Going Postal? And the 'TOC' you want... the book no one has read.

Below, find the TOC you'll want to tick... the Table of Contents of a book that might help.... but first... yes, there are countless times I'd prefer to be wrong!  Especially when it comes to the predictions made in THE POSTMAN!

TIME Magazines called EARTH one of "8 best predictive novels," and there have been many other hits. But I always figured that my portrayal of lying-betraying-prepper "Holnists" in THE POSTMAN would prove to be artistic exaggeration -- not a how-to manual for evil and treason.

Just as Adolf Hitler described his approach in Mein Kampf -- and no one took him at his word -- Nathan Holn is recalled having laid it all in the open... but Americans didn't believe anyone would so baldly offer such a despicable program. The warning went unheeded till it was too late. 

Likewise, Donald Trump has said publicly that his attack on the U.S. Postal Service is intended directly to interfere in the election. Of course crashing USPS also undermines rural America, a major part of the GOP base. So how is this supposed to benefit Republicans? The answer is... it's not. Chaos and dysfunction are the goal. To Trump's puppeteers, it doesn't matter if he loses, so long as America dissolves into bitterness and pain. 

Already it's clear we need to start a mass movement akin to BLM to support Postal Workers! I'm working with a few volunteers to set up a site offering ways folks might help our dedicated postmen and postwomen. But even as 'the postman guy' I can't do much. This must be grassroots, e.g. if folks all over the country chip in time and/or money to bring snacks or voice support to each zip code's workers, or even stand outside your local P.O. with a placard voicing appreciation for the unpaid overtime they are putting in, and helping however we can.

Here is one site that has been set up, on a bigger scale. It lets you at least add your name and a message of support. I don't know what else. But please post to comments any other measures that you've seen so far, that might help. I'll announce here or on FB if we get to a site of our own.

More ways to support The Postman. (1) sign this other online petition. (2) Text USPS to 50409 and Resist Bot will send letters to your elected officials on your behalf pressing them to support the Postal Service. (3) Do consider that notion of snacks taken to your own, local P.O. or standing outside with a placard of thanks. (4) Contribute your own suggestions down in comments! (5) Buy multiple copies of a certain novel and pass them out like candy...?

Meanwhile see how bad it is: "It’s by now pretty obvious that the Trump Administration is attempting to sabotage mail delivery in order to cast some kind of shadow over the November election. Donald Trump’s newly installed Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who earned the position with more than two million dollars in donations to the Trump campaign and other Republican causes since 2016, has eliminated all overtime; a memo to employees declares that, as a result, “if we cannot deliver all the mail due to call offs or shortage of people and you have no other help, the mail will not go out.”

Late word. DeJoy's company (not divested!) is a contractor the USPS turns to when the system is overloaded, as during Christmas. In other words, his demolition of service moves directly benefit him, personally. Is there anything our MAGA neighbors will ever call a "last straw"?

Late note: according to this, you can email the 6 members of the USPS Board of Governors and they can overrule Trump! Someone come into comments with verification.

== Forget Tik... here's the TOC you want... or need ==

TOC stands for Table of Contents... and yes, here's a reminder - this book is filled with unused tactics that could save us! Alas, the pundit and political castes -- even the good guys -- are dullards who won't ever consider any idea that wasn't 'invented here.' Pity, because I've experimented on these methods. They work.

At minimum, I promise some insights and thoughts you'll get nowhere else.

POLEMICAL JUDO 

and MEMES FOR OUR POLITICAL KNIFE-FIGHT

By David Brin 

 

Chapter 1           Introduction – The Need for Judo Polemic 

 

            Pause #1 for…    One-Liners, Zingers, Wagers and Quick-memes - in case you haven’t time to read the book

 

Chapter 2           Below the surface -- themes and beliefs we share

 

            Pause #2 for…   Political tactics & reforms I won’t be talking about

 

Chapter 3           Profiles In Judo - Invoke The Greatest Generation, Adam Smith, Jonas Salk, Lincoln and… AOC

 

            Pause #3 or…     An allegory About Courage and Enlightenment

 

                                                LIFE OR DEATH FOR THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

 

Chapter 4           End the Cheating First 

 

            Pause #4 for…    A Bizarre But Impudently Effective Tactic

 

Chapter 5           The War on All Fact People  

 

            Pause #5 for…    The Big Lie that History Obeys “Patterns” Part 1: The Tytler Calumny

 

Chapter 6           Credibility? How Often the Right Has Just Been Wrong

 

            Pause #6 for…    They Said It Better Than I Can: at Gettysburg and other ‘battlefields’

 

Chapter 7           Oh, the Conspiracies!

 

            Pause #7 for…    Bad history-patterns Part 2: Marx, Spengler and a “Fourth Turning”

 

Chapter 8           Poison and Antidote - Blackmailers, Henchmen and Whistleblowers

                                                                        

            Pause #8 for…                An Open Letter To Some New President Of A Developing Nation

 

 

 

Chapter 9           America’s place in the world. Part 1: Pax Americana and the Rise of China

 

            Pause #9 for…                A Daydream: What Could Happen If Adults Ever Regain Power.

 

                                                ISSUES THAT MATTER TO FACTIONS 

 

Chapter 10         Government is the problem? 

 

            Pause #10 for…  Emergency Readiness and Resilience

            

Chapter 11         Economics – No, you don’t get Adam Smith… and Other Rationalizations 

 

            Pause #11 for…  Things you can do. Yes you.

 

Chapter 12         Unreliable Allies: Overcoming Splitterism    

 

            Pause #12 for…  Not just Adam Smith. Steal from them Goldwater, Hayek and Heinlein!

 

Chapter 13         Can We make a Deal? “What Would Adults Do?”

 

            Pause #13 for…

 

                                                CIVIL WAR

 

Chapter 14         Our 250 year Family Feud – “Phase 8 of the Civil War?”   ß FULL 1^ST DRAFT TO HERE 

 

             Pause #14 for… Traps we keep falling for

 

Chapter 15         Hammer Their Macho With Wagers! And The Name an Exception Challenge 

 

            Pause #15 for…  

 

Chapter 16         Exit Strategies – Impeachment, Indictment, the 25^th Amendment and all that. 

Again Polemical Judo - my new ‘political book - is filled with 100+ original and effective tactics that no pundit or politician seems yet to have come up with.  And if you really want better generalship in this political phase of Civil War, then get folks in high places to read it. 

You can download free chapters (!) at http://davidbrin.com/polemicaljudo.html