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In reply to the discussion: For once, focus your bloodlust on Republicans --instead of the DLC/Firebaggers/ANYONE WITHOUT AN (R) [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)1.) I embrace such rhetoric. In fact, the criticism of it is something I view as central to why we lose. Milquetoast reasoned tactics never defeat stridency and might of conviction. Even Gandhi conceded the primary reason he embraced pacifism was for lack of guns or forces to wield them; it's intrinsic to the 4th indictment of the British in the Purna Swaraj* (The 1930 Indian Declaration of Independence which the Indian National Congress led by Nehru and Gandhi ratified). It goes on only to reject violence because they're not capable of inflicting violence. Even his non-violence was strident and his rhetoric aggressive. In the later civil war against Pakistan he supported the use of force. I ask you further, have you ever read Rules For Radicals? Alinsky's rhetoric and tactic is far more aggressive than my own.
2.) I spent four years of college pretending to be a conservative so I could climb the ranks of the College Republicans to learn their tactics because they win and we lose. I did quite well at that; getting elected to national leadership posts and sent on scholarship to learn the game under the best they have. I only fucking care about winning. Winning is the only important thing. It's not a parley or a chess game of ideas, it's a war of ideas. Refusing to embrace aggression and conflict is why we lose.
Less thinking, more viciousness. Your mealy pacifism is something we can do without. At least have the strong vibrant aggressive non-violence that is not capitulation.
*-Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think that we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families from the attacks of thieves, robbers and miscreants.