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12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals
Town Hall ^ | Apr 13, 2012 12:01 AM | John Hawkins

Posted on 04/26/2021 2:02:42 PM PDT by TBP

Saul Alinsky was a brilliant man. Evil, but brilliant. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, everyone on the Left from the President on down is playing by his rules in the political arena. Not all liberals have read his book or know his name, but his tactics have become universal. Sadly for conservatives, when two evenly matched forces go head-to-head outside of a fairy tale, the side that tries to play nice usually ends up with its head in a box. So, 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.

1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2) Never go outside the experience of your people.

3) Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

4A) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8) Keep the pressure on.

9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.


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This article is old, but still apt. We need to be using these tactics like the left does. Remember what Rush always told us: the aggressor sets the rules.
1 posted on 04/26/2021 2:02:42 PM PDT by TBP
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4A

Nicknames for Blue Governors:

PA Tommie the Commie
NY Cuomatose
NJ Smurphy
NV Sissypant
CA Newsomlini

Nickname for POTUS

Xio Buy Dung


2 posted on 04/26/2021 2:10:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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You forgot nicknames for Ducie and Kemp. They’re both sellouts to the Dem’s and Chinese so they should be included in this list.


3 posted on 04/26/2021 2:12:52 PM PDT by qaz123
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“4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

This should be done without accepting their rules as truth. This is something that conservatives seem to struggle with.


4 posted on 04/26/2021 2:14:37 PM PDT by cdcdawg (WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
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To: TBP

If you haven’t, do yourself the favor of reading David Horowitz’s “Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits”. Good stuff.


5 posted on 04/26/2021 2:15:10 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: qaz123

And MI - WHitler. Or Grinchy WHitler. Or Witless.


6 posted on 04/26/2021 2:15:48 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

NM - Michelle Wuhan-Grisham.


7 posted on 04/26/2021 2:16:17 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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So some old dude dreams up some “rules” and that’s supposed to mean something?

Getting his junk published doesn’t mean it’s valid or anything to fear.

It ain’t like he’s Pythagoras or anything.
Screw him and his “suggestions”.


8 posted on 04/26/2021 2:30:21 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: TBP

Oldie but goodie...


9 posted on 04/26/2021 2:31:46 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: lightman

Greasy Gretchin


10 posted on 04/26/2021 2:48:00 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: lightman

MI: Whitler (or the Wicked Witch of the Midwest.)


11 posted on 04/26/2021 2:54:16 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: TBP

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12 posted on 04/26/2021 2:57:09 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: lightman

Wisconsin: Phony Tony

Potus: Joseph Stolen


13 posted on 04/26/2021 3:06:57 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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Rules for Radicals
.
Dedicated to satan.


14 posted on 04/26/2021 4:00:08 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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That doesn’t mean the tactics aren’t good ones.


15 posted on 04/26/2021 4:01:41 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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“ And MI - WHitler. Or Grinchy WHitler. Or Witless.”

I am partial to “der Gretchenfeurer”.


16 posted on 04/26/2021 4:03:02 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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It’a not as if Alinsky invented them, these tactics have been used for centuries.


17 posted on 04/26/2021 4:03:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Number 13
Is my Favorite!
.
Ridicule,
A close second.


18 posted on 04/26/2021 4:08:46 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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4A) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Michigan Medusa, Plasticface Psychopath Pelosi, Marxine Waters, Diane Frankenstein, Navin Grusome, Joementia, Willie’s Mattress, Mitch McTurtle, Linda Graham, Lori Lighthead...and on and on and that’s just the politicians. It’s free, it’s fun. A Free Republic is a Fun Republic.


19 posted on 04/26/2021 4:18:33 PM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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My personal favorite:
RULE 4(a): “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.”
(Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? The left wants to create anger and fear. Would that mine enemy had written a book, THEY DID and we READ IT!)


20 posted on 04/26/2021 4:30:08 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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