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.
THAT IS priceless... thanks for sharing it Liz.
I'm counting this one as ONE MORE BIG WIN!
Also, just because I abhor the encompassing philosophy and morality of Alinsky’s work, it doesn’t mean that pieces of it cannot be used respectably. Some of it is indeed common sense. (it isn’t the same approach muslims have taken, when they say certain things cannot be utilized because they are tainted because they were thought of or invented by infidels)
The use of ridicule, for example. It is a great weapon to use against liberals, because they have no defense against it, and as we see, they can self-destruct when it is used against them.
Best.
Article.
Ever.
The first step in winning any fight is...to fight back! Trump seems to have no problem doing just that, and the Left just is not used to it. They can't handle it.
I love it, they are tearing away from their liberal moorings on this.
I’ve never wanted to piss on a grave more than I want to piss on Alynsky’s.
I’m having a lot of trouble trying to comprehend how you can come to the conclusion that all that killing and all those dead and damaged soldiers and all that money wasted - for absolutely no benefit whatsoever - was “the right thing”.
It wasn’t even close to “the right thing”. It was quite the opposite. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are easily among the worst foreign policy mistakes ever made by a US government.
In retrospect it is easy to see it that way, as most war is, in retrospect.
I understand the argument against “nation-building”. But we only had a few options:
1.) Do nothing.
2.) Bomb them into submission.
3.) Help them get out from under the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein and try to get another democratic government in the middle east functioning in Iraq.
The first one is the Carter Doctrine and that contributed to what we have in the Middle East now. The second one is the Soviet Union in Afghanistan Doctrine, and they left because it didn’t work. Only the third one made any sense at all given the situation.
thoughtomator, I do understand your viewpoint, I just don’t agree.
And I did give it a lot of thought. I had to.
I went to Washington DC a couple of dozen times (an eight hour drive for me) to stand outside Walter Reed in support of our wounded troops inside. I got a chance to talk to the troops on many occasions and look them in the eyes-I had to be prepared to give my justification as an American who would have voted for this action had I had to vote directly on it, and who did vote for it indirectly.
I know and talk to a lot of people who feel the same way you do. I get it. I just think walking a path in real time is different from looking back at it after you are successfully and safely on the other side in the future.
That’s all.
Still haven’t heard an actual justification for continuing to hold the “it was the right thing to do” position here and now in 2017 - if you’ve got one, lay it on us.
I can’t blame anyone.
Given those three options, that was the one I would have chosen.
None of them good, bloodless, or cheap. Two of them had potential terrible downsides without much upside except in an all out laying waste to those two countries, a blood-lust for revenge. Only the last one had any possible good upside.
But then, 9/11 wasn’t good, bloodless, or cheap either.
Actually we had the “provide the criminal evidence to substantiate extradition of Osama bin Laden to the government of Afghanistan” option. The Taliban were fully willing to turn him over.
But for some reason Bush outright refused to do that, even though it was bog-standard procedure in any other extradition case.
Why do you suppose Bush refused to do that?
In the nineteenth century, Persian Gulf Pearls, valued by the wealthy Europeans, were shipped out of Kuwait, actually al-Kuwait port.
“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”.
Finally I read someone remember poor Boxer the Horse. Truthfully, I wish someone would make a cartoon of Boxer getting away and not sent to the glue factory. That writers image has bothered me since I read this in High School.
But, yes! Let’s bury the left!
The Left employs Alinsky.
The Donald employs Sun Tzu.
BM
If someone were to end Soros ability to breathe, I would not say....”aw....what a shame”. I would be too happy to lie like that.
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