Bush's Game Plan and a hint to where it came from

[BrklynLiberal]

http://billmon.org
GAME PLAN

President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market . . . The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support — contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.
Washington Post
Social Security Push to Tap the GOP Faithful
January 14, 2005

The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas . . . only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
Adolph Hitler
Mein Kampf
1925

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The Social Security Administration is gearing up for a major effort to publicize the financial problems of Social Security and to persuade the public that private accounts are needed as part of any solution . . . The agency's plans are set forth in internal documents, including a "tactical plan" for communications and marketing of the idea that Social Security faces dire financial problems requiring immediate action.
The New York Times
Agency Running Social Security to Push Change
January 16, 2005

The great masses of the people . . . more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others . . . Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick —a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of.
Adolph Hitler
Mein Kampf
1925

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Mr Powell's bleak assessment, less than three weeks before Iraqis are due to elect a parliament, reflects what advisers close to the administration and former officials describe as an understanding in the State Department and Pentagon of the depth of the crisis. But, they say, this is not a view accepted by President George W. Bush . . .
According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell for his view on the progress of the war. “We're losing,” Mr Powell was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of state to leave.
Financial Times
Powell gives bleak assessment of Iraq security problems
January 12, 2005

Albert Speer, in charge of armament production, drew up a memorandum to Hitler on January 20 — the twelfth anniversary of Hitler's coming to power — pointing out the significance of the loss of Silesia. 'The war is lost,' his report began, and he went on in his cool and objective manner to explain why . . .
The Fuehrer, Guderian later related, glanced at Speer's report, read the first sentence and then ordered it filed away in his safe. He refused to see Speer alone, saying to Guderian: “He always has something unpleasant to say to me. I can't bear that."
William L. Shirer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1959

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1. Have you seen the Con/Dom's game plan?

More along the same lines -- a repost of something I wroter earlier:

The more I read about Dominionism, the more I feel these Righties have been playing on the Media's fear of offending anyone (especially their advertisers!), and this has led to a less and less critical media.

The Dominionist game-plan (yes it turns out they even have a game-plan!) leans heavily on intimidation:

The Integration of Theory and Practice:
A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
by Eric Heubeck
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/FreeCongressEss...
(snip)
Movement Must Serve as a Force of Social Intimidation in Its Intermediate Stage

We must create a countervailing force that is just as adept as the Left at intimidating people and institutions that are used as tools of left-wing activism but are not ideologically committed, such as Hollywood celebrities, multinational corporations, and university administrators. We must be feared, so that they will think twice before opening their mouths. They must understand that there is some sort of cost involved in taking a "controversial" stand--although positions cannot honestly be labeled "controversial" if conservatives are unable to mount a meaningful opposition. Perhaps once we are able to mount such an opposition, we will be able to take some of the trendiness out of leftist cultural activism, because lukewarm advocates of leftist causes will be forced to actually get their hands dirty. Support of leftist causes will no longer be the path of least resistance.
(snip)

I think if you read some of their "training manual" you'll agree that if our cause took up the _exact same tactics_ their straw-man would start to falter and, probably very quickly, their bravado would evaporate.

I hate to say it, but standing up en mass, and BELITTLING their cause could have more effect than anything. It seems their achilles heel is their reliance on Liberals to be TOLERANT! One thing that actually gets Liberals pissed off is realizing their tolerance has been taken advantage of.

If we, and the Media, get over the fear of offending these religious zealots (God bless them in their innocence!) their sham control could fall like a house of cards.

A good place to start is to "kick em in the balls"! I'm sure its very easy to start to deride the pagentry noting that its immature and un-Christ-like to lack the humility of proportion and caring about the greater problems of "the least among us"... I say give each of the 40 million hungry kids in America a buck for a coffee instead!

Resistance is not only possible, it may be a lot easier than anyone thought.

As a final piece of the puzzle, now that ** has fully admitted to his people that there were no WMDs, and thus no REAL reason to go to Iraq, there is no foundation of rightousness left for them to stand on.

They're vulnerable. It's time to take their tactics and fight their fire with fire.

I'm not scared of them anymore!

{B^)
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[DELUSIONAL]

2. Yes liberals can only be pushed so far

Worth saying again

One thing that actually gets Liberals pissed off is realizing their tolerance has been taken advantage of.

I'm speaking of individuals who are liberals in their personality structure. These individuals are very accepting -- and it takes a whole lot of pushing to get us really angry.

I have a feeling that this last election may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. But it will take awhile before liberals get really good and pissed -- and able to make creative use of their anger -- let their anger drive the process.

"Christan" bush is acting like a pompous ass -- claiming that he now has the backing of the American public because he "won" re-election. When we know he wasn't elected the first time and he sure as hell wasn't elected this time.

Polls are telling us the the majority of people don't support the war and bush has a very low ranking for someone who was supposedly just "elected". The question is when will people see the cognitive dissonance of the above contradictions.

Perhaps this is wishful thinking --

As an example -- Christ was a liberal and he got very angry at the money changes in the temple and if that wasn't a display of pure anger in the way he threw the money changes out of the temple - then what is anger?