It struck me when reading Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals:

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

"Never go outside the expertise of your people."

"Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."

"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."

"A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."

"Keep the pressure on."

"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. "

"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."

"If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."

"The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "

My first thought was this describes the modern day leftist's worldview greatly. It's all games and a mean to an end to put in communism. For example the mainstream media may as well be following this tactic.

However then I realized isn't this familiar - It read similar to Sun Tzu. It's basically the communist Art of War. Therefore we would be hypocrites to make posts about using the Art of War against the Democrats and call them manipulative when they're doing the same.

But the difference is Sun Tzu was describing ENEMY FORCES - it doesn't matter if you manipulate them since you're trying to destroy them/kill them. Likewise we don't care about Trump using the Art of War against the deep state if they're full of evil pedophiles and if they framed the president and stole the election. At that point, fuck em.

So the radicals who follow them when dealing with Trump supporters, must do so because they consider us "enemy forces" who must be destroyed. At that point morals go out the window. If you were in a country with 50% nazis would you care about cherry picking information to make them look bad even if it wasn't always true? No probably not. You justify it as saying they're nazis anyways so what does it matter, in the bigger picture they're still supporters of evil.

Communists think all conservatives or supporters of capitalism in America are the enemy, and they are in enemy occupied territory. They place no value on the lives of Trump supporters and therefore lying to them is a much smaller moral crime than what they deserve in their eyes which is death.

Now how someone got to be so screwed up that they think someone who just wants their family to be left alone by commies/the government is evil is a different, brainwashing story. However once it's accepted they see conservativism=enemies who deserve to die, their actions after that all make sense.