I’m not willing to quietly go along with the program. Any ideas on how to fight back?
Fight fire with fire. Find and exploit issues that divide their base. Quit playing defense; make them defend themselves. Identify their key issues and co-opt them. Discredit their sacred cows; etc. etc. etc. What you don’t do, however, is embrace their ‘ends justifies the means’ unethical mentality. You can fight, and win while being true to your ethics and spirituality. Actually, Buckhead’s takedown of Dan Rather is a great example of how to fight, with truth on your side.
Getting good at recognizing the various manifestations of these tactics is the first step. The folks here are the among best in uncovering these methods.
IMHO, one of the best things one can do is to call them on their moral relativism -- which in my mind is the bulwark of their strategy.
Show them the silliness and the juvenile nature of moral relativism then their rationals for doing what they do falls apart.
In a nutshell, they need to know there is such a thing is moral and factual truth that is not "fungible" and that they need to learn to deal with it and GROW UP!