In September 1862, General Order #191 was found by a
Union soldier. This missive, wrapped
around three cigars, detailed the tactics the Confederate Army would employ
during Lee’s Maryland campaign. Corporal
Barton W. Mitchell of the 27th Indiana regiment realized the
importance of his find and handed it to his superior officer. It made its way through the chain of command
reaching General McClellan, himself.
McClellan was overjoyed. He knew exactly what Bobby Lee was going to
do. Yet, he failed to fully exploit his
advantage. The end result was a draw at
the Battle of Antietam. Had the General
effectively used the intelligence given to him, he could have destroyed the
Army of Virginia and hastened the end of the War of Northern Aggression.
Conservatives have the liberals’ general
orders. It’s called Rules for
Radicals. One of their favorites is #13:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Progressives have successfully marginalized
their political foes with this tactic for decades and are still doing it to
this day.
The two bogeymen that thwart liberal ambitions are
the South and tea partiers. So why not
conflate the two? Progressives know who
to target. They can freeze this limited
government, constitutional movement as regional. They can use Southern history to personalize
and polarize their political enemies.
The New York Times is the left's Goebbels in progressive
messaging. Here is their broadside:
We often think of the typical
segregationist politician of yore as a genteel member of the white upper crust.
But the more common mode was the fiery populist. Names like Thomas E. Watson of
Georgia, “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman of South Carolina and James K. Vardaman and
Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi may be obscure outside the South, but for most
anyone brought up here, they loom large.
In the early 20th century, these men
rose on an agrarian revolt against Big Business and government corruption. They
used that energy, in turn, to disenfranchise and segregate blacks, whose
loyalty to the pro-business Republican Party made them targets of these racist
reformers.
Their activities spawned a second wave
of Southern Democratic populists, who defied federal court orders and civil
rights legislation during the 1960s, even as more moderate politicians were
moving on. Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, among others, portrayed himself
as a tribune of the working class while championing segregation.
It’s hard not to hear echoes of those
eras today. Tea Party candidates have targeted federal taxes and spending,
while attacking Chamber of Commerce interests and the leadership of the
Republican Party. Racism has been replaced with nativism in their demands for
immigration restrictions, but the animosity toward the “other” is the same. And
there remains a whiff of the ancient fumes of bitter-end resistance: Chris
McDaniel, a state senator who took Senator Thad Cochran into a runoff in
Mississippi, still refuses to accept the validity of the election.
Notice how the New York Times has deemed this
movement Southern. There are top
Democratic donors who wish the South would secede again. A mole within a secretive group of libtards
has revealed their antipathy towards the Tea Party.
In an email thread on Gamechanger Salon—a closed Google
group of progressive organizers, reporters, and campaign apparatchiks—Guy
Saperstein, a major Democratic donor and part owner of the Oakland
Athletics baseball team, said he would support the South seceding.
“For more than 100 years, the South
has been dumbing down national politics, tilting the country in a conservative
direction, supporting militarism, all while demanding huge financial subsidies
from blue states,” Guy Saperstein wrote in the emails. “It would be 100% fine
with me if the South was a separate nation, pursuing its own priorities and
destiny.”
In the email thread from last October,
Gamechanger Salon participants were discussing a Michael Lind story at Salon entitled
“The South is Holding America Hostage.”
“I thought this was an impressive (if
tough) piece of big-picture political strategy and prescription,” member Jon
Stahl wrote. “Would be interested to hear others’ opinions of whether he is on
target or way off … and if so what that might imply.”
“In the alternative, could we just let
the South secede?” Saperstein began, before offering his opinions on secession.
“My comment was not made in jest at all.”
What these people don’t want to admit is they are
surrounded. Take a look at a 2012
presidential electoral county by county map.
It is a sea of red dotted with blue bobbers. The Tea Party movement is not just Southern,
it’s nationwide. Had the States employed
a proportional Electoral College vote system, liberals wouldn’t obtain the
presidency without a coup.
So it’s time
the Tea Party marginalize these radicals.
We have their battle plans, and we can use it to rout them. Alinsky’s fifth rule will be the most
effective weapon against humorless libtards: Ridicule.
We have plenty of fodder for the ridicule cannon. We are living the progressive agenda. Since Obama has been in office, not one of
their policies has been successful. It is
time to blow cigar smoke in their faces.
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