Why do you think lefties chain themselves to trees?

They're shameless mental cases?

It works.

They get their message across. And they set it up so they look like the victims.

I'd just pepper spray them and leave them lol.

The victim and arrest part is the wohle goal.

Come back every few hours and re-apply pepper spray

You need to make enough noise and apply enough pressure to attract the press. Particularly the sympathatic press.

Press sympathetic to conservatives?

On Fox.

And there's some setups that just look bad or are hard to deny.

There's an op-ed I like that proposed the next time a right-wing speaker is shouted down, every libertarian, moderate or conservative student should then mob the next left-leaning speaker and chant "this is what you do to us" until they get removed by the police (and then be polite about leaving)

By making a clear demand and being voiceful it forces the issue and makes the demand clear.

Dude that's not going to play out the way you think.

Either the administration lets them have their speeches in peace or they'll keep being disruptive.

Every conservative student would be arrested and expelled.

No mercy.

That's when you go to court.

And you do it strategically.

You're not doing this in Berkely.

You do it at U Nebraska where the faculty are already on the defensive after that incident with the professor at the TPUSA table.

And the population is already right-leaning.

Hit one or two unis and keep making threats and it'll get attention.

And spread naturally. And as it does you build infrastructure.

Optics are going to be shit. It'll be all white males.

Who cares. Most left leaning protests are majority middle-class white females.

And you don't need to chain yourself to a tree. Just make enough noise to get attention and force the administration's hand.

And keep up pressure.

I mean, just inviting Christina Hoff Summers is usually enough.

Again, the majority of the action should be from the non-left base and external factors. Create funds with designated purposes and keep people informed on how it is working. Then shift to politicians.

You only need a couple visible figures.

And enough attention to maintain focus among the base.

Seems like one obstacle is communicating to moneyed conservatives why they need to fund these efforts instead of investing that money in something that's going to generate a return.

Because a lot of people are just going to read about this and tune out.

Oh yes. That's actually why I like the Kochs. He understands the importance of the culture war and doesn't just play "buy Republican ads" game.

They think it doesn't matter to society at large.

The real challenge is getting the Rightwing grassroots to care.

Think of the last time you found a far left and how many NGOs they had on their car. Every one of those bumper stickers was money directed for a cause.

There is an asymmetry in the left and the right. The Left will fight on any terrain they can find. The Right just thinks that if they whine like sheep and then elect someone like Trump they'll somehow win.

It might work for short stretches in electoral politics but fails in the long run.

There are actually moneyed conservatives interested in this already and they struggle to find footing. The Martin Center of Academic Renewal for example has plenty of money coming in from places.

But a couple million from donors to fund a couple people to complain is like everything--easy to ignore.

Maybe one factor is that the right thinks they can win a civil war.