[OFB Cafe] The Truch about John McCAin... Another Alinsky Target?

[Donald R Spoon]

Sampley’s tactics bring to mind Rules 5, 10, and 12, of Marxist Saul 
Alinksy’s 12 Rules for radicals--particularly rule 12:

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. 
It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point 
to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? 
They want to create anger and fear.)

 

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and 
become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to 
your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used 
this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of 
unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, 
often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to 
their side.)

 

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." 
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go 
after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. 
(This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and 
ridicule works.)

 

[Excerpted from:  http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8925/alinsky.htm]