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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

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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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“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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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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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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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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12 posted on 04/26/2021 2:57:09 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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Rules for Radicals
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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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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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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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Getting back to the article - I used similar tactics to fight a sex education program and the leftists pushing for its implementation did not know how to respond.

My first tactic was to know the program better than them.

Second tactic was to get that information into the hands of parents without seeming to have an opinion on it. That was tricky.

Another tried and true Alinsky tactic was to make the whole room think that you and your hidden pals, who are actually in the minority, are running the meeting. That too was tricky.

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

2) Never go outside the experience of your people. Check.

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

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

4A) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. The joke was on them. Check.

6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. We did enjoy it. Check.

7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Our work only lasted 3 months. So Check.

8) Keep the pressure on. When the parents figured it out they added their own version of "pressure." Check.

9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. Yeah, cuz they didn't know how many of us there were. Check.

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

11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside. Alinsky-speak, but Check.

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

13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. That just happened in the way of doing business. Check.

We did not go to the media. We did not identify ourselves. We worked with a small group of about a dozen people.

We didn't know it but the ultimate authority in this scenario was the superintendent of schools and was planning on the implementation of this program to be her swan song as she rode off into retirement.

Yeah, instead of a swan song she got a big old bat to the back of her knees.

22 posted on 04/26/2021 5:55:19 PM PDT by Slyfox
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23 posted on 04/26/2021 6:52:47 PM PDT by Left2Right (There is water at the bottom of the ocean)
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Additional Rules (not Alinsky):
14. A lie repeated often enough will become the truth.
15. A lie repeated by many, especially by the media, will become the truth.
16. The truth is what people believe it to be.


24 posted on 04/27/2021 5:41:51 AM PDT by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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Bookmark


25 posted on 04/28/2021 11:10:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: nutmeg

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26 posted on 04/28/2021 11:17:44 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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