Posted on 07/24/2013 7:01:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
You can take the community organizer out of the South Side, but you can’t take the community organizer out of the community organizer.
Today, America heard threats from the increasingly predictable President Alinsky.
“The position of the middle class will erode further,” Mr. Obama said. “Inequality will continue to increase, money’s power will distort our politics even more. Social tensions will rise, as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming somebody else for why their position isn’t improving. That’s not the America we know.”
This is standard-fare Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Obama doesn’t even attempt to disguise it, leaving out only the original author’s name. Obama merely adds the threat of social tensions.
For that, thank speech co-author Saul Alinsky.
Alinsky saw social tensions as a necessary circumstance to effective community organizing. Without anger, without the have-nots blaming the haves, it is harder to accumulate power. Alinsky considered the creation of social tensions, or the exploitation of them, as essential to move wealth and power from those who have it to those who don’t.
Once “social tensions” are stoked, all that is left is the tactical organization.
Compare how conversant President Obama is in the ominous language of the economically illiterate left with President Reagan’s faith in the economic power of American freedom. Obama’s economic worldview flows from Marx and Alinsky, when the free-market oxygen of Reagan is so badly needed. Instead of uplifting Americans, Obama threatens them.
Republicans must match Obama’s dark vision with something equally aggressive and directly confrontational. One idea? Defund Obamacare instead of another in a series of phony House votes to repeal it.
The Founders gave the House the power of the purse for times like these. Defund Obamacare and watch the economy accelerate overnight.
Unfortunately for now, it seems some in the GOP don’t understand their opponent. Speaker John Boehner gravely misunderstands the situation if he truly believes Obama’s address was devoid of content — a mere “Easter egg with no candy in it.”
There was plenty of content in that speech, if you know what to listen for. Boehner’s response might have worked during more civil times. But with soaring debt and a new muscular federal government, sweet quips don’t cut it.
Thank you, DJ. I have had those same thoughts for years but never thought to put them into an essay such as you have done.
Everything you said is scary.....because it’s true!
In 1936 Germany I am sure there were neighborhoods where a lot of Christians had a lot of Jewish friends.
With the economy heading where it is and more people becoming more desperate,you have not seen yet what people will do,and this low life in the White House is an instigator,this article is right on the money.
Leaders like Boner are the Neville Chamberlins of our time,cowards who bury their heads in the sand until it’s too late.
The opportunity to stop Obamacare is upon us as Mr. Adams states,these are the moments people will look back on when people of courage had the opportunity to stop evil and were thwarted by cowards such as Boner,Cantor,McCain,Graham.
Adams is wrong in the sense that Boner does not understand who he is up against,he absolutely does BUT he is a pussy.
I hear you. My relatives in Poland survived by the black market. Everyone in Poland did.
We may soon be too.
I hadn't seen Odumbo's speech yesterday, however it's apparent he's blown the dog whistle again. His and Holder's people will be taking to the streets acting up again any time now ..
Just damn' Illinois and this so-called "conceal-carry" law that doesn't take effect for another year, I'll continue to carry illegally as I have for the last 10 years.
As I've oft told my wife, I'd rather have you bail me out of jail for defending myself in that shithole called Chi(t)cago than having to show up a the morgue and identify my body.
Inequality of initiative will not result in equality of wealth
Those who don’t work will become less equal. If they have no job, they must create one
A fictional character from a work of fiction written by an atheist.
"...the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening."
I had no doubt before I started re-reading the book that we ARE there. Now I am even more sure. So much in the book parallels our current history.
"Relax and stop bleating! This won't hurt one bit! Neither will this; It's just a pinch -- neither will THIS...."
That was the money paragraph. Yes, we have arrived at 1984, 20 years too late.
"Remember: Your government has only your best interest at heart -- we are keeping you safe and secure...now enter the railway car. We're going BYE-BYE!"
” A fictional character from a work of fiction written by an atheist. “
Thank you. She was a POS of a human being, besides : )
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