The Joy and Necessity of Driving Liberals Nuts
Is the foundation of our revolt against the elites – which the liberals and the Fredocons call “Trumpism” because they don’t want to face the fact that Normals are tired of their corruption and incompetence – merely trolling by a bunch of malcontents? True, we do enjoy messing with them. You look at the avatar of the movement, Donald Trump, and he’s the Trollmaster Level XII Emeritus. This guy lays down the smack, and a lot of Americans are delighted by his antics.
But is that all this is? Is our movement simply about slamming the people we’re annoyed at and nothing more?
Of course not.
Don’t worry – we’re not showing our cards here. Napoleon (allegedly) warned that you should never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, and dismissing your opponent – especially one who snatched away the presidency from The Smartest Women in the History of Ever – is always a grave strategic error. But we can safely discuss it here because they won’t listen. They can’t listen – to listen to us is to take us seriously and admit to themselves that We The People are a threat to Them Our Betters. Just look at the comments below – go and see how many of them draw exactly the opposite point that this column makes. They have to minimize and marginalize us because labelling our rebellion against their self-serving, failed rule a mere temper tantrum allows them to avoid the painful reality that they brought this on themselves because they are terrible.
We are blessed with an enemy that refuses to even try to understand us, but do we ever understand them. And that means we know their weaknesses. After all, the establishment has been in our faces all our lives. We can’t not know them because there is no way to avoid them. The media, entertainment, politics – it’s all them all the time, so we know what makes them tick, and where to plant the charges to bring down the whole stinking edifice.
It’s just a matter of pushing their buttons.
Annoying liberals and the Never Trump Gimp Gang is vitally important to our movement, and not just because it is fun, though fun is important. As Alinsky taught, the best techniques are the ones your people have fun with (Rule 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."). And there’s not much more fun to be had with your clothes on than driving pompous liberals to distraction.
But getting under our opponents’ collective collectivist skin is more than just an enjoyable way to pass the time. It performs vital functions for the movement both by exposing our enemy for what it is, and for supporting our own side’s morale.
Alinsky got it. Rule 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." What’s important to our Alleged Betters? Their self-image as smart, sophisticated, and capable. Look at their bizarre fixation on academic credentials. Their status is everything to them. They consider themselves deserving of power not by some divine right – only us Normals believe in that God stuff – but by right of their own secular divinity.
So we need to deny them the respect and deference they believe they earned by getting a Gender Studies bachelors at Oberlin, or by being a Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Kissing Up to the Mullahs, or by playing a magical guy in spandex in comic book movies. Their pompous self-regard is a fat, juicy target, and we need to be on it like Ana Navarro and Michael Moore on a discount buffet.
We’re not trying to shatter their infinite self-confidence. We can’t. They came to believe that they are superior despite a total lack of evidence and their unbroken track record of failure running our society, so a bunch of facts and observations from us is not going to make them stroke their stupid hipster beards and mutter, “Gee, I guess those rubes are right. We really do suck.”
The real purpose of our relentless mockery and our relentless highlighting of their relentless hypocrisy and incompetence is to demonstrate to the sleeping masses that the people claiming to be their betters are, in fact, not better at all. It’s easy to go through life shrugging and thinking “I’ll just leave it to the people who know best,” but the premise of that attitude is that the people claiming to know best actually know best. And they demonstrably don’t.
So that’s why, whether in columns or on TV or on Twitter or even in books about how an Americadivided by liberals might look, we need to keep at the left about their lies and duplicity. Here’s an example – when Jeff Session fired that unspeakable hack Andrew McCabe, Democrat transcriptionist Chris Cillizza of CNN tweeted, “If you think firing McCabe was totally the right thing to do and fully justified, ask yourself this: Why was it done at 10 pm on a Friday night?” But wait, aren’t the FBI and the DoJ paragons of propriety and stuff, or was there a memo distributed among the chattering changing that which we all missed?
So I responded: “Why are you attacking the integrity of the FBI? Didn't the FBI determine McCabe had violated the law and merited dismissal? Why do you hate our intelligence services and, by extension, America, @CillizzaCNN?” Thousands of you liked and retweeted it. And a bunch of libs collectively wet themselves.
That’s when they reveal who they really are. You get them mad enough and they will confess that yes, they really do want to take away our freedom of speech, and yes, they really do want to confiscate our guns and, often, yes, they really do want us dead. The suppressed truth about what they really think and really intend to do is right there – you just have to get them really mad so they don’t try to hide it anymore.
Which brings us to the second key reason to mock libs. Morale. It shows people on our side that someone, somewhere is fighting back – and demonstrates the possibility that you can too.
The establishment tries to win when they tell us we are nothing, nobodies, “rubes” and “yokels,” as some of them recently labeled Normals who resist them. But they only win when we believe them.
Mockery is an act of resistance, critical pushback that tells the people isolated and discouraged by the establishment into thinking that nothing can ever change, that their would-be masters cannot be challenged.
So when our enemies start spouting off about how Donald Trump’s tweets show that this movement is nothing but unfocused rage and anger, and how conservative fighters are just a bunch of trolls, understand that our enemies don’t try to stop us from doing things that hurt our movement. They try to stop us doing things that help our cause. These people are hacks and clowns, puffed up on their own importance and vulnerable to a weapon we wield with brutal skill.
That weapon is contempt. And it’s a key component of our campaign to take our country back. https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/03/19/the-joy-and-necessity-of-driving-liberals-nuts-n2462183
More crap.
XX, would you like me to seed 5 articles a day from Right Wing Watch? I can do it if you want.
You already do that here so there are few sharp teeth in that threat and the teeth that are there are already ground down to a nubbin from overuse.
