Mapping threats over next four years

Workshop Wednesday, identifying potential problems from a Trump administration.

A taxonomy of our nightmares

• What are you biggest fears about what Trump will do in the next four years.

• Concern for immigration law. How much worse can it get?
• Digital controlling, esp of social media. Surveillance.
• Rise of hate crimes and normalization of hate rhetoric
• Paul Graham is the y-combinator dude Trump supporter and play a negative role in the US government in technology
• Increasing the partisan divide and US polarization (rural/suburban, red/blue)
• Trumps interact with foreign governments
• Electoral capture — through gerrymandering, voter roll purges, and other processes will result in GOP rule forever.
• Defund TOR, a basic tool we all rely on.
• Mandate encryption backdoors
• Not have an FCC commissioner or will place a hostile regulator
• Change libel laws
• Trump’s attitude towards the press
• white supremacy will be legitimized
• stop and frisk will become in more cities
• Electoral capture can lead to changing the Constitution
• Loss of Twitter
• Trump self brand
• How Trump will increase surveillance, use it to deport millions
• Crackdowns on activists though social media
• People will be silenced again like Bush admin Iraq war
• Cutting of funding of science and research
• Incoming DHS chief
• Margin populations and health care
• Trump getting impeached and getting Pence and Ryan.
• Disassembly of the government
• Privatization of government assets
• Trump’s empire and use of slaves rise
• Crash of affordable housing
• Hard for worker owned coops to find workers because of housing prices
• Trump may crash the economy to benefit his real estate interests
• Defunding international aid
• Work with other nationalists coming into power
• Build more pipelines
• Section 2030 of the Communications Decency Act, safe harbor law for hosting companies, maybe be revoked
• Adding social justice orgs on terror watch list

Economy

• Deregulating banks

      ** Legislative

Health

• Deregulation of OSHA

      ** Executive orders

• Revoking Obamacare

      ** Executive orders, legislative

• Defunding Planned Parenthood/passing excessive regulations

      ** Executive orders, legislative

Immigration

• Wants to stop fed funding to sanctuary cities.

      ** Executive order

• Registration/Internment of Muslims

      ** Executive order, NSA letter, executive intimidation

Civil Liberties

• Might make abortion illegal

      ** Legislative, SCOTUS

• Blue Lives Matter bills, saying Fuck Cops is hate speech, banning recording cops

      ** Legislative, create model legislation

• A new House Un-American Activities Community

      ** Legislative committee

• Increased use of private prisons

      ** Executive order

• 2020 census subject to distortion (gerrymandering)

Tech

• State capture of social media platforms

      ** Executive intimidation

Environment

• Environmental issues. Trump wants to defund EPA.

      ** Legislative, Admin Appointments

• Fracking and other climate threats that the new regime will try to install.

      ** Legislative (remove local authority and regulation) Admin Appointments

Early Indicators and Warnings

• Happy end note: government moves slow by design. Efficiency = tyranny. So these changes will be slow to implement.