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Greenfield: Be the Best Saboteur You Can Be
The Sultan Knish blog ^ | Friday, June 26, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/27/2015 6:05:45 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Friday, June 26, 2015

Be the Best Saboteur You Can Be

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

1. There is no conservative party

Governor Haley and Al Sharpton
There is a Republican Party. The purpose of the party and its politicians, much like that of its Democratic counterpart, is to obtain money and privileges for its major donors.  That doesn't mean that its members don't have other ideals and agendas, but Republican politicians who rise high enough come from an urban and suburban establishment that is more liberal than its base.

Expecting them to care as much about your issues as you do is unrealistic.

They will only do the right thing insofar as it helps them

A. Get control of money

B. Advance their careers

C. Become popular

And this is a good thing. It means that they're controllable. It means that the Democrats are also controllable. And this is how the left took over the Democratic Party.

The only way to interact with the large body of politicians is through the carrot and the stick. The "destructive" Republican saboteurs the establishment complains about, whatever their motives, are serve as the stick, undermining and sabotaging efforts to conduct business as usual.

The only way conservatives can get anything done now is by threatening business as usual.

Washington D.C. is never going to be the solution, but to the extent that its business as usual is threatened, sabotaged and held hostage, it will have trouble putting its boot on ordinary people. Until the Republican establishment changes its ways, populist saboteurs are the best conservative weapon.

Don't expect them to do the right thing. Don't be disappointed when they don't. And certainly don't expect them to solve all this.

The only way they will ever do the right thing is if you have leverage over them.



2. Fight the small stuff

You don't have to think in terms of a national movement. You don't even have to think in terms of an organization. Those are things that we need, but you can fight the left in small ways at home.

I'm not talking about Sign X or donate to Y.

Just obstruct any liberal initiative, policy or program in your community. It doesn't matter what. It doesn't matter if it's innocuous. It doesn't matter if you agree with it.

Undermine it on principle. If you can, vote it down. Encourage others to vote it down. If you can't, look for ways to tie it in red tape by attaching other agendas to it.

The left wins its biggest victories at the planning stage. Its activists come early and stay late. They propose their plans, rig meetings, use kids and the elderly as human shields, and get their way. They are not used to any real opposition. Particularly the kind that doesn't bluster, but finds ways to tie their proposals in knots, to make them expensive and drag them out as long as possible.

Oppose them when you can. Concern troll them when you can't.

If you don't have that kind of position, think of the origins of the term 'sabotage'. Workers threw their shoes into machines and stopped the machine. Don't do anything illegal. Don't do anything that will get you fired.

But if you have the opportunity to make a liberal program work badly, if you have a legal way to put more stress on it, to tie up the energy and time of the people running it, to make it worse... do it.

We're the underdogs. We're the political guerrillas. This is not our system. It's their system.

Our job is to make it run as badly as possible.

Henry David Thoreau wrote that there's always injustice in government just as there's always friction in a machine. It's when injustice becomes dominant in government, then friction has its own machine.

The left's friction is now the machine. Get your shoes in the machine. It already runs badly, make it run worse. It already costs too much, make it cost more. You are now the friction. With enough friction, the machine breaks down.

That's part of what the left did to us. It dragged down our government and culture. It poked a thousand holes in everything. It made it too tiresome and wearying to go on doing this and that. Morale withered, confidence broke down and the left took over.

Now it's their turn to be on the receiving end.

I'm not going to give the Mario Savio speech...

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

That's for younger people. It's for a mass movement. 

But you can wear down the machine in a thousand different ways without risk. You don't have to throw your bodies on the gears. You just have to be a wholly legal burden on it and a pain in the ass of the people running it... and especially the people planning it.

The big stuff begins with the little stuff. When you fight the little stuff, the big stuff starts breaking down.





3. Deny legitimacy to the system

Liberals like to crow that ObamaCare is the law of the land. Now it's gay marriage. Tomorrow it'll be a ban on the Dukes of Hazzard.

All that implies legitimacy, order, a legal system. And that's not what we have.

What we have is a Supreme Court and a White House that acts with brazen illegality. ObamaCare was illegally passed. It was illegally preserved.

No matter how many judges sign off on it, it has no legitimacy. It will never have any legitimacy.

