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People define their identity by what they are not.

Det som inte var oundvikligt var att det militanta tänkandet skulle lyckas med att ta över offentlighetens huvudfåra. Det hade inte behövt hända om tillräckligt många hade haft modet att stå upp för tvivel och moderation. Om tillräckligt många hade förklarat att de inte tänker delta i den galopperande radikaliseringen av samhället. Om tillräckligt många hade vägrat att acceptera den sovjetisering av offentligheten som lett till att intellektuella drar sig undan, tänker en sak och säger en annan, eller ingenting.

Om tillräckligt många inte hade varit så förbannat fega.

Men nu är vi redan förbi den punkten. På grund av feghet och medlöperi har vi hamnat, som Mats Holm skrev häromveckan i Fokus, i en offentlighet som styrs av samma totalitära tänkande som det senjakobinska Frankrike under Robespierre. Dagligen fylls tidningarna med bannbullor över förrädare, desertörer och »liberala nihilister« som är alltför veka i anden. På Twitter, där själva poängen är att göra sig dummare än man är, kastar uppburna »tänkare« invektiv omkring sig, för att samla mobben till nya utrensningar. Även den här texten kommer förstås att bli föremål för sådant.

Det är svårt att ana någon ljusning. På lördag marscherar nazisterna, oavsett vilken väg de tar. »Antifascisterna« är mobiliserade. Militariseringen av offentligheten kommer att skruvas ytterligare ett varv. De få som, från olika utgångspunkter, håller fast vid tanken på en öppen offentlig debatt utan rädsla – Åsa Linderborg och Lena Andersson till exempel – kommer att drunkna i de militanta kraven på allmän mobilisering. Eller egentligen: drunkna i tystnaden från alla de fega jävlar som inte vågar stå upp för öppenheten, moderationen och civiliteten i strid mot sovjetiseringen, sekterismen och militarismen.

Skäms ni inte?

I helgen besökte hela 80.000 personer Försvarsmaktens dag på Gärdet i Stockholm som beskrivits som en folkfest för unga och familjer. Varför bryr vi oss om försvaret just nu? Hör Naomi Abramowicz, politisk ledarskribent på Expressen och Anders Lindberg, politisk ledarskribent på Aftonbladet.

12 enkla steg för att vinna, följ dem.

Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals…

Here is the complete list from Alinsky.

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”

It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”

Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 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. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 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. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 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. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 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. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 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. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 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. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 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. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Denmark’s integration minister, Inger Støjberg, took to Facebook on Tuesday to praise the Mohammed cartoons that a dozen years ago plunged her country into its most severe international crisis ever.
Støjberg shared a screenshot of her iPad background displaying cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s drawing of the prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. She did so in response to the decision by Skovgaard Museum in Viborg to not display the 12 caricatures of Mohammed published by Jyllands-Posten newspaper as part of an exhibition on blasphemy.

The integration minister said that the drawings, particularly the one by Westergaard that has led to attempts on his life, “helped to define Denmark as the free society that we are”.

“They show that we are a free country where opinions are challenged and where you can say whatever you’d like and criticize whomever you’d like,” Støjberg wrote in her Facebook post.

“I personally have Kurt Westergaard’s famous drawing as the background photo on my iPad. I have it because I love Denmark. I simply love the principle of freedom that the generations that came before us have created and that our country is built upon,” she continued.