Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog outlines some principles explaining how Americans can take back their country from the communists. Basically, Americans should use the same tactics the "progressives" used to steal America (Greenfield in some ways restates Alinsky). http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/06/be-best-saboteur-you-can-be.html 1. There is no conservative party There is a Republican Party. The purpose of the party and its politicians, much like that of its Democratic counterpart, is to obtain money and privileges for its major donors. The only way conservatives can get anything done now is by threatening business as usual. Washington D.C. is never going to be the solution, but to the extent that its business as usual is threatened, sabotaged and held hostage, it will have trouble putting its boot on ordinary people. 2. Fight the small stuff You don't have to think in terms of a national movement. Just obstruct any liberal initiative, policy or program in your community. It doesn't matter what. It doesn't matter if it's innocuous. It doesn't matter if you agree with it. Undermine it on principle. If you can, vote it down. Encourage others to vote it down. If you can't, look for ways to tie it in red tape by attaching other agendas to it. The left .. are not used to any real opposition. Particularly the kind that doesn't bluster, but finds ways to tie their proposals in knots, to make them expensive and drag them out as long as possible. Oppose them when you can. Concern troll them when you can't. Don't do anything illegal. Don't do anything that will get you fired. But if you have the opportunity to make a liberal program work badly, if you have a legal way to put more stress on it, to tie up the energy and time of the people running it, to make it worse... do it. We're the underdogs. We're the political guerrillas. This is not our system. It's their system. Our job is to make it run as badly as possible. That's part of what the left did to us. It dragged down our government and culture. It poked a thousand holes in everything. It made it too tiresome and wearying to go on doing this and that. Morale withered, confidence broke down and the left took over. Now it's their turn to be on the receiving end. 3. Deny legitimacy to the system Liberals like to crow that ObamaCare is the law of the land. Now it's gay marriage. Tomorrow it'll be a ban on the Dukes of Hazzard. All that implies legitimacy, order, a legal system. And that's not what we have. What we have is a Supreme Court and a White House that acts with brazen illegality. ObamaCare was illegally passed. It was illegally preserved. No matter how many judges sign off on it, it has no legitimacy. It will never have any legitimacy. America is built on the simple premise that no system can be more legitimate than its natural laws and founding premises. It does not matter how many judges or politicians try to suspend the First or Second Amendments. All they are doing is removing their own legitimacy. When a system acts illegally, then its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force. ObamaCare is coercion. Forcing people to participate in gay marriages is coercion. The FHA ruling is coercion. We may be compelled into compliance, but compulsion is all it is. It isn't law or justice. When we follow the law, we do so because it is right. When we are coerced, we are at gunpoint by an illegitimate system. Those who compel us are not any different than criminals. Not only is the system illegitimate, but it is also inconsistent, though it claims there is equality under the law, is favors some at the expense of others. The system is not only illegal, it is also hypocritical and corrupt. That must be emphasized at every turn. Liberals maintain a narrative that their way is the inevitable path of progress. We know the truth. Their way has been tried and it failed a thousand times. The only thing inevitable is their eventual failure. Their systems will always be abusive, dishonest and corrupt. They will always turn undemocratic no matter how they start out. They will always turn to coercion. Every liberal victory is not a triumph. It is another pile of dirt on their own graves. It is another straw on the back of the camel. It is another demonstration that they are corrupt and illegitimate. Their latest victories were gained by abusing the process. 4. We're not done Every conservative these days seems to have a tipping point for when America will end. None of them are real. This country was built out of a tiny fraction of the territory and population it holds today. It was built by a handful of people organizing and rousing a movement that spread to a minority of the population at the time. During the Revolutionary War, the entire rebel population of America would be outnumbered by the residents of Manhattan today. Contrary to what some conservatives like to believe, the left did not suddenly show up here in 1963 or 1905 and disrupt a formerly peaceful country. The left has always been here. It's a part of us. No people and no country are untouched by evil. It's only a matter of what form it takes. But in any form, we know it by its destructive instincts, its facade of righteousness that poorly conceals a lust for power. Americans have fought it before. Americans have won. It's big now, but it's not nearly as big as we think.
So your basically saying conservatives need to go back to the George Wallace playbook ... how did that work out for everybody?
If you want to. Alinsky clearly understood how social systems work and identified the inherent weaknesses in the system. "progressives" have successfully used his methods to damage the American system and way of life in order to replace it with a socialist/totalitarian system. While Alinsky intended his ideas to be applied in a manner to allow a small elite to take over free people, there is nothing in his concepts that are ideological. Alinsky's concepts can be used by any underdog on any system in power. But Alinsky is more difficult and dangerous to use against "progressives". When progs were attacking the American system, Americans were restrained by the rule of law and socially acceptable ideals. "progressives" are not so restrained, they will defend themselves with whatever means are available, including the police state they have created. In other words, progs will resort to force to keep the masses in line. - - - Updated - - - George Wallace? Wow, you really don't understand the history of the USA, or the current situation, Alinsky, or what Greenfield is proposing.
