenting a military coup. The 1/6 Putsch having failed, they realized that the military wasn’t sufficiently radicalized to overcome the inherent bias towards civilian leadership.
First, there was Ted Cruz’s widely panned retweet of Russian propaganda, targeted at a US Military advertisement that featured a woman.
Next, there was the combined effort of Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw’s recent website, where they invited members of the military to post their experiences with “wokeness” in the military.
And tonight, General Michael Flynn openly called for a military-style coup similar to what has occurred in Myanmar to a screaming crowd of Q-anon “patriot” loyalists. Here’s the Video.
Look, it’s easy to dunk on all of this. It’s easy for us, on the left, to dismiss all of this and make some hay making fun of it. However, there’s a few things to keep in mind.
1) The Republican Party is a fascist party.
2) Fascists grow movements through propaganda, racist and sexist wedge politics, and appeals to people’s worst nature.
3) None of us are the intended audience for this push.
We need to learn to see what they are doing, call it by name, and then push our government to respond with whatever force is necessary to stop them. Cotton, Crenshaw, and Cruz are all working on the political end of things to try and split the military away from their oath and devotion to civilian command in order to make them more open to participating in a violent coup.
General Flynn is pushing from the other angle, trying to normalize the idea of a military coup among the millions of screaming radicalized fascists he’s been cultivating for the last few years. Flynn’s specialty — his training and experience — is in psyops just like this. He is dangerous, he is not a madman, he is working the angles he knows how to work in order to overthrow a democracy.
Call your senators and representatives. Demand they push the army to recall Flynn to active duty and then court marshal him for insurrection, sedition, and yes even Treason. Do the same for Crenshaw and Cotton. All three of them are undermining good order and discipline in the US Army, and all three of them can be recalled and held accountable for their actions. Don’t take this lightly. Don’t dismiss it. The military is *ripe* for this sort of radicalization. We barely held the line in January. This sort of coordinated push could make for a very real military style coup against our government.
Tuesday, Jun 1, 2021 · 1:36:20 PM +00:00
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Madisonian
Tucker Carlson recently escalated his attacks on the US Military. They began with attacking the military for including women, and have now shifted into a more vague “the Military isn’t protecting us anymore” angle.
Both of the attacks are meant to appeal to the already misogynist or radicalized elements in the armed forces. This is how Republican messaging works — eventually every Republican gets on board whatever train comes out of the fascist right wing media circus. Soon we’ll see all of them hedging on the “military readiness question” or some such bullshit.
This is how fascist propaganda works when it is allowed to grow and build over time from behind the shield of the 1st Amendment and the thin veil of fascist propaganda dolled up as journalism.