Summary: We fight for the Republic against its worst enemies, those inside America. As it has already been in our history. Is cool logic, reasoned discussion grounded in fact, our best weapon? Or that just foolish pedantry, and victory only possible by adopting the powerful tools of our enemies: lies and propaganda? Here we ask the mineshaft. {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipedia}
All paths forward require arousing the American people. How can we do this? What steps should we take first?
Since opening in November 2007, the FM website has joined several campaigns to revitalize and reform America. We’ve encouraged people to get involved in elections, to organize their friends and neighbors. We’ve deployed barrages of fact and logic. We’ve strived to arouse anger at what America has become. You can see the trail of these in the posts about solutions below.
So far all of these attempts have been in vain. Mine and thousands of other workers in the project to save America. Fruitless, literally fruitless. We must ask why.
The common element of these is our focus on staying in close touch with reality. Precision. Accuracy. Quite unlike the tools of our enemies, who rely on exaggerations, misrepresentations, and outright lies. They are winning; the Republic dies a little more every day. Perhaps we must adopt their tools to have a chance of victory.
But is an America that can be saved only by lies an America worth saving?
Give your answers to these questions in the comments.
For more information
For links to other articles about these matters see these FM Reference Pages:
- America – how can we stop the quiet coup now in progress?
- Information & disinformation, the new media & the old
- Good news about America — Let us never forget our past; let’s draw courage from it
Some solutions, ways to reform America
- Diagnosing the Eagle, Chapter III – reclaiming the Constitution, 3 January 2008
- Fixing America: shall we choose elections, revolt, or passivity?, 16 August 2008 — Part One.
- Fixing American: taking responsibility is the first step, 17 August 2008 — Part Two.
- Fixing America: the choices are elections, revolt, or passivity, 18 August 2008 — Part Three.
- How to stage effective protests in the 21st century, 21 April 2009
- Correction to my previous posts – not all citizen activism is good…, 16 October 2009
- The first step to reforming America (the final version), 7 December 2009
- Light the fireworks – the campaign starts today!, 9 March 2010
- Question of the Day, about reforming America, 12 March 2010
- The project to reform America: a matter for science, or a matter of will?, 16 March 2010
- The Tea Party Movement disproves my recommendation for the path to reforming America, 20 April 2010
- About the Oath Keepers: boon or bane for the Republic?, 12 June 2010
- Can we reignite the spirit of America?, 14 September 2010
- The sure route to reforming America, 16 November 2010
- Hear the cattle bellowing in the chutes. Will they revolt?, 8 September 2011
- Occupy Wall Street, another futile peasants’ protest, 5 October 2011
- Fixing America in five steps, 19 October 2011
- How do protests like the TP and OWS differ from effective political action?, 26 October 2011
- See the power of our ruling elites, displayed by the picture of a kitten,28 October 2011
- Civil disobedience by the “Occupy” movement is a challenge to our rulers, 21 November 2011
- Ask the mineshaft: how to make America angry and so awaken from our stupor, 11 March 2012
