Keeping your powder dry, choosing your battles, and emphasizing effective communication are the strategies that I agree will provide the best bang for the buck. Having now run out of cliches on my part, I think you have listed excellent points that I hope to see manifested by the public and, if dreams are counted, by our rational, reasonable political representatives in this next Congress. The priorities for effective resistance, however, seem hazy to me at this point. There does not seem to be an organizing force among the Dems, who one would expect to provide the basic strategic targets and focus for the effort. Perhaps they are still trying to identify the path that would oppose the worst anticipated policies without goring any of their own funding oxes (donors). For example, expecting Shumer, who represents Wall Street in more ways than one, to get onboard completely with Bernie Sanders' bill capping bank card interest rates at 10%, is unrealistic. Even if he were to sign onto Sanders' bill, it would likely be as a virtue signal, he and his donors secure in the knowledge that it will never pass.
Enough in the weeds. I just wanted to support your observations and recommendations at the point. These days, I feel a bit like King Theoden, standing on the walls of Helms Deep, the rain pelting down, 10,000 orcs massed below him ready to attack with no quarter to be expected, quietly memorializing the dawn of the great struggle - "And so it begins."
Keeping your powder dry, choosing your battles, and emphasizing effective communication are the strategies that I agree will provide the best bang for the buck. Having now run out of cliches on my part, I think you have listed excellent points that I hope to see manifested by the public and, if dreams are counted, by our rational, reasonable political representatives in this next Congress. The priorities for effective resistance, however, seem hazy to me at this point. There does not seem to be an organizing force among the Dems, who one would expect to provide the basic strategic targets and focus for the effort. Perhaps they are still trying to identify the path that would oppose the worst anticipated policies without goring any of their own funding oxes (donors). For example, expecting Shumer, who represents Wall Street in more ways than one, to get onboard completely with Bernie Sanders' bill capping bank card interest rates at 10%, is unrealistic. Even if he were to sign onto Sanders' bill, it would likely be as a virtue signal, he and his donors secure in the knowledge that it will never pass.
Enough in the weeds. I just wanted to support your observations and recommendations at the point. These days, I feel a bit like King Theoden, standing on the walls of Helms Deep, the rain pelting down, 10,000 orcs massed below him ready to attack with no quarter to be expected, quietly memorializing the dawn of the great struggle - "And so it begins."
I look forward to your future postings here.