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One of the funny things has been watching the inability of the political parties to understand the Tea Party movement. The MSM and the left has been especially fun to watch. They started out with derision, went to the race card, back to mocking accusing them of being sock puppets of the republican party (try telling THAT to the incumbent pubbie establishment types taken out by Tea Party supported candidates).
None of the typical Alinsky smears have worked. The left keeps looking for the leader and spokesman. This makes sense since the left believes in central planning and authority, they assume the organization must be top down like their own worldview.
This article is the best description I have seen of what the Tea PArty is and how it works.
The Tea Parties comprise a distributed network -- a non-hierarchical system of autonomous nodes with no central control point, and with all nodes possessing the same value and freedom to act independently. A distributed network can be compared to a beehive. All the bees know their particular task and complete it autonomously, without directions from a central authority.
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How will such an informal network convert to a formal political system to replace the innately corrupt kleptocracy that we have today?
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
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Once again idiots do not understand Alinsky and no where does the concept of smearing people show up in his Rules for Radicals, rules for Radicals is not guerilla warfare, i.e. pick one item and say you follow Alinsky, but a complete method one rule alone makes no sense and is often unsuccessful... just another convenient right wing half truth, that denies any sense of credibility to what follows..
OTOH what the Tea Party is doing is very close to Alinsky's rules for radicals...
RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
__________________ "Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.
Once again idiots do not understand Alinsky and no where does the concept of smearing people show up in his Rules for Radicals, rules for Radicals is not guerilla warfare, i.e. pick one item and say you follow Alinsky, but a complete method one rule alone makes no sense and is often unsuccessful... just another convenient right wing half truth, that denies any sense of credibility to what follows..
OTOH what the Tea Party is doing is very close to Alinsky's rules for radicals...
It's actually a form of syndico-anarchism, the type of organization used by the Spanish Communists in their battle against Franco. It will be interesting to see to what degree the Tea Party transforms the Republican Party. Right now, it appears that it will be a minority party within the party, and if it fails to differentiate itself it will simply die off. My guess is that it's already been co-opted, and it's merely a forum for catharsis. Part of the reason I think this is that I no longer see an anti-corporate/anti-bailout agenda as part of the Tea Party's mission; thus, I think it's populist appeal will begin to wear off.
Well then Obama is Alinsky, Hillary was Alinsky ...
hmmmm ...
Rex Ryan may be Alinsky ....
You are making my point, Rules for Radicals are a complete method.. not guerilla warfare.. if you check the playbook of the right or left they both use most of it..
__________________ "Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.
It's actually a form of syndico-anarchism, the type of organization used by the Spanish Communists in their battle against Franco. It will be interesting to see to what degree the Tea Party transforms the Republican Party. Right now, it appears that it will be a minority party within the party, and if it fails to differentiate itself it will simply die off. My guess is that it's already been co-opted, and it's merely a forum for catharsis. Part of the reason I think this is that I no longer see an anti-corporate/anti-bailout agenda as part of the Tea Party's mission; thus, I think it's populist appeal will begin to wear off.
Yeah the author compared it to Mao, guerilla war, don't know enough about the Spanish Civil war of the 30's.
The goal seems to be to drive out the big government republicans. We see this especially in the RINO's who have been defeated in the Senate primaries. In each case the 'establishment' supported the RINO against the Tea PArty candidate, and the only losses for the Tea Party was in Ill and McCain in AZ. It will be interesting to see how they fare in the General Elections in Nov. The establishment republicans are almost as freaked out as the dems.
Ironically all the RINO instead of supporting the candidate for the general elections are not supporting them and in some cases running against the candidate who defeated them (Crist, Murkowski & Castle). Don't leave out Specter and Jeffords...
For years RINO's have told conservatives to hold their noses and votes for the RINO, well that didn't wok well when the pubbies controlled congress. Rove still favors anyone who calls themselves a pubbie regardless of how they vote, the Tea PArty isn't buying this.
I think there will be many more small government Senators in the Republican caucus in Jan.
The Tea Party will pressure the pubbies to not go back to business as usual. They will be just as hard on the pubbies as the are being with Pelosi, Reid and Obama.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
The Organizational Secret of the Tea Parties
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