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Asking them to provide evidence for their assertions is always fun, and it’s even more fun asking them to provide the sources for that evidence. Attacking the fundamental basis of their arguments is fun, too—if they tell you health care is a right, for example, ask why. Liberals don’t have a why, other than their own utopianism and their dyspeptic view of the status quo and America. Reason is not their strong suit—emotion is. Force them to play on the football field of reason.
10. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Here, Alinsky and I agree. It’s the truest of Alinsky’s statements, and it’s the most effective.
11. Don’t let them get away with ignoring their own rules. Alinsky is right again. They set up this PC Complex, and they have to be held accountable to it, if only for honesty’s sake, and we’re the only ones who will do it.
Joe Biden is still vice president of the United States even though he called the first black president “clean” and “articulate.” Harry Reid is still Senate majority leader even though he said Obama was “light-skinned” and could drop his “Negro dialect” on cue. Until his death in 2010, Senator Robert Byrd was “a lion of the Senate” even though he was a former Kleagle in the KKK. If these had been Republicans, they would have been hounded from office. They’re Democrats, so they’re not.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t hold them responsible for breaching their own standards. Every time they say things like this, we need to force them to back down and apologize, and we can’t allow their allies to let them off the hook with excuses about how they stand for the right policies. Frankfurt School tactics can’t work her...
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12. Truth isn’t mean. It’s truth. I know that some of you are feeling rotten about using some of these tactics. We can ignore the tactics, but the left will continue to use them to their benefit; just as the Frankfurt School relied on the good nature and honesty of Americans who wouldn’t engage in un-Christian tactics in order to achieve their massive victory, the left continues to rely on our honesty and aboveboard good nature in order to achieve theirs. We can’t let them.
We start by uncovering the truth and telling everyone about it. I’m not religious, and I’m certainly no theologian, but if there is one thing in religion that speaks to me, it is the idea of absolute truth. In fact, the word truth has meaning only if it is absolute. And absolute truth will set us all free from the grip of the Complex, because the Complex lives in the clouds, in the theoretical heavens—the Frankfurt School was successful only because they were able to shift Marxism’s basis
13. Believe in the audacity of hope. It’s too bad President Obama is such a joyless, politically correct automaton, because he’s terrifically agile with his prepared words. To paraphrase his victory speech after the 2008 election, the rise of the New Media alone is not the change we seek—it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you. It can’t happen without hope for America and faith in its people—two things Obama and his leftist ilk don’t have, which is why they try to shut it down in others. We have
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