Orange_Crush
Resident windbag genius
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2004
- Messages
- 44,919
- Likes
- 92,071
Personally, I believe they are useful idiots, sacrificing themselves to the orchestrators of an ongoing soft coup, and those orchestrators are the ones with the most blood on their hands.
They are being instructed to do things that ratchet things up and add chaos and anxiety to situations that are already chaotic and anxious enough. Bullhorns, expletives and whistles are NOT going to make federal agents think and respond more clearly at times and in places where they are being engaged by crowds that present themselves as hostile to their presence.
- Portray the target government as illegitimate, authoritarian, corrupt, or “fascist.”
- Front-load allegations: accuse incumbent of planning the crimes the opposition intends to commit (rigging, regression, dictatorship).
- Fund and train NGOs, student groups, and opposition politicians to repeat a unified message.
- Create/amplify a unifying symbol or theme (e.g., Orange Man Bad).
- Manufacture an electoral crisis.
- Street mobilization. <--------------------------We are here----------------------
- Public appeals to and moral blackmail of the military and police: “You’re with the people, not the regime.”
- Promises of immunity, future positions for defectors.
- Threats to those who support target government.
- Provoke a response, flood media with images of “peaceful protesters” being attacked. <--------------------------And sadly/especially here----------------------
- International legitimation as foreign governments and media recognizes opposition leaders as “legitimate” authority.
- Sanctions, frozen assets, diplomatic isolation applied to sitting government.
- New elections scheduled under international supervision.
