Commentary by Uncle Mike
There are two things that get leftists all warm and tingly. One, is the thought of the Cloward-Piven Strategy being used by a President to try and crash the financial system in order to ‘reset’ the system. An extremely, not just ignorant, but full-fledged stupid concept where you overburden a country with government debt, only to crash the capitalist ideology, because you are a lazy piece of crap that has no ambition and want everyone else to be as miserable as you! Someday, Uncle Mike will take you down that road. But you get the gist, I’m no fan of Cloward the coward or Piven the Given. As in ‘givin’ all your money to the government to pay for things you didn’t vote for.
The second source of leftist’s excitement and the guidance used by some American Democrat politicians are the 13 Rules for Radicals of Saul Alinsky, an American Bolshevik Communist and the mentor of President Obama and Senator Clinton. Wiki describes Alinsky in this way: He defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice. Apparently, today this means to use a megaphone to yell at people while they are eating dinner out. That is a practice, I cannot get behind. Alinsky wrote his thoughts about an American time when there was a well established middle-class. Can’t imagine his concept of “defended confrontation” in America today when the middle-class is being targeted for elimination by upper and lower class leadership.
Before we go any further, you absolutely have to know what good old boy Sauly’s rules are. I have an article here that does a great job of explaining what the communist intentions for non-communist are. Here is the link to the article from OpenCulture:
Saul Alinsky’s 13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change | Open Culture
Taken from In Politics, February 21st, 2017. This is the stated purpose of why we have Rules for Radicals:
“What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”
From that article:
“Below, you’ll find Alinsky’s list of 13 “Rules for Radicals,” offered with his proviso that political activism cannot be a self-serving enterprise: “People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.” – Josh Jones, Author “Saul Alinsky’s Tried and True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change”.
Here are Alinsky’s rules to disrupt civil discourse (Uncle Mike comments added):
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. (Mao power was by the use of the gun, so there’s actually at least 3. And don’t forget to create “Have-Nots” to stir up trouble!)
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (What the hell are “your people” experts in? They aren’t experts in anything except creating chaos which is by it’s nature; confusion, fear and retreat!)
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (Alinsky expertise is creation of insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. Witness this in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc.)
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. (Rules are needed and shouldn’t be abused. Look at the white dotted line driving down the road. A rule! If you have 30,000 dumbasses driving over the lines, you will get insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. This is idiotic! You don’t have to answer 30K letters, but your ass needs to obey the RULES on the road which is the epitome of community organization!)
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. (This is why Trump is followed by at least 70Million people. People tried to use this radical rule on Trump and he basically said, “shove it. I could care less about your attempts to ridicule me!” When that didn’t work, the US Media decided to try ridicule his voters. How’s that working out?)
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. (So all those criminals in Portland that riot and keep getting bailed out “enjoy” committing crimes and those that provide bail money “enjoy” paying for these criminals? Right… Better ones, like taking it to the suburbs or to states with concealed carry laws?)
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Still rioting in Portland. Cops are still shooting criminals in places where they aren’t defunded. This tactic is NOT bringing about any change, but it is becoming a huge drag.)
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. (Haven’t seen anything new out of the current leftists in months. Wonder if new people are providing new money for them to try new rioting techniques?)
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (The threat of having my dinner out being interrupted by community organizers yelling at me over a megaphone is way more terrifying that the actual person with said megaphone. On a more serious note, the threat to our police officer’s quitting is incredibly terrifying because if they all quit, the rest of the nation will openly carry and that should be extremely terrifying to everyone! I would much rather have a trained cop carry a gun than the “citizen’s” I see walking down any street, in any city.)
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign. (But rule 7 says you have to be “new”! And rule 8 is to keep the pressure on! By the nature of these rules, your professing to do the same sham! This rule should be eliminated. It is duplicative. Now you only have 12 rules for radicals. DUH.)
11. “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. (To date, this rule is not even close to generating a positive. In fact, nobody on the right gives two shites about Portland or Seattle rioting except the cops being targeted and Andy Ngo. The “other side” is sitting on the couch, calling out for Uber Eats & watching “Deadpool”. They aren’t even close to producing violence! Sauly boy never dreamed of a US population in 2021 with a ‘give-a-shit factor that is to infinity and beyond! Unless you’re gonna interrupt their cell phone use, by all means, continue making arseholes of yourselves with protesting over the rule of law and fictitious Klansmen running amoke in the military. Nobody is allowed white sheets anymore. Only sheets of color.)
