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Want to understand Hillary Clinton? Read Saul Alinsky
Washington Examiner ^ | 16 Sep, 2016 | ROGER KIMBALL

Posted on 09/18/2016 8:03:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber

...Rules for Radicals is a curious book. It is impressively literate, with apposite quotations from Lincoln, Shakespeare, Tom Paine, Tocqueville and others salted throughout the text. I particularly admired a quotation from Tocqueville that begins, "It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life." That, of course, is precisely what the intrusive regulatory state excels at.

But it would be a mistake to see Alinsky as an enemy of the regulatory state or as apostle of individual freedom. His pragmatism was cold, ruthless and thoroughgoing. He might employ the soothing rhetoric of individual freedom, but his unwavering goal was the acquisition and deployment of power.

It is in this Luciferian context, the worship of power, that his influence on Clinton is most patent.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alinsky; clinton; radicals

1 posted on 09/18/2016 8:03:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Ruthlessness seems to be a common trait of the left.


2 posted on 09/18/2016 8:04:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Rules for Radicals is nothing new. It is just that they were fighting the country club Republicans, GOPe, who could live quite comfortably just getting their cut of the take.

Alinsky's rules are standard rules of rhetoric, and they work for anti-NWO types just as well as the mutant radical turned globalist types. Better in fact, because it is a program for dissent and change for populists.

Example - Rule no 5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating."

Eg. Basket of Deplorables. You don't debate it. You embrace it and laugh. Everytime Hillary says something you interrupt and respond, but I am Deplorable. As Alinsky says, there is no comeback.

Or - Rule no 4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

Or the Rule that Trump embodies RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

3 posted on 09/18/2016 8:12:47 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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(Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

Attack, attack, attack, and never give hillary the chance to recover from her short circuit.

4 posted on 09/18/2016 8:16:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Alinsky dedicates his book to Lucifer, but the connection between these two is far greater. It has to do with their primary role in the world.

Exactly like the serpent in the Garden, Alinsky portrays himself as desiring good fruit for others.

But while he brings them nothing but evil fruit, Alinsky reaches for his true objective: stealing authority from its rightful owner.

This is the same with Hillary.


5 posted on 09/18/2016 8:39:20 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Bookmark


6 posted on 09/18/2016 8:45:42 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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The mainstream media have never investigated Hillary’s ties to Saul Alinsky.

When we hear about “media bias”, there are various levels of bias.

There is the slanted news coverage, editing of interviews, the talking heads analyses, etc. which convey a certain point of view.

Then there is also the mass of stories which the media simply ignore. And the subject of Hillary’s ties to Saul Alinsky is one such story which the media have decided to ignore.


7 posted on 09/18/2016 8:47:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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8 posted on 09/18/2016 8:57:02 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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Around the time I read Alinsky, I figured out that the Left creates nothing. It can only destroy, which is very easy.


9 posted on 09/18/2016 2:05:49 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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