Posted on 11/05/2008 1:59:20 PM PST by samsmom
All,
This puts our message into the right words.
Please read:
“IT’S TIME TO RESTORE LIBERTY”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2127227/posts?page=1
I wonder, though, if there are any books about which are the most effective tactics to use against them.
That's probably a better book to read now.
Because it has failed us. The Constitution was written for people who are moral, just, and interested in their society. Over half of the population no longer fits that bill and is willing to elect politicians who will enslave them just so they can feel good for the moment.
The answer to ridicule is to ridicule back. Check out the movie 300. On the followup (behind the scenes) track, a scholar mentions that the young warriors were taught how “dis” one another in the school. This could go on for hours, and was designed to sharpen their wit. It works today in the hip-hop industry and the youth culture.
Whoopi Goldberg was on 'welfare' at one time; Alan ever attempt a 'smear' of Whoopi for that? What does he really think of people who avail themselves to 'compassionate Liberalism'?
The only question really hee is 'what hate' it is; that motivates, undescores everything a Liberal says, does and believes. And what hypocrisy. . .
Because it has failed us. The Constitution was written for people who are moral, just, and interested in their society. Over half of the population no longer fits that bill and is willing to elect politicians who will enslave them just so they can feel good for the moment.
The Constitution has not failed us. But it was written for people who were moral, etc.. However, it reflects a very pragmatic understanding of what actually works well in the human comedy. The problem is that too few, over the past century or so, have bothered to read it as an entity, rather than as a bunch of clauses, to be taken out of context for ulterior motives. For an example, consider how well the Constitution, correctly understood and applied, could have headed off the present financial meltdown, which probably more even than the tactics being discussed here, made the Obama election possible: Congress & The Regulation of Commerce.
The problem with wanting to immitate the tactics of the Left is that while much can be learned by studying them, they are premised upon exploitation of human failure, upon organizing discontent; upon spreading an egalitarian fantasy that simply substitutes wishes for reality. We need to organize our forces, far better, to be sure. But we are the defenders of heritage; defenders of people who have built on what is sound, generation by generation. This certainly rules out an organization directed at fueling the fires of discontent of those driven by envy, jealousy and hate--the staple of the revolutionary. (The American Revolution, by contrast, was a rising of the high achievers--a true counter-revolution against an increase in the power of a remote Government into the daily affairs of those high achievers.)
The coming more intrusive style of the Obama Administration will indeed provide an opportunity to rally our core support--those who want the liberty to achieve, as opposed to those who seek dependence on a collective, as an entitlement. While today, there may be more of the latter; among those intelligent enough to take effective action, the numbers are hardly against us. But what we must learn to do a better job of, is in trying to reach those whom Alinsky (above) distinguishes as "Liberals." I would not so characterize them, rather as "Parlor Pinks:" Lenin's confused, "useful idiots." With slightly better focused tactics, I think there will soon be opportunity to wake some of these latter types up. I think that some of them are going to be frightened by the monster they have funded, once they get over their orgasms over the "Historic Moment."
The key to any strategy, of course, is a good understanding of the context of issues; the dynamics of human interaction; the fuller reality that the Left always misses in their emotional commitment to their wish lists. We need to be able to explain to any intelligent person, who will listen, why the new programs cannot work out, in terms of real factors that most people are aware of, but have never been taught to see the essential connections with what is proposed.
Above all, we need to understand that we do not ever need to concede the high ground to the Left. Their policies are good only for demagogues and bureaucrats. They are destructive to the interests of all groups, once those interests are understood in the larger context of the multi-generational struggle that has characterized the history of every people--in part, because they subsidize all that is harmful, while discouraging all that is productive.
>>Yes, and you go right to the streets of Chicago, and ask the ‘hood’ where’s all that stuff you were promised?<<
Are you serious? Hell, we go into the hood and we’ll get our brains blown out!
“Don’t be talkin’ smack about their messiah...”
No... HE never said "the end justifies the means", and neither do I...
the infowarrior
Bump
We’ve got their playbook and they kick our asses. We’ve nobody to blame except the Republican Party. They’re running from Conservatism. Now they’re attacking Sarah Palin. What’s next? Graham-Lieberman 2012?
Our problem is we fight by antiquated rules, we need to effect our own rules, we have been reacting to them, it's time they start reacting to us. Remember that Lenin called all those who opposed him reactionaries, there was good reason for that. They reacted exactly as he goaded them to do.
This is what was done to Palin, and done very effectively. And notice how outside of right-wing radio, you didn't hear the least bit negative thing about B.O.
If you think about it, the reason why right-wing talk radio has been so effective is that the best in that business are already using these tactics against the left...Rush, Mark Levin and Sean especially.
And let me just add this -- those of you on Free Republic who think for one second that people are going to stream to the conservative cause because of it's "moral superiority" are smoking crack. Conservatism is dying a slow death, for numerous reasons, and just waiting for the ignorant masses to wake up and smell the coffee just ain't gonna happen.
The war of ideas is not won by the idea that is morally superior, it is won by those who have the guts and the tenacity to go out and sell their ideas to the masses, regardless of the cost. Liberalism has done that in spades, and has been doing it for decades with only one minor interuption: Ronald Reagan.
Fighting a purely defensive battle is ALWAYS a losing strategy. If conservatism is going to be a major force in American politics from this day forward, it will have to start going on the offensive, big time. Sadly, I don't see anyone other the Rush, Mark Levin, and a couple of others who are willing to do that. Individuals are not enough, the conservative movement absolutely needs to get organized, and if the involves LEAVING the Republican party to sleep in it's own poop, then so be it.
Now, all we need is our own Saul Alinsky to go out and start organizing. Any volunteers?
The Alinsky method is nothing more than the offspring of Machiavelli.
Machiavelli denied the existence of God so that he could establish his own system of morals: the ends justifies the means—and the ends are whatever the ruthless dictator says they are.
No. It’s a horrible philosophy.
For conservatives to adopt this kind of approach would be an even quicker way to destroy conservatism.
Morality, as dictated by God, is first. If conservatism can be advanced by this principle, then I’ll support it.
Alinsky’s Machiavellian method is not the way.
I agree that teaching conservatism as well as Marxism (not through indoctrination but through the rational method), from a young age is critical.
Marxism has advanced because the public school system teaches neither conservatism nor Marxism in a rational manner. Adolescents simply don’t know what either ideology is, and that’s exactly what the Marxists want.
If anyone is unfamiliar with it, research the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”.
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