Politics in America has become a game of Sun Tzu. May the best players win.

[Raynine]

Sun Tzu, the great military historian, wrote about the Art of War. Have we taken a page out of Sun Tzu’s philosophy of knowing the enemy, winning without fighting, flexibility over rigidity, intelligence as the foundation of victory and the inseparability of politics and war? Considering a use of rule changing in voter qualification, it appears that some are using Sun Tzu’s methods of winning by deception. In addition, when confronted with accusations of manipulation, investigations were conducted by the accused which predictably resulted in no evidence of wrongdoing being seen. This was a classic Sun Tzu methodology for controlling the narrative.

Since it was seen as impossible to use logical arguments as the basis of political philosophy to convince the US population of the righteousness of elitist leftism, it was apparently decided to import replacement voters to do the job via Trojan Horse methods disguised as improvements to voting fairness. This was a classic Sun Tzu strategy by deception.

With about half the population fooled into believing the ruse, the Sun Tzu tactic of divide and conquer worked well in 2020 as voting in America was able to remove and replace the main opposition candidate, Donald Trump, who was villainized as a threat to voting fairness when he was really advocating for voting accountability and legality. The Sun Tzu method of smearing the enemy as evil was able to spread delusional group hatred and was successful in creating chaos. This was largely referred to as “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

Oddly Trump himself recognized the effectiveness of Sun Tzu’s genius when he penned the Art of the Deal which uses strength of position to control competitors in business deals. So, what we have in America today is essentially a game of Sun Tzu being played by both sides.
Due to advanced technology and modern information control, the gameboard is complex, but the principles are the same. One side must win by tricking the other side into making mistakes. The game is fast and player moves can result in disaster for other players quickly. Winners will be decided by the coolness of the players who resist emotion and stick to the rules.

If one side is seen to be breaking rules while the other is calling for following rules, that is powerful. Rules are meant to be followed, not changed to produce a desired result.

It is what it is.

 

[Votto]

Sun Tzu, the great military historian, wrote about the Art of War. Have we taken a page out of Sun Tzu’s philosophy of knowing the enemy, winning without fighting, flexibility over rigidity, intelligence as the foundation of victory and the inseparability of politics and war? Considering a use of rule changing in voter qualification, it appears that some are using Sun Tzu’s methods of winning by deception. In addition, when confronted with accusations of manipulation, investigations were conducted by the accused which predictably resulted in no evidence of wrongdoing being seen. This was a classic Sun Tzu methodology for controlling the narrative.

Since it was seen as impossible to use logical arguments as the basis of political philosophy to convince the US population of the righteousness of elitist leftism, it was apparently decided to import replacement voters to do the job via Trojan Horse methods disguised as improvements to voting fairness. This was a classic Sun Tzu strategy by deception.

With about half the population fooled into believing the ruse, the Sun Tzu tactic of divide and conquer worked well in 2020 as voting in America was able to remove and replace the main opposition candidate, Donald Trump, who was villainized as a threat to voting fairness when he was really advocating for voting accountability and legality. The Sun Tzu method of smearing the enemy as evil was able to spread delusional group hatred and was successful in creating chaos. This was largely referred to as “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

Oddly Trump himself recognized the effectiveness of Sun Tzu’s genius when he penned the Art of the Deal which uses strength of position to control competitors in business deals. So, what we have in America today is essentially a game of Sun Tzu being played by both sides.
Due to advanced technology and modern information control, the gameboard is complex, but the principles are the same. One side must win by tricking the other side into making mistakes. The game is fast and player moves can result in disaster for other players quickly. Winners will be decided by the coolness of the players who resist emotion and stick to the rules.

If one side is seen to be breaking rules while the other is calling for following rules, that is powerful. Rules are meant to be followed, not changed to produce a desired result.

It is what it is.

The best way of predicting future behavior of politicians or a political party is to look at past behavior since there seems to be no penalty for lying your ass off.