12. “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. (How about stop creating the problem and chill the hell out? That way, you don’t need to press your hateful noggin’ to dream up an alternative to your violence.)
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (Nice try with this on The Donald. You created the monster when you idolized his Apprentice and he was a Democrat. You chose him as the target, you couldn’t come close to freezing him as you made him a hot button for the news and comedy, you did make it personal, but you failed to polarize him. In fact, he got even more votes in ’20 than he got in ’16! So now you’re trying it with half the country? Please continue this rule. You’ve created an entire movement that has turned the internet into a cesspool. You’ve made really nice church goers turn into internet trolls. By all means, keep it up. This should be fun….)
Sauly Alinsky’s rules can and have been used for anti-democratic behavior. Now you know them as well as the left. If you know and understand them, you know how to counter them. I asked your Aunt Sally Qnonsky to provide her 12 rules for dealing with Sauly and she created her Rules for the Righteous:
1. “Power is not only what I have, but what the enemy knows I have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – my freedom and capitalism. “Have-Nots” must build power from getting a job and not taking government handouts. Government under the Cloward-Piven strategy will fail.
2. “Never go outside to seek expertise of other people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat because most of them are full of both themselves and crap. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone, but especially Trump voters.
3. “Whenever possible, out the so-called “expertise” of the enemy.” Look for ways to identify the insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty of leftists.
4. “Make the left live up to its own book of rules of radicals.” If the rules for radicals is to use other peoples money to create chaos, find out where their money comes from and eliminate the source. Sue them, arrest them, make them spend money. Don’t provide them any source of income. If they get out on bail, re-arrest them and make them produce higher bail. Most of these rioters don’t even have a job! There can’t possibly be unlimited bail money. Even Soros has a finite checking account.
5. “Embarassment is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense for hypocrisy. The left doesn’t have any shame, so you can’t ridicule them. BUT, you can out their hypocrisy and they are very sensitive about being embarrassed. They are irrational. They are infuriating. But man do they do stupid crap! Highlight it. Share it and call them out! Social Media is the tool for this. Use it. Often. They can’t suspend everyone’s account. Use Parler and Gab.
6. “A good tactic is one the left hates.” They think they own the internet. Nope. It’s too big, too vast, too huge. Keep identifying all the ignorance, the hypocrisy and idiotic things the left does. You know you are on target when they take your account down. There are others means to keep ‘outing’ their bad behavior. Babylon Bee them, Meme them, share and like the “players” that fight to take down leftist bs.
7. “A tactic that drags on the left is one they recognize and have to counter.” Become the news. Identify the failures of politicians, academics, celebrities and pro athletes that run counter to American values. Call. Them. Out.
8. “Keep the pressure on with truth and facts.” Keep using two things to keep the opposition off balance. The truth and facts. Don’t forget to employ truth bombs at will. “They can’t handle the truth!” -Colonel Jessup.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” The mere thought of Trump as ‘Speaker of the House’ after 2022 or Trump 2024 absolutely terrifies the left! The threat of election audits has the media nearly apoplectic.
10a. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” We’ve been living with this “constant pressure” for decades. We’re use to it! We don’t need this rule. This rule is covered by 7 & 8. We’re more concise than the left. Aunt Sally only needs 12 rules.
10. “If you push a positive hard enough, it will push through and become a bigger positive.” A negative is a negative. 1 + 1 still = 2. Violence from the other side cannot win the public to their side because the public is getting tired of the lawlessness.
11. “The price of a successful attack is a identifying just one more way to trigger them.” Never let the enemy score points because you stopped triggering them. If you find a solution to the commie leftist problem, share it!
12. “Pick the target, heat it up, publicize it, and ostracize it.” Use their tactics to fight back only tenfold. Do not allow cancellation of anything or anyone. That is the crux (def: the decisive or most important point at issue) of freedom. Go after the left like Speaker Pelosi on a cocktail!
There you have it, my friends. Aunt Sally Qnonsky’s TWELVE Rules for the Righteous. Feel free to make your own rules and share them. This will probably ‘trigger’ someone, somewhere. But, we know how to deal with that now.
All kidding aside, the left does not have a sense of humor. They are 24 x 7, x 365 angry. The US can never be good enough. Alinsky’s rules were and are used by people with nefarious intentions that would do harm to our democracy. It should only stand to reason that these rules are employed to serve the positive requirements of the Republic. You are a soldier in the information war. Speak clearly and never give up.
Uncle Mike
