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Now We’ve Got Them Right Where We Want Them
American Thinker.com ^ | January 21, 2021 | John Green

Posted on 01/21/2021 10:21:40 AM PST by Kaslin

Like many Americans, I’ve been in a funk since last November. Now it’s time to shake it off and re-engage. George Washington presided over a series of lost battles and tactical retreats during the American revolution. But each battle (regardless of outcome) weakened the enemy, and led to eventual freedom from monarchical rule. The ruling class has taken an election, but they’ve substantially weakened their position in doing so. It’s time to take stock of our relative positions and move on.

So, what is the left’s position now? They lost seats in Congress. Even more significant, they lost power in state governments. These are the same state bodies that are going to reapportion congressional districts this year. They’ve exposed their true nature to all Americans. Through their actions over the last year, they’ve revealed themselves to be petty, vindictive, dishonest autocrats. It is not an attractive look. They’ve also exposed all of their covert operators. The media, tech oligarchs, and faceless bureaucrats have taken sides -- and now we know it. Much of their power came from secrecy, which they no longer have. All of this was sacrificed to drag a demented, racist has-been across the finish line. President Asterisk enters office in the weakest position of any president in recent history. We’re not at the dawn of the left’s ascendancy. They have peaked. They’re spent. I’m sure they’re not done fighting, but their strategic position is not something to envy. It’s doubtful they can retain power.

However, what conservatives have is quite formidable. We have over 75 million followers. That number is our floor, not our ceiling. Our ranks are growing every day. The more our ruling class attempts to suppress us, the faster our movement will grow.

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To: HeadOn

Thank you for your post.


41 posted on 01/21/2021 1:35:14 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: TopDog2

This is exactly what most FReepers said repeatedly day after day after day after day after day...
Anyone, like me who dared question the validity of such claims was told to F=;K Off & leave the board for being “negative”.
Thin skinned & close minded many FReepers are!
And not one of them will admit they believed the bullshit.
😃


42 posted on 01/21/2021 1:54:28 PM PST by AnxiouslyWaiting
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To: AnxiouslyWaiting

I never believed that either, but, having been here for decades, knew not to mention that. :-)


43 posted on 01/21/2021 3:34:22 PM PST by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Kaslin

More national guard troops arrived in DC today. Things that make you go hmmmm! 🤔


44 posted on 01/21/2021 5:33:25 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: PhxRising

>>>3. “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”<<<

First, thank you for presenting this list so I can copy it.

Second, Alinsky’s rules for radicals has a weakness. These rules are not allied to a specific ideology. The rules are used by the left right now, but there’s no reason that they can’t also be used by those of us who want a return to a Constitutional republic. I’m going to print these rules and hang them in my office in a discreet corner so I don’t forget that these are tactical ideas, not leftist ideas.

In that regard, I always refer to our current president as “Creepy Uncle Joe.” It’s a harsh joke, but not so harsh that it creates condemnation. And I always direct people to look on YouTube for the video titled “Biden sniffing hair.” Even the uberprogressives I run into regularly concede that Biden has a concern, and everyone else laughs.

Going outside the expertise of the uberprogressives is easy. Most are ignorant of history, religion, philosophy, and rational thought. Someone once told me about the genocide of Native people in an attempt to insult the United States. I responded in agreement about the racist colonization of Mexico, throwing in smallpox and religious intolerance as frosting. When that person brought up the United States, I brought up Brazil and Cuba and condemned their racist and colonial histories.

I’ve been confronted about intersectionality and privilege. I look straight into their eyes, then laugh out loud and say, “Wait, you believe that?”

I asked someone to tell me how privilege works in other cultures. What was it like in the Six Nations? In China? Among the Zulu?

I’ve asked how to measure my privilege. After all, I can measure my introversion and extraversion online using tests that have been researched and approved, so what’s my privilege score? If it exists, it can measured, and I want mine measured. Like Alinsky said, mocking the enemy, making them live to their own standards, and working outside their expertise is critical to undermining their influence.

The Italian communist Gramsci once wrote that the left needed to infiltrate groups that create culture, calling it “the long march through the institutions.” I’m working in a public school, and as long as I’m there, I’m making the long march through their institutions. I’ve taught high school seniors Solzhenitsyn. One of my classes right now is learning about the history of free speech, including the fact that free speech as a concept doesn’t exist in most places and times. Those students are going to be reading Milton, Locke, and Mill. They’ll be exposed to the Federalist Papers.

This is fifth generation warfare. It’s a war of ideas and concepts. Not many of the teenagers in my classroom want to be pushed around and told to shut up, and they’re looking at their Woke elders with contempt. Then there’s me, telling them that their individual rights are natural, not given to them. I have tenure, so come and try and fire me for teaching what is explicitly stated in the state curriculum.

And always mock their ideas with good cheer. Leftist beliefs are the phrenology of the 21st century.


45 posted on 01/22/2021 8:12:51 PM PST by redpoll
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To: redpoll

Alinsky didn’t invent those rules, they’ve been used for centuries.


46 posted on 01/22/2021 8:14:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
They’ve got the voting machines and the GOP won’t do anything about it.

The forensic analysis of Maricopa County dominion machines and ballots will reveal the fraud (The so-called "dominion advantage" and manufactured absentee ballots). The AZ Legislature is ready to declare an invalid election if in any tampering is detected (e.g. deleted adjudication logs). This could change the outcome of many races.

Equally important is that this may encourage other Republican legislatures (Rapacki estimates 15) to perform the same degree of forensic analysis. We can break the left's mantra that charges of election fraud are baseless. This is where we must fight them -- show that they are illegitimate "bastards", that they have no right to rule.

We must demonstrate the fraud not simply point to it through circumstantial (statistical) evidence.

Eyes are on Arizona.

47 posted on 01/23/2021 1:40:42 AM PST by nonsporting (The left is profoundly evil0j)
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