When I was a young activist in the 1980s, Rules for Radicals was all the rage. But the main rule I've continued to find useful is #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
But, as you correctly point out, that rule is only really useful if you're not already in charge. Once you're in charge, your use of it becomes ineffectual, and you yourself are vulnerable to it.
I always assumed that Obama's roasting was a ploy to goad Trump into running because I think they felt so confident they could beat him. Obviously, there was an overconfidence and miscalculation on the dems part. and now we all pay for the wicked one doing a controlled demo on the country.
As much as I'm not the biggest fan of contemporary Dems, I have to push back on that. For example, the NOAA lab in Boulder is being decommissioned. This is a critical facility for the meteorological world, and it will no doubt affect how well we can forecast weather. The Dems would not do that.
Are you sure about that? One of the world's largest weather models runs out of that location. I pay a lot of attention to weather forecasing and I can tell you it's more than "wide availability of satellite data, and even private weather reporting." Where do you think the "private" guys, like Open Snow, get their information?
Kicking out the foundations of your civilization is dangerous business.
”For decades, the American Left adopted Alinsky’s playbook with zeal, viewing it as a blueprint for social justice movements, especially when combined with critical theory. Even mainstream figures such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama drew inspiration from its methods.”
Of course! Barack Obama was active in Chicago around members of the Weather Underground, such as Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. Alinksy even spoke out against more violent factions, such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, because they went too far. Obama taught Alinsky tactics as a community organizer until he entered politics, after which he distanced himself from them. Still, among those on the Left, it was already a part of the cultural ambience. // Clinton is a Machiavellian who referred to working people on the right as "deplorables," but it just so happens she wrote her honors' thesis at Wellesley on the Alinsky Model.
When I was a young activist in the 1980s, Rules for Radicals was all the rage. But the main rule I've continued to find useful is #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
But, as you correctly point out, that rule is only really useful if you're not already in charge. Once you're in charge, your use of it becomes ineffectual, and you yourself are vulnerable to it.
Insightful as ever, Mad Max!
Camille Paglia is the stalwart
I'm so elderly that I wish I could find an intelligent Left-winger. They're dead and carried away on the River....
I always assumed that Obama's roasting was a ploy to goad Trump into running because I think they felt so confident they could beat him. Obviously, there was an overconfidence and miscalculation on the dems part. and now we all pay for the wicked one doing a controlled demo on the country.
There are two wrecking balls. Demolition is a bipartisan affair.
As much as I'm not the biggest fan of contemporary Dems, I have to push back on that. For example, the NOAA lab in Boulder is being decommissioned. This is a critical facility for the meteorological world, and it will no doubt affect how well we can forecast weather. The Dems would not do that.
Given the wide availability of satellite data, and even private weather reporting services, I;m rather dubious.
Are you sure about that? One of the world's largest weather models runs out of that location. I pay a lot of attention to weather forecasing and I can tell you it's more than "wide availability of satellite data, and even private weather reporting." Where do you think the "private" guys, like Open Snow, get their information?
Kicking out the foundations of your civilization is dangerous business.
Large computer models are not particularly scarce things and access to lots of computing power is rather cheap these days.
Trump is still better than Hillary would have been.
better how?
”For decades, the American Left adopted Alinsky’s playbook with zeal, viewing it as a blueprint for social justice movements, especially when combined with critical theory. Even mainstream figures such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama drew inspiration from its methods.”
- is this actually true?
Of course! Barack Obama was active in Chicago around members of the Weather Underground, such as Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. Alinksy even spoke out against more violent factions, such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, because they went too far. Obama taught Alinsky tactics as a community organizer until he entered politics, after which he distanced himself from them. Still, among those on the Left, it was already a part of the cultural ambience. // Clinton is a Machiavellian who referred to working people on the right as "deplorables," but it just so happens she wrote her honors' thesis at Wellesley on the Alinsky Model.
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