America is built on the simple premise that no system can be more legitimate than its natural laws and founding premises. It does not matter how many judges or politicians try to suspend the First or Second Amendments. All they are doing is removing their own legitimacy.

When a system acts illegally, then its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force.

ObamaCare is coercion. Forcing people to participate in gay marriages is coercion. The FHA ruling is coercion. We may be compelled into compliance, but compulsion is all it is. It isn't law or justice.

The distinction is important.

When we follow the law, we do so because it is right. When we are coerced, we are at gunpoint by an illegitimate system. Those who compel us are not any different than criminals. 

Not only is the system illegitimate, but it is also inconsistent, though it claims there is equality under the law, is favors some at the expense of others.

The system is not only illegal, it is also hypocritical and corrupt. That must be emphasized at every turn.

Liberals maintain a narrative that their way is the inevitable path of progress. We know the truth. Their way has been tried and it failed a thousand times. The only thing inevitable is their eventual failure. Their systems will always be abusive, dishonest and corrupt.

They will always turn undemocratic no matter how they start out. They will always turn to coercion.

When we act and when we talk it is vitally important that we distinguish between the legitimate laws we follow and the illegitimate laws we comply with.

This may seem like a technicality, but it's a technicality that tyrannies have fallen on.

Every liberal victory is not a triumph. It is another pile of dirt on their own graves. It is another straw on the back of the camel. It is another demonstration that they are corrupt and illegitimate. Their latest victories were gained by abusing the process. They will in the long run lose them just as criminals eventually lose their loot. They have not defeated us. They have corrupted themselves.



4. We're not done

Every conservative these days seems to have a tipping point for when America will end. None of them are real.

This country was built out of a tiny fraction of the territory and population it holds today. It was built by a handful of people organizing and rousing a movement that spread to a minority of the population at the time.

If the revolution were happening today, it would look a lot like the way it looked then, with major cities in the hands of the establishment and the Loyalists and a handful of farmers that even their formally trained commanders held in contempt fighting against them and the might of an empire.

That's not coincidence. It's the whole of human history.

During the Revolutionary War, the entire rebel population of America would be outnumbered by the residents of Manhattan today.

Demographically outnumbered? They had it worse.

Economic collapse? They had it worse.

America isn't over until it's over. It will take a long time to happen. At some point the country will be completely unrecognizable, but that's relative. Would Washington have recognized America in 1952? Or even 1882? America has always been changing. We can't change it back, but we can change it to.

That's the real battle.

Contrary to what some conservatives like to believe, the left did not suddenly show up here in 1963 or 1905 and disrupt a formerly peaceful country. The left has always been here. It's a part of us.

No people and no country are untouched by evil. It's only a matter of what form it takes. But in any form, we know it by its destructive instincts, its facade of righteousness that poorly conceals a lust for power. Americans have fought it before. Americans have won.

It's big now, but it's not nearly as big as we think.



 5. A little rhyme and reason

I'll close with a few selected lines from a children's nursery rhyme from the days of the big bad USSR that once threatened the world, before folding under the pressure of its people who found the courage to stand up to it.

It's written for children... but like much that was written in the USSR, it had a message for adults.


The Monster Cockroach

Kornei Chukovsky

To the picnic they all come,
Munching candy and cake,

In a very merry mood,
For a day at the lake.

Then suddenly they grow numb and still!
Who's that coming down the hill?!

A fierce and dreadful Roach!
A mean cock-cock-Cockroach!
"Don't you dare to approach!"
He roars, he rages:

"I'll lock you in cages!
And swallow you ALL

"Or with a twitch of my mustache,
I'll turn you all to succotash!"

Alas! Not one dares to fight,
Every bird and beast take flight!

Now the Lion climbs a hill;
From there he speaks his royal will:

"We must regain our happy land!
Against the brute we'll take a stand!"

"And to the warrior who fears not this foe,
Who this monster will overthrow,
To him I'll give a juicy bone
And the finest pine cone!"

The creatures in one eager crowd,
Surge forth and cry out loud:

"We do not fear this nasty foe,
With tooth and claw
We'll lay him low!"

And they all rush to do battle-
Birds, fish, fowl, and cattle.

But the Roach moves his mustache
And bellows: "SUCCOTASH!"

One and all they beat a retreat.
The enemy they don't defeat!

