Posted on 04/13/2015 5:42:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
I commanded a cavalry squadron, so my default tactic is to attack. And the increasingly desperate, fascistic flailing of the left as it seeks to hold onto power is a signal that it’s absolutely time to sound the trumpet.
In war, you want to get your forces behind the enemy’s front line and into the soft underbelly of its rear echelon. Distract the bad guys’ strongest forces, then send your heavy armor around back to rip out their guts. The basic principle is to apply your strength to the bad guys’ weakness. You want the bad guys’ strength wasted, preoccupied trying to find something to fight while you rout the elements that support them.
You know what an enemy tank is without fuel, spare parts and shells? A big hunk of metal holding future casualties.
It’s time to press the attack against the liberals’ weakness, to figuratively hit them where they aren’t expecting it, to (as Instapundit Glenn Reynolds like to say) punch back twice as hard and render their strongest forces as impotent as the boyfriend of a hirsute radical feminist.
As Sun Tzu teaches, “if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.” We need to understand our enemy, so as to beat him. And the first step to doing that is to realize that the progressives are our enemies. Perhaps I would be a bit more charitable if over the last week I had not been barraged with obscenities, death wishes, and threats for daring to opine that being on EBT is something you should be ashamed of. But when progressives invite you to die because you’d prefer not to subsidize lay-about Democrat-voting losers, it clarifies things. Leftists want you dead, or at least enslaved, and you can tell that because they can’t keep themselves from telling you that.
After you understand that leftists are not our “friends across the aisle,” you can assess their strengths. They hold the executive power in the federal government. They own the mainstream news media and hold the reigns of popular culture. Despite their sorry history of racism, from defending slavery to Jim Crow to electing a Senate majority leader who was a KKK kleagle, they have a grip on minority voters. And, of course, they occupy academia.
So, we know where the enemy is. Finding the enemy is the first step to defeating the enemy. Now let’s look at some of its weaknesses and how to exploit them.
In the long term, the left is not guaranteed to maintain federal executive power. Conservatives’ best strategy is to nominate someone who might actually get elected and then might actually govern as a conservative – Jeb Bush, I am so not looking at you. Once we do, we can let the liberals solve this problem for us with their bizarre determination to nominate that glass-jawed, email-deleting cuckoldette. Yeah, non-coastal America is dying to elect someone who reminds everybody of their first wife, including women and the never-married.
In the short term, we need to make this sucker ungovernable. Obama wants to put the “petty” into “petty dictator” with his rule by decree and contempt for the law. Let’s jam it back on him. Maybe the GOP squish-dominated Congress can’t be roused from its coma to fight for its branch’s prerogatives, but no one resents being told what to do more than a federal judge.
Federal judges are the Christian Greys of the American political system. Unelected, unaccountable and unable to give a damn, we’ve already seen federal judges laying down their iron discipline in immigration, Obamacare and IRS abuse cases. They are hauling the Obama administration into the Red Room of Judicial Pain, and the safeword is a word no Obama stooge will ever bring himself to utter: “Constitution.”
People say that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well, I’m a lawyer and everything looks like a lawsuit, or at least an administrative complaint. I discuss this kind of “lawfare” in my book Conservative Insurgency: From fascist public school administrators to uppity DMV clerks, you’re an American citizen with the God-given right to make their lives a living hell by initiating and pursuing your right to challenge their abuses. That’s their soft spot. Complain, appeal, sue – occupy the Occupiers with dealing with your grievances instead of leaving them free to keep screwing up our country.
The mainstream media, also known the Democrats’ Steno Pool, looks invincible, but it’s vulnerable too. It needs eyeballs to live, so look elsewhere for your news and information. Every time you watch NBC News, you validate and empower liars who hate you and everything you stand for. So don’t. There’s a growing segment of conservative traditional and alternative media, and even a few mainstream journalists who still try to be objective, like Jake Tapper at CNN. Patronize them. Starve the lib-loving media until it either dies or reforms. The MSM needs you a helluva a lot more than you need it.
The same goes for popular culture. Is your favorite TV cop show disrespecting you? Did last week’s CSI: Rancho Cucamonga episode make the guy responsible for the massacre the Olive Garden be the Tea Partier who went on a shooting spree because the restaurant served breadsticks to black people? You don’t need that crap. Watch something else.
Empower conservative culture by patronizing quality conservative-created entertainment – as thriller writer Brad Thor says, doing so is an act of conscience. It also hits the enemy where it hurts – the wallet.
Liberals take minorities for granted, which I suppose is better than what Democrats did to them at Selma. But this monolithic minority support isn’t quite as monolithic as the liberals imagine, and we need to strike hard and crack the façade. All minorities are not the same. Asians, who were trending left, can be won back by conservative initiatives like color-blind policies that fight the shameful liberal bias against high-achieving Asian college applicants. No matter what Señor Jeb says, all Hispanics are not the same, and many oppose the amnesty the Chamber of Commerce Crew is dying to support.
No group has been more shamefully ill-served by liberals than black Americans. The liberal amnesty push is a huge betrayal of black Americans – let’s sell our opposition that way. Why not follow the lead of Rick Perry and many law-and-order conservatives and address the problems with the criminal justice system that have caused so much resentment by black Americans? Prosecutors who are out of control, the rare police officers who disgrace the badge, and an overreliance on the criminal justice system to address social problems – these are issues conservatives should be spearheading. That they would help demonstrate the truth, that conservatism is an ideology for all people regardless of heritage, is a fringe benefit.
