{"id":105634,"date":"2018-10-06T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105634"},"modified":"2018-10-06T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:46:04","slug":"kavananaugh-character-assassination-democrats-stole-a-page-right-out-of-alinskys-rules-for-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105634","title":{"rendered":"Kavananaugh Character Assassination: Democrats stole a page right out of Alinsky&#8217;s \u201cRules for Radicals\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Weaponized Alinsky Soundbites<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->recoveringtrumpster<\/p>\n<p>Saul Alinsky\u2019s \u201cRules for Radicals\u201d leverage morally reprehensible, corrupt tactics as a means to justify the end.<\/p>\n<h3>Three (of\u00a012)\u00a0Alinsky character-assassinating\u00a0rules:<\/h3>\n<p><em>Rule 5:\u00a0 \u201cRidicule is man\u2019s most potent weapon.\u201d There is no defense. It\u2019s irrational. It\u2019s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rule 9:\u00a0 \u201cThe threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.\u201d Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rule 12: \u201cPick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.\u201d Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Alinsky rules leverage emotional manipulation to\u00a0<em>fabricate anger<\/em>\u00a0and thereby leverage\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/recoveringtrumpster.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/01\/a-critical-thinking-deep-thought-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional control<\/a>\u00a0over those who fall under the spell.\u00a0The\u00a0rules are intended to emotionally enslave followers.\u00a0 As people become angry, they are blinded to intellectual reasoning; they fall under the emotional control of the manipulators.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cYou\u2019re a racist!\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard this three-word\u00a0<em>Alinsky soundbite bullet<\/em>\u00a0used to character-assassinate\u00a0opponents of the freedom-robbing leftists.\u00a0 \u00a0 With just three words, a decent, caring person, who\u2019s never once given thought to such an idea, is seriously knocked off balance and put on the defensive.\u00a0A person\u2019s character is being assassinated by just three words,\u00a0fired at the person in the form of an Alinsky soundbite bullet.<\/p>\n<p>In the republican primary,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/recoveringtrumpster.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/31\/a-conservative-civil-war-is-raging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a conservative civil war is raging<\/a>.\u00a0 Decent, civil discourse that has been the mainstay of caring, considerate conservatives has given way to leveraging Alinsky weapons of character assassination.\u00a0\u00a0 This war must end immediately, or leftists are handed the election.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/recoveringtrumpster.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/31\/we-are-in-this-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We\u2019re all in this together<\/a>; please share (as outlined below)\u00a0what it really means,\u00a0<em>and says<\/em>\u00a0about a person\u2019s character, when such a person turns\u00a0such vile leftist character-assassinating weapons against someone they disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>Alinsky tactics epitomize the practice of abject moral bankruptcy, since they are designed to destroy free speech and individual freedom by destroying character.\u00a0\u00a0 Such tactics destroy the very pursuit of happiness of their targets, and do so without moment\u2019s thought.\u00a0 \u00a0 They have been the\u00a0<em>weapon of choice<\/em>\u00a0of the left, which demonstrates abject moral bankruptcy of leftist progressives (whether dressed in a republican or democrat label); including, but not limited to leftist professors, leftist politicians and leftist media.<\/p>\n<p>Consider bedrock, basic human values, such as integrity, thoughtfulness, consideration, generosity, decency, honesty and virtue.\u00a0 These basic moral values are all fundamental to individual liberty and freedom.\u00a0 \u00a0Practicing such basic values of common decency includes\u00a0<em>recognizing a person\u2019s freedom<\/em>\u00a0to speak, pursue their own happiness, and go about their lives without undergoing character assassination from people who may have a different opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are quick to fire torrents of Alinsky bullets with their soundbite machine guns, do so because they have an inferior argument that will lose in a fair, decent, and respectable debate.\u00a0 These are weapons of fomenting unrest.\u00a0 They are weapons of revolution.\u00a0 They are meant to destroy, not foster civil discourse and improve the civil society.<\/p>\n<p>We are all best served to see through those who attack character instead of engaging in civil debate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Such immoral tactics are used by leftist progressives who seek power at the expense of freedom.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These leftist progressives typically call themselves democrats, however, they are republicans as well.\u00a0\u00a0Claiming to be a republican does not make one a\u00a0conservative; the opposite of an Alinsky practitioner.\u00a0\u00a0The only way to distinguish such leftist is to observe whether they treat their opponents with decency, and overall, demonstrate virtue and integrity, or engage in Alinsky tactics, such as firing torrents of character-assassinating soundbite bullets at their opponents without a second thought as\u00a0to what the truth may be.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/recoveringtrumpster.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/31\/weaponized-alinsky-soundbites\/\">http:\/\/recoveringtrumpster.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/31\/weaponized-alinsky-soundbites\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weaponized Alinsky Soundbites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}