Posted on 02/13/2017 5:06:59 AM PST by Kaslin
The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don’t even know it. Oh, their masters sure know it. Soros is bitterly having to ramp up his infusions of blood money to keep his community-organized “grassroots” movements afloat. The less dumb ones among the lying dinosaur media are panicking as their influence fades, and Chuck Schumer is enduring such a non-stop parade of serial humiliations that if the Senate were a penitentiary, he’d be McConnell’s prison Mitch.
The Leftist mafia godmaleidentifyingparents pulling the strings of the Marxist Muppets know the score – they are losing. And it’s awesome. Because, finally, the Right has taken Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and shoved it up where #TheResistance don’t shine.
Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. You yelled, “Follow me!” and led a movement that had previously been dominated by doofy wonks and bow-tied geeks over the top in a glorious bayonet charge against the paper tiger liberal elite. The Left hadn’t taken a good, solid gut punch since Ronald Reagan turned the Oval Office keys over to the wimpcons who found fighting Democrats uncouth because conflict made for awkward luncheons down at the club. Bizarrely, the guy who picked up the standard and carried it forward when our beloved commander was felled by fate was a New York billionaire with no identifiable ideological foundation who instinctively understood the one thing that could make up for his other failings: He knows how to fight liberals and win. For Donald Trump and the revitalized conservative movement, Alinsky's book isn’t some dusty old commie tome - it’s a lifestyle.
Alinsky’s Rules are relatively simple, and they make sense when you are fighting a conventional opponent with an interest in maintaining the status quo. The Rules are terrific for dealing with an old-school conservative guy who drives a Buick, enjoys gardening, and doesn’t want any trouble. They aren’t so effective against conservative brawlers who like to punch, and who aren’t too fussy about whether it’s with tweets or with fists.
The Rules are not some magic incantation; they are simply some tactical principles that work in certain kinds of fights against certain kinds of opponents – particularly ones willing to unilaterally disarm in the face of an unprincipled enemy. But once the secret is out, it’s relatively easy to turn them around on an enemy that is so stupid it thinks it’s going to gain widespread acceptance among normal Americans by dressing up as genitalia. That’s why the thirteen classic Alinsky Rules are playing out right now in a way the Left did not expect.
Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Actually, we now have a lot of power. No, we don’t have direct power over liberal bastions like Hollywood, the media and academia, but by threatening to use governmental levers of power to impact their tax breaks, copyright laws, and subsidies, we can pound them into submission. And Trump is clearly willing to use all his powers to beat the living liberalism out of our enemy.
Wait, this is where the Fredocons loosen their bow ties and stutter, “Why…we can’t…Professor Wellington Wimpenheimer IV would not approve…it’s so mean…oh, well I never!”
Wake up. Man up. If you ever want to win (and maybe someday even kiss a girl) you need to get real. They hate us, and we either win or we spend the rest of our miserable lives as Boxer the Horse, slaving away to fund the welfare state under the lash of the Left until it decides it’s time to pack us off to the glue factory.
Rule 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people” and Rule 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Stupid GOP wonkcons want to fight to where the liberals are strong, like on entitlements. Trump is smart enough to fight where liberals are weak, like on the economy. And he’s going to throw down some serious jujitsu by doing a liberal thing – infrastructure spending – in a conservative way. He's a developer – he knows how to build stuff, and he will freak the Left out by delivering concrete results (not the least of them, a wall) where liberals (for whom “infrastructure” means giving our money to their deadbeat constituents) never actually build stuff anymore. As a conservative, I’m not thrilled about “infrastructure” spending. But as a conservative insurgent who wants to see the Left on its collective collectivist back, twitching like a dying roach, I’m thrilled.
Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” This is not so much about pointing out the lies and hypocrisy that constitute Leftist orthodoxy – the vicious racism they deny is racism because it’s anti-white, the racism against non-whites who refuse to serve a liberal master, the sexism against women who think babies should be actually be born, and so on. It’s about not letting them tie us into knots by using our morals and values as bear traps to immobilize and neutralize us. Fortunately, most of us have discovered how losing our superficial “political values” helps us regain our freedom. We have embraced the power of not #caring. And liberals have no idea what to do when they shout “Trump is a meanie,” and we shrug, smile, and bust out with an impromptu interpretive dance to celebrate Neil Gorsuch.
Rule 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” Actually, the AR15 a more potent weapon, but ridicule will do as long as the Left doesn't try to make good on its countless threats of violence and tyranny. Regardless, we finally we have a conservative corps that is willing to mock the members of that motley collection of pompous, inept, lying jerks we call the Democrat Party and its media catamite corps. When they turn around and try to mock us back, well, we aren’t watching their late night hack comics anymore, and frankly they can make all the jokes they want. The punchline is still going to be “And then the Republicans repealed Obamacare.”
