What does a narcissist want more than anything else? Attention!
Count me among the many who are seething with anger with President Obama and Democrat members of Congress for bludgeoning the American people with unimaginable debt, which will have to be funded with unimaginable taxes to pay for health care and a host of horrible statist ideas.
Like you, I want to viscerally express my outrage, and will continue to do so with protest signs, in writing, and in graphics for as long as these people hold public office.
However, a calmer voice has suggested another way to show our contempt for these power-hungry politicians. The idea is simple, yet humiliating for the recipients.
Remember the arrogant way in which Speaker Pelosi, with gavel in hand, and members of the House, uncharacteristically marched through the middle of the tea party protestors?
Remember how the crowd angrily shouted “Kill the bill!” at the representatives?
Remember how the media used this situation (setup) to portray tea party participants as racists, bigots and homophobes?
Think about this for a moment. When an Alinskyite bully taunts us, and we verbally respond in front of the cameras, aren’t we playing right into the hands of the statists and their sycophant media?
What if, instead of yelling slogans and waving signs, the tea party members had immediately recognized an opportunity to humiliate the representatives simply by turning their backs on them?
What if the crowd had turned around, folded their arms, closed their eyes, and had become completely silent as the arrogant members of Congress marched amongst them?
The answer is that Pelosi and her cohorts would have been frustrated and humiliated by the silent treatment. Their mission to taunt the crowd would have failed miserably.
Power-hungry narcissists want to be noticed, even if they are held in contempt. When the right opportunity knocks, whether that occurs during a demonstration, at a townhall meeting, or on the campaign trail, I say we should refuse to give these Democrats our rapt and angry attention, because that is exactly what they crave from us!
Occasionally we should let the statists feel our rejection with the weight of our silence and our unwillingness to make eye contact with them.
Teach them that in our eyes, they are persona non grata.
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It's a compelling argument, and it has worked before...
Chemical Sam (Diary) Thursday, April 8th at 11:03AM EST (link)You’ll fogive my inability to direct you to a citation, but as I recall there was a perfect historical example of what you suggest.
Jews, unable to block the KKK from marching in a municipal parade (in what I believe was NYC) lined the streets where the parade marched. In silence, faces painted as skeletons, they stood en masse and watched as the KKK passed by.
Last I heard, that was the very last time the KKK ever marched in a parade.
Refer to Kenny Solomon, armed Jew who never forgets. I’ll bet he can point to the specific event.
HOWEVER…
The main problem I find with the tactic is that while the KKK can be chilled by ghostly silence, the statists will, as they have done in all cases in the past, claim that silence, or absence, equates with consent. It will emblden them.
I believe the best way to destroy them is to starve them of money while continuing to illustrate their destruction. Socialists and statists are only successful for those periods when they have control of free people’s money and labor. Disable them, and point it out to them how ineffective and needy they are at every turn. Minimize your taxable wealth, and force tyrants to dig deeper into a larger swathe of the populace.
When the government starts coming for the people that voted them in, that’s when the tide will turn hard against them.
Divest in government, and in companies that bend to the government’s will. Make a point to inform them of the reason you’re taking your business elsewhere. Learn, not just to subsist, but to thrive on one’s own efforts. Use your skills on a personal level, and make a point help only those individuals that subscribe to the Constiution.
I have already started doing these things. I can’t wait to put as much pressure as I can on those that demand from me what they think I should give, according to what they claim they need.
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"What if we literally turned our backs to the Statists?"
ColdWarrior (Diary) Thursday, April 8th at 4:36PM EST (link)It’s a good question.
Here’s a better one, I think: What if we conservatives literally turned our backs to the Statists and found out where our respective local GOP committee meetings took place and went to the meetings in droves to announce that we wanted to become actual, functioning, full-fledged “card carrying members” of the Republican Party so we could vote for the Party leadership and help get out the vote in our respective precincts to make sure that the BEST conservative candidates would win the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections?
If we conservatives did that, we really could have an effect on the post-modernists in power. They might actually believe they’ll get thrown out in November by a BETTER, MORE CONSERVATIVE challenger. They might actually see the evidence that constitutional conservatives across this great country have re-discovered basic civics.
Frankly, I think they could care less if people turned their backs to them. They’ve got political power, and that’s all that matters to them.
Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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