Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Alinsky's 13 Rules of Political Tactics
RULE 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
RULE 2: Never go outside the experience of your people
RULE 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy
RULE 4: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
RULE 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
RULE 6: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. (compare with p. 139)
RULE 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
RULE 8: Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
RULE 9: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
RULE 10: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
RULE 11: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
RULE 12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
RULE 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Twelve observations about interest groups
- Even registered sex offenders have a group.
- So do frats.
- Foreign and domestic governments engage in lobbying.
- Teach for America is an interest group.
- Advocacy organizations take several forms.
- Spending on federal lobbying is equal to or greater than spending on federal elections.
- And not all advocacy work counts as lobbying.
- The revolving door keeps revolving.
- Philanthropy is a form of interest group influence.
- Think tanks are not always nonpartisan
NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin speaks frankly about power:
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