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Originally Posted by kwjones
Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
"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."
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Originally Posted by rhadin
The false assertions we are hearing made about the proposed healthcare overhaul are a natural consequence of the need for the birthers (those who deny that Barack Obama was born in the U.S.) to grow from being foolish looking to truly being foolish.
Most interesting, along with the Hawkings example Harry cited, is the Republican-conservative attack on the proposed plans on the basis of legislated "death panels" (forcing euthanasia of the elderly and infirm). The original proposer of this particular legislation that is being attacked is a Republican-conservative senator. I guess the plot to kill America's elderly and infirm isn't really a Democrat-liberal plot but a Republican-conservative plot.
One would think a drug addict like Rush Limbaugh would love to have a national health plan. He wouldn't have to pay out of pocket to feed his habit -- his fellow taxpayers could support him.
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kwjones, I agree with you that the left is using Alinsky's rules to try and ridicule the people who have a problem with the proposed changes to medical insurance because they know their plan being proposed won't survive honest debate. Its far easier to pick on Rush and others who don't agree with this being rammed down their throats than explain how we can afford it and how it would dramatically change healthcare delivery for the worse for most Americans.