Carl: have you thought of taking your mind mapping and other tools to the DNC? Or one of candidates seeking to be Chair? You could open their eyes to an entirely new process that will help them dig out of the morass they are in. IMHO, messaging support to win multi-billion dollar contracts can teach all of us how it would be helpful to weave your magic. It would open their eyes and minds. Hell, (easy for me to say!) you could even offer to demonstrate your model and process pro bono. On cue they see the value, then you can talk about longer term business arrangements.
I have thought about that, Jim, but don’t feel like there is any interest there. I know it will be helpful. What do you think they do all day long? I may send them a guide.
People were able to understand penicillin. That has no meaning at all, but they need lots of that. The movie Psycho? There is only one person that will not get psycopathic neo-fascist. The play is to put the terms into use so that it becomes part of the lexicon. The alternative is not getting us anywhere. Of more succinctly, the alternative is getting us nowhere.
Carl, the fact, and it's a fact,that the alternative is getting us nowhere doesn't mean other alternative is necessary better or guarantee it's going to get us somewhere. I think the points I wrote in my prior post are a valid criticism. I think the cashier in your story, admiring trump for not talking a salary, it's totally unaware of ,say, his wife Melania, is taking 40 million $ from Bezos for the only reason of having trump forget that he owns WaPo . And is totally ignorant of how much richer the trump family got since inauguration, merely in four days. This guy, one of millions, would never realize that a president getting illegally richer really, don't need to collect a salary.
You and your team are in the right track and I admire you for trying to find an effective message to reach most of the people but I think the preferred by you won't accomplish the fundamental objective.
Thank you for your insights. At the end of the day it is not me, but us. I am pushing a wet noodle up a hill, but it is only hill I have to work with at the moment. If something more faithful to the arché or more accurate, it will take off on its own merits. We will continue yo look.
Carl, I was on Twitter and on X for awhile. The word fascists is thrown around so easily. People in the MAGA movement call Democrats fascists (among other things) It’s like the word has become useless because it’s overused and nobody’s is sure of what it means. Sometimes I used the acronym maga into MAGAts to make it sound like maggots.
I watch the unfolding of the assault on our Federal system. While most look at the carnage, I see the impact on the Treasury. The Executive is making way for a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. That is what I see. Money being laid up to be stolen.
The confirmation of Hegseth indicates the gamesmanship in the Senate is at a high level. The max number of no votes was 3 to get Hegseth confirmed. It is magic. Drama. Clearly there is a lack of empathy and caring that is so prevalent with Republican Senators. Focused on our service members, their lack of empathy and caring shows they suffer psychopathy. Their support of their neo-fascist leader makes them all neo-fascists.
Do you need any other proof that we face an army of psychopathic neo-fascists (PNFs)? I appreciate those that do not like the name and will not support it; however, the name is deadly accurate. Odd words like misogyny and cenophobia are fine, but psychopathic neo-fascist is not fine? Fine! But I beg to differ. Psychopathic neo-fascist is their specific medical malady and political ideology! Enough with inaccurate labels. Knowing exactly who and what they are is critical to knowing their tactics. I suggest we learn the term, because that is exactly who we fight.
Carl, I believe you are spot on. My major concern is that “Heather, Joyce, Lorissa, Jennifer, Gloria, Scott, Jeff, Steve, Aaron etc.” do not or will not feel the urgency & will just keep doing what they do. (Nb: I’m not familiar with one name on this list & at least two of the names are writers before they are politicos.) My point is that we can’t count on political writers to put forth a unified message - they have an inherent conflict of interest.
I agree with the person who suggested approaching the Party. I also agree with your response - that the Party won’t give you/us time of day,
Last thing - Dem leadership must hear from us that we are fed the F up with the way the Party is being run. We want some input and we want some accountability for failures. From there, we share your framework. They may flip us the bird as they’ve been doing, in which case we know that the Party can’t be saved & the only goal is ousting the psycho-Neo-fascists.
You/we must try for an audience, though. DNC leadership election will matter, too, but mostly because so many of us are done with DNC opacity.
Nuff said for now. Thanks so much for your good work so far. I’ll continue to promote your efforts & to weigh in when I have something to offer.
