As we look ahead to the 2016 elections, we need to be ready to fight back against those who do not want a right-sided victory.
Many will talk about attracting certain voting groups. They will spout the rhetoric we have heard so many times in elections:
"We must attract the independents."
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"We must attract the women's vote."
"We must attract the black vote."
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"We must attract the youth vote."
"We must attract the Hispanic vote."
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The list goes on, and it serves one purpose: to confuse.
The statists plan to win, and it isn't because they have a better candidate or even more money. They plan to win by confusing their enemy. (That's you.)
The elections in 2016 can be won by the right using three simple tactics:
1) The Christian vote: Only 50 percent of those who warm the church pews actually even vote in the general elections. The numbers for women who attend church and vote are even more abysmal. If every churchgoer who does vote brought one churchgoer who doesn't vote, the election would be wrapped up for the right. This tactic would have even more impact in a primary.
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2) Conservatives rally behind one candidate: Before Iowa, conservatives need to have a coordinated strategy to decide on one candidate, or they will get whomever the D.C. elite decides to hand them.
3) Eliminate voter fraud: After deciding on the candidate, and committing to get churches to vote, conservatives should dedicate the rest of their efforts to eliminating voter fraud and opposing motor voter, same-day registration and voting (California has this), and voting without ID laws in their state.
For good measure, I would remind conservatives watch for Saul Alinsky's rules to be used against them over, and over, and over. The more quickly conservatives can recognize the attacks on them, the better:
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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.
2) "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3) "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
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.
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.
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.
7) "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news.
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.
9) "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
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.
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.
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.
The left has very effectively divided conservatives using Alinsky tactics this week with regard to the Duggar family. If conservatives are smart, they will recognize that attack and move on from it. This will happen again and again and again throughout this election cycle. You won't see the internal circular fire in the statist camp. They are too pragmatic for that.
If you look closely, the entire Duggar story was a not-so-subtle message to conservatives, especially those who are seeking office: Only those who have no standards should be allowed to judge those who do. This will undoubtedly cause sleepless nights for many a conservative running for office and remembering a joint shared at a college party, or a Playboy magazine shared in a Boy Scout tent in elementary school. That is the intent of the Duggar story, which used tactics No. 4, No. 5 and No. 12 and threatens to sweep away a family that had captured the American imagination while showing large Christian families in a positive light. Remember, Nazism is short for national socialism, particularly atheistic centralized government partnering with powerful preferred corporations.
Let's take a look at the people behind the assault on the Duggars and American-style individual liberty and protections for children.
Bauer Holdings, the German conglomerate that owns In Touch Magazine, trades in all kinds of societal derogating trash and probably enjoys little readership among Duggar family loyalists. Christian converts are bad for business. Attacking the Duggars is a three-fer: Sell magazines, defend your market, and help make sure no conservative is elected to the White House in 2016. So they would dedicate a lot of time and money to investigate and paint the Duggar family as exhibit A of why we can never give spotlight or power to a conservative.
According to an investigation in the The Wrap, one of Bauer's subsidiaries is Der Landser, a Nazi-sympathizing, skinhead magazine in Germany. Germany's equivalent of Time Magazine, Der Spiegel, described the Bauer publication as "a specialist journal for whitewashing the Wehrmacht," Hitler's war machine.
Bauer also published the magazine Zuerst! Dieter Munier, the publisher of that magazine is a known German neo-Nazi leader for more than 40 years. Bauer sold that magazine in 2012 after public outrage became overwhelming.
Bauer's holdings don't stop at Nazi sympathizing or Holocaust denial.
Bauer owned multiple distributorships of pornography, including (you can't make this up) many Nazi-themed porn movies. These movies detail punishing via rape and torture those who do not sympathize with Nazis. One movie cited in The Wrap article was "Inglorious B--ches." Bauer showcased this movie via Internet service provider, and shows a scene where a pair of Nazi soldiers torture resistance fighters. By shredding the American principle that we protect the identity of abuse victims, the owners of In Touch magazine have done more damage to women and children around the world than any one molester could do. They clearly aren't looking for answers to the cancerous problem of child molestation. The reality is, that even those who are looking for answers don't have many. But one thing is certain: In Touch magazine has an agenda far bigger than the Duggars.
If conservatives want to win in 2016, they will need to keep their eye on the prize and keep from getting mired in the distractions of the day. They will have to speak truth boldly and swiftly, and not to get dragged into the narrative of the left (example: "The Duggars should have…").
The game is on. To the winner go the spoils.
