Posted on 04/08/2009 4:51:56 AM PDT by tgusa
Large organizations have learned to stonewall and not empower activists. In other words, they try to ignore radical activists and are never as committed to victory as their opposition is committed to defeating them. Result? They are unprepared for the hailstorm of brutal tactics that severely damage their reputation and send them running with their tails between their legs. Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work. Here are the rules to be aware of: RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.
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I would change that to...apply “Lawyer Think” to the rules.
Learn them, apply them constantly and use them to your advantage. It works.
All neocons should read “Rules for Radicals” and use it in their everyday fight.
Read this book. Every democrat member of congress knows the contents of this book and obeys them.
Everyone attending a tea party should use Rule #11:
Pick a target,freeze it,personalize it,polarize it. Don’t try to attack a corporation or bureaucracy. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
That means these signs should be BLASTING, with extreme prejudice, every elected official involved with this stupid stimulus plan.
In central Texas my sign will directly attack Lloyd Dogget.
Counterrules to Alinsky’s rules. Alinsky assumes you never fight back. Your biggest weapon is pointing out their hypocrisy.
COUNTERRULE 1: Give them power way beyond what they have - then paint them as a thug, oppressor, and a mafia organization.
COUNTERRULE 2: Turn their expertise against them by pointing out the hypocrisies and contradictions within their own belief system.
COUNTERRULE 3: Use absurdity to defeat absurdity. Push them into moral arguments and away from policy arguments. Always try to paint them as a religious organization and bash them for violating separation of church and state.
COUNTERRULE 4: Make them live by the same rules you do.
COUNTERRULE 5: Ridicule them back by pointing out the one-sidedness of their ridicule and the free pass they give their own side.
COUNTERRULE 6: Let their tactics blow up in their faces by staying a step ahead and funneling them to the place of hanging themselves with their own rope.
COUNTERRULE 7: Liberals never obey rule 7. Use it against them.
Reading it now - it’s shocking to see how closely this parallels obama’s campaign and now the administration.
It’s 0’s playbook - and Hillary’s too, for that matter.
Also suggest Sun Tzu’s “Art of War.”
COUNTRERULE 8: Use passive-aggressiveness. Paint them as bullies and thugs, when they recoil take their heads off and say it was self-defense. Always play the victim, even when they try and play the victim. Let it go to surreal absurdity because people lose interest quick in a catfight.
COUNTRERULE 9: Let the threat build up to beyond critical mass till it’s too late to back out, then destroy it loudly, publicly, and repeatedly with a pre-planned argument. Don’t be afraid to sow seeds with misinformation that they can turn into ready made fallacies you can destroy.
COUNTERRULE 10: Fight them to a stalemate. When you have an aggressor that must win, fighting to a stalemate can be a victory. It’s especially effective if their ‘negative’ means denying one of their own ‘social justice’. E.g. green energy would be expensive and hurt the poor.
RULE 11: Liberals forget this rule, and their ‘solutions’ are doomed by their ideology out of the box and never bet beyond the stock, repetitive dogma. Use that congenital defect against them.
COUNTERRULE 12: Question the credibility and especially the motivation of their attack and the attacker. Point out any hypocrisies, contradictions, or selective enforcement. Trip them up, then brand them as illegitimate, intellecutally bankrupt, divisive, hateful.
#11 should be COUNTERRULE
Good posts.
Someone said that the best defense is a good offense and you’re posts provide a good playbook.
The days of NAMBY PAMBY (lol Oreilly!) are over.
I bookmarked this just for your counterrules. Nicely done.
“Counterrules to Alinsky’s rules.”
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Cool! Thanks
Thanks. And these are crude, there are many refinements and additions that can be made. But I have used them and they do work.
Works for Romney haters.
Saul Alinsky is the American version of Karl Marx. Once this is completely understood, everything else falls into place.
Thanks! I was hoping someone had available a list of tactics for countering the mob of 0bots. Will put to good use next Wednesday.
Would it be advisable to have an "Official Videograhper" on hand to record the opposition's bad behavior?
Yes, I personally would advise having videocameras scattered throughout the event. Also, everyone should carry one of those cheap disposable cameras. Libs scurry away like cockroaches at the sight of a camera actively recording their deeds.
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