Lorissa Rinehart and Gloria Horton-Young are two writers with great pens that I follow. You and Jim McCarthy may well have spurred me to going at the DNC directly. Jaime is still in charge as far as I can see. I will work on that post this weekend. I am appreciative of your support and take it seriously. Sharing and restacking this information should help.
Gloria H-Y is a powerful writer/poet. Her writing leaves me speechless, honestly. I shouldn’t speak for her, but I believe she’s a poet first. If my read is accurate, she’s entered the political arena because she has no choice anymore.
I’ll have to familiarize myself w/Lorissa R!
DNC will elect new leadership very soon, but the new leader won’t take control for many months.
Jeff T is one of a kind. No idea how SS ranks political/satire/Dem snark, but he’s got to be near the top. Unlike the more traditional op-ed types in the list, his writing (thankfully) leaves the nihilism to others. All the same, I don’t see him conforming to a message.
Anyway, my real point is that it is the pols who need to get on and stay on message. Our journalists (or whatever) are not going to do that because they don’t want to be the Fox of the left.
The DNC should be the target. And if they can’t be reached, they need to be starved of $dollars until they can.
You are spot on, Ruth K. Lorissa is an advocate of women’s rights, as am I. I am hamstrung by parents and an upbringing in the early 1950’s. Read Nic’s comment below.
In my own mind I think of Trump as a head termite. He and his maggots are eating away at the foundation of our society, government, country. They are foundation eaters.
Accuracy is key. The Walmart clerk, 25 year old male needing a definition knows to use a dictionary where the names are listed and defined. Labels are many and simple, but the name PNF is quite simple also and deadly accurate.
Dem strategy splintered, chaotic, not worked against malignant authoritarian foe bent on destroying American democracy. Trumpler, yes, is a psychopathic neofascist. I like the rhythm and you like Isabella Rossellini - the name and the gal. 😉
Carl, your thinking on strategy, naming it and consistency are important, but freedom-loving democracy is on its back foot. The current American authoritarian movement different this time, and GOP is only a party in name. It is MAGA now and they are fascists. The perfect storm of long-game factors overlapping, benefiting Trumpler specifically and the fascist right in general seem pretty complete, I’m afraid. It is outrageous for those of us who have noticed the flashing road signs. We have warned, wagged fingers, scolded friends, taught our children, but we, as a society sleep-walked into it. Lazy, stupid, selfish, propagandized and dumbed down Americans… Between the Fox industrial complex lie machine ever amplifying and 30 years strong/now state TV, our miseducated and deeply vulnerable to lies electorate, Leonard Leo’s right wingnut SCOTUS long game played to a tee, our epically dysfunctional, non-legislating Congress, social media garbage lie machines running white hot on hyper drive, a legal system with gaping holes large enough to drive a truck through and reliant on honor of POTUS completely absent in current criminal grifting lying thug who, oddly, continues to be gifted with lucky break after lucky break. I legit believe we’ve let go of our great society, as all great societies fail. We’re living inside the decades long demise of America for quite a while. I’d love to brainstorm on what’s behind us and what’s in front of us, but it feels not so good.
Have been reading Ray Dalio’s “Principles For Dealing With The Changing World Order” on why nations succeed and fail. The message is soothing for it reminds this was bound to happen. Gives me a little context, a little peace. Don’t get me wrong, if I thought I could help fight until and on behalf of sweeping into midterm control in enough time to mitigate any disaster that might wrestle us into the ocean before then, I’m in. We need large benefactors who want to save Lady Liberty, and your epic strategic concepts of fighting plans and strategies unlike anything in recent past, and the teams of organized soldiers marching to the beat across the nation in medium and frequency to combat and beat the MAGA sewer clowns lie machines and Elmo’s vast wallet.
Feels a bit futile and I’m worried about the next 728 days. What is happening with the new Democratic National Committee? They’d better get it right. We need them. They’re the very last hope. Carl, maybe we can help…
Nic, we stand together and our love will gather our army. We need the poisonous name for these psychopathic neo-fascists. We need a solid platform that will draw a following of all parties. We need our charismatic leader that can raise, rouse, and rile our army.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see a difference between the way George III Et Al and Trump II Et Al are governing America....when it gets right down to it.
