BUILDING NUMBERS SUFFICIENT TO WIN
—The question is how are we going to build an alliance capable of actually winning?—
0) acknowledging the groups and their incentives – and that their frames are not alterable.1) producing material incentives (policy) that cross frames and even boundaries (gain the middle)2) varying anything necessary above to obtain power.3) seizing a window of opportunity that crosses boundaries.4) being the only people left standing with a solution that crosses boundaries.
One does not, if one is a general of any merit, attempt to produce a given outcome, only to produce any outcome among the set of possible and probabilistic outcomes.
One does not propose that which generates resistance by the people, only the state.
Napoleon was a genius because he prepared like hell to seize opportunity. Everyone else of merit other than sun tsu has used technology, or resources, or both. He took an unregulated peasantry and muskets and mobilized an entire country to seize continuous opportunities in a world where battle had turned into a traditional dance.
Mao was a genius because he played country against city, by seizing opportunity because of divisiveness between city and rural.
Lenin(stalin) was an opportunist that could play the rural against the urban, and the jewish against the russian. If the jews can destroy the russian empire….
The Irish won as the afghans did: hit and run until moral legitimacy was lost.
Hitler(Mussolini),was only possible because of timing. This isn’t possible any longer (secular theology).
The french revolution was only possible because france was the most backward government in europe.
The military rotation back tot he top is pretty simple to accomplish because they share the incentives of the common people from which they come.
The common man today is being conquered and he knows it. Mao and the irish are the examples. It costs nothing to bring an empire to its knees if in doing so the empire loses its legitimacy.
So the only problem here is material incentives that people prefer over the current state, sufficient enough to end their resistance, not necessarily obtain their consent or participation.