Posted on 07/12/2026 6:01:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Democrats rely on this technique to move the political needle, but there are simple ways to counter it.
The Left has repeated its pattern of attack against conservatives so many times that it has become formulaic. Its tactics include, but are not limited to, using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, logical fallacies, complicit judges, stenographers in the legacy media, and figures in the entertainment and education industries. I believe these tactics are ultimately aimed at implementing the Cloward-Piven Strategy to dismantle our representative constitutional republic and replace it with some form of socialism.
Activists on the left use psychological and rhetorical tactics to reshape public perception. Taken together, these tactics form a predictable pattern that transforms ordinary disagreements into moral condemnation. This pattern facilitates ridicule, leads to social exclusion, and, in extreme cases, provides justification for harm.
The sequence dehumanizes and invalidates honest emotions and responses, making harm feel deserved and even rendering violence conceivable. It starts subtly but then escalates. It bypasses rational debate by attacking the target’s humanity rather than the target’s arguments.
How many times have we seen the left repeat baseless allegations that quickly devolve into name-calling? They’re the primary arrows in its rhetorical quiver. Leftists repeat unfounded accusations, such as the Russian Collusion hoax and the “Very Fine People” lie.
Then they employ caricatured labels to accuse Republicans and conservatives—not the same thing—of being racists, xenophobes, homophobes, “literally Hitler,” pedophiles, fascists, and, as Dan Bongino so eloquently put it, “istaphobic phobic phobophobes.” They use these terms to evoke revulsion, reframing a person as an archetype of evil. This makes balanced discussion impossible.
Activists on the left reduced Erika Kirk from a mourning spouse to a “pageant girl”—a superficial glory hound. They erased the authenticity of her loss
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To justify acts of violence: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Bump.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was/is a disciple of Saul Alinsky. Both from Chicago ... she wrote a term paper about him when she was a student at Wellsley. Even interviewed him.
Hillary interned for a summer with Alinsky too.
We need to stop funding their propaganda machine. Cut the cord.
Many years ago a democrat activists explained the system: he said it cost too much and was too difficult to try to change the minds of American citizens. Especially since many parts of the democrat base didn’t agree with each other on issues.
So instead they analyzed the personalities and weaknesses of top people in the media and changed THEIR minds. They let the press work for them. Cheaper and easier.
Send downsized media groups like newspapers and TV who were short on staff and reporters the stories they WANTED to support. That’s the key and the way to fight back Kevin Finn. Identify the nepos - ‘journalists’ who want to prove they have the high skills necessary to move up quickly EVEN without their daddy’s job and pull. That group will open their veins to keep the news packets coming. Hire people to find stories by any means (to hell with ‘journalist ethics’... pay for information if necessary) and deliver the WOW.
Same with older established journalists who don’t have it anymore but want to shine. Feed ‘em stories and give them choices. The more self serving stories in the packet for the ‘journalists’ to reject, the more stories from the packet will be chosen. Stories to reject are always included. Keeps the conscience clean. OUR SIDE NEEDS TO DO THE SAME.
Many years ago a democrat activists explained the system: he said it cost too much and was too difficult to try to change the minds of American citizens. Especially since many parts of the democrat base didn’t agree with each other on issues.
So instead they analyzed the personalities and weaknesses of top people in the media and changed THEIR minds. They let the press work for them. Cheaper and easier.
Send downsized media groups like newspapers and TV who were short on staff and reporters the stories they WANTED to support. That’s the key and the way to fight back Kevin Finn. Identify the nepos - ‘journalists’ who want to prove they have the high skills necessary to move up quickly EVEN without their daddy’s job and pull. That group will open their veins to keep the news packets coming. Hire people to find stories by any means (to hell with ‘journalist ethics’... pay for information if necessary) and deliver the WOW.
Same with older established journalists who don’t have it anymore but want to shine. Feed ‘em stories and give them choices. The more self serving stories in the packet for the ‘journalists’ to reject, the more stories from the packet will be chosen. Stories to reject are always included. Keeps the conscience clean. OUR SIDE NEEDS TO DO THE SAME.
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