And then there is academia, that thought-policed playground for spoiled sophomore radicals and faculty brownshirts that keeps the ranks of leftism full with legions of new zombie recruits. Well, academia as we know it is dying anyway; let’s use our massive conservative power at the state government level to Kervorkian it along to its final reward. We conservatives need to enact laws making it easy (and profitable) to sue schools and administrators over free speech and due process violations. Let’s kill tenure and limit administrative bloat with mandatory “one flunky per two teachers” employee ratios. We need new statutes that mandate that state colleges move toward online classes that educate the motivated rather than stick with obsolete cattle-car lecture hall snorefests that babysit the drunken. And we need to deprive the colleges of fresh meat by pushing options like apprenticeships and technical schooling for young people who want to do something with their hands besides try and block out the droning of the TA in their mandatory “Transgender Issues in Norwegian Mythology” seminar.
The idea is to strike not directly at our enemy’s strength, but at its vulnerabilities using our strength. We have numbers, and therefore money. We have power outside of the federal executive. We have an abiding love and respect for the Constitution, and it is no small thing to know that you are fighting on the side of what is right.
Time to draw sabers and charge.
IMO the way to go on offense against Liberalism is to go on offense against the media. They are responsible for implementing and supporting it to a huge degree. They have to be taken down and their influence greatly diminished.
I think a big problem is that most of us won’t have the stomach for what that entails. You’d have to fight Alinsky tactics with Alinsky tactics. It would involve digging-up personal dirt on infobots like Savannah Guthrie or Wolf Blitzer and circulating it widely. It would get ugly.
We can't win by fighting a defensive war.
Stop apologizing. We represent what's good and decent about America. That's nothing to apologize for. It's the other side that should be ashamed. Let's make that happen.
I think a big problem is that most of us won’t have the stomach for what that entails. You’d have to fight Alinsky tactics with Alinsky tactics. It would involve digging-up personal dirt on infobots like Savannah Guthrie or Wolf Blitzer and circulating it widely. It would get ugly.
I think you are right on both counts. The media is the lynchpin of our enemy's control of elections. It is imperative that we find ways to marginalize and destroy them. It's either them or us.
I also think people don't have the guts to do anything about them.
And just as in divorce, the only winners will be the bottom-feeding lawyers... Who, besides elites (who for the most part, don't have any reason to challenge any of the progressive madness anyway) and attorneys themselves, can AFFORD to fight the abuses of the left?
“Your ideology is flat out DESTRUCTIVE.”
I think the key to combatting liberalism, and going on the offensive against it,
is to DIRECTLY ADDRESS why most sheeperals ARE liberals.
They are in it for the self-righteousness.
They should be confronted with “stealing from one group of people to keep other people from wanting to work DOES NOT make you a ‘good person’. It makes you a THIEF. AND, you’re really HURTING those people you say you want to help.”
Also time for some good gray propaganda. Here’s an idea aimed at young voters. Point out that they need to pay higher taxes so that the baby boomers can retire in style. State that it’s only fair and boomers deserve it. And then sign off as the Democratic Party, or something like that.
Ping
But dont expect our political class to go for the juggler. (Ted Cruz being the exception.) They are way too comfortable playing a weak defense.
We need many more “Project Veritas” types.
Cutting cable tv and demanding a la carte package instead of a bundle of their choosing.
Author said what but not how
Here’s what I tell my liberal friends, and it works:
I am a conservative BECAUSE I care about the poor. Your policies just create more of them.
I am a conservative BECAUSE I care about my black brothers and sisters. I believe they can succeed on a level playing field, and the assumption that they cannot is revealing your racism.
I am a conservative because I revere what this country has stood for, and we are a force for good in the world only to the extent we are strong militarily.
Then ask them who is REALLY looking for answers, who is REALLY looking for "change?"
It sure isn't the Democrats, who have been trotting out the same tired horse since Woodstock.
You’re right. Perhaps it’s better to simply let your tagline come true.
And address the national debt. Point out that all these programs must be paid for and that their function is to pay for them. Mention that since they don’t resolve the problem, just maintain it, that the problems are eternal and the younger folk will be paying for them forever. Then hit them with ‘it is your destiny to pay’ or something like that, Sign off with a ‘Ready for Hillary’ fadeout.
Excellent post
Truth is what will do them in. Its time for adults to take the country back from these deluded idealists who steal from the hardworking to give to the undeserving using a pen and a phone
The way to attack JOURNALISM is to call it by its name - not “the media” but WIRE SERVICE JOURNALISM. Journalist all have the same motive, all want to be believed and to be considered important. So they brag about their “objectivity” and they criticize the people everyone relies on to get things done and deliver the goods.
They are cynical about the possibility of accomplishment. And therefore they WANT TO BELIEVE that “you didn’t build that.”
Journalists also are united - into an actual ‘conspiracy against the public” by the unending virtual meeting known as th AP news wire. The resulting slander machine shold have long ago been sued into oblivion.
I agree. There will always be obammys and clintons trying to bring the country down, but,
it takes a complicit press to enable them.
I am a conservative BECAUSE I care about my black brothers and sisters. I believe they can succeed on a level playing field, and the assumption that they cannot is revealing your racism.
I am a conservative because I revere what this country has stood for, and we are a force for good in the world only to the extent we are strong militarily.
Very powerful wayoverontheright... thanks for sharing.
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