Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. How 'baseball' obtains 'groupthink'

From Saul Alinsky's 13 Rules for Radicals: (How to eliminate dissent and get what you want). These rules come in handy for things like trying to sway public opinion to change baseball awards criteria while keeping the main process secret from the masses:

• "Rule 5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

• Rule 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
• In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the
• opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.' ...
• When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments and carry out your attack.... One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angles are on one side and all the devils on the other." pp.127-134"

Preface to Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals": by Saul Alinsky (Author) "

• "WHAT FOLLOWS IS for those who want to change the world from what it is
• to what

• they believe
• it should be..."

P.S. These methods were never successful with Doug Pappas when he was alive. He was the only person of substance who refused to cave to 'groupthink'. (sm)

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