Let me start this post with a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 1988.
Have you ever played Monopoly? What if one of the people who is in the game is also the banker, and you know that he or she is giving themselves interest free loans from that bank? Would you do as Hobbes did and fight back, or would you simply refuse to stoop to their level and maintain your principles?
Participating in today’s society is a lot like that. The left has no principles or morals whatsoever, as long as they win. They define a win as imposing their will and desires upon others. That’s it- all that matters is that they impose their desires and will upon you. If you refuse to play- they win. If you stick to your principles and refuse to fight back- they win.
Every society in history that has fallen has done so because they refuse to stoop to the level of those who would destroy them. Sure, they call them names- things like barbarian, heathens, whatever the label, but those who refuse to play by any rules are the ones who win by the only rule that matters- winning. Vince Lombardi is credited with saying “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” and there is a lot of validity to that.
In Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” Alinsky lays out ten rules for defeating an enemy in the political arena. One of these is “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” That’s what the left does- this is why you see them quoting the bible and screaming that you aren’t being a good Christian whenever you say that you don’t want the government to care for an unlimited amount of illegals, or see your tax dollars spent on poor transgenders in Somalia. They are trying to shame you for abandoning your ideals, they are using your own morals as weapons against you.
That’s why the left hates Trump as much as they do, and why they are willing to get along with others on the right. Many on the right do one of two things- they cave in to the left’s desires, or they stick to their ideals. In other words, they accept defeat. Trump doesn’t do that, because his overwhelming personality trait is to win. That is all that matters to him, winning.
I recently posted about Stephen Smith making racist, self loathing remarks. The response was that we shouldn’t care what he says. I disagree. Using the left’s own tactics against them would be to hold them to their own rules- if anyone on the left makes a racist remark- you hammer them for it. Ridicule them, for that falls under another of Alinsky’s rules: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
Let’s do to them what they are attempting to do to us. Hammer home the advantage, press the attack. No respite, no quarter. Winning the battle of ideas is easier and less costly than having to go out and kill one another in actual battle.
Keep up the fight.
12 Comments
Viva Ramon Mercader · February 6, 2025 at 8:03 am
Alinsky works for us now, my favorite is what the enemy thinks you have is a weapon.
Keep them guessing in other words.
It all comes down to demographics and when you were educated.
The youth think free healthcare and rapping all day on Soundcloud while stoned is communism.
Hopefully Trump sets the Long March back by decades.
If Hakeem Jeffires is the dollar store Obama, is Stephen A Smith the dime store version?
SiG · February 6, 2025 at 8:54 am
Well said.
And “well said” to Viva Ramon Mercader. I’ve literally seen that view of communism preached to people who fled the reality of communism.
Troy Messer · February 6, 2025 at 11:29 am
It is not hyperbole to say this is Divemedic’s most important post he has ever written. The reason I despise the right more than the left is because the right chooses to fail while hiding behind the shield of virture. If you are playing buy the rules but your enemy is not, that does not make you virtuous. That makes you a coward. That makes you a chump.
Two Chinese Colonels wrote a book called Unrestricted Warfare. The thesis of the book is to expand the scope of means to exercise war beyond the traditional kinetic methods suchs as tanks, armys, infantry, etc. You don’t have to worry about your enemy on the battlefield if you can kill him at home with fetynal. And when you understand this, you understand that China has been at war with us for a long time.
Likewise, the evil left is at war. They are at war with the fundamental tenant of Western Civilization. Because Martin Van Creveld is right, diversity + proximity = war, the introduction of 30 million illegal aliens into the US is an act of war against the American people (whats left of them) by the evil forces of the left.
Take the issue of sexual reassignment surgery. Sexually mutilating children is one of the most heineous crimes one can commit. The Nuremburg trials after WWII legitimacy was couched in the idea that obeying the law is not always a shield to justice. The doctors that mutilate pre-pubescent children are the personification, the very physical embodiment of evil. Yet, they are shielded under the color of law. They deserve to be [redacted] from lampost. They deserve kinetic redistribution of justice.
The “conservative” would bleat, “that is illegal.” That is why I hate conservatives more than I hate the evil left. Conservatives allow their children to be mutilated under the color of law, and among a plethora of other things, and cower behind their shield of virtuously obeying laws that hate them.
NP · February 6, 2025 at 11:47 am
Saul Alinsky was able to jet around the country stirring up trouble because he has an NGO paying for it. It’s difficult to reverse the tactic effectively because the right doesn’t have funding for our own pot stirrers. At least Trump seems to be targeting the NGOs to put our modern Saul Alinskys out of work.
SoCoRuss · February 6, 2025 at 12:05 pm
Preach the truth,bro.
Rules for Radicals should be required reading for anyone on the right or even the middle.
It amazes me that I keep hearing how people on the so called right don’t understand why the commies do things. All you have to do is read, they write books about it all the time.
For all the we MUST support Repubtards out there, what is their mantra. We wont stoop to the lefts level WE have standards. That’s why the country loses, there is NO response to these fuckers from the right.
BTW, I know I attack the Repubtards basically as a party. You should NEVER vote for a party, you should find a person who wants what you want and is willing to fight for it. Once you find a fighter against the system you will see the true Republican party for what it is. I know I found out the hard way by working as a volunteer for a great guy who wanted to changes things and he got attacked more by his own party than the left and lost. Since then its Fuuck the Repubtards for Life for me. This was a PSA.
Slow Joe Crow · February 6, 2025 at 1:46 pm
Something like that happened during the first Trump administration where a high poobah at Princeton was pandering to his wokester audience by calling Princeton a racist institution, so Trump ordered a DoE civil rights investigation of Princeton
lynn · February 6, 2025 at 3:58 pm
The endgame is total domination. Usually this ends in a civil war though. The USA is close and getting closer.
JoshO · February 6, 2025 at 5:01 pm
We don’t have to stoop to their level to beat them. Lying and general duplicity morally far worse than killing the enemy.
Divemedic · February 7, 2025 at 7:35 am
That strategy has failed spectacularly for years. Taking the moral high ground is how we as a nation have lost so much.
Danny · February 6, 2025 at 5:05 pm
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!
It’s, of course, a Churchill quote. But I like it anyway.
Craig · February 7, 2025 at 8:31 am
If you are not willing to do what your enemy is willing to do you are destined to lose. Arguments, street fights, or anything up to and including war.
Skeptic · February 7, 2025 at 12:48 pm
“Rules for Radicals” only works when your enemy has shame. The left does not. Republicans have been wailing, “But they are the real racists” for decades. How has it worked out for them?
The only answer is to lean in, stop kissing black ass, and stop pretending that “white supremacy” is a bad thing.
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