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To: ProgressingAmerica
This part of the interview--the very end--is the most chilling part, in my humble opinion:

ALINSKY: Sometimes it seems to me that the question people should ask is not "Is there life after death?" but "Is there life after birth?" I don't know whether there's anything after this or not. I haven't seen the evidence one way or the other and I don't think anybody else has either. But I do know that man's obsession with the question comes out of his stubborn refusal to face up to his own mortality. Let's say that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.

PLAYBOY: Why?

ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I've been with the have-nots. Over here, if you're a have-not, you're short of dough. If you're a have-not in hell, you're short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.

PLAYBOY: Why them?

ALINSKY: They're my kind of people.

Some on the Left dismiss Alinsky's obsession with the Underworld in this interview and in the book Rules For Radicals as an attempt at a very dark form of the self-deprecating humor Jews are known for (Alinsky grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family), but once you finish reading Rules for Radicals, we wonder if he's really serious about his obsession with the Underworld....

19 posted on 07/21/2016 11:39:00 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88
...but once you finish reading Rules for Radicals, we wonder if he's really serious about his obsession with the Underworld....

It's a perfect example of "birds of a feather".Pure psychopaths doing different things but still admiring each other and enjoying each other's company.

22 posted on 07/21/2016 12:00:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
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To: RayChuang88
Underworld????

He picked the wrong Underworld to get obsessed with.....


30 posted on 07/21/2016 12:38:23 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: RayChuang88

If Alinsky has had the misfortune of going to the place he desired to go I’m fairly certain, if he’s allowed to organize anything and that I doubt, what could this organization possibly entail? Making hell more God forsaken and hotter than it is?


47 posted on 07/22/2016 5:59:01 AM PDT by Lent
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