Comment on How does someone run for office in todays time without selling out? by carp30mnia

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carp30mnia · 3/11/2025, 4:18:18 AM · permalink

Oh interesting, wasn't aware that was similar to the 'Painter's' playbook lol
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That's why ideally in the switch up scenario you have both/either:  
A) **Loyalists on the take:** foster a large/growing team with you that represent an 'underground' movement within a movement that had same intentions as you from the get-go. Prop them up to also being elected in strategic positions getting you 'in' with their support to implement the changes you want. (AIPAC have been largely successful with little resistance. Try to become informed about their modus operandi. Imo good guys don't organize covertly enough.).  
**Challenge**: the larger the group, the harder it is to keep track of and account for infiltrators within your own infiltration operation. If you wanted to be %%seriously%% under the radar, use covert operations. Ex: abandon all telecommunications involving your true purpose, only deal in physically written communication with other trusted members if you must, develop coded language, etc.

B) **Followers that already agree mostly**: Garner enough of a following with your brand of anti-corruption, while continuing to interpret things you support within their 'lens'. So you wouldn't be bait and switching them so much as making them come onto your side with reasons they appreciate.  
Ex: You could present abolishing the federal reserve with arguments that the base would agree with. Eventually trickle in other reasons not priority to the general base once it's more widely accepted, and they'll be more inclined to want further reasons to *dislike it* and feed into their bias. Aka more food to feed an already generated emotional investment.

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Yes, that would be the best method. But remember that the last time those powers were openly and loudly criticized was Occupy Wallstreet, how quickly that was shut down, and that's when identity politics were manifested to attack and divide people that had united against them. https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/is-identity-politics-a-distraction/

You'd have to make the attack more subtle and 'stomach-able' perhaps to those against it so resistance to it would be more difficult to directly attack at first, but also seeded into the mind of everyone. You can first introduce it as "Federal Reserve Reform" before going the slippery slope down to abolishment  much later on.  
  
Basically you have to become an expert in the psychological warfare currently being waged, unfortunately.  
  
At least there's always **C) Find a plot, community, and secede as a last resort:** If impossible to achieve on a national level... You, your collaborators, and followers can physically concentrate in and gain control of a state/province/etc. and then try to secede. At the end of the day you need at least SOME LAND and assured genuine representation in order to self-determine your future.

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maurice · 3/11/2025, 3:49:08 PM · permalink

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