Sociopath has an incompatible definition. You are off on accuracy. Sociopathy and psychopathy are explained in my posts. These words are in the dictionary. Dementia is a different ailment.
Comments are appreciated. Looking at words to replace psychopathic that retain accuracy. Help me out here.
Batty
Crazed
Cucko
Deviant
Kook
Loco
Lunatic
Maniacal
Neurotic
Psycho
Raving
Sick
Unhinged
Unstable
Wacko
The leaders are psychopaths or similar. The followers are deluded, ignorant, suckered cult members united by envy and resentment.
How about Egotistic.
The world does not matter to them except to satisfy their monstrous ego by attention, more money or more power.
They will NEVER have enough to satisfy their sick selves
Delusional
Deranged
I like your drift but
Psychopathic neo-fascist
Will be laughed at by many.
Too wonky.
"A President is not a King^
Maybe it's too "wonky," easily spun into oblivion? How about just "Psycho?"
Psycho Brothers.
Labels don’t work for me. When I say psychopathic neo-fascist, I am done, and you can use a dictionary from there. Contrived labels not so. Maybe:
Psychoneofascist
Psycho neo-fascist.
Psycho-neofascist
Psycho-neo-fascist
Brothers is too polite: Psycho Elites!
Psycho Whiney Boys
Or Psycho Blood Suckers
This explains the difference in psychopath and sociopath. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fight-psychopathic-neo-fascists?r=3m1bs
Carl: have you thought of taking your mind mapping and other tools to the DNC? Or one of candidates seeking to be Chair? You could open their eyes to an entirely new process that will help them dig out of the morass they are in. IMHO, messaging support to win multi-billion dollar contracts can teach all of us how it would be helpful to weave your magic. It would open their eyes and minds. Hell, (easy for me to say!) you could even offer to demonstrate your model and process pro bono. On cue they see the value, then you can talk about longer term business arrangements.
I have thought about that, Jim, but don’t feel like there is any interest there. I know it will be helpful. What do you think they do all day long? I may send them a guide.
Please send them a guide they need it! Brilliant idea psychopathic neo-fascist.
It is you, Elizabeth, and Ruth K and me against the world. (It seems like.)
I have a little disagreement with the Psychopatic Neo Fascist name.
It's hard to pronounce for many people.
Few people would know exactly what it means.
A much bigger group would have a pretty good idea of the meaning, me included.
Most people mainly people we want to reach won't have any idea and they may need an explanation which defeats the porpoise of a catchy slogan.
I think you should keep trying because the point you raised it fundamental.
People were able to understand penicillin. That has no meaning at all, but they need lots of that. The movie Psycho? There is only one person that will not get psycopathic neo-fascist. The play is to put the terms into use so that it becomes part of the lexicon. The alternative is not getting us anywhere. Of more succinctly, the alternative is getting us nowhere.
This explains the difference in psychopath and sociopath. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fight-psychopathic-neo-fascists?r=3m1bs
Carl, the fact, and it's a fact,that the alternative is getting us nowhere doesn't mean other alternative is necessary better or guarantee it's going to get us somewhere. I think the points I wrote in my prior post are a valid criticism. I think the cashier in your story, admiring trump for not talking a salary, it's totally unaware of ,say, his wife Melania, is taking 40 million $ from Bezos for the only reason of having trump forget that he owns WaPo . And is totally ignorant of how much richer the trump family got since inauguration, merely in four days. This guy, one of millions, would never realize that a president getting illegally richer really, don't need to collect a salary.
You and your team are in the right track and I admire you for trying to find an effective message to reach most of the people but I think the preferred by you won't accomplish the fundamental objective.
It's very nice to be in touch with you. 😄
Thank you for your insights. At the end of the day it is not me, but us. I am pushing a wet noodle up a hill, but it is only hill I have to work with at the moment. If something more faithful to the arché or more accurate, it will take off on its own merits. We will continue yo look.
Try pulling the wet noodle up the hill instead of pushing, it might work.
