Jump 455: Liberal Crime Squad

>Jump 455: Liberal Crime Squad
>Seven of Pentacles (Assessment): Exercising patience and perseverance.
Lord knows I'm going to need it.
>Location: America
FUCK YEAH. COMIN' AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY YEAH.
>Identity: The Soul
Because you gotta have soul.
>Win Condition: The Jumper Revolution
Wait, hold on, I'm not in it for your revolution-
>Drawbacks: (+1000) NIGHTMARE MODE, We Didn't Start The Fire, Torch News Network
Well fuck me sideways, those are some interesting restrictions.
>Studies: Persuasion (Free, Soul)
>Studies: Law (Free, Soul)
>Studies: Psychology (1950, Soul)
>Studies: Teaching (1900, Soul)
Good thing I majored in law, minored in psych, and got a teaching degree before I decided to do something about the system being broken.
>Rally Around The Flag (1700)
Hey, if home territory feels better and I can get potential converts simply by them being here, heck yeah.
>Beloved By The Community (1300)
I mean, it's not like I'm not going out and doing things every day to help people out.
>Left Wing Medicine (1200)
Like hanging out in homeless shelters, giving out food, first aid, and so forth.
>Transient Transhumanism (800)
Maaaybe a little more experimental first-aid than most would consider, but hey, it fixed their eyesight right?!
>Send In The Mooks (700)
There are going to be a lot of nasty situations with the death squads though. Things like homelessness are illegal, and anything illegal can carry a death sentence. A lot of people could handle one squaddie, but not several - so why not even the odds?
>Liberal Spark (Free, Soul)
You've got to know who carries a spark, so that you can fan it into the flames of freedom!
>Cell Diagram (600, Soul)
But you've got to keep things controlled - burning out of control would turn it all to ash.
>Leading By Example (400, Soul)
So the best way is to guide everything from the front. Help others learn by example.
>Go Forth To Stop Evil! (100, Soul)
Yes, brother. The fire rises.
>Juice Boost (3) (0, 1 Free)
It would be a bit crazy to go into this without every reasonable measure to be all that I can be.
>Underground Railway Connection (Free, Soul)
It's good that someone is able to provide such documentation. It will make our jobs that much easier.

So, there are three things you need to know about Liberal Crime Squad.

One: When you don't do anything crazy, no one will realize that the Liberal Crime Squad exists. Ours are only crimes by the definition of a society gone mad, not a normal one.

Two: When you keep your head down but your eyes open, you can recruit like-minded people like crazy, as long as you invest the time to talk them around - and sleepers can change the world.

Three: This is a world without a middle ground. You may have to open peoples' eyes to this and teach them a better way, but if they don't dig in their heels, everything will go in a way they don't want to see. Going ultra-liberal may be a bit silly, but it's a far sight better than arch-conservative.

Sure, the execution of the plan had several bumps, but there are ways to change things, even though it's not going to happen overnight. As long as you're patient and prepared to do the needful, you can get things done. Convert people at the street level, if they've got sufficient potential. Show them how to teach others. Spread the word.

...this feels uncomfortably like religious conversion, but we're going to go the peaceful route, no crusades for us.

In any event - the arch-conservatives are out there, burning down community gardens, shooting up homeless shelters, and the authorities turn a blind eye while claiming that they can't find any common links between them when everyone knows it's otherwise. But that's fine, because a man in the right clothing can quite literally walk into the headquarters of a government agency, hack a computer, find the right documents, and then publish them to expose a list of backers for the so-called Conservative Crime Squad. Sure, it isn't easy to keep hidden up to that point, but it's doable. Especially when you've gotten a couple of employees in that agency educated about a more sane agenda.

Quietly educating lawyers and judges is a thing that helps too, not to mention outright subverting the media of certain networks - as well as sending those who have been taught out to other cities and communities, to spread the good word of liberalism. Suddenly graffiti artists aren't being sentenced to death anymore, TNN's anchors are starting to lose their appetite for liberal blood in the streets, and when the next election rolls around, the liberal party captures a good sized chunk of congress and the senate... with the help of corporate executives and CEOs that have been delivered a crisis of conscience backing them.

Really, once the ball starts rolling it's hard to stop, as long as you don't attract the right attention. The Fire Men are replaced by firemen who put out fires instead of burn books, the Death Squads are quietly retired by the government and replaced by more normal police, and even some of the more opportunistic politicians smell the blood in the water and jump sides.

I know this world well, and with strong enough groundswell of support and spreading of the right kind of ideas, you could expect to effectively see a bloodless coup inside of a dozen years. Push hard, but be gentle. Get sleeper agents everywhere - by the hundreds if you must. You don't need to utilize them to get secrets or money, because you don't need either of those things. All you need is to make sure the right people are in the right place to pull the right strings when the situation calls for it, and you could see yourself waltzing into the White House twenty years down the road, with the ultra-liberal party taking every last seat in Congress and stacking the Supreme Court with like-minded people.

Really, it's no surprise, but there is one more thing we need to discuss.

Do you want to hear something disturbing?