Bump that.
“Change” and “Revolution” are synonyms......as are “Progressive” and “Communist”...............
condense and annotate.
He’s not - he’s a follower. Unfortunately, his preferred role models are Ted Kennedy, Al Gore and Russ Feingold.
McCain has nothing constructive to offer. Unfortunately, the Dems know what and why they’re offering: socialism.
Or Emmanuel Goldstein.
Or the repetitive slogan “Bush's Fault” that has been so successful.
Excellent read.
“The people of America live as they can,” he wrote. “Many of them are pent up in one-room crumbling shacks and a few live in penthouses...The Haves smell toilet water, the Have-Nots smell just plain toilet.”[14] Lamenting the “wide disparity of wealth, privilege, and opportunity” he saw in America, Alinsky impugned the country’s “materialistic values and standards.”[15] “We know that man must cease worshipping the god of gold and the monster of materialism,” he said.[16]
. . . and worship power instead. </sarcasm>Leftism is criticism, condemnation, and complaint - exactly the things which Dale Carnegie teaches you to avoid in personal relations. It works as leftist politics because of the fact that journalism, which is nothing but cheap talk, promotes itself by criticizing and second guessing the military, the police, and businessmen. IOW, the people who work to a bottom line in the absence of complete knowledge of the future results of their actions.
Journalists and leftist politicians have a symbiotic relationship because both seek to promote themselves by criticizing the productive.
Excellent posting. This is how marxists operate.
Excellent post and great point. McCain is NOT a socialist by any stretch of the imagination.
Sadly, Obama is not a socialist either....he’s moved right on to communism.
mark for later
Obama and Clinton are cut from the same leftist cloth. If either become President our country will start on a long march to socialism.
The power belongs to the young people and the black people in this country...we gotta build a strong base.2008?
No.
1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.2008 = 40th Anniversary of the "Days of Rage!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tydLf6n2x4
See you in Denver?
/mark
Great read... so far. Very interesting, I’ll certainly finish reading later.
Excellent Alinsky overview here...
“Alinsky advised the radical activist to avoid the temptation to concede that his opponent was not “100 per cent devil,” or that he possessed certain admirable qualities such as being “a good churchgoing man, generous to charity, and a good husband.” Such qualifying remarks, Alinsky said, “dilut[e] the impact of the attack” and amount to sheer “political idiocy.”[50]”
ergo Bush is the epitomy of evil!
“The word ‘democracy’ is one of the communists’ favorite Aesopian terms. They say they favor democracy, that communism will bring the fullest democracy in the history of mankind. But, to the communists, democracy does not mean free speech, free elections, or the right of minorities to exist. Democracy means the domination of the communist state, the complete supremacy of the Party. The greater the communist control, the more ‘democracy.’ ‘Full democracy,’ to the communist, will come only when all noncommunist opposition is liquidated.”
Excellent post.
Sounds like the candidate's wife, doesn't it?
May the Lord protect and keep us - these people are an utter disaster.
ALINSKY
[... be ever on guard (snip) “You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying, ‘You’re right — we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.’”[59] Such capitulation by the enemy would have the effect of diffusing the righteous indignation of the People’s Organization, whose very identity is inextricably woven into the fight for long-denied justice...]
[... . Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil...]
JO NUVARK
THIS will be the moment good men will rise up and seize the government from the wicked power craved Alinksy devotees who appear to be in charge now.
ALINSKY
[... Alinsky’s revolution promised that by changing the structure of society’s institutions, it would rid the world of such vices as socio-pathology and criminality. Arguing that these vices were caused not by personal character flaws but rather by external societal influences,...]
JO NUVARK
I completely agree. Those external influences happen to be corrupt liberal politicians NOT Democracy, Capitalism or our Constitution.
ALINSKY
[... A reformation means that the masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless....]
JO NUVARK
Agree. The prevailing system is liberalism and it leaves us hopeless and frustrated. It’s time to get back to what works. Conservatism and self reliance.
ALINSKY
[... . The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted—a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation...]
JO NUVARK
Once again, the status quo is NOT conservatism it is liberalism.
ALINSKY
[... Alinsky’s revolution was not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions. (snip) “Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties.” Alinsky advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to introduce changes from that platform...]
JO NUVARK
But of course. We know this blueprint. Kruschev promised to bury us from within by undermining our educational system. As Limbaugh says, “... our worst enemy is ignorance”.
MY HOPEFUL OPINION
I don’t believe any expected Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” to take this long to have its effect. Liberalism has become the status quo and the revolution will be to re-establish what works, i.e. Capitalism, free enterprise, less government and the free exchange of ideas at our educational institutions.
Could the Left be any more indecent? Like David Horowitz has said, when you fight the Left, be prepared to get kneed in the b*lls. The Left recognizes no limits on its own behavior. The great irony is that it’s precisely the Left’s unshakeable certainty in the moral perfection of its cause that makes it so willing to lie, cheat, smear, demonize, polarize, disrupt, deceive, wreck, ruin, undermine, transgress, slander, manipulate, etc, etc, etc — and all for our own good of course.