Into the fields and woods they dash-
Terrorized by the Roach's mustache!

The Lion shouts: "What a disgrace!
Come back! Come out and show your face!
Pin the enemy with your horns-
Bulls, rhinoceros, unicorns!"

But each in his hiding place stays,
And wails: "Horns aren't cheap these days..."
And our skin is precious too-
What you ask we cannot do!"

Caught in nettles the crocodiles twitch,
And the elephants get caught in a ditch.

Lo! All that's heard now
Is the flow of tears;
All that's seen now
Is the trembling of their ears!

To the Cockroach they all yield-
He's now lord o'er wood and field.
He struts about among them,
Rubbing his tummy,
Looks at their young ones
And says: "How very yummy!"

The poor, poor parents
Are in distress.
Their dear babes
They hug and caress:

For what mother could give up her child,
Her baby tame or her baby wild?!
So that the monster could devour
Her precious crumb, her little flower!

So mommies and daddies moan and cry
As they bid their infants good-bye!

But now we see another picture:
a flighty flying nimble creature-
A carefree Sparrow lands with a trill
right there on the Roach's hill,

And for a moment all are mute
Fearing the mustachioed brute:

"A monster?! Where?!

"It's a roach, a roach, a wee-bit roach,
A little beetle you fear to approach.
Look! It's a midge a mite,
A bug that can't even bite!

For our trouble we're to blame!
What a shame!
What a shame!"

The Hippo then comes forth
With slow pace and a worried face,
Muttering in an anxious way:

"Please go away, go away!
Your words will make him very mad,
He may think of something very bad!

Then the Hippo falls still,
Surprised by a sudden trill...

The sparrow bends her dainty neck
Peck, peck, peck-
Not a smidgen, not a speck!

The roach is swallowed in a flash,
All of him and his mustache!




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1 posted on 06/27/2015 6:05:45 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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To: daisy mae for the usa; AdvisorB; wizardoz; free-in-nyc; Vendome; Georgia Girl 2; blaveda; ...

2 posted on 06/27/2015 6:09:09 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

We’ve been feeding the gop-e carrots long enough, time to swing the cudgel.


3 posted on 06/27/2015 6:09:29 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Louis Foxwell; Liz; sickoflibs
Oppose them when you can. Concern troll them when you can't.

If you don't have that kind of position, think of the origins of the term 'sabotage'. Workers threw their shoes into machines and stopped the machine. Don't do anything illegal. Don't do anything that will get you fired.

But if you have the opportunity to make a liberal program work badly, if you have a legal way to put more stress on it, to tie up the energy and time of the people running it, to make it worse... do it.

We're the underdogs. We're the political guerrillas. This is not our system. It's their system.

Our job is to make it run as badly as possible.

We have a plan... this is the plan...

4 posted on 06/27/2015 6:18:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Dems are going to build THE FENCE FINALLY. And they'll shoot us if we try to leave...)
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To: GOPJ

Sounds good to me.


5 posted on 06/27/2015 6:22:53 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Jacquerie

Greenfield answers some of your questions from your post. I believe you’re both right. We need to think and plan and act better. We need simple, well articulated goals and we need to get into the OODA loop of the enemy.


6 posted on 06/27/2015 6:25:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: GOPJ

We must always keep in mind: “Becoming Victims” is their best case scenario.

“They” are lying in wait——waiting for us to make the wrong move...so they can pounce.


7 posted on 06/27/2015 6:38:46 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: 1010RD; All
Thanks for the ping. Yes, we are on the same page.

No one need look beyond the three momentous decisions this past week to realize that Scotus has repealed free, republican government. One of the dissents correctly summed up the events as a putsch.

So to one and all I ask, “What is to be done?” Keep voting?

8 posted on 06/27/2015 6:47:14 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Bookmarked!!


9 posted on 06/27/2015 6:47:36 AM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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To: Covenantor

Time to send in the sparrows to eat the roaches.


10 posted on 06/27/2015 6:54:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Jacquerie

Ignore SCOTUS. It’s just a rubber stamp for an administrative dicktatorship.


11 posted on 06/27/2015 6:55:42 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: GOPJ

Cloward Piven!