Rule 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” I’m having fun watching the liberals lose. How about you?
Rule 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” I don’t know – I doubt I am ever going to be tired of so much #winning.
Rule 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Remember the Trump outrage du jour a couple days ago when we were supposed to be on the verge of war with Australia? Well, Down Under’s kangaroos and giant scary spiders still wander freely, and we’ve long since moved on. President Trump has been busy owning the news cycle with appointments, executive orders, and the occasional squirrel-sighting tweet that sends the media chasing off on a rodent-seeking tangent. Oh no, Kellyanne Conway said to buy Ivanka’s stuff – if I ever cared (and I never did), I’ve already moved on to giggling about the progressive freak out over ICE being allowed to do its job again.
Rule 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” No, Alinsky was wrong. The thing itself is much, much worse – as Democrats will find out when President Trump signs the law mandating national concealed carry reciprocity.
Rule 10: “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” Democrats are trying to do the massive resistance thing again, and it’s going about as well as when they tried the massive resistance thing against integration. It may arouse libs in blue cities and on soon-to-be-defunded college campuses, but normals are getting tired of the nonstop Leftist nonsense. See Rule 7. Conversely, Trump’s nonstop series of orders, appointments, and policies seems to be helping him – mostly because they are popular.
Rule 11: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Unhinged Leftist obstruction, including violence, is driving people right. However, leftist harping on Trump’s rough edges seems to be backfiring – instead of “Oh my, what a brute!” people seem to be saying “Good. He fights.”
Rule 12: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Trump has a program and it’s popular. What’s the Democrats’ program? “Give us more of your money so we can buy votes from welfare cheats, and then we’ll lecture you on your privilege?”
The Democrats have no meaningful policies because their entire focus is on them regaining and keeping power – that’s their desired end state, not a country made great again, and that’s why they get no traction anywhere on the map outside of the dysfunctional blue spots. Watch for then to eventually seriously propose secession by the liberal states – after the last few months, I’ve been tempted to move my novel People’s Republic, about California ignoring the admonition to never go full Venezuela, over to the nonfiction section.
Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Well, they try to. They try to make Trump a demonic chimera composed of bits and pieces of Hitler, Mussolini, and more Hitler, and he just doesn’t care. We don’t care, because we know what they are really saying is that we normals are the monsters that it’s not Trump governing that is illegitimate but that it is we normals having a voice in governing ourselves that is illegitimate.
And now we are woke, as the ridiculous Left would put it, to the Left’s tired Alinsky antics. We see it’s all a lie. It’s all a scam. And we aren’t playing the game by their rules anymore.
GWB was a flat-out traitor who spent his entire term enacting Saudi foreign policy and covering up their crimes against us.
The GWB-as-naif theory doesn’t hold a drop of water.
Same for house/senate rules, EO's, judicial activism, funding, departmental appointments and actions...
Valerie Jarrett purportedly said: “After we win this election, it is payback time. For those who supported us, there will be rewards, for the ones who opposed us, they will get what they deserve. There will be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. With no election to worry about, we have two judges ready to go." BTW, ValJar's family is intermarried with Bill Ayers' family.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/11/18/valerie-jarrett-there-will-be-hell-to-pay-for-obamas-critics/
A war cannot be won by exclusively fighting defensively.
We need to “take the war” to the left. But how?
1) Start with the weapons they have created, but turn them around to be used against them.
“Operation Choke Point”, in which the Justice Department coerced financial institutions, especially banks, to not provide banking and loan services to a list of *legal* businesses that the left despises, in particular, gun dealers, but also hit:
Ammunition Sales
Coin Dealers
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Fireworks Sales
Home-Based Charities
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Pawn Shops
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Surveillance Equipment
Tobacco Sales
Travel Clubs
Anyway, President Trump should *keep* “Operation Choke Point”, but re-designate the currently legal targets that should be denied banking services, to include:
Planned Parenthood
Innumerable Soros-Funded organizations
Innumerable Tides Foundation funded organizations
The SPLC
The ACORN spin-offs
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
International Action Center (IAC)
Midwest Academy (MA)
Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
Refuse & Resist! (R&R)
ANSWER Coalition
MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan
National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
2) President Trump’s next move should be to “deflate the higher education bubble”.
Eliminate all federal funding for racist, sexist, anti-American, radical leftist, and other worthless college majors and courses, both direct funding and provision of student loans to this crap. No reason in the world for the US government to subsidize radicalism and anti-Americanism.
