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This
site is not a blog about
the author.
It is about empowering many conservative individuals to pursue their own
self-interests, and to become actively engaged in the local challenge
of stopping the national liberal insurgency as quickly as possible. That's
not about being critical or obstructive. It's about demonstrably
outperforming them at the state and local levels where conservatives
still have leadership roles or significant influence.
Tools such as the Surge by State,
Conservative Search,
Republican Governors Search,
Republican US Senators Search, and
House Republicans Search as well as
Conservative Links were all set up to help individuals find the
information and contacts they need to get more involved at the state and
local level and to learn what conservatives are saying and doing on any
issue of importance to them. There are also links to tools at
ShortListNews for corporate executives who are planning to grow their
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What's the logo about?
 | Back to basics - like the Constitution and
Declaration of Independence. |
| Create a tsunami from the right, which starts
when the base is shaken, and can't easily be stopped. We are
already seeing the undertow begin. |
| Focus on the bottom line results by
empowering many local conservative leaders to get engaged and
collaborate on the issues which motivate them. |
| Trust the individual self-interests of all
fellow Americans who still believe in themselves more than in government.
Find common ground to make progress. |
| The wave is still more powerful than the surfer.
Politicians ride the waves. Individuals unite to form the waves.
They power the American economy.
Government is not the solution. |
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| Leaning to the right doesn't mean arrogant
right-wing intolerance of all other views. It means being
unafraid to stand up for what you believe in, while still respecting
the views of others. |
| Reject the arrogant audacity of those who believe
too much in their own power and illusory populist mandate to change
society however they please. |
| Leaders can soon be swept away as the base flows
away to form the wave. |
The point is that Republicans and other conservatives
shouldn't just whine in opposition for a few years until the next
national elections.
They need to do positive things in states and local
areas where they still have influence. They need to very
demonstrably outperform the liberals at restoring economic and social
progress. |
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This website was just launched on Inauguration Day
- triggered in part by the media hype and the alleged 12 million
e-mail addresses on Obama's campaign list, which was being turned over
to a new "Organizing for America"
group as a
"campaign in waiting" for 2012 and to keep pushing his agenda. The
thought of Chicago machine politics
going to Washington and spreading from there was disturbing. |
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See also Glenn Beck's show on May 1 with many
participants about the Tax Day Tea Parties. |
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The nationwide Tax Day Tea
Party protests drew 600,000 -
800,000+ in over
800 cities on April 15. News.
They did it again in many cities
on July 4 |
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Thank you very much to the
more than 140,000 visitors who
discovered this website in just our first 200 days. They
have shared many useful suggestions for additional links and content,
and this site will continue to evolve as more suggestions for
improvement are received.
The point is that the objective of this
site is to become a really useful reference tool for many motivated
conservatives. We therefore will
continue to welcome suggestions for new links, content, and
other improvements. |
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Hundreds of people showed up for the
Chicago Tea Party taxpayer revolt.
See our photos and videos, news and event
links. Nationwide, 45 events attracted 15,000+ people.
This was organized by online networking among local volunteers in less
than one week.
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The "Chicago Tea Party"
story helped to attract many of those visitors, as did the
stimulus bill and some of
the initial moves to nationalize
health care. As the
first 100 days continues, there will probably be many other
controversial initiatives, including some
global issues which may attract less attention at first than topics
such as taxes, spending, and bailouts of banks, companies, or
individuals. For example, the
World Economic Forum was a first glimpse of the EU and G-20 agenda
this spring. |
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Think about the "six degrees of separation" model in very
simplistic terms. In national elections, such as the
2008 election results, there are roughly 100 -
120 million voters, and they are pretty evenly divided. If
you check the
CIA World Factbook for the USA, under People, the
total number of men and women in the country between the ages of 15
and 64 is roughly 200,000,000 out of around 300,000,000 total.
