Anonymous ID: 7b62d1 Sept. 29, 2018, 3:40 a.m. No.3246748   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7008 >>7013 >>7351

The Dem's Playbook

 

Rules For Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

 

RULE 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power is derived from two main sources – money and people. “Have-­Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.

 

RULE 2: Never go outside the expertise of your people.

It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.

 

RULE 3: Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

Look for ways to increase insecu­rity, anxiety and uncert­ainty.

 

RULE 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

 

RULE 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

There is no defense. It’s irrati­onal. It’s infuri­ating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into conces­sions.

 

RULE 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.

 

RULE 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Don’t become old news.

 

RULE 8: Keep the pressure on. Never let up.

Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.

 

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

Imagin­ation and ego can dream up many more conseq­uences than any activist.

 

RULE 10: If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympat­hizes with the underdog.

 

RULE 11: The price of a successful attack is a constr­uctive alternative.

Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.

 

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, person­alize it, and polarize it.

Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not instit­utions; people hurt faster than institutions.

 

HRC's college thesis:

 

"THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT…"

An Analysis of the Alinsky Model

 

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment

of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts

degree under the Special Honors Program,

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

 

Hillary D. Rodham

Political Science

2 May, 1969