[GonzoGOP]

The rules work equally well for a right wing group as they do for a left wing group. This is something that many of the lefties don't understand. Now that they are in power we can use all of their best tools on them.

Also by knowing the rules you can defeat them. For example never allow your group to be identified with a single individual. If the individual is taken out then your whole movement goes down the drain. And an individual is much easier to destroy than an idea.

[fr_freak]

The author of this piece sticks to ridiculing Alinsky’s rules, but in doing so he misses the biggest point: THEY WORK. Alinsky’s rules don’t work because most people in the world are smart and well-informed. They work specifically because they play to the flaws that are present more often than not in most human beings . The author can say that these rules are stupid all he wants, but these rules still work. Obama is proof of that.

[Dick Bachert]

From “Rules for Radicals” by Obama’s hero, Saul Alinsky:

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

QUESTIONS?

[antisocial]

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Act irrationally. Seems like a theme.

No. He's saying act rationally (stay within your zone of expertise, for example) but make use of emotional (i.e. irrational appeals). It's Machiavelli all over again.

These statements conflict, Saul.

Sure. You have to feel your way as you go. So you push and push and push one tactic and it works (rule 10). Then it doesn't (rule 7). So you have to come up with a new approach. That happens a lot in politics, business or war. After a while, you may get a gut feeling where rule 10 applies and where rule 7 works. It may be wrong, but it's better than nothing.

[LucyT]

Trouble is we’ve never come up with an effective defense against the race card so they play it again, and again, and again until it comes to mean, anything any black person anywhere doesn’t like.

Add Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to "COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum. (Trolling 101)" ... and beat them at their own game.

[EternalVigilance]

Rules for Radicals was dedicated to Lucifer.

And he is more than happy to continue to use its tenets to “steal and kill and destroy.”