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There have always been two Republican parties--the party of the wealthy--the William Buckley's, the Eisenhowers, the Posts, the Gaylords--well you get the idea! Then there has been the underbelly of the party-- from bigots and haters, to the rabid anti-intellectuals, the xenophobes and the just generally stupid.
The wealthy faction tolerated this other faction, used them to their advantage, but never let them into the decision-making process. That has changed in the last few years as this group has made inroads in party decision making.
This group has coalesced and morphed into a far right group of belligerent, name-calling right wingers who rely on intimidation to silence their opposition. If someone dares to challenge them, they attack with a vengeance in numbers. Not one but six or seven will begin spewing venom against the person who dared oppose them. They have no interest in fact--only in their agenda which, the best I can tell, is to deride the Democratic Party as a socialistic party out to take away all their freedoms and establish some sort of world government.  Ridiculous. Then, they try to claim the attacked was actually the attacker.
A group of opportunistic television and radio personalities has sprung up to fuel their agendas with innuendo and suggestions but never any concrete facts. They include people like Bill "sexual harassment" O'Reilly and Rush "Addicted to Oxycontin" Limbaugh. Not exactly model citizens. But they are getting rich off these people's bigotry, delusional imaginations and "conspiracy" theories. I can tell you the likes of Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, O'Reilly and the rest are laughing all the way to the bank. Limbaugh just spent five million on a new plane. However, here's the really scary part. Limbaugh, at whose feet these ignoramuses especially worship, has become so powerful that some say he now is the spokesman for determining Republican policy . Now, that is scary!!
Reputable Republicans are defecting faster than Israeli missiles hitting targets in Palestine. Soon, these neo-conservatives will be all that is left of the party, which is exactly what they want.
Lest you believe this happened by pure luck and accident, let me clue you in. These people have,whether they will admit it or not, adopted the Code of liberal Saul Alinsky, a Chicago radical who published his theories on taking over organizations and governments.Â
What is known today as "the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power" are fully set forth in Alinsky's 1971 book called Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.
Alinsky's world view was that mankind is divided into three parts: "the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores." His purpose was to teach the Have-Nots how to take power and money away from the Haves by creating mass organizations to seize power, and he frankly admitted that "this means revolution."
This is exactly what these people want.Â
They want to so undermine Obama and all Democrats in order to seize power. They are doing their best to try to convince America that Obama is out to take away all their freedoms and set up a Marxist regime. They are trying to so arouse the American people that they will rise in revolution against its own government and its representatives.Â
So that you will recognize their tactics when you see them and know their ulterior motives, I publish below Alinsky's Rules For Radicals.
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.)
RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
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3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip
away at the damage.)
RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into< concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being.
We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
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9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)This is their weak area. They are rarely part of the solution. They are big on ridicule and name-calling, but short on solutions.
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12:Â Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."Â Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Sooner or later you will cross paths with these people. When they begin spewing their venom, let them know you are on to their tactics and that you are not one bit intimidated by them.  Â
