CATALONIA -- The Unionists in Catalonia Turn to the Latin American Coup Playbook

The Unionists in Catalonia Turn to the Latin American Coup Playbook

 

 CATALONIA

 

The Unionists in Catalonia Turn to the Latin American Coup Playbook 

 

 Those who study the history of authoritarian coups against progressive,
establishment-threatening  political movements know,  or should know,  a
few things.

1. The proponents of the anti-progressive position are seldom a
   majority in the society. Rather, their core level of support usually
   hovers—at the most—between 30 and 35% of the population.  

2. Hence, their greatest strategic objective is to achieve “force
   multiplication” in the eyes of the media, and from there, what political
   insiders call “low information” citizens.  They realize that if they
   can sufficiently exercise and/or frighten 15-20% of these people they
   can begin to “punch over their own weight” in the civic disagreement
   concerning the future shape of the society.

3. They know that the best way to exercise the sentiments of these “low
   information” citizens who, like most of us, just want to live in peace,
   but unlike many of us have little stomach for, or ability to, sift
   through differing claims in discerning fashion, is to foment violence.