Charade and hide your power
Cloak what you have that may present
Certainty forlorn, it’s what your enemies think you have in the tower
Laws are the yoke to make the enemy live up to its rules
Legislators change the laws to be in line with our goals
Liquidate traditional education with substitute learning in the schools
Aim for the low hanging fruit then build to chaos and turmoil
Assertions and diatribes excite the masses regardless of truth
Allegations take hold but retractions are buried deep in dark Saudi oil
Impediments and bottlenecks must be avoided when possible
Instructions that drag on becomes a drag syphoning excitement
Insist you keep the long-term goal focused and cognoscible
Make fun of our opposition, control the nightly comic Chelsea Handler
Multiplicative ridicule is the perfect weapon, impossible to counterattack
Massage and embrace the vocal loud strangler
In closing with this rhyme, the bumper sticker read aloud
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”
A technique used by community organizer to incite the crowd
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I really like the rhyme scheme and the way you use it to juxtapose concepts like rules and schools, possible and cognoscible (great word!), Handler and strangler.
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The perfect counter to any attack is always the same! Jesus calls it love. Isaiah called it returning unkindness with kindness, Solomon said “those who can control their emotions, are greater than one who can conquer a city!
You beautifully describe a tact that has been employed forever, as Teresa has mentioned!
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Making poetry out of chaos and near-anarchy…..well done! We are so often fettered by allowing ourselves to be forced into adhering to Alinsky’s fifth rule.
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The more things change the more they stay the same….similar exchanges have been going on for ages. You have stated the problems…now we need some creative problem solving.
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An astute observation to the current scene.
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Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
4. Keep the pressure on.”
5. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
6. “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
7. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
8. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
9. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
10. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
11. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. ”
12. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
13. “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
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