If students want to attend college to get a useful degree, fine. And lean on universities to eliminate worthless “mandatory courses in p.c.” If students want that stuff, they have to pay cash up front. No student loans for this foolishness.
3) Next up, turn most of the federal funding to states into block grants, with “recommended but not mandatory federal guidelines” for their use, and *no*, *zero* strings attached. That is, for example, strip the popular student lunch program from hundreds of federal requirements placed on it, “or we will take away your money”.
And nail those coffins shut with a powerful rule that no additional requirements can be added to any block grant without the overwhelming support (even 2/3rds) of congress.
Sorry, Bushes are now known globalists. It was all about oil, always was/is with the Mideast. If not for oil, we’d never have heard of Kuwait or Iraq (except mayber for honey and wool blankets).
That is your opinion, thoughtomator. I disagree with it.
Try to think of an innocent reason why GWB adopted the slogan “Islam is a religion of peace” and tried to force it down our throats for all those years.
I’ll wait.
Agreed. Liberals are gutless bullies when they think nobody will push back.
Push back on them, and they lose their minds, because beyond being a-holes who take advantage of the good nature of some people, they have absolutely no arguments since their knowledge of issues is a mile wide and a nanometer deep.
If even that. You scratch the surface with a logical argument, and they go directly to ad hominem, because that is all they have.
I view it as political expediency, not much more than that. We went to war with the Soviet Union as allies and had a lot of kissy-face things to say about them, but...Roosevelt and the Dems of the day were ideologically in bed with them anyway.
Just to be clear, I disagree with GWB on a wide variety of critical issues, but I give him leeway in the armed conflicts of the day. I just don’t think there was a good “fine line” to tread. I hated hearing “The Religion of Peace” as much as anyone.
The Bush clan was and is bought and sold by the Arabs.
Peaceful? Every Muslim who swears to the Koran swears that they will work to overthrow western (infidels) governments and replace them with Sharia Law.
These heathens believe that for Mohamed to return, the entire world must by 100% grade A Islam.
To get to 100% Islam, they are commanded to kill and behead, to rape infidels everywhere, to enslave your children and wife as sex slaves if they so chose.
According to Bush's Muslim buddies, you can either submit or die. Your choice but you'd better hurry because Hussein Obama's buddies are still flooding peaceful Muslims into the US to kill you, your family, your way of life.
That's what Muslims do, they lie and deceive to fool the infidels. There are still a sizable number of dumba$$ Americans who still don't realize that Hussein Obama was America's FIRST Muslim President. If the presstitutes told Americans the sky is green, many would go buy new glasses to tint it that way so they could agree with the liars. Stupid is an understatement.
Why give him leeway on the “armed conflicts of the day”?
Afghanistan - we went in a year after he took office. 7 years later we were still there without the mission accomplished, bleeding men and money all the way, handing the war to Obama to mismanage similarly. For comparison’s sake, World War 2 took us less than 4 years to wrap up from the date we entered.
Iraq - we went in on the basis of blatant lies single-sourced from a compromised individual. Trillions of dollars, fourteen years, and many dead & wounded later, we’re still there, and somehow ISIS controls a large chunk of the country despite our massive military presence.
Those are GWB’s “armed conflicts of the day”: perfidy and incompetence culminating in epic failure and unmitigated disaster for the American people.
If you’re giving him a pass on that I’d have to seriously question your values and judgment.
As for Alinsky, his book is primarily about the effective use of tactics for attacking an entrenched opponent. A fair analogy would be a book on siege tactics vs open field battles.
The point being, his list of rules works primarily against the status quo. And who represents the status quo today? That's why the left, as were conservatives a generation before them, unable to stop the momentum to the attacks. I saw a post @ Reddit (mostly 20-somethings fighting on the front lines against SJWs) remark that they are now the "radicals".
Many of the people who complain about the intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan are often the same people who would have complained the loudest if nothing had been done. (not necessarily saying you are one of them)
I’ve thought it through and I think we did the right thing even if it didn’t turn out as hoped. I am not one of those who think we should have carpet bombed Iraq or Afghanistan or dropped nuclear weapons on them.
People who know me understand my values and judgment and largely respect them in these matters, so that counts for something to me.
I understand and respect your opinion, thoughtomator, I just don’t agree with it.
Excellent point. I like it.
I understand all that, but he advocates open deception and outright lying to achieve goals, never mind the actions that he states are wholly justified by the goals.
That is where I have the problem with. Like I said, I have read that work, and didn’t enjoy it, but I thought it was important given the people like Clinton, Ayers, and Obama who worship Alinsky like a deity.
I think we can achieve our objectives without resorting to their tactics. I believe there is Might to being Right, and we generally have the truth on our side, in my opinion.
Excellent read here.
Ping.
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