"This has to be the ugliest most soul destroying architecture to blight Chicago in a long time. Very fitting." (Miranda Devine)Posted on 10/01/2025 6:51:46 AM PDT by simpson96
The concerned and worried American called me from Washington about those riots in Broadview just outside Chicago.
What he’s worried about is a type of weed that strangles Chicago, but spreads to other towns as well. From Portland, Ore. all the way to New York. It kills everything.
But this strangling weed has its roots in Chicago, carried and replanted by generations of Democrat activists including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The man on the phone had seen Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson raving that “jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness.” And he’d seen Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker screaming about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging racism in federal agents enforcing federal immigration law passed by Democrats and Republicans.
“What the hell is going on in Chicago?” he asked me.
A tree may grow in Brooklyn but weeds grow in Chicago. And they spread.
Why was this necessary? Because radicals and other anarchists were rioting violently outside the I.C.E. facility, stopping traffic.
Four of them were arrested. Two with guns. So much for “peaceful protests”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes asked in court: “Who brings a loaded firearm to an ICE protest?”
Who does that? The left does that. The Democrat left.
It follows last week’s shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, which left one detainee dead and two others wounded. That cemented the Democrat Party as the pro-assassination party, given all their addiction to high-profile assassinations as a means of silencing dissent. Two arrested with loaded guns at the Broadview riots were not charged with violating firearms laws, but with forcibly assaulting and resisting federal officers.
So, about this strangling weed from Chicago. It comes from the left, from Saul Alinsky and forms the core of today’s Democrat Party.
Leftist radical Alinsky who wrote “Rules for Radicals.”
Barack Obama was an enthusiastic Alinsky disciple.
Obama received a comprehensive course in Saul Alinsky during his years as a community organizer in Chicago, an experience Obama recalled as “the best education he ever had.”
Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky, “There is Only The Fight.”
As a result, the Alinsky influence—he loathed and feared the late Mayor Richard J. Daley–is felt by the entire Cook County Democrat Party now. Once, the hard Marxist left was on the defensive when centrist Democrats controlled the party. And under Bill Clinton the Democrats prospered. But with Barack Obama’s presidential election in 2008, and again in 2012 Democrats were pushed so far to the hard left, they became unrecognizable. They became rather like the perpetually bloodthirsty Jacobins of revolutionary France.
You can see Alinsky’s victories in the news today, reflected every day in Democrat policy and politics and the mouthings of their politicians and pundits in media. Consider:
The Rules
1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”
3. “Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8. “Keep the pressure on.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Obama’s favorite terrorist couple William Ayres and Bernardine Dorn were Alinskyites. They introduced Obama to political Chicago. Cook County Democrat Party chair, Boss Toni Preckwinkle is another, owing her allegiance to the true power.
The Chicago Teacher’s Union, that supports leftist Democrats from Johnson to Preckwinkle and Pritzker now has led them in honoring murderer Assata Shakur a fugitive and member of the violent leftist Black Liberation Army, who fled to Cuba after she killed a New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster
But that didn’t stop the CTU from treating her as their heroine.
These are the people who indoctrinate your children. In Chicago they dictate policy to the politicians, and elect judges, mayors, Congressmen, Senators, county commissioners, prosecutors and presidents like Obama.
And you wonder why your world is going to hell?
“Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle,” stated the tax-subsidized CTU in an X post. “Assata refused to be silenced. She taught us that “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
But Trooper Foster got in the way of her politics. She wasn’t silenced by the New Jersey trooper. Her crime left him dead.
The Saul Alinsky ethos spreads through the public government labor movement in Chicago. From the CTU to AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the largest public employee’s union in the U.S. and the Service Employees International Union SEIU.
These three form the backbone and muscle of the Democrat Party. Not much about it is said by Chicago media who are intimidated and fearful. But the politicians understand who the real bosses are.
Happily, my friend Miranda Devine the fearless columnist from the New York Post is unafraid of Obama and his Alinskyites.
Agreed.
Yes, Obama’s tower has to be the ugliest most soul-destroying architecture to blight Chicago in a long time. Very fitting indeed.
The people can fight this. All they have to do, is vote the Democrats out. It can be done. Some of us sill have hope. But they must vote, as their lives depend on it.
The Democrat Party has ruled Chicago for more than 100 years with an iron fist. The people have been broken to party control. News media executives and newspaper editors from the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times are intimidated. The collapse of newspaper advertising made the subscription model dominant. And the public employee unions like CTU call the shots. The public employees unions and the checkbooks of lawyers are the muscle of Democrat politics now.
The governor, mayor, all walk softly when public union bosses are around. And all are in the web woven by George Soros and Alinsky and Obama. All of them. They purr like cats.
So, what’s going on in Chicago?
This: Saul Alinsky is victorious. From Marx to Alinsky to Obama. To New York Mandani and the ANTIFA riots of Portland.
It’s all very fitting and soul-crushing for those who give up and stop fighting. It all becomes a dystopian novel like “1984.”
And it’s all too real.
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Pure depressing for Chicago.
Under Daley, the city might have been Democratic, but it always felt as if the man truly cared about the citizens and not just about power. Even if the road was dug up to fix potholes right after it had been repaired for sewers, rather than working together and planning, they STILL fixed the sewers and the roads. Now it seems as if the needs of the people aren’t even considered next to the needs of the activists.
In the 45 goals of. Communism, one goal is to replace statues with ugly pieces of crap. This exceeded all expectations.
I love how Trump uses the Rules for Radicals against the Democrats.
Rules For Radicals -——
Dedicated to satan.
A bit stale, predictable, outdated, and "dragging on too long".
This is true about Richard J. Daley, but for the son, Richard M. Daley, not so much. Shortshanks probably committed a crime when he tore up the runway of the downtown airport Meigs Field in the middle of the night. He sold off the rights to all parking meter revenue, the Skyway tolls, and Grant Park parking garages, deals that netted short term gains, but giving up billions of dollars in future revenue. That’s some legacy.
The funny thing, which Kass misses, is that DJT is giving it right back to the Left/Dems with Alinsky’s rules. The Left is so used to having a monopoly on this that they have no idea how to handle it.
>>This is true about Richard J. Daley, but for the son, Richard M. Daley, not so much.
Agree. Only Daley had the affection of the whole city and not just the Democrats. Mother became a fervent Republican but always accepted Daley as a decent human being. Never heard her tolerate any other Dem mayor.
It certainly was a different democratic party back then during Richard J. Daley’s time in office, they were similar to today’s Republicans. The democratic party has shifted so far left that they resemble communists now, and this has caused many middle of the road voters to move to the republican party. They needed to replace the lost votes so illegals flooding the country filled that need.
>>They needed to replace the lost votes so illegals flooding the country filled that need.
Good analysis.
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