Obama was a ‘community organizer’. One of his influences is Chicago progressive (self proclaimed radical) Saul Alinsky. It would not be a stretch to say that Alinsky wrote the book on bringing “change” to the community.
Outlining his strategy in organizing Alinksy writes:
“There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don’t encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let’s not let it happen by default.”[2]
Alinsky codified and wrote a clear set of rules[3] for community organizing. His rules for radicals are now used as key tactics to learn in the training of new community organizers. ~Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
We have elected a man whose political education is Saul Alinsky. A man who has stated explicitly that his mission, his purpose, his destiny, is to “fundamentally transform America”. Now we know that the man who is our current President is in fact a radical socialist bent on destroying capitalism and the American way of life and replacing it with something that resembles animal farm. We are f*ucked.
What we are watching at this moment is the exactly what Alinsky prescribed: preparing the American people to accept anything in liue of the absolute poverty that the “change agent” wants. We will be slaves, wards of the state, serfs working toward a glorious future of togetherness and hope that never comes and only exists in the propaganda of our dear leader’s proclamations and directives.
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The Obama-Alinsky Connection August 26, 2008, Rush Limbaugh
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