THE NEXT STEP? | 2013-09-18
Note the question mark.
The reason for the question mark is to make you hesitate.
By our efforts, and God knows our efforts alone, confidence in their main and often most used weapon, "anti-racism," has been badly shaken.
We have won a major engagement.
It is time for me to begin to think in terms of a next step, after twenty years on this one.
But first, you have to read over the last article again, hammering on the difference between newbies and vets.
Our tiny force is, like all grassroot guerrilla forces after a while, divided into the vets and the newbies.  When you mention "Next Step" to such a group, it is the newbies who adopt it as the Law of Moses.
They want to destroy the enemy tomorrow and have their Torchlight Parade the next day.
The vets will not willingly change tactics that work and with which they have been learned to work successfully over years in thousands of direct battles with the enemy.
If we are to try a next step, it is strictly for the vets.
Newbies must stick with the Mantra until they begin to learn what winning is -- like it is NOT winning an argument -- and eventually constructing minis enough times to SEE which ones REALLY work versus the ones that give them a satisfactory shock and awe.