Stay in touch pls.
Carl, I was on Twitter and on X for awhile. The word fascists is thrown around so easily. People in the MAGA movement call Democrats fascists (among other things) It’s like the word has become useless because it’s overused and nobody’s is sure of what it means. Sometimes I used the acronym maga into MAGAts to make it sound like maggots.
I watch the unfolding of the assault on our Federal system. While most look at the carnage, I see the impact on the Treasury. The Executive is making way for a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. That is what I see. Money being laid up to be stolen.
The confirmation of Hegseth indicates the gamesmanship in the Senate is at a high level. The max number of no votes was 3 to get Hegseth confirmed. It is magic. Drama. Clearly there is a lack of empathy and caring that is so prevalent with Republican Senators. Focused on our service members, their lack of empathy and caring shows they suffer psychopathy. Their support of their neo-fascist leader makes them all neo-fascists.
Do you need any other proof that we face an army of psychopathic neo-fascists (PNFs)? I appreciate those that do not like the name and will not support it; however, the name is deadly accurate. Odd words like misogyny and cenophobia are fine, but psychopathic neo-fascist is not fine? Fine! But I beg to differ. Psychopathic neo-fascist is their specific medical malady and political ideology! Enough with inaccurate labels. Knowing exactly who and what they are is critical to knowing their tactics. I suggest we learn the term, because that is exactly who we fight.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fight-psychopathic-neo-fascists?r=3m1bs
Carl, I believe you are spot on. My major concern is that “Heather, Joyce, Lorissa, Jennifer, Gloria, Scott, Jeff, Steve, Aaron etc.” do not or will not feel the urgency & will just keep doing what they do. (Nb: I’m not familiar with one name on this list & at least two of the names are writers before they are politicos.) My point is that we can’t count on political writers to put forth a unified message - they have an inherent conflict of interest.
I agree with the person who suggested approaching the Party. I also agree with your response - that the Party won’t give you/us time of day,
Oops. Accidentally sent too soon.
Last thing - Dem leadership must hear from us that we are fed the F up with the way the Party is being run. We want some input and we want some accountability for failures. From there, we share your framework. They may flip us the bird as they’ve been doing, in which case we know that the Party can’t be saved & the only goal is ousting the psycho-Neo-fascists.
You/we must try for an audience, though. DNC leadership election will matter, too, but mostly because so many of us are done with DNC opacity.
Nuff said for now. Thanks so much for your good work so far. I’ll continue to promote your efforts & to weigh in when I have something to offer.
Lorissa Rinehart and Gloria Horton-Young are two writers with great pens that I follow. You and Jim McCarthy may well have spurred me to going at the DNC directly. Jaime is still in charge as far as I can see. I will work on that post this weekend. I am appreciative of your support and take it seriously. Sharing and restacking this information should help.
Gloria H-Y is a powerful writer/poet. Her writing leaves me speechless, honestly. I shouldn’t speak for her, but I believe she’s a poet first. If my read is accurate, she’s entered the political arena because she has no choice anymore.
I’ll have to familiarize myself w/Lorissa R!
DNC will elect new leadership very soon, but the new leader won’t take control for many months.
Jeff T is one of a kind. No idea how SS ranks political/satire/Dem snark, but he’s got to be near the top. Unlike the more traditional op-ed types in the list, his writing (thankfully) leaves the nihilism to others. All the same, I don’t see him conforming to a message.
Anyway, my real point is that it is the pols who need to get on and stay on message. Our journalists (or whatever) are not going to do that because they don’t want to be the Fox of the left.
The DNC should be the target. And if they can’t be reached, they need to be starved of $dollars until they can.
JMHO.
You are spot on, Ruth K. Lorissa is an advocate of women’s rights, as am I. I am hamstrung by parents and an upbringing in the early 1950’s. Read Nic’s comment below.
Lorissa has started showing up in my feed now. The algorithm has ears!
I hope you like her.
RATS: Republicans are Trumps Suckers
In my own mind I think of Trump as a head termite. He and his maggots are eating away at the foundation of our society, government, country. They are foundation eaters.
Impeach this psycho now!
