The Totalitarian Minority

The American Thinker ^ | March 19, 2011 | Lance Fairchok

[Scanian]

"On top are the Haves with power, money, food, security, and luxury. They suffocate in their surpluses while the Have-Nots starve. Numerically the Haves have always been the fewest. The Haves want to keep things as they are and are opposed to change." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

It is ironic that the people described as Haves in Saul Alinsky's community organizing primer Rules for Radicals mirror public sector unions so closely. Alinsky had a cluttered view of the world, full of contradictions and conspiracies and moral convolutions to justify his tactics. His wretched little book will probably vex us for a dozen more generations, as it is easy to read and requires little effort to memorize the self-justifying rules. His confused disciples in Wisconsin envisioned themselves as the freedom fighters of old, using words like "justice" and "freedom" and "democracy" as they contradict each of those concepts to protect their right to steal from the taxpayer.

Alinsky was successful in twisting the ethics of his followers, removing the boundaries of civility and honor as long as the cause is loosely "just." Case in point, on Monday a group of school children, presumably accompanied their teacher and with permission from their parents chanted slogans against Wisconsin Governor Walker in the state capital building while a man shouted what sounded like "This is what democracy looks like" as the children finished their chant. Perhaps the man was a union "activist" who had graduated from Wisconsin's schools, which apparently do not teach history or civics, because he confused "special interest intimidation" with the democratic process of elections and legislative debate. Then again, he could have been from Ohio, or Michigan or D.C., as the loudest voices heard in Wisconsin these last weeks were from national unions,

[the invisib1e hand]

Bump.

[Tax-chick]

It is a vicious, arrogant and voraciously greedy face, full of disdain and contempt for our institutions and the rights of our citizens.

What a perfect description of Barack Obama.

[Mister Da]

To a Marxist like Alinsky, unions are just disposable pawns, to be destroyed once a totalitarian gov’t is established.

[Scanian]

Indeed. We have to make the suckers aware.

Maybe a leaflet drop at meetings. /s

Seriously, I wish there were a way to get through there thick skulls.

[Scanian]

THEIR thick skulls.

That was a pretty thick error on my part.

[Hayride]

The thing about Alinsky and his ilk is that when their plan is complete, the wealth and power is going to be concentrated in fewer hands and the have-nots will be everybody else. It’s sad that the average person is too dumb to understand this.

[trebb]

Plato said that, "One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." In this case, it means one day losing our freedom to unelected power brokers, going through the empty motions of democracy, where legislature's rubber stamp affluence for the elite minority and every taxpayer pays tribute to union dictators and their pet politicians.

The gist of the article tied up all nice and neat.

[trubolotta]

To a Marxist like Alinsky, unions are just disposable pawns, to be destroyed once a totalitarian gov’t is established.

I would agree for private sector unions, but not public sector unions which are essential for bureaucratic enforcement of the elites' edicts. It's the classic structure of totalitarian rule; the privileged elite (Inner Party, Monarchy, Pigs), the aspiring enforcers (Outer Party, nobility, Dobermans) and those they control to produce for their benefit (Proles, Serfs, all other animals). The public sector unions are critical and their loyalty is assured by a status above that of everyone else.

[runninglips]

Ball Pein hammers should suffice. It really is the only way to "get through" to those that would use that device on you. Problem is, if we use one ounce of violence, the govt and its forces will be unleashed on us. When they use it, the govt will stand afar off and wring Its hands. In the end it will come down to violence. Their side will enforce its will upon those that seek a quiet and happy life. The govt that they will inflict upon mankind will reward them with the "hammer" applied liberally to the temple. It has always been so, use the "idiots" as your troops then dispose of them when they can do nothing more for you.

Glenn Beck is right about this, bottom up, top down, inside out.

[Dudoight]

“You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.” Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

Exactly...no matter how immoral, illegal, unjust or barbaric.

[Mister Da]

Speaking strictly of Marxism/Communism, unions of any kind are specifically banned. Dissent of any kind is prohibited. Hitler, a National Socialist, banned ALL unions. Chavez is going after the Venezuelan unions. There were NO unions in the USSR, public or private, until the end.

What you are referring to, I believe, is the current American system.

Public employee unions should be outlawed.

(I can't decide whether I'm a prole or serf, but I like the sound of prole.)

[phockthis]

To eliminate the dragon, you must cut off it’s head...

[driftless2]

The lefties here in Wisconsin are trying to portray this as Walker’s “assault” on the “middle-class.” Exactly what bad things are going to happen to the teachers? Basically nothing. They’ll all still have their jobs and benefits. They just have to pay a little more into their health and retirement plans. Gee, that’s awful, isn’t it? Not only that, thanks to Walker, teachers that would have been laid off now get to keep their jobs. These people, the protesters and recallers, are totally wacko.

[Vaduz]

Full of contradictions and conspiracies and moral convolutions to justify tactics.
Sounds like the media no wonder they go hand in hand.

[Makana]

bump