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  • How the Left Turns Anyone Leading the Right into Fringe Extremists

    12/06/2021 5:32:39 AM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 6, 2021 | Rachel Alexander
    The left has mastered many clever tactics to defeat the right in recent years, not based on substantive arguments but rather on tricking people. One is straight out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and the right is falling into the trap. Rule No. 5 states, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” It basically consists of using 4th grader insults to coerce people into a herd attack mentality. They mastered it with former President Donald Trump, “orange man bad.” It didn’t used to be that way. Although Rules for Radicals came out in 1972, it didn’t achieve the level of...
  • Alinsky's Star Pupil Uses 'Rules' As A Manual For 'Social Surgery'

    05/14/2010 5:18:45 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 27 replies · 960+ views
    Investors.com ^ | May 14, 2010 | PAUL SPERRY
    President Obama is fond of using ridicule to frustrate critics. He recently mocked Republicans for predicting "Armageddon" if health care reform passed. After signing the bill, he cracked that he looked around to "see if there were any asteroids falling," only to discover a nice day with "birds chirping." IBD Exclusive Series: Old Books/New Relevance Obama has also used the tactic to dismiss charges that he's pushing a "socialist" agenda, arguing that critics will next accuse him of "being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten." But the former community organizer also knows that ridiculing the opposition...