Posted on 04/22/2023 10:55:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We’ve been watching this play out for decades: The left coopts institutions, leaving conservatives with nowhere to go. For leftists, it’s been a never-fail tactic, so they always come back to it. And the reason it never fails is because of us: The left’s greatest advantage is that they’re lucky in their enemy because conservatives never learn. We conservatives are the living embodiment of Einstein’s definition of insanity, repeatedly responding the same way to the leftists’ tactics and hoping against hope for a different outcome.
Vivek invited James Lindsay on his show to discuss leftist strategies. If Lindsay’s name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he was one of the three scholars (Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose) who highlighted the corruption in academia by submitting 20 manifestly bogus articles for publication. Seven of those articles got accepted, including one about “rape” in dog parks and another that was ostensibly about feminism but was, in fact, a rewrite of portions of Mein Kampf.
The stunt should have destroyed academia. Instead, Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose, all of whom characterized themselves as coming from the left, found that it made no difference that they had revealed, not only that the emperor was naked, but also that he was riddled with corruption. Academia healed itself and moved on.
Lindsay, who is also a mathematician (meaning that he thinks logically), explains that leftists have mastered certain war tactics, whether you want to view them through the lens of Sun Tzu’s adages or just as the type of thing you learn at your local martial arts dojo. The best way to do battle is to provoke your opponent to react in a predictable way so that you already have a devastating countertactic waiting. Nor is the left secretive about this.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Art of the Culture War: Revealing the Strategies of the Left with James Lindsay - The Vivek Show
Ping to a very good James Lindsay interview. I think it is very much worth watching.
Will watch the vid, but ultimately what do they propose to “cure” the culture rot??
Pretty much is that avoiding the "leftist plan" by putting children in private schools, boycotting ESG companies, etc is playing into the leftist strategy. People need to fight them head on or else they will be outmaneuvered and defeated.
Re: Children and private schools
A parent’s child should not be used a shock trooper in a cultural war. Other areas of the culture war? Well...Fight it head on!
A parent can still fight the Marxists government schools Pre-K through university graduate school but their first responsibility is to protect their children.
How could that NOT work?
How could one ever, in good conscience, refrain from boycotting a company pushing a demonic agenda?
Boycotts - but even more, vocally advertising the boycotts - hurt them where they live!
Regards,
I understand. As long as parents don't just put their children in private schools and quit fighting, which is what most do. There were too many points in the discussion to put into a one paragraph reply.
Because the Securities and Exchange Commission has mandated ESG reporting. The thing that has to happen is to go after the leftists and put them in jail, especially the government employees mandating it because it is fiduciary irresponsibility. Sue them for damages. Citizens arrest (with what happens to people that resist arrest). Trials that make J6 look like day camp.
Absolutely excellent. Lots of things I didn’t realize or hadn’t thought about.
The reason why this works for the left is because the U.S. Chamber of Crypto-Fascist Crony Commerce is a 501 c4 organization contributing to both parties.
The reason why this works for the left is because the U.S. Chamber of Crypto-Fascist Crony Commerce is a 501 c4 organization contributing to both parties.
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https://www.creativityandchange.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/beautiful-trouble.pdf
Link goes to full book PDF. Apparently the book describes how the left always seems to be a step ahead of us.
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