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Just think for a moment.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO, if you had to move the meter on people's thinking and perception. WHAT WOULD YOU DO, if you had funding to use to stage stuff, hire people, manipulate the image, craft the talking points - WHATEVER IT TAKES to tilt the playing field, WHATEVER IT TAKES to put your thumb on the scale and apply pressure - so you get the reading you want, the results you want, the manipulation you want. In other words: CHEAT. RIG THE GAME.
And actually, PotatoChip, what YOU would do would likely be to play fair. Straight-up, follow the rules, be honest, don't fake stuff, don't manipulate, don't lie or misrepresent to the public, don't cheat. YOU would do it THAT way, I suspect. Most of us on our side would try to do it THAT way. Because that's who we are and what we know. Fight but fight fair.
Well, the problem is - we're up against opponents WHO DO NOT FIGHT FAIR. They DON'T believe in it! They don't believe in it because the results cannot be guaranteed when you fight fair and you follow the rules and you don't do shitty stuff and scheme behind the scenes and cheat. When you NEED to win because you realize you have a huge job ahead of forcing the nation UNNATURALLY to the extreme "right" - to defy the swinging of the pendulum, to negate the gigantic demographic trends and other indicators that point away from your red side and toward the blue side, when the world is trending against how YOU think it's supposed to be - you'll do ANYTHING. You will rule out NOTHING. You will be ruthless. You'll go to whatever extent and expense you have to, particularly if you know YOU have the big bucks and the big donors on YOUR side.
So we need to start thinking the way THEY do. We need to start strategizing and counter-strategizing against an enemy WE KNOW DOES NOT FIGHT FAIR. If we fight fair against an enemy that refuses to, then we're gonna lose every time. We're gonna get rolled. We're gonna get had on the end of a fork. We have to bring a new mentality to this, in order to out-think them and beat the crap outta them. Otherwise we're sitting ducks.
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