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RULES FOR
CONSERVATIVE RADICALS
HOW TO FIGHT TODAY’S
PROGRESSIVE
ESTABLISHMENT
Why Alinsky?
• Would you borrow tactics from Adolph Hitler?
• How did Progressives in America gain power?
--Hillary Clinton!
--Barrack Obama!
--Caesar Chavez!
--The National Education Association!
• Rules for Radicals can become our manual for defeating the Left.
Saul Alinsky’s
Credentials
• Marxist Utopian Malcontent
• Union Trained Bully
• Mafia Mascot
• Unprincipled Opportunist
• Revolutionary Genius!
Alinsky’s A-moral Principles
• The first principle is to have no principles.
• The only objective is the ―general welfare.‖
• The only illegitimate means is the failure to
use whatever means are available.
• People are motivated only by self-interest.
• Morality is a cloak to hide self-interest.
• Truth and justice are always relative and
therefore irrelevant.
Organization is Power
• The sole purpose of organization is power.
• There is no other source of power in
human relations but organization.
• Organizations achieve power by
persuasion, intimidation, law or brute
force.
--‖If we can’t use the power of
persuasion we will use the persuasion of
power! –SEIU’s
Andy Stern.
Revolution Not Evolution
• All societal change comes through
revolution.
• Revolutions must be preceded by a
change of social consciousness.
--People must first be made to feel
frustrated, defeated, lost and hopeless.
• With each revolution, the victors become
the new oppressors and the cycle must
start again.
Dog Eat Dog
• What is a ―controversial issue?‖ (Line
jumpers!)
• ―All life is partisan.‖
• Those who fail to promote their own
interest are passively supporting their
enemies.
• You will never get change without conflict.
• ―Change means movement; movement
means friction.‖
Language Controls Power
• Who are the true Liberals?
• Why do we call Fascists ―Progressives?‖
• What is ―affirmative‖ about Affirmative
Action?
• Why do we refer to a life style
characterized by disease and suicide as
―gay?‖
• Was Che really a ―freedom fighter?‖
War By Other Means
Alinsky agreed--Politics is war by other means.
• Organization is the key to victory.
• But organization also grows out of victory.
--Organization is both the cause and the effect of power.
• Major defeats can fracture morale.
--Do we want to die on this hill?
--Will this help to build the organization?
The Program--Quid pro
Quo• Organizations build around issues.
• No single organization can take on every
issue.
• No two organizations can agree on every
issue.
• So we must unite for mutual support.
--On the Left, Sierra Club, Code
Pink, SEIU, Acorn, Moveon, NAACP etc.
• The ―quid pro quo‖ (the ―Program‖) is the
essence of community organization.
Tactics and Opportunity
• Tactics must be adapted to events.
• Tactics must be based on a realistic
evaluation of opportunities.
• Tactics require imagination.
--Ghandi and passive resistance.
• The essence of any tactic is the reaction it
provokes. (Rosa Parks)
Rule 1 – Power Imagined
• ―Power is not what you have, but what the
enemy thinks you have.‖
--Hiroshima -- Bomb or bust?
Rule 2 – Comfort Zone
• ―Never go outside the experience of your people!‖ (County Commissioners meeting)
--Confusion, fear and collapse.
• But our experience is growing!
--Remember your first rally?
--The next county commissioners meeting!
Rule 3 -- Unfamiliar Turf
• ―Whenever possible, go outside the
experience of the enemy!‖
--The Inchon Landing!
--Health care and town halls!
--‖Al Gore Lies!‖
Rule 4 -- Double Standards
• ―Always make the enemy live up to his
own rules!‖
• Absolute power consists in enforcing a
double standard. Compare…
--Barney Frank’s home prostitution ring
--Larry Craig’s wandering foot
• ―Progressives have ―No enemies on the
Left.‖
• Conservatives eat their young.
Rule 5 -- Laughter the Best
Medicine
• ―Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon!‖
--There is no defense against it.
--Ridicule provokes anger.
--Anger provokes mistakes!
• Bush was portrayed as a dumb cowboy;
Cheney as Darth Vader! It worked!
Rule 6 -- If You’re Not Having
Fun…
• ―A good tactic is one that your people
enjoy!‖
• Before launching an attack you must
ask….
--Can we win?
--Can we enjoy the process or is it a
chore?
--Will it weary our people so that they
become disheartened?
--Are our tactics growing the
Rule 7 -- Don’t Be A Drag!
• ―A tactic that drags too long is a drag!‖
• To be effective, a tactic must be focused.
• There must be a clear time line and
realistic objective.
• You must know in advance what you are
willing to accept as victory.
• The Left employs ―Incrementalism!‖
(National Monuments)
Rule 8 -- Pressure!
• Once a tactic has been selected and a
target identified, bring all possible
resources to bear!
• Once engaged, keep the pressure on!
• ―Pressure is most effective when it is
focused, relentless, and seems to be
unending.‖
• Avoid terminal tactics! Retain the seeds of
controversy! Demand the impossible!
(The Jackson-Sharpton shakedown)
Alinsky’s Rule 9 – The Threat
• ―The threat you imagined is usually more
terrible than the thing itself.‖ (―Outing!‖)
• All successful negotiation is by extortion.
• There is no such thing as ―good will.‖
• Negative campaigning is ―conflict
resolution.‖
• Blackmail your enemies when
possible, but
• Never bluff!
Rule 10 -- The Value of
Pressure• ―The major premise for attacks is the
development of operations that will
maintain a constant pressure on the
opposition.‖
• Pressure arises out of conflict.
• The stress of pressure causes mistakes.
• Mistakes create opportunities.
--‖Tea Baggers‖ on ―Astro-turf!‖
--‖Granny has joined the mob!‖
Rule 11 -- The Dark Side
(of a Negative)
• ―If you push a negative hard and deep
enough, it will break into its counter side.‖
--Fire hoses and police dogs. (Civil
Rights)
--Passive resistance. (Where to sit!)
--The party of ―No!‖ (Yankee Doodle!)
Rule 12 -- Constructive
Alternatives
• ―The price of a successful attack is a
constructive alternative!‖
• Make extreme demands!
--But plan to compromise!
--If all your demands are met--
catastrophe!
--Partial concessions leave the door
open to more demands. (Vouchers)
The Essential Rule
Number13• ―Pick the target, freeze it, personalize
it, and polarize it!‖
--What is your grievance?
--Who is responsible for it?
--(Whenever possible, name an
individual!)
--Is the responsible party vulnerable?
--How can we isolate this target?
Get Personal!• Alinsky taught that ―People hurt sooner than
institutions.‖
• Forget ―the commissioners!‖ Go after the offending individual—by name!
• Attack on every level.
--Character
--Motive
--Skeletons in the closet
--Back waxing! (Florida’s Crist against Marco Rubio)
• Ignore distractions. Stay focused on the target!
POLARIZATION
• Polarize the target!
• Isolate it and pin it down, as if…
--Your cause is 100% right and just.
--The enemy is 100% wrong and evil.
• ―Let nothing get you off your target!‖
• The object (for Alinsky) was to destroy, not to convince!
Morals and Qualms
• But what about our moral principles!
• Progressives are engaged in gradualtreason!
--They are eroding our Constitution.
• We must avoid moral equivalence!
--The burglar has no claim on his lost wallet!
• We must face reality! This is a life and death struggle for the lives of our children!
• ―Last guys don’t finish nice!‖ – Saul Alinsky