That is something they simply cannot run from

But perhaps the biggest flop politically I have ever seen in my life, in terms of lying, was the DNC telling the world that Joe Biden was not infirm and could serve another 4 years without any problem because he was sharp as a tack. You had people in the media swearing to this fact, along with all the politicians around Joe Biden like Kamala saying the exact same thing, but after the Presidential debate with Trump, the world saw the truth as it was self-evident. It is perhaps the only time I can think of where lying simply did not work on any level, in fact, it hurt them. Then it got weird. The DNC continued to insist Joe was competent enough to be President, but then inexplicably took his nomination away from him in the dead of night, even though voters had bought the lie before the Presidential debate that Joe was just fine because they are all cult like lemmings. But they kept him in power for another 3 or 4 months, putting the nation at risk with a President who had dementia.

Very odd.

 

[Raynine]

The best way of predicting future behavior of politicians or a political party is to look at past behavior since there seems to be no penalty for lying your ass off.

That is something they simply cannot run from

But perhaps the biggest flop politically I have ever seen in my life, in terms of lying, was the DNC telling the world that Joe Biden was not infirm and could serve another 4 years without any problem because he was sharp as a tack. You had people in the media swearing to this fact, along with all the politicians around Joe Biden like Kamala saying the exact same thing, but after the Presidential debate with Trump, the world saw the truth as it was self-evident. It is perhaps the only time I can think of where lying simply did not work on any level, in fact, it hurt them. Then it got weird. The DNC continued to insist Joe was competent enough to be President, but then inexplicably took his nomination away from him in the dead of night, even though voters had bought the lie before the Presidential debate that Joe was just fine because they are all cult like lemmings. But they kept him in power for another 3 or 4 months, putting the nation at risk with a President who had dementia.

Very odd.

Most could see there were very serious problems with Biden but they were so negatively influenced by smears of Trump that they ignored those problems. That is how narrative control works.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Sun Tzu, the great military historian, wrote about the Art of War. Have we taken a page out of Sun Tzu’s philosophy of knowing the enemy, winning without fighting, flexibility over rigidity, intelligence as the foundation of victory and the inseparability of politics and war? Considering a use of rule changing in voter qualification, it appears that some are using Sun Tzu’s methods of winning by deception. In addition, when confronted with accusations of manipulation, investigations were conducted by the accused which predictably resulted in no evidence of wrongdoing being seen. This was a classic Sun Tzu methodology for controlling the narrative.

Since it was seen as impossible to use logical arguments as the basis of political philosophy to convince the US population of the righteousness of elitist leftism, it was apparently decided to import replacement voters to do the job via Trojan Horse methods disguised as improvements to voting fairness. This was a classic Sun Tzu strategy by deception.

With about half the population fooled into believing the ruse, the Sun Tzu tactic of divide and conquer worked well in 2020 as voting in America was able to remove and replace the main opposition candidate, Donald Trump, who was villainized as a threat to voting fairness when he was really advocating for voting accountability and legality. The Sun Tzu method of smearing the enemy as evil was able to spread delusional group hatred and was successful in creating chaos. This was largely referred to as “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

Oddly Trump himself recognized the effectiveness of Sun Tzu’s genius when he penned the Art of the Deal which uses strength of position to control competitors in business deals. So, what we have in America today is essentially a game of Sun Tzu being played by both sides.
Due to advanced technology and modern information control, the gameboard is complex, but the principles are the same. One side must win by tricking the other side into making mistakes. The game is fast and player moves can result in disaster for other players quickly. Winners will be decided by the coolness of the players who resist emotion and stick to the rules.

If one side is seen to be breaking rules while the other is calling for following rules, that is powerful. Rules are meant to be followed, not changed to produce a desired result.

It is what it is.

It’s more like the game Werewolves

 

[Raynine]

Most could see there were very serious problems with Biden but they were so negatively influenced by smears of Trump that they ignored those problems. That is how narrative control works.

Narrative control can cause people who should know better to support some pretty absurd things. Example: Barack Obama sent planeloads of cash, 1.7 billion dollars to the Iranians while they pursued nuclear enrichment in 2016. Only the most gullible among us would believe that this payment would be used for humanitatian purposes by a regime that has been funding terrorism against the US since 1979. Sun Tzu would smile from his grave at the prospect that so many educated people could be so dumb as to fund their own demise.