A number of times here in Calfornia, I have attended meetings organized by People Acting in Community Together (PACT), an Alinskyesque organization focused on ‘immigration rights.’ Looking at Hillary’s recent meltdowns, it occurs to me that a major weakness of the Alinsky system is its stagecraft. As long as it is able to lash out without consequence, there is no more powerful medium for opinion-making and influence. However, the moment the message loses its protective bubble, that is to say its obsessive situational control, it falls apart. It simply cannot challenge another position on an intellectual or pragmatic level, even when it is on sound ground.
Which is why for Hillary control is everything. She hitched her wagon to Bill Clinton's star to be able to stay in control behind the scenes, unexposed and not subject to scrutiny. She ran for Senator in a state that is perhaps the most 'Rat of all 'Rat states. Hillary knew from the get-go that she could control the "tough" NY press which, when it came to Hillary, went from tiger to pussycat. Now she'll hide behind the gender-victim-group identity cards if anything tough happens on the campaign trail.
When Hillary is seated behind that desk at 1600, one of the first things she;ll do is reassert control of the media by liberals. That means the "Fairness Doctrine" makes a comeback. Then she'll move for government regulation of the Internet. Remember what she said when Drudge broke the Lewinsky scandal after Newsweak spiked it? Something about how the Internet needed "professional monitors", or something like that.
It simply cannot challenge another position on an intellectual or pragmatic level, even when it is on sound ground.
Which is why you see the tactics you do today in "debates" on college campuses for people like Horowitz and Coulter. They can't cogently argue, so they shout down and sometimes physically attack their opposition. Classic Alinsky-socialism-Marxism.