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To: caddie

Well that sounds like fun. How do the surrender GOPers fit in in your encouraging theory?


78 posted on 10/26/2013 8:39:10 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
Allow me to explain.

In the First American Revolution, there were three groups:

Loyalists, who wanted England to restore order;

Patriots, who would take up arms or actively support those who did to overthrow England, at the risk of their lives , property, freedom, and reputations;

Gloms, who really didn't care one way or another, but they just wanted their personal affairs to be improved over time, usually by the Path of Least Resistance. They would be just as happy if the improvement came from the State or the Crown, OR, if they did it themselves, but naturally they preferred not to exert themselves or put themselves at risk.

The three parties were roughly in a 1/3 --- 1/3 --- 1/3 composition.

You probably can take it from here, but, let me flesh it out for you.

The Loyalists are now the Stone Commies of Hollywood, DU, the Press, Soros, the Perfessers, and each and most of the people known as Democrats. They want us to die, and they want Communism installed in its classical formulation, with millions of dead (that's us BTW), and all the propaganda, parades, trimmings, etc., that we know well from having lived through the 20th Century.

The Patriots are us, those who are trying to rally one another on these forums and who would be willing to take the next steps, at greater and greater risk.

The Gloms are still the Gloms. They are so feckless and worthless that they call themselves everything from Patriot to Republican to Democrat to Conservative to Liberal to Progressive.

Basically they will go along with the zeitgeist or vogue or hip philosophy or Talking Point of the day or hour.

That is the game, and our exact strategy is not yet formed, but it would make a lot of sense to read about the First American Revolution in great detail in accounts by Mercy Otis Warren, et al., who documented the public arguments before, during and after the War.

Here is one possible strategy for today based on the strategies of the past:

Encourage the patriots by all means, but stress the philosophies of conservatism, constitutionalism, and free market economics, pointing out the miraculous performance of the United States when it strictly followed them, and form the central concept of FREEDOM, and attach it to the patriots.

Attack the Loyalists by all means, pointing out the fallacies and downright evil of their laws and form the central concept of TYRANNY, and attach it to the Loyalists.

The Gloms are important, contemptible as they may be.

Insofar as the Gloms can be made to identify with or convert to the Patriot cause, it will prevail. Likewise, getting the Gloms to find the Loyalist cause repulsive is important.

Shaming the Gloms a la Samuel Adams is a very effective strategy, and he and other pamphleteers did that.

The key to the Gloms is two-fold.

First, they don't like rancor, and they like plausible explanations, but they won't stick their necks out for any principle whatsoever. So all arguments must be civil and kind and not boil over (except for a few enforcer types like Coulter, who is funny).

Second, Gloms always see themselves, through the Retrospectoscope, as having been Patriots all along.

Fallacious as that thinking is, it goes way back, even before the time of Aesop. It is one of the pillars of human nature.

So getting them to identify and convert to the Patriot cause is of primary importance. You want them to think they are Patriots and then become Patriots.

Sorry about the length of the post.

98 posted on 10/26/2013 9:18:25 AM PDT by caddie
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