29 Sep Op-Ed: Our Biggest Challenge. Part One
By,
Andrés Alburquerque, Senior Fellow, MSI²
We are hostages of our own rhetoric. On one hand, we admit the enormity of the task before us; on the other, we endlessly postpone its realization. The assassination of Charlie Kirk has brutally reminded us of our greatest challenge: to forge a rhetoric that is lean, agile, direct, and effective — one that distills our thought into a “red book,” a manifesto.
Before attempting to reshape the theoretical field in our favor, we must keep several inconvenient truths firmly in mind:
1. Left and Right Still Exist
Despite blurred boundaries, the divide remains. The left has become an amorphous mass of all things strange, or weird, to paraphrase their own jargon, yet highly effective. The right, by contrast, is consumed by purity contests. Both march in the wrong direction.
2. Always on the Defensive
From the start, we surrendered initiative. Like players who gave up the first serve, we built the habit of responding rather than acting. And what began as a strategy hardened into a helpless addiction: we react, they dictate. We have abdicated our right to lead. It could be said that we have slipped into a state of catatonic and predictable quasi-obedience.
3. The Mechanic’s Trap
We have become mechanics, waiting for machines to break before fixing them. We play the hand dealt instead of dealing. Reconstruction is always harder than deconstruction: lies spread in seconds, while truth demands time and effort for a much smaller outreach. A myth catches fire even if false; correction meets resistance even if true. Messaging suffers because conciseness is impossible when truth must first undo deception.
4. Captive to the Enemy’s Lexicon
Take the word dictatorship. The left proudly proclaims the “dictatorship of the proletariat” as humanity’s summit. We, by contrast, retreat. Consider Pinochet: we deny the word, insisting it was “not a dictatorship.” That is a lie by any semantic standard — and worse, it cedes ground to the enemy. We could instead own the truth: yes, it was a dictatorship, born of Allende’s attempted coup at Castro’s behest. Our refusal to speak plainly weakens us.
5. Dosage of Truth
The Fabians warned us with their wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing emblem. Yet we still play defense. The left wins by dosification: never revealing all at once, but advancing step by step. We, meanwhile, yield issue after issue. Once a truth is deferred, it is often lost forever.
Just on a totally speculative note: if we discover a few years from now that Obama wasn’t born in the US and that Michelle is actually a Michael, it won’t matter since by then it will be the new normal. The aforementioned example is complete speculation since I have no evidence one way or the other. But it describes a technique used by The Hyena of Biran and many other communists and Fabians.
RECAP: The essence of our challenge
We fight uphill because we surrender words, initiative, and time. The left deconstructs; we try to reconstruct. They lie boldly; we hesitate to tell plain truths. Until we break these habits, our rhetoric will remain hostage — and our cause, forever on the back foot.
TO BE CONTINUED…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute (MSI²).