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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like the community organizing shtick is not going so well anymore.

Hmm. maybe Alinsky has a chapter on what to do if you become a pariah.

13 posted on 09/03/2009 9:45:06 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: DeFault User
"community organizing shtick is not going so well anymore. Hmm. maybe Alinsky has a chapter on what to do if you become a pariah."

I don't think Alinsky had any chapters on what to do if your demonstrating and agitating won the battle. All he knew how to do was push. He didn't know ANYTHING about how to LEAD once you got to the top. Isn't that just like a liberal? Write a book, and leave half of it out.

27 posted on 09/03/2009 10:02:31 PM PDT by redhead (I was called an extremist for being Catholic - by a vegan....)
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To: DeFault User

“Hmm. maybe Alinsky has a chapter on what to do if you become a pariah.”

The missing chapter is what to do when you become da man. Alinsky’s great at ripping a society apart—that’s what community organizers do, they come in and get people pissed off at other groups of people, always seeking a critical mass of disintegration. If only 30% of people in society are violently pissed off, it is impossible to keep that society going. That may be enough to disintegrate things to the point where the 30% can seize power. But it’s not enough to govern in a non-totalitarian state.

Hitler and Chavez took a small mandate and converted it to lifelong power—but they had to go totalitarian. I’m not sure the US system of checks and balances is ready to collapse so quickly.

Alinsky didn’t have many useful ideas about how to keep a culture and a society going except the standard utopian marxist bs. And that doesn’t work. Right now, it is no guidance at all. The standard marxist approach to this problem is to torture and kill your opponents and rape their women. That’s not much help when you have to convince a Montana blue-dog democrat to vote for single payer socialized medicine and the blue-dog actually has voters to answer to over whom Obama has little present control.

Ripping down and governing are two very different skills that almost never translate into each other.


36 posted on 09/03/2009 10:54:19 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: DeFault User

appears obozos “BS” did not work on the adults, so now he is going to try it out on the kids..............


42 posted on 09/04/2009 12:32:26 AM PDT by Beamreach (what is truth, Jesus Christ is truth, and truth shall set you free!!)
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