to wit,
Posted on 06/29/2015 10:31:49 AM PDT by proust
When conservatives stop playing defense...
” don’t lie or become an evil person like Alinsky, but learn from what he wrote and give the Left a taste of its own medicine.”
Just a taste would not be enough. It requires a steady unhealthy diet.
I was amused by #4 “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. “.
The only rule the Left has is “Win”.
One factor defeats all of Alinsky’s rules because their methods are based on lies and deception - TRUTH.
oh….nevermind…..
Bkmrk.
Bump
Romney’s numbers were going up when he attacked Obama but he wimped out and they went back down.
The worst thing would be to become like Alinsky. Fight fire with fire. Jesus said Resist not evil.
Do Conservatives really have the stones to find out who the primary funder of the gay marriage litigation was, and go stage a rowdy mass protest at his home?
I kinda doubt that.
Liberals are willing to make incremental gains. Conservative true believers want all or nothing, right now. Otherwise they stay home and the liberals win by default.
That's really it. It's as if Conservatives got spoiled by having Reagan and anyone short of that standard doesn't deserve the vote. Or it's a "hold my nose and vote" attitude which really inspires the troops. Obama was against gay marriage, but that didn't stop libs from showing up in droves.
So what’s your plan?
There is no truth anymore. Truth is whatever the Left and the media say it is. Have you ever seen a liberal asked by a media figure to defend an absurdly false assertion? Didn’t think so.
It is because of the inadequate use of our history and heritage to sell liberty that we find ourselves in post-republic America.
ping for later
As a former Leftie I’ve been telling conservatives loud and long to play rough just like the Left does. Screw principles , principles don’t mean jack when you lose.
to wit,
“…the seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
No liberal has gotten ahold of this concept. They are the proverbial broken record.
The 60s still SUCK
These Rules are nearly impossible for us to use. The implied power thing? We don’t have any. We have REAL power but it only shows up afterward. The left doesn’t believe we have any. We show them on election days or the Chik FIL A thing. So #1 is almost out as a tactic.
#2 - we do have black conservatives that say great things. The left doesn’t hear them. The left controls the media to the masses.
#3 is possible. We must really push things that the left doesn’t know, like the biggest abortion provider created it to kill black babies. That the Deocrats created Jim Crow and thr KKK. Young people do not know these things. That the Constitution ALREADY COVERS freedom of lifestyle or religion. And it doesn’t need to. The Constitution says you ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT GIVEN BY YOUR GD to hang out and smoke pot all day, or kiss your same sex lover, or study economics, or teach martial arts. OUR COUNTRY BELIEVES NO GOVERNMENT CAN CHANGE THAT and anyone who tries is tyrannical. Your constitution is saying You’ve always had the ruby slippers!! People don’t know this.
#4 is useless as the Dems have no rules for themselves. Oh, wait. Not To be a racist or homophobe. Find a clever way to show that their desired policy IS RACIST or HOMOPHOBIC. Maybe no race or gender or photos in college entrance applications because the subject is too sensitive for transgenders. Use their own stuff against them.
#5 is the best one. Used to greatness on Twitter. Take their même and just be merciless. FR has a doctorate degree at this. We need to get this fun more public.
6. Tactics that people enjoy: be clever. Be stealthy. In a lot of cities we conservatives are under cover, hidden, in a sea of libs. One thing that might be fun is to go into Barnes and Noble, pick up some of the liberal bigwigs’ books, browse through the store unto you find titles that go well with them, even if they are in the children’s section, and prop the books beside one another and take a quick photo. Quick example: take Hillary’s Book “Hard Choices” and prop it next to “Lesbian Love Toys.” Then post it with a hashtag on a Friday afternoon on Twitter and get all the other FReepers and likemindeds to go do the same. FUN.
Or make little magnetic photos of Ambassador Stevens with a caption “Never made it to his gay wedding” and slap them onto bumpers carrying a Clinton 2016 sticker.
We are at a huge disadvantage because we don’t dare go too far out of our comfort zone because we might lose our jobs. We don’t have mass media. But we can’t let that stop us from getting creative.
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