Goes To Twelve: Because It Takes A While For People To Catch On

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Because It Takes A While For People To Catch On

Try as it might, our own government and it's Ministry Of Propaganda (AKA Fox News), may finally be failing to hide it's remarkable lack of acheivement. From the Wall Street Journal OnLine

And just for the record, historically speaking, at no time did I ever Doubt that Al Gore Would have handled everything from 9/10/01 better than George II. My second thought following viewing, live, a second airplane crash into an American Office Building was " Oh fuck, we have got the wrong guy in DC to handle this mess". I'm telling ya, sometimes I amaze myself with my grasp of the obvious. Anyway...

"How would you rate the job that the Bush Administration has done preventing a terrorist attack in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001 -- excellent, pretty good, only fair or poor?"Base: All Adults

Positive (NET) Feb. 2004 70% Feb. 2006 52%

Negative (NET) Feb. 2004 30 Feb. 2006 47

Note: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
* Less than 0.5%.

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Alinsky's Rules For Radicals

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.

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

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

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.”

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.

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.”

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

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.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Goes To Twelve

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Because It Takes A While For People To Catch On

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