“There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
That worked, just ask the Zombies that voted for him. Funny thing is, they had no clue what they were getting so the jokes on the sheep.
The now “conservative” Dennis Miller still thinks that all fears of a Communist threat to the US were and are overblown.