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Bard spotting on Bluesky 12 January 2025 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Conservative", as an ideology, is vastly overspecified, and used coherently at present only to signify "member of a political coalition that acts in opposition to liberation, egalitarianism, pleasure and freedom".
As a negative diagnostic pool.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's surely no real coherent ideological similarity between an Evolaist and the signatories of the Nashville Statement, save that they both desire political power and see LGBTQ people as convenient scapegoats, that they both know the propagandistic inertia of misogyny
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One of the problems we have at present is the confusion between "coherent ideology" versus "effective political praxis".
Progressiveness has both, but the Democratic party has lost both.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Barack Obama was popular, invigorating, and served two terms specifically because he espoused both a coherent ideology of "the Dream of America" and an effective political praxis of it.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Donald Trump espouses a "Dream of America", too. His political praxis is cheap and easy, it is fear and hatred and anxiety about people's retirement funds.
When I was in line waiting to vote, the people around me spoke — not of the price of eggs or trans women, but of their 401k's
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
An effective political movement that can take America away from fascists and grifters and felons and predators in the GOP, has to find a way to state, clearly, "Economic Prosperity & Justice through Liberty"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It can be the set of people who aren't aspiring to be transphobes, homophobes, christian theocrats, fascists, looting the tax coffers, running social media sites as networks of neoNazi terrorists
But it has to want to find and define the movement, to embrace the BRAND
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It has to want to blaze that brand into public consciousness, to make it burn so bright it incinerates the efforts of the Chris Rufo's of the world trying to "Uhm, actually, this is Marxism inchoate" the brand.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Branding Trump & Vance as "Weird" (derogatory) was a step in the right direction.
But the effort of this successful polity has to not be in tearing down MAGA. It cannot exist for the sake of contrasting to MAGA.
It must exist to hold a torch for the American people and the people of the world.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It must be its own entity, holding open a door to the future.
Not as "we're all the things MAGA isn't".
But as "we're all these things - things you truly want and need from government".
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