Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left

by Timothy J. Gordon

Needing no more prompting, the radical and his media spin machine go to work, agitating for immediate action (in the form of the adoption of the radical’s policy initiative, of course) to be taken to remedy the problem at the heart of the news story before any more lives are lost or damage is done (etc.).

Even though these types of stories make the headlines for the very reason that the events they describe are particularly severe and relatively uncommon, radicals play-act that the reported goings-on are a daily bane for society and that, if decisive action isn’t taken quickly, the results will be catastrophic and irreversible. For whatever reason, perhaps because of their insatiable thirst for popular adulation, mod-cons find this sort of feigned urgency difficult to ignore, especially when they feel the weight of their ill-informed but boisterous constituents’ gazes.

It is evident then that correct policy decisions are the offspring of reason, not emotion.

When we take action too hastily, abridging the salutary deliberative process so crucial to healthy self-governance, we are almost assured to err in our judgments, swallowing the poison pill of radical policy initiatives. Resist this at all costs.

Remind the radicals that you will not amend your language to befit their neologistic statecraft, wherein they control thought by monitoring language.

they manufacture an insult out of thin air by taking the general, impersonal concept being advocated by the retrograde and apply it to a sensitive real-world situation to make it seem as if the retrograde is attacking the actor or the result of the action (in the case of a child conceived through in-vitro fertilization) instead of the action itself.

The radical’s method of personalizing the general is effective for three reasons: first, it distracts the retrograde and the audience (if done in a public debate) from the retrograde’s thread of thought; second, it steals the initiative from the retrograde, putting him on the defensive and making him feel as if he must reassure the radical that he bears him no personal animus; third, it manipulates the audience, making them feel sympathetic to the radical’s untenable belief out of pity for his condition.

Radicals are more circumspect to attack powerful collectives than they are to attack individuals.

we must learn to distinguish the condemnation of the sin from the condemnation of the sinner.

Far more effective—if more laboriously orchestrated—techniques and actions against radical corporations are smear campaigns like old-fashioned picketing, aggressive contra articles or commercials, or celebrity interventions;

In the logic of the fight, damaging the radical company’s priceless brand is the most effective thing a retrograde can do, even if (for the sake of argument) he’s consuming the company’s product as he does it.

It is an illusion of the most dangerous sort to believe that, coming eye-to-eye with an injustice, men will naturally rise up and take the necessary actions to set the world aright again.

feeble men, on the whole, will adapt to and even embrace even the most perverse and unpalatable regimes, so long as they have ample entertainment, cake, and carnal pleasures.

Never underestimate man’s ability to abide an evil to which he has become accustomed.

In order to fight the wiles and schemes of radicals, we need people to get mad and to stay mad—mad enough that they’re willing to spend their energy and treasure on the raging culture wars.

But in order to do any good, this potential energy needs to be actualized and released through political organization and transformed into political movement, whether in speech, demonstrations, volunteerism, or capital donation.

Denying or watering down one’s retrograde principles results in the worst of both worlds: the denier or mitigator forfeits both his honesty and his principle.

Own who you are; boldly be one of your own people; defend your brothers at arms by proudly donning the shield and crest.

Branding people indelibly with a pre-fabricated identity and de-individualizing them due to a singular attribute is an affront to human dignity, it’s an affront to free will.

So, if radicals can convince a sufficient number of such groups that their interests are in conflict and competition with the interests of one collective bogeyman (i.e., the much maligned “straight, white male”), then radicals can create an artificial cohesion between the various race/sex/protected-class groups by mobilizing them against the bogeyman group. It’s the old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

They need to grow their coalition so that, in the aggregate, it becomes more numerous than the retrograde bloc. This is how radicals grow and mollify their base: at the expense of the unity and confraternity of the nation.

A faction bound together only by the hatred of a common enemy is dysfunctional to the core.

Young men should be taught to fight according to the mantra, “never start fights, but finish them.”

It was the radical Marx who said that the purpose of philosophy is not understanding the world but changing it.

Radicals simply learn how to implement force, giving the flimsy appearance of righteousness to wrong conclusions.

Radicals try to control who can say things in an effort to silence the maximum amount of dissenting voices.

The fact is, the argument against affirmative action is that it discriminates against whites and Asians in favor of blacks.

Through the bludgeon of political correctness, they’ve assumed the power to tell us what language we can use (and what language we can’t use) when describing a problem.

Simply put, to be retrograde is to pose a superlative threat to the radical-mainstream: we are the one true movement of classical anti-racism and anti-bigotry.

Both rivals of the retrograde—radicals and alt-right—prove to be materialistic egalitarians who favor “mob rule” democratic institutions which reject the timelessness of the immutable natural law and the dignity of the individual.

Victory loves preparation.

First, we must take great pains to prepare ourselves intellectually for ideological combat.

Once the retrograde has a foundational understanding of his own worldview, then he must think about taking a more active role in seizing the culture.

The retrograde must also become a student of radicalism.

sine qua nons

If we are to prevail, we must out-prepare and out-work our ideological enemy.