How about ZEROBRAINER CULTISTS, or, Zerobrainers in short? One word. Like Cher, except stupid, gullible, and ugly, and Cher is not any of that.
Zerobrainers! (political zombies). Sorta rolls off the tongue.
Psychopathic neo-fascist (PNF) is that name. Yes a good name, But the Walmart clerk, 25 year old male, the suburbanite cannot define.
Make it simple, "Mentally ill greedy bulling bastard"
Accuracy is key. The Walmart clerk, 25 year old male needing a definition knows to use a dictionary where the names are listed and defined. Labels are many and simple, but the name PNF is quite simple also and deadly accurate.
I like PNF-(Psychopathic Neo Facsiest). The simple abbreviation linked to the term.
Everybody knows what PMS means.
A convert. And thanks for the good input!
Dem strategy splintered, chaotic, not worked against malignant authoritarian foe bent on destroying American democracy. Trumpler, yes, is a psychopathic neofascist. I like the rhythm and you like Isabella Rossellini - the name and the gal. 😉
Carl, your thinking on strategy, naming it and consistency are important, but freedom-loving democracy is on its back foot. The current American authoritarian movement different this time, and GOP is only a party in name. It is MAGA now and they are fascists. The perfect storm of long-game factors overlapping, benefiting Trumpler specifically and the fascist right in general seem pretty complete, I’m afraid. It is outrageous for those of us who have noticed the flashing road signs. We have warned, wagged fingers, scolded friends, taught our children, but we, as a society sleep-walked into it. Lazy, stupid, selfish, propagandized and dumbed down Americans… Between the Fox industrial complex lie machine ever amplifying and 30 years strong/now state TV, our miseducated and deeply vulnerable to lies electorate, Leonard Leo’s right wingnut SCOTUS long game played to a tee, our epically dysfunctional, non-legislating Congress, social media garbage lie machines running white hot on hyper drive, a legal system with gaping holes large enough to drive a truck through and reliant on honor of POTUS completely absent in current criminal grifting lying thug who, oddly, continues to be gifted with lucky break after lucky break. I legit believe we’ve let go of our great society, as all great societies fail. We’re living inside the decades long demise of America for quite a while. I’d love to brainstorm on what’s behind us and what’s in front of us, but it feels not so good.
Have been reading Ray Dalio’s “Principles For Dealing With The Changing World Order” on why nations succeed and fail. The message is soothing for it reminds this was bound to happen. Gives me a little context, a little peace. Don’t get me wrong, if I thought I could help fight until and on behalf of sweeping into midterm control in enough time to mitigate any disaster that might wrestle us into the ocean before then, I’m in. We need large benefactors who want to save Lady Liberty, and your epic strategic concepts of fighting plans and strategies unlike anything in recent past, and the teams of organized soldiers marching to the beat across the nation in medium and frequency to combat and beat the MAGA sewer clowns lie machines and Elmo’s vast wallet.
Feels a bit futile and I’m worried about the next 728 days. What is happening with the new Democratic National Committee? They’d better get it right. We need them. They’re the very last hope. Carl, maybe we can help…
Nic, we stand together and our love will gather our army. We need the poisonous name for these psychopathic neo-fascists. We need a solid platform that will draw a following of all parties. We need our charismatic leader that can raise, rouse, and rile our army.
We do need to find the one who answers this mighty problem before us and, yes, Trumpler is a psychopathic neofascist.
“Wish Obama could run for a third term,” she said dreaming of things that cannot be…
Well, when Trump makes it legal for a third term and runs again, Obama can get back in.
Obama stayed the status quo, squandered all that lovely charisma. We need an MLK, a younger Bernie, Jamie Raskin?, AOC?
Nicely put!
Oh boy…
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see a difference between the way George III Et Al and Trump II Et Al are governing America....when it gets right down to it.
Trump can be overruled by the judiciary. The legislative branch can also hamper his goals with the purse strings.
Demented sociopath - accurate, short, to the point.
Sociopath has an incompatible definition. You are off on accuracy. Sociopathy and psychopathy are explained in my posts. These words are in the dictionary. Dementia is a different ailment.