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Phone Banking Influencers [1]

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Date: 2025-04-13

Phone banking democratic politicians in the midst of American fascism has been ineffective at best, and not because of those phone banking but because the politicians refuse to listen and act, “Some Democrats see the callers as barking up the wrong tree” (Axios). Perhaps then ‘phone banking’ social media influencers might hold more weight at this present moment. But phone banking influencers toward what end, they hold no political power? However, social media influencers hold the power to organize and rally.



It is no secret that having a larger microphone grants your voice more power. While there are many content creators or influencers that have done a great job speaking against fascism and promoting democratic candidates who can hopefully put up some resistance to fascism, more can always be done. I am not outright dissing anti-fascist content creators or influencers, but granting a suggestion on how the microphone can be used. That content creator should start putting out murmurings of a general strike and work towards selecting a date.



Kyle Kulinski from Secular Talk has called for a general strike against the “Trump regime” multiple times. Getting other any other against American fascism creators or influencers on board may be a good idea, they could be could ‘phone banked’. We could phone bank creators like The Humanist Report, Hasan, Leeja Miller, and I could go on to start talking about a general strike and to collaborate on a date. While phone banked messages to content creators or influencer could also get drowned out and must be sent out carefully so there is no harassment involved, we can convince sympathetic creators/influencers toward some organizational good.



But a general strike over what, one could go about general strike in the HandsOff method over myriad issues. There is no need to do a general strike over just one issue, there are many matters to strike against American fascists for such as repeated constitutional violations, gutting the Department of Education, saber rattling at Greenland, mass firings at NIH, the kidnapping of college students, deporting legal residents to El Salvadorian prison, and sadly I could go on. Somehow naively even getting 10% of Americans, who have the ability/privilege to strike, on board to go about a genuine general strike could at least maybe garner some compromise on some important issue[s]. But it just might be worth the effort to go about this general strike. In organizing this using what I believe to be a new political strategy of phone banking content creators and influencers may work. Of course, this strategy does not have to limited to one end, but the efficacy can be tested and perhaps should be tested out in the face of American fascism.

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