Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 WAKING THE SLEEPING GIANT -- The End of the American Republic? -- America's Economic Crisis -- America's Political Crisis -- The Roots of the Crisis: Culture and Character -- The Cultural Foundations of Liberty -- The Sleeping Giant -- Winning the Debate While Losing the Republic -- The Mainstream Confuses Civics with Politics -- In Politics, Good Citizens Make Great Losers -- Bully Pulpits and Just Plain Bullies -- The Schoolyard Bullies of Politics -- Shining Light on the Darkness -- Worldview and Character Differences -- We Take the High Road and They Take the Low Road -- Leftists Use Our Maturity Against Us -- We Have Been Fighting the Wrong Fight -- The Left Blows Their Cover -- The Giant Awakens -- What Do We Do Now? -- Three Questions -- Liberal Spotting -- 2 WHAT AILS US -- Marxism Through Cultural Revolution -- A Long March, Not a Conspiracy -- Don't Ask a Fish -- Polluting the Cultural Pond -- Subverting Children First -- I'm Not a Marxist, but I Vote Like One -- Three Targets: Family, Country, and God -- The Long March Begins -- Trickle-Down Liberalism -- The Leftist Worldview Spreads -- Government Is Only the Tip of the Power Iceberg -- The Political Power of Culture -- Imagine Mainstream News and Schools -- It's Easy if You Try. . . -- Now Back to Living in an Occupied Country -- Winning Elections Will Never Be Enough -- Brilliant Strategy, Nasty Tactics -- 3 HOW THE LEFTIST AGENDA HAS SPREAD -- Understanding Social and Political Power -- Manipulating Through Anger and Fear -- Tactic 1: Ride the Appeasement Cycle to Power -- The Golden Rule and the Ruckus Rule -- Because We Let Them -- Tactic 2: Divide and Conquer -- Tactic 3: Play the Victim Game -- Tactic 4: Words Mean What Liberals Want Them to Mean -- Racists, Sexists, and Haters, Oh My! -- First-Amendment Follies.

Tactic 5: Don't Debate, Attack -- Tactic 6: Hide the True Agenda -- Tactic 7: Control Through Confusion -- What Then Must We Do? -- 4 WE LIVE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS -- Through a Glass Darkly -- Questions of Faith -- Roots of the Current Conflic -- Crossing the Naturalist Bridge -- Philosophy Hits Bottom: The Nihilist Worldview -- From Worldviews to Politics -- If You Say A, You Must Say B -- Do Leftists Really Believe Such Things? -- You Shall Be as Gods -- The Liberal Paradox: Dogmatic Nihilism -- An Imaginary Debate with a Liberal Environmentalist -- The God in the Liberal Mirror -- 5 TODDLERS, TANTRUMS, AND TYRANNY -- Character Matters -- Character and Liberty -- The Development of Character -- Tiny Tyrants -- Growing Good Citizens -- "Good Enough" Parenting -- "Good-Enough" Cultural Institutions -- Worldview and Conscience -- Knowing Right but Feeling Wrong -- The Roots of the Appeasement Cycle -- Two Common Character Patterns -- From Power Player to Hardcore Leftist -- Why Good Citizens Lose at Politics -- Why We Fight the Wrong Battle -- How Liberals Use Our Civility to Rule Us -- 6 A POLITICAL STRATEGY FOR MAINSTREAM AMERICA -- Goals of a Mainstream Political Strategy -- Isolate the Radical Left -- Dominate the Political Narrative -- Educate the Uninformed and Misinformed -- Principles for Mainstream Activists -- 1. We are the mainstream and liberals are the fringe. Act like it. -- 2. Face your fear of disapproval and social unpleasantness. -- 3. Never, ever fall into a defensive position. -- 4. Seize the offensive and stay on it. -- 5. Hit hard and sue for peace. -- 6. Drive the mainstream agenda through the culture and the government. -- 7. Inoculate children against liberalism. -- 7 THINKING LIKE CITIZENS -- Principle 1: We are the mainstream and liberals are the fringe. Act like it. -- Seeing Our Power.

"We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident . . ." -- You Can Be a Good Citizen and Still Hit Hard -- Principle 2: Face your fear of disapproval and social unpleasantness. -- Anatomy of the Appeasement Cycle -- Calm the Body to Clear the Mind -- Principle 3: Never, ever fall into a defensive position. -- Two Levels of Discussion -- The Unspoken Narrative in American Politics -- Defending Makes the Incredible Credible -- The "Filling in the Blanks" Technique -- You Four-Eyed Racist! -- What a Difference a Backbone Makes -- The Tinfoil Hat Rule -- 8 ACTING LIKE CITIZENS -- Principle 4: Seize the offensive and stay on it. -- Be Clear About Your Goals -- How the Narrative Gets Framed -- Focusing Attention: What Topic Are We Discussing? -- What We Assume -- Conclusions and Implications -- Framing the GM Bailout -- The Core Tool: The Three Rs -- Step 1: Recognize the way the left wants to frame the narrative -- Step 2: Reframe the issue to put the left on the defensive -- Step 3: Refocus the topic to drive the mainstream agenda -- Harnessing the Power of Anger -- Leftist Anger Versus Righteous Indignation -- Balancing Negatives and Positives -- Principle 5: Hit hard and sue for peace -- 9 FILLED WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE -- Principle 6: Drive the mainstream agenda through the culture and the government. -- Managing the Movement -- No Enemies on the Right -- Organizing Essentials -- Stages of Group Formation -- The Camel's Nose Strategy -- Have a Demand Goal and a Compromise Goal -- Frame the Debate in Your Favor -- Find Three Rallying Themes for Your Cause -- Assume the Moral High Ground -- Three Rolling Demands -- 10 IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN -- Principle 7: Inoculate children against liberalism. -- Trusting Minds, Simple Message -- Liberalism Is Easier Than Wisdom -- Guerilla Education -- Front-Loading Values -- "In Addition to What Your Book Says . . .".

Education Isn't Just for School -- Making the Conscious Choice -- 11 WILL THE GIANT GO BACK TO SLEEP? -- The Price -- What Is Bigger Than Your Fear? -- Our Concord Bridge Moment -- ENDNOTES.