Monday, January 16, 2006
Bucking the Tide
Given the social and spiritual crisis within our landscape of desolation, groups accustomed to focusing on conventional advocacy/pressure groups methodology to the exclusion of opposition research, are advised to reconsider their legal and media strategies within the unfolding context of hyper-vigilant social conflict in the US. With socioeconomic discontent already at toxic levels, the manipulation of race-based resentment toward minorities such as Latino immigrants and American Indians by mainstream political organizations in conjunction with paramilitary affinity groups like Minutemen, is a factor social reformers ignore at their peril.
Granted, opposition research is not an activity generally undertaken by education and advocacy organizations, but in the current climate of insecurity, they would do well to systematically avail themselves of what they can learn about what their opponents and enemies are up to. Otherwise, 2006 could be a very nasty and disappointing year for those seeking to make headway against the totalitarian tide in America.
Granted, opposition research is not an activity generally undertaken by education and advocacy organizations, but in the current climate of insecurity, they would do well to systematically avail themselves of what they can learn about what their opponents and enemies are up to. Otherwise, 2006 could be a very nasty and disappointing year for those seeking to make headway against the totalitarian tide in America.
