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The Achilles Heel of
Conservatives
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The following strategic
analysis is compiled from the perspective of an enemy of
freedom (the descriptive term "progressive" is utilized). It
uncovers flaws that, if not adequately addressed by Citizen
activists, will be fatal to the conservative movement in Utah.
Strategic Plan for Victory Over
the Conservative
Movement In Utah
I. The Continued Threat of the Utah Conservative
Movement
II. Core Weaknesses of Our Enemy
III. Key to
Successful Exploitation: Insertion of Agent Provocateurs
IV. Gradual Introduction of the Progressive Agenda
V. Collateral Damage: Establishing New “Conservative” Role
Models
VI. Effective Responses to Conservative Counter-Attacks
VII. Long-Term Success
Final Thoughts
I. The Continued Threat of the Utah Conservative
Movement
Despite
significant gains in recent decades, the conservative right
continues to be a decisive threat to the ultimate victory of
the progressive movement in Utah. At almost every turn,
conservatives thwart and delay the reforms required to
implement the progressive agenda. In order to defeat our
conservative enemies, we must more thoughtfully understand and
respond to their natural weaknesses.
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II. Core Weaknesses of Our Enemy
Fortunately, our enemy does not
know how effective they are or could be, and they exhibit
several core weaknesses that prevent them from ever achieving
true victory over our agenda.
Their paramount weakness is
ideological hypocrisy, or a lack of solid commitment to many
of their proclaimed ideals. Evidence of this weakness lies in
their predictable tendency to put trust and supposed
friendship before the issues they claim to champion.
In exploiting their weakness, it
is first critical to understand the mind of our enemy with
regard to personal relationships and political involvement.
Conservatives are naturally trusting of people and are eager
to forge and maintain lasting friendships, even to the
significant detriment of their cause. This tendency makes
them highly vulnerable to attack from perceived allies. In
practical terms, they are tactically slow and unresponsive in
providing direct and meaningful opposition to "conservative"
candidates, elected officials, and other authorities who
occasionally support the progressive agenda.
This is the opening our cause
needs to utterly defeat the conservative movement in Utah.
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III. Key to Successful Exploitation: Insertion of Agent
Provocateurs
The first priority for
successful exploitation of this weakness must be to insert
several progressive agents into the conservative midst. We
must identify, train, organize, and financially support
several legislative and party officer candidates to run as
"conservatives" in the Utah Republican Party.
These agents should be
prominent, respected members of the community, though this is
not an absolute requirement. Each agent must commit to
faithful attendance at conservative functions, to delivering
speeches that move conservative audiences, and, in the initial
years, to generally vote in favor of high-profile conservative
causes. Once in elected office, these agents must have
sufficient ingenuity and cunning to further endear themselves
to conservatives—to become the trusted champions of the very
cause they will ultimately undermine.
To aid in this endeavor,
traditional progressive organizations must publicly denounce
these agents, must vilify them to their fellow progressives
(as well as moderates), and must launch targeted, albeit
ineffectual, attacks against them.
These attacks will cause their
conservative constituencies to feel the need to come to their
aid and defense. This, in turn, will bind the allegiance of
most conservatives to our agents—rendering them weak and
unwilling to attack those agents in the future.
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IV. Gradual Introduction of the Progressive Agenda
Upon an agent's third— occasionally
fourth—year in the legislature, conservatives will be
sufficiently softened and restful to efficiently oppose our
true agenda. Our primed agents will then provide the ideal
mechanism for its gradual introduction and implementation.
Specifically,
each
agent will support one to two progressive pieces of
legislation each session, depending on the nature of those
bills and the potential opposition they will receive from
conservatives. While continuing to publicly promote the
conservative agenda with regard to other issues, each agent
will weaken the conservative will to resist the core issues of
our choosing; at the time of our choosing.
