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.
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.
1. You are an Organizer.
2. Things are always great. Be positive.
3. Think with your head: be driven by your heart.
4. People will come to the campaign for Barack. They stay because of you.
5. Empower yourself and others will be empowered.
6. Respect your community and your coworkers.
7. NEVER lie.
8. The phone is your greatest tool and your best friend.
9. If it is not written down, it does not exist.
10. Campaigns are won when goals are met.
11. Have goals. Be accountable. Make others accountable.
12. “Some” is not a number, “soon” is not a time. Only hard numbers count.
13. Keep it simple.
14. Listen actively.
15. Time is the most valuable resource you have. Don’t waste it.
16. Have a back-up plan for every situation.
17. Look and act professional. You are Barack’s surrogate in your community.
18. When you’re not working, remember that the other side is.
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In times of freedom and enlightened democracy there is nothing to separate men from one another or to keep them in their place. They rise or fall extraordinarily quickly. They are so close to each other that men of different classes are continually meeting. Every day they mix and exchange ideas, imitating and emulating one another. So the people get many ideas, conceptions, and desires which they never would have had if distinctions of rank had been fixed and society static.
Douglas Rae on early 20th century New Haven, rebutting the idea of strict residential separation:
New Haven in the Frank Rice era around 1910 was nothing of the sort. People at the bottom and the top of the workforce usually lived in town, close to their places of work, and therefore fairly close to one another. (p. 115)
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Allowing for the vagaries of historical data, we can conclude with certainty that a majority of civic organizations were headed by regular folks for whom high office was not a routine expectation in life. (p. 166)
counted a small lakeside cottage as his main indulgence.
People with graduate degrees are now a significant share of the electorate.
The increasing economic importance of education
Education, inequality, and the college sorting machine
Some colleges (yes, including CMC) have more students from the top one percent than the bottom 60 percent.
Jonathan Wai writes at Quartz:
The increasing economic importance of education
Education, inequality, and the college sorting machine
Some colleges (yes, including CMC) have more students from the top one percent than the bottom 60 percent.
Jonathan Wai writes at Quartz:
The following data in the graph below are taken from another research paper which can be found here (pdf). I looked at the educational backgrounds of US Fortune 500 CEOs, federal judges, senators, House members, attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos (which included CEOs, journalists, academics, and people in government and policy), and the most powerful men and women according to Forbes. The blue bars indicate the elite school percentage (undergraduate or graduate school). The red bars indicate the graduate school percentage not included in the elite category. The green bars indicate those who graduated from college independent of the other two categories. And the NR/NC category indicates people who did not report or had no college.
One might argue that the Fortune 500 CEO elite school percentage of roughly 38% is not very high. But this value should be taken in the broader context. Note the purple bars, which show that nearly everyone in the US elite graduated from college. This flatly contradicts the stories glamorizing college dropouts—such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg—who both were accepted by and attended Harvard. Next, it’s interesting to note that 44.8% of billionaires, 55.9% of powerful women, 63.7% of Davos attendees, and 85.2% of powerful men attended elite schools. Finally, 55.6% of the journalists who attended Davos went to elite schools. I conducted my own analysis of the data on The New Republic masthead, suggesting that roughly 64.2% attended elite schools. Data on the New York Times was not systematically available, but it is unlikely to be much different, and may even be more select given its reputation.
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