***....I agreed with some of Alinsky's ideas, she explained in Living History, her 2003 biography, particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves. But we had a fundamental disagreement. He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't.
A decade later, another political science major started out on the path that Hillary Rodham had rejected, going to work for a group in the Alinsky mold. That was Barack Obama, now a U.S. senator from Illinois and her leading opponent for the Democratic nomination. After attending Columbia University, he worked as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago for the Developing Communities Project. Obama and others of the post-Alinsky generation described their work in the 1990 book After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois, in which Obama wrote that he longed for ways to close the gap between community organizing and national politics. After three years of organizing, he turned to Harvard Law School and then the Illinois legislature....***
There should be about 300 million Americans that believe in "empowering people to help themselves", but in reality its perhaps 150 million conservatives. Anyway, with what I suspect is really inside Hillary's! mind, we should fear, and fear greatly, "He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't", aka she wants to be POTUS to make Alinsky-like changes from the unique POTUS vantagepoint.