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V. Collateral Damage: Establishing New “Conservative” Role
Models
In addition to the direct damage
our agents will inflict to the conservative cause, we should
outline the extensive collateral damage that will also be
realized.
Because
of the blind trust and support that conservatives will exhibit
toward our agents, new legislators and current moderate
legislators will come to view them as conservative icons and
role models. We will have the opportunity to mold these
legislators and shift their expectations of what they can and
should accomplish while in office. Indeed, we will shift the
entire conservative agenda to the left. As our agents continue
to make the progressive agenda more politically rewarding,
palatable, and enticing, conservatives will increasingly find
it difficult to maintain discipline within their own ranks.
The objective is
to
have our agents emulated by the larger conservative movement.
Our agents should come to represent the epitome of
conservative-ism in Utah. Indeed, the conservative movement
should ultimately be judged by the words and actions of our
agents.
This approach will make our
agents nearly undefeatable for several election
cycles.
By that time, the seeds of the progressive movement will be
deeply sown into the psyche of our enemy.
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VI. Effective Responses to Conservative Counter-Attacks
If the true agenda of these
agents is exposed to some degree, or if they are
attacked
for their support of our progressive legislation by some
element of the conservative movement, all is not lost. Again,
because conservatives place personal relationships on the same
level as political relationships, they will be willing to
overlook many progressive actions taken by our agents. When it
comes to those they consider "their own," experience proves
that conservatives will desire to compromise at almost any
cost.
It will take
enormous
resources to overturn the reputations of these agents, let
alone to convince enough conservatives to actually remove
these agents from office. If brought to a head via political
conflict amongst conservative ranks, this will, in and of
itself, be extremely divisive to the conservative movement,
and will weaken them for the continued efforts of those
elected officials who are openly progressive.
Conservatives who lack the will
to oppose our agents will find such political conflict
uncomfortable and distasteful, and may withdraw from serious
political activity for some time. Conservatives who wish to
take swift and decisive action
against
our agents will be frustrated at the lack of ideological
diligence and vigilance on the part of their fellow
conservatives. Ideally, conservatives in this latter category
will be marginalized—and perhaps ridiculed—by their colleagues
for taking such staunch positions. They may also tire and
withdraw from political involvement, which represents a
significant victory on its own merits.
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VII. Long-Term Success
Well-trained agent provocateurs
are the answer to the conservative movement.
Indeed,
these agents will, in a few short years, break the backbone of
the conservative movement. Conservatives lack the will, and
therefore the timely response, to resist and effectively
counter threats from those they perceive to be their
ideological comrades.
With a minimal progressive
investment in a savvy group of agent provocateurs, the entire
field of current and future conservative and moderate elected
officials will be compromised with the deadly seeds of the
progressive movement.
[End of Strategic Plan.]
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Final Thoughts
By sharing this mock strategic plan,
no insinuation has been made that a specific legislator
or
party officer is a plant for the opposition. But one need not
be a plant to allow the enemy to accomplish the designs in the
above strategic plan. The pressures are tremendous at the
capitol. Without humility and a few solid, limited government
Citizens to keep an official unflinchingly and unceasingly in
line with reality, it is doubtful that any one could long be
invulnerable to manipulation and subversion by the left.
This
exercise
suggests that those bent on destroying freedom take heart in
the notion many conservatives share that we should not swiftly
remove officials who only destroy our core rights and freedoms
some of the time. Tacticians on the left would be fools to
fail to use this Achilles heel to effectively neutralize the
conservative movement in Utah.
Unfortunately, they are
not
fools, and incorporate conservative weakness in their
strategies—and to their profound advantage. Citizens dare not
continue to send the message that advocates of limited
government will look the other way, and even re-elect,
so-called "conservatives" who significantly and stubbornly
attack any fundamental, God-granted right or freedom.
Addendum: For one example of the
blatant "progressive" effort to lull conservatives to sleep
with calculated sophistry, read our news item, "'Progressive' Blueprint for Deceiving Gun Owners."
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