The new tea party bible

[Joanne98]

“Rules for Radicals,” the iconic liberal organizing manifesto by Saul Alinsky, was an unlikely bible

for tea party activists as they tried to mobilize their movement last year. Now, as they struggle to demonstrate their impact and staying power, they have another unlikely book to live by — a kind of management guide written by a couple of Stanford MBAs that extols the virtues of decentralization.


“The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations,” has a thesis with understandable attraction for tea partiers — that poorly funded groups and companies loosely organized around basic shared ideas can change society, often by outmaneuvering governments or mega-corporations.


The title is based on the contrasting biology of spiders, which die when their heads are chopped off, and starfish, which can multiply when any given part is severed — a trait the book’s authors posit is shared by decentralized entities ranging from Alcoholics Anonymous to Al Qaeda to Wikipedia.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40492.html#ixzz0vNDfMbi2

They can't do it. Conservatives are hardwired to be followers!

[Demeter]

1. They Can Read?

there's many a slip between the eye and the cortex....

[opihimoimoi]

2. Comprehension/Retention Disorder Factor is fouling their outcome