Your bait is very Alinsky like! According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
Actually Alinksy gives his own reason for his book in its opening. "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."
Hey, LinesOfALimerick,
Did you just stick a Shaw quote in there?
Did I just make you react?
Does that make me an organizer?
Speaking of George Bernard Shaw, he was included in the book that Dr. Paul Kangor named...I think he named it for you..."Dupes."
Check this out:
1. In the early years after the Bolshevik Revolution, the communists used manipulations, such as the Potemkin Villages, to persuade the world how admirable and
successful the revolution had been. One technique was to invite prominent American and British leftists to take carefully planned tours. And these
‘Potemkin Progressives,’ for the most part, behaved and thought just as they were meant to. Woodrow Wilson wouldn’t recognize the Bolshevik regime, nor would the contemporary British government (Churchill had famously told Lloyd George, ‘You might a well legalize sodomy…’)
a.
Lenin, and then Stalin, carefully arranged the tours so that these progressives would then go back to their countries and praise Soviet Russia, and have the citizens demand that Russia be recognized.
2.
George Bernard Shaw met with Stalin, as well. He returned, and wrote, “ We cannot afford to give ourselves moral airs when our most enterprising neighbors,
the Soviet Union, humanely and judiciously liquidates a handful of exploiters and speculators to make the world safe for honest men.” Now, lest one thinks this was said sarcastically, Lady Aster and others who were present, and took notes, from the meeting, wrote that
that was exactly and precisely what Stalin had said. He parroted the exact line that Stalin had given him!
I think it would be so very appropriate if you used that quote in your sig!
How about it?