Uber

Uber selects the main player in each (important?) category.  Some of these will also be hubs, entities that combine especially disparate parts of the right-wing infrastructure, creating resilience and information flows (as well as money laundering).

see poster boys

See also Pioneers, for agents important in the formation of the modern conservative movement, as well as more recent innovators (often related to digital technology such as James o'Keefe).

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PR firms have a number of functions; damage control/crisis managment for bad behavior (thus thwarts consumer boycott, as does buffer); lobbies for preferential treatment: subsidy, regulatory releif, which neutralizes gov't pressure/feedback for damaging the commons. some hybrif with legal firm, which also provides protection from gov and ppl (class action lawsuit/tort reform); law can also be offensive tool against activist (whistleblower?).

FedSoc:  law is the operating system/rules of system; ultimate level is SCOTUS (eg CU and corp personhood), but lawyers thwart class action suits, get criminals off (pension plan) ie minimizes penalty/pain/feedback [no banksters went to jail] [TARP too big to fail eliminates consequences: privatize profit and socialize loss].   Horner is a lawyer for ATI, he has FOIA's climate scientists, often in media, regnery books, CEI ; covered up BP (and enron) in Dick secert task force; ATI CU INCREASES MONEY IN POLITICS AND DECREASES OUR ABILITY TO TRACK IT; heartland conf, Breitbart, Tech CC, joined inhofe on lawsuit; agenda 21; wa times; Pompeo; pal w/ hacks

aha: 2 most effective agents are Color of Change (see defectors from USCoC and ALEC) and Wm O'Keefe

aha3: norquist is a lobbyist who uses a front to run a protection racket;  also a hub; hidden  behind rt wing orthodoxythat taxes are bad, but also get him funding from rich ppl/corps as he provides cover for greed.

aha2: arms race between well-funded BS and our ability to expose it.

escalor effect takes anonymous blogger and bootstraps it to mainstream  accepted wisdom, worst case.

another sort of escalator/bootstrap is AG: look tough on crime (poor ppl, not usually which collar) useful route to higer office.

front like GCC relatively benign b/c it merely stalls; crytpo does the opposite of what it appears to; worst case it destroys what it's mirroring eg PIRGs.

Beck took out a powerful idea/strategy when he got van jones: we can make US more equal, clean and profitable.

DO analysis of targets , look for pattern:

<a href="http://forecastthefacts.org/">http://forecastthefacts.org/</a> went after heartland

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hubs:

Ruef at Stanford found that creative ppl have broad network diverse 166 // Ron Burt found innovation in ppl who bridge "structural holes" between tightly knot clusters 167 (U of Chic studying RAytheon! Chapter 7 The Social Capital of Structural Holes Ronald S. Burt

faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/files/scsh.pdf

Structural Holes and Good Ideas

www.econ.upf.edu/docs/seminars/burt.pdf

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Gingrich changed how house (senate?) operates; he changed the climate;

K Street legalized/institutionalized bribery; broke down barrier between GOP and corps: inhouse PR becomes an arm of party; purges demos ; revolving door/pension plan preserves bench strength in DC

Gerrymandering a kind of leverage as it allows a shrinking group (rural, oldr, white ppl) to maintain political power