Okay, lay it on me.
Posted on 10/16/2008 12:54:28 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Conservatives are, IMHO, soon to be in the decided and percecuted minority. It is accordingly time to utilize methods from the Radical Left playbook "Rules for Radicals" to further our agenda.
My suggested targets are: Harry Reid (vulnerable), the owners of Google (soft and naive), and the president of Time Warner (useful).
Here are the Rules:
RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: "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? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
NO WAY.
But everyone should read these “rules” and know what we are up against.
This is why Obama made those mocking smiles last night. When you’re losing, MOCK. RIDICULE.
We need to FIGHT these people, not join them.
I agree fully.
Just attack, attack, attack, humiliate.
Liberals won’t be able to handle it.
OK, ignore us (or laugh quietly).
I am going to war.
Actually, skiming the rules, methinks Regan DID follow such rules - maybe not deliberately, but he cut thru all the crap his own people threw in his way, and pushed methods & goals that his opponents could not cope with. He excited his base and bewildered his enemies - and won.
But remember to do it calmly and politely. That'll really pi$$ them off.
“Polite”
Oh, I am serious about the radical Wolverine Dress Uniform being khaki pants, white shirt, red tie, and blue blazer.
>>>ping<<<
Please excuse my lack of knowledge. What’s “ping” mean?
You’ve been here since 2000?
>>>You’ve been here since 2000?<<<
But I’m way up here at the edge of the treeline, trying to stay warm, gathering firewood, cutting fish, that kind of thing. What’s “ping” mean?
“Ping” is up on top of the header. Just means you have a new post directed to you, a “ping”
It’s just a notification to let someone know there is something here they might be interested in looking at. It comes from telecom industry, when you are checking a circuit you would “ping” to see if the connection is there and check for the expected reply. So on FR, a lot of times people will “ping” another poster who would appreciate reading a thread or a post. That poster can look at the top of their FR page, click on “pings” and it will pull up links to those threads that friends have alerted them about. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the heads-up, bud. Come north and I’ll barbecue up a moose steak for you, with some homegrown fried potatoes.
Thanks as well, along with the explanation. There’s enough moose steak and potatoes for both you and the Texan.
I may yet. I’ve been on the north slope a few times.
I am absolutely serious about getting small groups (cells?) of activist who target, each in their way, media, Hollywood, liberals in industry, and gubmint.
Just completely screw stuff up.
Okay, lay it on me.
Even better than that...
Just spread the idea. No organization is needed. The sociologists call this spreading a “meme” throughout a population. The meme is a new idea which spreads like a virus, jumping from host to host, eventually infecting an entire population.
The meme of using Alinsky’s methods against the left is growing. For instance, I wrote about it a few weeks ago. You wrote about it now. Other people out there, lurkers and freepers, are reading about it and thinking about it. There’s the guy who wants to dump Time magazines in the lobby. Another wants to leave off horse manure. A third guy has the rules for radicals hanging in his office along with the military’s propoganda techniques.
The problem with organization, especially in the era of coming Obamapocalypse, is the RICO statute. It can and will be used against anyone who dissents against Obama and his bully boys. However, they can’t stop a successful meme. It says something about the fear people have about Obama that people are already thinking about a response.
Two of those responses are being repeated over and over here. The first meme is the resort to Alinsky tactics. The second meme is the John Galt-style general strike by the productive against those who want to redistribute wealth.
Just keep spreading the idea. I go out of my way to spread both memes whenever I write on this and other websites. There really isn’t a need to organize. In fact, this is the strength of both the Islamofascists and the Left - they spread the ideas to those who are willing to listen, and then the adherents take up the fight themselves, without any organization whatsoever.
This is what Mao meant when he said, “Let a thousand flowers bloom.” Spread the seeds of the idea and let them grow. Good luck and God bless.
I concur.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, indeed.
“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”
For example, target Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, or better yet, an editor for Newsweek.
That’s what I’m talking about.
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