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Entry: Rules for Radicals Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rules_for_radicals#32300 Post contents: "Even the spoken word pieces show awareness that culture is the pivot for political movements, not elections." Exactly. And that is relevant in an unexpected way to Mr. Gottfried's comment that the Right needs to learn how to "act up". The folks acting up in this article are not part of the dominant center-left political structure, but they <i>are</i> part of the hegemonic culture, which is more important. Acting up is a media event, and a crucial point is that left-wing acting up is portrayed totally differently by the media than is right-wing acting up. Left-wing acter-uppers are "militant" or "enthusiastic", right-wing acter-uppers are "racist" or "angry". It's a fact of life that the Right can't act up in the same way that the Left can. I draw another lesson from this article, which goes back to the slogan "No enemies on the Left". These activists didn't waste their time condemning liberals. The cries of disapproval against the <i>New Republic</i> guy seems to be the only exception. Imagine, by contrast, how much of the energy of a paleo conference of this sort would be directed towards condemning the evil neocons. Paleos need to get over their obsession with neoconservatism, and even more so their obsession with neoconservatives, and stay focussed on the business at hand. Sent at: 2008 12 01