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August 08, 2009
The Rebels Strike Back
Eric of Classical Values suggested a read of this article about the opposition to Obama's Health Care initiative. In the comments I came across this interesting thought by commenter RKV who Victory is what we're after. We'll decide what standards we uphold, and refuse to give our enemies the power to define us. We read Alinksy's book and we're raising him a Clauswitz and a Sun Tzu.I think that is quite correct. Let me suggest a couple of Sun Tzu quotes that I think are relevant. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself. - Sun Tzu Obama has the tactics he knew from the Chicago Way. Steam roller your opponents and if you are close to victory - bully them into submission. Once the changes are fait accompli reversal will be difficult. Obama did not KNOW his opponents. The image he had of them was of bitter clingers. Rednecks. Unsophisticated. But those are not the people who turned out at the town hall meetings to be roughed up by SEIU thugs. In fact one of the persons roughed up was a guy handing out Gadsden Flags. Some times known as the "Don't Tread On Me" flag. Obama and the Democrats are making the same mistake the Japanese made in the South Pacific in 1942. They did not expect America to counter attack until 1943. And in fact the Japanese estimation was quite correct. They did not count on the will of Admiral King and the US Marines who, though weaker than the Japanese at the time, took them off guard. Semper Fi Mac. Here is the analogous Obama mistake: they disregarded the Tea Parties and marginalized them when possible, but mostly ignored them. The MSM did the same. Big mistake. They now have to fight a movement that wasn't nipped in the bud and is not amenable to the "take out the leaders" strategy. And now - the more they fight the stronger the movement gets. How will this all turn out? Like Guadalcanal the issue will be in doubt until mid-November. There will be some state elections then and some special Congressional races. Especially watch the Governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia. Right now it looks like the Democrats will be losing those races very badly. As in not even close. For those of you interested in defeating Obama's programs, if you can't join the Tea Party people in public demonstrations and town hall meetings, you can send a note to your Congress Critters. House of Representatives Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 08.08.09 at 11:46 PM
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So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a thousand battles without a single loss. And right there is why Obama will lose. Leftist Dems don't know themselves; they have a highly inflated sense of their own self worth and abilities. Obama can fool his compliant Minitru, but his "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" 'explanations' are mostly just funny to anybody who doesn't have his... ahem, in their mouth. They don't know their enemies; us. They think we're as easy to cow as so many workers in a non-unionized plant. And they most definitely don't understand reality. That's the real killing point. The thing that's gonna make it ugly is that they don't see a limit on their power. They think they can do to Americans what unions always do to recalcitrant folks. As we saw in the vids from the SEIU thugs attacking people (Like the woman who knocked the camera out of the lady's hands). It's getting ugly out. But then, I've long known that the Funniest End of Civilization Ever would stop getting funny when it got near the end. Veeshir · August 9, 2009 12:09 PM I am heartened that leftists (to judge by blog commenters anyway) have NO CLUE. They really do believe the Tea Party movement is astroturf, and they really do think they are smarter than everyone else. Most crucial to their failure is their contempt for their enemies. If they realized that those suburban grandmas with the camcorders and handmade signs understand more about the bills in question than they do, and in fact do care deeply about the issues ... the leftists would take us seriously and be more dangerous to us. Because they don't see us clearly they will continue to be surprised and outflanked. Then there's the old saying "Age & treachery will always defeat youth & skill." Yes, the Congresscritters and the constituents are usually in the same age range, but this battle is mostly between senior citizens and "community organized" Obamabots, who tend to be really young and naive. (Who else will answer Craigslist ads for "social justice activist" work for $8/hr?) They. Have. No. Idea. Yehudit · August 9, 2009 06:25 PM Post a comment
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They now have to fight a movement that wasn't nipped in the bud and is not amenable to the "take out the leaders" strategy.
At present it also has the advantage of being too diffuse for the leadership to be bought off.