That means there are a heck of a lot more potential voters than the
active ones. It doesn't take a major shift to
swing elections one way or the other. It takes competitive
organization and hard work, as in business ventures. We know how
to do this. "Community organizers" or activists like ACORN or
other special interest lobbying groups which focus on what they can get
from government programs should not be a match for capable conservative
leaders if we focus and work together effectively. |
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Think of it very simplistically like an old-fashioned
"chain letter". If 10,000 people tell 10 friends, and they tell 10
friends, then those 2 levels of separation already reach 1 million
people. At 3 levels, you reach 10 million - perhaps already more
than enough to swing national election results, as demonstrated by the
Obama campaign (alleged 10 - 12 million e-mails gathered and turned over
to Organizing for America).
At 4 levels you reach 100 million. Even if many of them are not
active voters, or disagree, 4 levels of 10 contacts each is more than
enough to swing national elections. This is not
an abstract example. There are already businesses with tens of
thousands of employees serving millions of customers. If motivated
to get politically engaged because of adverse policies, these could be
far more influential networks than labor unions or other interest
groups.
Similarly, there are many conservative organizations
already in place, both large and small, serving many political niche
markets. The networking infrastructure now exists to collaborate
in ways which were never possible in the past. The point is that
the network can be driven by individuals who are free to choose to work
together, rather than just by charismatic populist leaders who seek to
organize them into a personal power structure to impose their own social
agenda from the top.
The key is to empower the individuals across all
levels of the
network, rather than a populist leader at the top of a campaign hierarchy. Instead of
a "top down" command structure, it needs to be more of a matrix model
which can adapt quickly to complex and dynamic market conditions
anywhere, as in a highly
decentralized business structure. A rigid top-down command
structure isn't agile enough to win. Like a bureaucracy, it will
be too slow and resist innovation.
As a simple analogy, think about how
Wal-Mart empowers associates in every department of every store
through training and tools which enable them to figure out how to make
each store more successful within the context of the larger
administrative infrastructure (purchasing, logistics, finance, etc.).
It's more like an inverted pyramid, in which each individual is
supporting the whole organization, while the "back office"
administrative functions are serving those on the front lines who make
it all work every day. That's the opposite of the traditional
top-down hierarchy. The key is to empower those on the front line.
Think about it. They have 1.4 million associates
in the United States alone, and 2 million worldwide. Republicans
and other conservative groups are fragmented into many thousands of
organizations. They need to "go to market" far more efficiently
and effectively, while still being driven at the local level. That
isn't about coming up with a "new brand" as a PR image, or about
consolidating all the organizations. It is about creating better
ways for all those individuals to collaborate to advance their own
self-interests. |
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By contrast, the liberal model is more like a government
Ponzi scheme to transfer wealth
by conning many people to think that they can get something for nothing
through government rather than through their own hard work.
That only works as long as those with more money to
invest can be suckered into participating in such schemes - except that
a government can enforce participation through taxation as a mandatory
social investment. Sooner or later, you don't have to be rich to
realize that you are all being conned, and that everybody eventually
loses. As in the Saul Alinsky model, they're all about seizing
power for the "have nots" from the "haves", and then trying to use that
power to impose a more "fair" outcome like socialism. Remember,
Machiavelli wasn't a capitalist, and American conservatives aren't
fascists. It's the Democrats who are trying to seize control by
the state over education and major industries - automotive, financial
services, energy, health care, etc.
The Alinsky model is a losing proposition, as already proven
in many socialist countries. It was advocated at a time when many
liberal academics still believed in the inevitability of communism and
socialism, or at least in the notion that they provide a more fair deal
for all of society than all those
greedy capitalists. It is on the wrong side of history.
Americans are smart enough to know it. The anger
of many voters in 2008 may have blinded them to the risks of populist
socialism, but no amount of slick rhetoric and clever spin will hide the
changes as they occur. Voters are smart. They may not have
been paying enough attention yet, but they are already getting worried
about whether the new government is going to quickly make a bad economic
situation much worse for a long time. |
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