One might argue for avoiding means of resistance whose effectiveness would be slight relative to the enemy propaganda value, and focusing on means which are more effective or whose portrayal cannot be as effectively manipulated. On the other hand, one must also be mindful of how the enemy propaganda ministry will portray one's failure to engage.
A more important issue, which I think many conservatives fail to consider, is the importance of expectation in game theory. Even if certain forms of retaliation against various actions by an adversary would never be to one's immediate benefit, it may be advantageous to have an adversary believe that one would be willing to engage in them anyway. The value of maintaining such expectation may far exceed the cost of the necessary retaliations.
Fundamentally, few things are more important to a society than ensuring that bad actions are perceived as having a negative expected value. It doesn't matter too much whether the value is massively negative or only slightly; if a bad action has a positive expected value, and is perceived as such, participation in that action can and often will spiral out of control. The only way to rein it in will be to do whatever it takes to force the expected value be negative. Because resources spent treating the symptoms will in many cases contribute to the positive expected value, no quantity of resources will be sufficient to provide lasting relief.
“......if a bad action has a positive expected value, and is perceived as such, participation in that action can and often will spiral out of control.”
Agree totally.
I also notice the GOP has spent the past 5 years aggressively pursuing a strategy of “Curl into a ball and play dead.”
That strategy has consistently failed the American people while Obamatollah and his Moslem/Commie brigade steamrolls every core value the USA was founded upon.
There are many reasons to try the Ted Cruz strategy against Obamacare, but even the rank-and-file GOP morons should understand “Our strategy since 2008 ISN’T WORKING, so let’s try SOMETHING (anything) else.”