Introduction to The Campaign

If life was easy, we wouldn't need insurance

Some people don’t buy insurance. If things don’t go as they hoped, they, or their heirs, have problems. Nations also need insurance. America’s insurance policy has always been the people who live here and make it the vibrant land that it is, the most successful society in the history of the world. But we’ve had hard times. Enemies have attacked us, sometimes foreign, sometimes domestic. We have always prevailed.

We have a new enemy that has been building strength, patiently increasing the threats to our national identity and way of life. They want our stuff. They want to control us, so they can benefit from the energy and creativity that has made us great. That enemy has many faces, but the fundamental tool they use is communism – the naïve promise that if we all just work together in harmony, we will gain the benefit of others’ efforts without the risk that our own will be inadequate.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Unfortunately, those conflicting premises both defy human nature. We seldom give maximum effort to others, but we will for ourselves. We don’t need anything from others if we give good effort, but there is no end to the needs we imagine when it is provided by others. Communism has never worked, except as a tool to establish authoritarian controls, which always leads to benefits to a few, but shared misery for most. It always reduces effort (output) and increases misery (poverty). It’s wise to avoid it.

Some people seek to make America a communist nation, a part of a global collective of enslaved peoples controlled by masters at home or abroad. We can’t allow that.

A recent book by Mark Levin, American Marxism, is a great summary of current communist thought and strategies, with a plan of action that we all should learn and embrace. Many others toil to find ways to stop our decline, and restore American greatness. Those efforts are fragmented, erratic, and often ineffective. Thus, we concede more and more of the battles for America’s soul. Unless we become as unified in our purpose and methods as our communist adversaries, we will continue to lose.

Communism was a part of social uprisings as long ago as the French Revolution, a violent and destructive affair that led to establishment of Napoleon to fill the resulting power vacuum. A structured treatise of communist organization was published in 1848 in “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, establishing the descriptive term of “Marxism” to describe the characteristics of modern communism. It has been used to organize national tyrannies in Russia, China, Korea, Cuba and a growing list of third world stepping stones for global domination. America began to realize the growing threat late, learning that the Rosenbergs had stolen nuclear secrets for the Russians, initiating a decades long Cold War that threatened global annihilation. By then the entire American government and society were infested with communist agents or sympathizers.

Countries such as China have taken a patient, long view approach to establish their supremacy in global power. “The 100 Year Marathon” is a detailed description of the slow and steady approach used by China since their 1947 revolution — 74 years ago. They provide major backing to American subversives, just as Russia did in the past. The Russians, despite outrageous rants at the UN by their chairman (“We will bury you!”), also took a long view, as was discovered by the efforts of US Senator Joseph McCarthy, much maligned by communist propagandists but later proven correct by decrypted Soviet documents (Venona) after the fall of the USSR. He was a major hindrance to the expansion of global communism, but is still taught to ignorant Americans as a villain. See “Blacklisted by History” for a more honest appraisal.

While some countries, and their American proxies, have taken a patient long term view, some are in a hurry, desperately seeking immediate destruction of American civil order and economy. Most recently, many of these agents are domestic – American citizens and politicians who seek the destruction of traditional power and economic structures. A recent guide for impatient communists was “Rules for Radicals,” a 1971 book by Saul Alinsky, published the year before his death.  Alinsky, a hero and mentor of Hillary Clinton, the subject of her senior college project, in turn cited his hero as Lucifer, the ultimate radical. He lists a set of guidelines that form the basis for actions by “community organizers” such as Barrack Obama. It is useful to learn those “rules” so that we can recognize them when they’re deployed against us, and thus understand the objectives of those who use them. Alinsky’s rules are as follows:

1.    Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2.    Never go outside the experience of your people.

3.    Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

4.    Make the enemy live up t0 their own book of rules.

5.    Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

6.    A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

7.    A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8.    Keep the pressure on.

9.    The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10.  The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11.  If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

12.  The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13.  Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

He summarized with three key points:

-      The real action is in the enemy’s reaction

-      The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

-      Tactics, like organization, like life, require that you move with the action.

So, apparently THEIR SUCCESS IS UP TO US! If we react to their offensives, they win. If we counter effectively, they melt away and try again somewhere else -- guerrilla style -- until decisively defeated. The winning tactic is never let them gain the initiative. Guerrillas can be defeated, but never on their terms. Success comes from turning their tactics on them, or overwhelming force, if available.

We can develop a national posture of unified opposition to leftists. Recent news reports from the Washington Post claims the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior military official in the US, attempted to subvert President Trump by colluding with China and US Democrat leadership. The Post is seldom a reliable or responsible outlet, but sometimes grudgingly stumbles onto important information and temporarily resurrects their journalistic integrity to report it. If they are correct this time, we must strongly and tirelessly demand punishment for the general, AND NOT STOP UNTIL IT IS DONE; or if it is false, we must strongly and tirelessly demand punishment for the Post and its reporters, AND NOT STOP UNTIL IT IS DONE.

The press and their social media collaborators have been a decisive tool for the communists, just as propaganda press maintained rigorous control of populations in every autocratic government. We need to reestablish control of messaging to counter the leftist control of the messages the population receives. Traditional outlets are fully controlled by the left, so success comes from developing wide readership among competent Americans of recently arisen honest outlets, such as this one. We don’t have to yield the information battlefield to the left, and we guarantee our defeat if we do. Participate in discussions. Learn from others, and contribute your ideas to help restore the country. Invite your friends. Don’t demand perfection – it won’t happen. Success is spreading the word to a few, not perfect messages to everyone.

We need to support rational politicians. The 2022 elections will determine the character of American society for the foreseeable future. We won’t find perfect leaders – good ones already have a job. But we can find and elect better ones, and begin the recovery. And watch them more closely from now on. Communication with our rulers needs to become a natural part of our existence.

President Bush said this week we have too much anger. I think we don’t have enough. But it must be focused. We need to organize a CAMPAIGN, just as politicians and generals do, to assemble the resources and strategies necessary to define and achieve our objectives. There are many objectives. We’ll get to all of them, but have to agree on priorities to succeed. We need to establish leadership and adhere to their guidance. We need to build alliances with other groups until we’re all pulling together. We can’t let diversity of thought be our downfall.

United we stand. Divided we fall.

I plan to contribute here by posting materials on various topics related to instilling confidence and competence in Americans who are willing to listen, and willing to support the coming struggles. Hopefully we’ll find enough. Please contribute to the conversation in comments below. If you have longer thoughts, let me know and we can post a guest article here, or start you on your own substack. I invite you to participate.

See The Campaign Plan to find details of our approach.

See What Is The Campaign for lists of articles and references