As I wrote in a previous piece, Steve Bannon’s playbook is: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
Bannon’s strategy here, one employed with great success by Trump so far, is to disorient the public, destroy trust, and blitzkrieg the press (and social media) so no one knows what to focus on or fight. The idea is to scare you into staying home and keep you staring at your phone in horror.
Meanwhile, the broligarchy is also busy trying to erase history, by banning books, changing curriculum, and doing things like refusing to even display photos of accomplished women.
It’s long past time we stopped letting this happen. We can’t depend on corporate-owned media or social media to save us.
If the playbook is to “flood the zone with shit” then we need a concerted, coordinated effort by progressives and large progressive organizations to “flood the zone with truth.”
This is important because it will:
- Counteract the “doomscroll” feeling on social media which leads to defeatism
- Ensures that there are multiple sources of truth so they can’t succeed in erasing facts and history
- Continue to feed the multiple AI with facts, because we know they’re scraping social media to train these LLMs
For this to succeed all of the progressive organizations need to start publishing more content and encouraging people (like you) to post it on all social networks (including Twitter). The content needs to be about:
- MOST IMPORTANT: Signal boost what people and organizations are doing to fight back so that we know what’s being done (and where we can help). Change the doomscroll to a very specific how to get organized scroll. People need to know what to do.
- Facts about climate change, history, and social justice
- Pump stories of people succeeding in pushing back
- What other countries are doing to fight climate change and advance progress because there’s more to the world than the US
- Fact checking online trolls instead of depending on the platforms to do it
We also need the financing and backing of progressive billionaires (like Mark Cuban), perhaps even to engage bot farms of our own to push this stuff out there.
We need high profile celebrities to push this stuff too.
If you agree, share this with your networks, with progressive organizations, tag important people with it online.