12 posted on 06/27/2015 6:56:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Louis Foxwell

From the very beginning of our country there were those who opposed our freedom, wanted to be (stay) British citizens. Likewise, from early Christianity there were those who wanted to keep the Levitical law of the Jews, made them feel that they were better than the rest.

There is always an element that wants to change or tear down that which is good, honorable, godly. Since the Garden, there has been a desire of Satan to thwart God’s will on earth, and even though he seems to be winning, those who are his minions will soon find out the terrible truth. I have prayed all my life that this day would not come to America, but look at what we’ve become as a people. Apathetic, ungodly, perverse, filling our idle time with the same. We have allowed ourselves to be entertained to death. Sports, games, community things, all to keep us busy and off our knees. It has worked. People don’t have time for church, prayer, reading their Bibles, etc. Hence, when these pollsters come along, they rightly discern that America has come far away from its Biblical roots the founding fathers so diligently laid for us. We cannot recognize the Truth any longer, but are deceived into believing the half-truth, like Satan tempted Eve with in the Garden. People fall for what sounds right instead of what IS right. Don’t know the difference any longer.

We can lament our situation all day long, and we can try to do as this author suggested, but the power this admin has created for itself and the government will not be stopped or slowed. We will be arrestedIf we as a people do NOT repent, we will waste all efforts to stall and break this government’s back. Only God can do it, not ourselves. If we refuse to repent and call on Him, we will waste a lot of human effort. Even if we do repent, it is not going to be an easy task, so let’s start where we need to, and we will get the best results. Prayer, repentance for our own apathy, and then asking Him how we can best be doing the work that lies ahead. Unfortunately, the Enemy will have made some resistant to helping, feeling that nothing can be done.

Another aspect is this: All of Scripture warns of how things will be at the end of time. Personally, I believe we are there. Israel has been in the land now for 67 years, she has Jerusalem as her capitol, even if the rest of the world refuses to recognize it. And...the generation that “saw” this some to pass is close to passing away, age-wise. Scripture says that THIS generation will NOT pass away before the end comes. We can continue the fight and we should, but we must always remember that God’s timing and purposes will be accomplished according to His own plans. We best be in the Word, getting ready by understanding the times we live in so we can be prepared for what is coming...persecution like there has never been before.


13 posted on 06/27/2015 6:57:36 AM PDT by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Jacquerie

We ain’t gonna vote our way out of this.

L


14 posted on 06/27/2015 7:05:51 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker
Good morning.

We ain’t gonna vote our way out of this.

Does look that way.

5.56mm

15 posted on 06/27/2015 7:12:15 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Louis Foxwell

This might be plan B. It shouldn’t be plan A as it effectively destroys the nation to destroy the corrupt ruling class. That will only encourage the police state. The Left is already sabotaging this country. Why contribute to the decline?

Plan A should be millions of protesting Americans flooding the streets of Washington, DC., making life miserable for politicians, lobbyists, & bureaucrats in their homes & offices. Put the city in gridlock & keep it that way until we see a multitude of resignations - Boehner & McConnell would be a good start.

Mass, protracted protest has always effected political change, From Kent State to Poland & around the world.

And if you think protesting is beneath you, sabotage is even more degrading.

Which is better: Contributing to the rapid decline of America, or making WDC feel your pain.


16 posted on 06/27/2015 7:48:55 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Civil war 2 or Revolution, whatever you call it, is clearly inevitable. There are some, who will not simply comply to the tyrants.

I just have some tiny bones to pick, with regard to mentioning the Revolution War.

It is only appropriate IF (the big IF) TEHY, rest of the world, will let us fight it out ourselves. That we don’t have more emerging crisis/crises OTHERS want to do us harm and do us in.


17 posted on 06/27/2015 7:49:29 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

It may be a mistake for a foreign power to attempt a move against us during our item of crisis. External threat, and all. I doubt they would. Napoleon’s advice comes to mind. Now AFTERWARDS, that would be when to strike.


18 posted on 06/27/2015 8:06:58 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

It will be a mistake, but that doesn’t mean others (esp. rogues) won’t try.

The messier, the merrier.


19 posted on 06/27/2015 8:27:55 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The Marxist have become the establishment.

The only way to fix this is to let it wreck first.

Trying to fix Obamacare is helping the Marxists.

20 posted on 06/27/2015 8:30:07 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington.)
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