{"id":1077,"date":"2016-06-12T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1077"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:53:47","slug":"rules-for-radicals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?page_id=1077","title":{"rendered":"Rules for Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1078\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/sodomiteflag.jpg\" alt=\"sodomiteflag\" width=\"348\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The rules that Obama has been operating under to &#8216;transform&#8217; America from a great country to a Venezualian hellhole. Shrillary Clinton is also a disciple of Alinsky, having done her thesis on him.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Saul Alinsky\u2019s 12 Rules for Radicals<\/h1>\n<div class=\"format_text\">\n<p>Here is the complete list from Alinsky.<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 1: \u201cPower is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.\u201d Power is derived from 2 main sources \u2013 money and people. \u201cHave-Nots\u201d 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 2: \u201cNever go outside the expertise of your people.\u201d It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don\u2019t address the \u201creal\u201d issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 3: \u201cWhenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.\u201d 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 4: \u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d 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\u2019s 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 5: \u201cRidicule is man\u2019s most potent weapon.\u201d There is no defense. It\u2019s irrational. It\u2019s 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 6: \u201cA good tactic is one your people enjoy.\u201d They\u2019ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They\u2019re 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 \u201cun-fun\u201d activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 7: \u201cA tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.\u201d Don\u2019t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 8: \u201cKeep the pressure on. Never let up.\u201d 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 9: \u201cThe threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.\u201d 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\u2019 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 10: \u201cIf you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.\u201d 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\u2019s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 11: \u201cThe price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.\u201d Never let the enemy score points because you\u2019re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you\u2019re not part of the solution, you\u2019re 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.)<\/p>\n<p>* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.\u201d 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.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The rules that Obama has been operating under to &#8216;transform&#8217; America from a great country to a Venezualian hellhole. Shrillary Clinton is also a disciple of Alinsky, having done her thesis on him. Saul Alinsky\u2019s 12 Rules for Radicals Here is the complete list from Alinsky. * RULE 1: \u201cPower is not only what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?page_id=1077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rules for Radicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1077","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}