Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

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Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

MEANING: intimidate your opponent with whatever means you have. If you can make a conservative feel isolated by flooding hollywood, music, education, big tech, social media, etc. with leftist values and ideals, it'll attack them and make them think there's more leftists than there actually are.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

MEANING: Never stray from talking points. If a Conservative brings up context or perspective, take it as an assault on your victimhood.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

MEANING: Bring up the exception and unproven theory and attempt to make them answer for it.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. "You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

MEANING: point the finger instead of owning behavior.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

MEANING: Shout damaging accusations non-stop with no regard for intellectual esteem, and the MSM will repeat and trumpet the accusations regardless of their merit to further hurt the target, as you're all intertwined.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. "If your people aren't having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic."

MEANING: Rile up the crowd, get them hungry to topple the system. Seek people who have nothing to gain from the system, and only are able to watch established people fall and crumble to their level.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

MEANING: Always focus on the hot take and topic. Don't focus on the importance of issues, focus on what will piss people off.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage."

MEANING: Interject politics into everything: Music, sports, movies, random conversations... always impose your strain onto others no matter where you are.

Saul Alinsky said:

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

MEANING: Use doomsday scenarios to argue your points, and only evil people will oppose it.