"Which brings us to the second key reason to mock libs. Morale. It shows people on our side that someone, somewhere is fighting back – and demonstrates the possibility that you can too. The establishment tries to win when they tell us we are nothing, nobodies, “rubes” and “yokels,” as some of them recently labeled Normals who resist them. But they only win when we believe them."
Conservative Republicans love claiming to be victims of the "elite". Even though they're often the bullies picking on the nearest nerd while claiming higher education is stupid and worthless and all they need to get by are their fists, they love pretending to be the victim. Sure, they had every opportunity to get a higher education, go to junior college, go to a trade school or apply themselves in school, but their parents and their parents parents often have little more than a high school diploma or GED so they've been told all their lives that's enough. They've been given all the horror stories of college like kids burning out, high tuition's they'll never pay off or worse yet, get turned into an elite by some highfalutin professor so they come home trying to teach their parents about climate change or evolution.
The reality is there are yokels, rubes, know-nothings and anti-education bigots out there, but they aren't nobody. No one has ever called them nobodies. They're somebody, just not somebody you'd call and ask for help on your algebra test or advice on how to run a country.
When the smartest folk and the best educated win we all win. When anti-education bigots angry at facts and science win, we all lose. We can see their influence by the fact that the US can only supply 2 out of 5 employees needed by our tech and computer engineering companies.
That's why the Democrats continue to lose elections, and the Republicans continue to win them! LOL!
Trump/Pence populist projecting how funny!
That would be divine...not Devine
that made 0 sense
but I've come to expect that from you
DP, I believe that they were called "deplorables". That was the big mistake that the Leftists made. The second they heard that, the liberals should have run like the wind away from that woman. They didn't, of course; they were too "smart" to give in to the rubes. Then, instead of accepting the lesson that the "deplorable" vote is just as strong and even more numerous than theirs, and settling down to do their four years of punishment, they tried to double down by creating the "Resistance". Not a very bright move.
Deplorables are as deplorables do.
How exactly are they "more numerous" when there were 3 million fewer of them than Hillary voters? Do I think Hillary was right and half of Trump supporters are xenophobes, homophobes, Islamphobes and sexists? Yes, though maybe a bit over exaggerated, I'd put it at about one third of them are. Should have said it? No, it wasn't a smart move to alienate large groups of people who didn't even hear the description but just heard "deplorable!". I doubt the majority of Trump supporters would admit to being xenophobic, homophobic, Islamaphobic or sexist, yet the majority stood up declaring they were a "deplorable!" after she made that statement, so they self identified with those sentiments and didn't distance themselves from those who are openly xenophobic like the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Without those obviously deplorable voters Trump would never have won which is why the other two thirds refuse to reject them and their vile ideologies.
Their guy won the election. They're smart enough to know that the Electoral Vote counts; nothing else does. (Libs just can't seem to get it)
We are all painfully aware of the electoral college, but how does that make deplorable Trump supporters "more numerous" than those who voted against them? The simple fact is they aren't "more numerous", they are the minority but they are awfully loud and obnoxious as they pat themselves on the back. The ugly face of white supremacy has reared its head once again and proudly labeled itself "deplorable". The rubes and yokels are cheering in their hollars that ignorance, hate and prejudice won out for the first time in decades. Like I said, a win for them is a loss for patriotic equality loving Americans, but don't worry, Trumps reign will be short though destructive but we'll recover from it and continue to move forward with or without the unpatriotic deplorables.
They were more numerous in 30 of the 50 states (regardless of what Obama said there are not 57 states) that counted for the 305 Electoral College votes needed to win.
Oh BTW, the majority of voters voted against Clinton .
And a larger majority of voters voted against Donald Trump.
I never claimed otherwise we'll except in those 30 states where it mattered .
That's something I've never refuted. My comments were in response to a false claim which stated: "Then, instead of accepting the lesson that the "deplorable" vote is just as strong and even more numerous than theirs, and settling down to do their four years of punishment, they tried to double down by creating the "Resistance"."
The deplorables are not more numerous and never will be, they are a shrinking minority of bigots and fearful half wits who self identify as xenophobes, homophobes, Islamaphobes and sexists. They are not the Americans who adhere to American values and represent what America stands for. They are in opposition to equality, education, community, reason and reality. Without them Trump would never have won and I'm just embarrassed for any who are in bed with such sad fearful morons.
------- people judge others as they judge themselves. -------
only someone who can be hurt by words thinks everyone can be hurt by words.
the result is: like todays left alynsky did not understand "the right" only himself which is why alynsky wrote a book on how to defeat liberals
maybe they should rename it? Rules For Radical Tears
The problem being that we liberals do actually understand conservatives and don't care for your worldview.
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looks good on paper... but no. you "think you understand us and your wrong.
IF, the left understood us they would have known that alynsky BS does not work on us. (not even a little bit)
IF the left understood anything they would understand why 7 million obama voters voted for trump instead of hillary
here is another thing the left is still clueless about...
for the left to win again they will need to support secure borders, fair trade deals and a sovereign country like they did before the liberal progressives went batschit crazy under obama. (will be maybe 10yrs before they figure that out and you get the memo)
the left came in like a lion and will go out like a lamb.
conor lamb that is. (supports trumps trade tarrifs and hates the likes of pelosi) = the only way the left can win again
what is that some freaky little arkpdx haiku?
Is our movement simply about slamming the people we’re annoyed at and nothing more?
Okay I'll bite, what movement might that be? Rough count to this point of the discussion seems to be four members of "The Movement".
Liberal bashing aside, I think that one may find that the majority of the electorate is neither to the extreme right or left but rather smack dab in the middle both pragmatic and sane.