Alinsky and the Tea Parties

The Provocateur ^ | 10/10/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

There's a great deal of irony in the connection between Saul Alinsky and the Tea Parties. If you were to take a random poll of tea party gatherers, most would have heard of Alinsky. Most of those folks would view Alinsky unfavorably. Yet, knowingly or not, the tea parties owe much of their success to the exact same principles that Alinsky verbalized when he was organizing on the streets of Chicago.

[cripplecreek]

Yet, knowingly or not, the tea parties owe much of their success to the exact same principles that Alinsky verbalized when he was organizing on the streets of Chicago.

I'm well aware of it and I suspect a lot of other tea party goers are aware and happily using those tactics. In fact we're using the Alinsky rules both offensively and using knowledge of them defensively.

[fiscon1]

That’s fine but then don’t use him as a pejorative.

[Minn]

That’s fine but then don’t use him as a pejorative.

Silly. You can learn from, and even adopt tactics of evil people doing evil things, and still rightly consider them scum.

[EternalVigilance]

Rules for Radicals was dedicated to Lucifer. Folks might want to think long and hard about how easy it is to become what you profess to hate.

[cripplecreek]

Exactly. For instance, while the left has no issues targeting Sarah Palin and he children, I will not attack Obama’s daughters or any other innocents.

Alinsky tactics took out Van Jones and will take out others who are guilty.

[fiscon1]

why was Alinsky scum?

[Just mythoughts]

I can’t wait to see where this thread is going!!!!

[TChad]

As a commenter on Ed Driscoll's blog said,

“Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, I read your BOOK!”

– The Conservative Movement

[Minn]

why was Alinsky scum?

The same reason the whole far-left community organizer crowd is scum. They preach that liberty and capitalism is fatally flawed and will fall of it's own weight. But their actions belie that assertion. If freedom was a flawed construct, it wouldn't need their destructive efforts to fail, and they know it. They are just dirty and envy prone twerps. The whole "rubbing raw the wounds of resentment" thing is a rather evil strategy, conducted by those unconcerned with the pawns in the game, wouldn't you say?