The Water Method

11-ish paragraphs.

I wrote a paper roughly twenty years ago describing what I called the Water Method, which in a nutshell consists in going as far as you can in every direction, and stopping only when you hit an obstacle. Then you wait patiently.

In some respects this describes the Fabian method, of always bending what would bend, and breaking what would break, always with an aim, not to building something new, but to feeding the delusion that destruction is creation.

What I will say today is that maybe we need a CONSERVATIVE Fabianism, as an antidote to the nihilistic violence and madness that Fabian methods have brought this far.

Let us say that my hypothesis is correct—that Trump is consciously avoiding giving the Left a genuinely useful tool for use in their organizing propaganda. Anti-ICE—which is say, anti-Law and anti-law enforcement, and indeed anti-democratic—protests HURT Democrats on balance. Their leaders are being told they have to play along, but the optics—even when they can engineer a suicide-by-cop—are not good.

Here are a couple thoughts:

Rather than arresting Walz and Frey and others, why not first subject them to forensic audits, on the presumption of wrong doing? Why not audit all the left wing groups, to see if fraud is taking place? Thats hardly draconian enough for AgitProp, but still moving forward.

Why not keep a presence in Minneaapolis, but FOCUS somewhere else? There are plenty of illegals everywhere. They all need to go anyway.

And you know, these anti-ICE Signal chats are plainly organized obstruction of justice. I suspect all of these people could (and probably should in a strict sense) be arrested for doing their level best to keep the law from being enforced. But maybe that helps their cause. What short of that is possible? Certainly, disinformation agents, which a police allied group is already doing.

I would need more specifics to propose better ideas, but goals would be to reduce their sense of their own moral grandeur, and to make it all much less fun.

Maybe billboards showing pictures of illegals arrested and their crimes. I think some good shots would be possible of a crazed protester under a huge picture of a Guatmalan wife-beater. The people on the ground could best decide.

But long story short, I of course support a LOT of arrests, but am not sure if RIGHT NOW is the best time.

We are being betrayed by a fair numbeer of Republicans in Congress, and we dont know who else. Politics—which is optics mostly—still matters. Look how far the Fabians have come with utter lunacy and overt evil and criminality. How much better ought genuinely GOOD ideas to fare, if pursued diligently and slowly over the long term. Thats probably a big part of why Charlie Kirk was shot, by whoever shot him.