Posted on 07/13/2015 5:45:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Gee stop your bitching. The article is only 18 paragraphs long. *rme*
It’s satire - Get A Life!
They're awfully slow
It’s satire. Anyone with a little bit of common sense should see it.
Additional rule: Get rid of the RINO establishment, by any means necessary. As democrats say, politics is war and war involves rooting out and eliminating enemy collaborators.
I actually agree with you here, but I have a different take on it, hence my issue with the article.
I don' agree with the article's premise that following the rules the problem, I believe the entire game itself needs to be replaced with an entirely new one which favors our outlook and nature, as was done by the founders.
They realized that they could not live with the current system and invented a new one, which we must do again.
I was not referring to the author of this piece but authors of “snarky, lying...”
Read Paul Reveres Ride ( can’t remember the author right now). Excellent account of the event. Destroys some old myths as well.
We have to replicate their network.
Right now the left has sites as diverse as Tumblr, Reddit, Gawker Media, Buzzfeed, Daily Kos, Cracked and HuffPo to take whatever fringe issue they want and percolate it through the internet.
They then have Facebook and Twitter to virally spread it to the news feeds of millions. Pressure to conform to their “friends” positions cause many people to “like” or repost the same thing, causing others to do the same.
Then pop-propaganda outlets like the Daily Show and John Oliver will pick up on the “trend” and give rants and commentary masked as comedy about the issue. Those videos are then spread on YouTube (neither show demands people that post videos of those programs take them down). This will cement to drones that you need to get on the bandwagon if you want to be “trendy”.
Now the cause gets picked up by NPR, NY Times, and all of the TV leftist networks where it is then made safe for older hippies and middle-aged dullards that dont use the internet to be part of the cause as well.
Obama can now just then get behind it and start pushing bigger government.
We have nothing like this. We rely on a shrinking number of radio talk shows, hosted by aging commentators. Sites like FR, the Blaze, Newsmax, Britebart, Drudge and others rarely work together in any real capacity. If something can get started, it is almost by accident. Few on our side wants to be seen as being part of a bigger push to bring an issue to the forefront least they get slammed for just “going along” with someone else’s “scoop”. Radio hosts seem to be fighting each other or ignoring the existence of each other to coordinate because they see each other as competition more than allies.
We have no TV shows like the Daily Show. Newspapers are out as well. Forget the networks.
We are competitive on YouTube, but too many on our side seem like they hate any tech that was made after 2008, and seem to brag more about how old their computers and OSs are than giving a toss about staying on top of these new tools that the left has no problem using against them.
If it wasn’t for the NRA or the RTL groups, we would have next to nothing standing up against these people.
Satire often has an element of truth. We need to change our approach to the thugs in government and think through all of our options.
Different rules? We need to play by Alinsky rules.
We don’t have the stomach for it unfortunately.
I understand. The problem is that it doesn’t matter what the system is if one side doesn’t play by the rules.
Got bad news for you. Despite the mythology, the American Revolution was won by guys wearing uniforms, marching in formation and engaging in battle in an orderly formation. American regulars were taught to fight this way by Europeans like Lafayette, von Steuben, Pulaski, and Dekalb. They also had considerable help with from the help from French regulars and the French Navy. There is a reason the USN has had several ships named “USS Comte de Grasse.”
Missed that. Sorry.
We should fight asymmetrically, not on their terms, and we can do it constitutionally.
An Article V state amendments convention goes around the DC power structure and renders it powerless.
History will not look well upon a people who gaffed off peaceful means to restore their freedom.
Good comment. I’ll have to work on a response, but the short answer is you are right on the money.
“. . . fundamental conservative views (small govt, individual liberty, fiscal responsibility, etc.)
Fundamental conservative views are pro-family, pro-life and pro-faith. “
While I don’t disagree, I think that there is more to conservatism than just those three items.
Sure, but if a political entity fails on one of those pre-eminent three, then it fails as conservatism. As far as conservatism is concerned, if an ideology or political system is anti-God or anti-family, then it matter not one bit what its views are on government, finance etc.
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