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Minor typo correction I noticed I forgot to correct after posting—I meant to flip these two sentences around (Johnson announced his resignation on March 31, a few days before the King assassination): “Racial violence soon ensued around the country following the assassination of Martin Luther King that April. Johnson then announced he would not seek reelection, so he did not appear at the Democratic National Convention.”
I had never heard of Alinsky until Glenn Beck started going on about him back in his Fox days, and for awhile I thought it was much ado about nothing, assuming if I don’t know who he is, no one does.
Then I remember one evening Beck ran a video of big shot after big shot in the DNC going on about how much Alinsky had meant to them. He had a long line of Democrats praising Alinsky to the hilt. That is when I realized that commie crackpot though he might be, he was not a nobody. He was well admired among these people.
She is a radical left wing lunatic who will further damage this country to the point of no return.
In all her years, I can’t think of one good thing that she has accomplished.
Thank you for posting this. Do you have a link directly to her thesis? I tried several places, but it hangs each time indefinitely, which I am sure is an accident. /s
I clicked on the link to Frank Marafiote’s piece. What a load of horse hooey, at what I read of it. A complete apologia. I should have expected as much given the website’s name.
There were radical groups back in the 60s who began using the Alinski Rules to attack elected officials by disrupting meetings and accusing them of all sorts of things, no matter how fanciful or false.
Being from S. Texas, I watched the radical Mexican nationalist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) and La Raza and some local MA organizationa as they used the Alinkski tactics in S. Texas cities with some success.
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> in her student days, she was a fellow traveler with Communists considered by the Johnson administration to be national security risks because of their role in promoting racial violence
In that connection, she presided over the publication of the “Yale Review of Law and Social Action”. She also attended communist fund-raisers and worked for a communist law firm.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3445564/posts
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That’s an excellent presentation, Fedora.
I find these parts especially interesting:
“When Schechter asked why, he was told that Hillary was working on health care now and she did not want to alienate Daniel Patrick Moynihan...”
“Rodham argued that Moynihan’s approach was an undemocratic imposition of legislation on the masses rather than the type of community-based empowerment Alinsky advocated.”
Seems to me that she wished to avoid exposure as a gross hypocrit, since her health care “solution” was nothing if not “undemocratic imposition of legislation on the masses”.
Her thesis and (arbitrary) conclusions also reveal the self-contradiction implicit in rejection of the “Alinsky model” in favor of making change through taking over government. Hillary’s model boils down to undemocratic imposition; she fine with that so long as she’s the imposer.
That’s an excellent presentation, Fedora.
I find these parts especially interesting:
“When Schechter asked why, he was told that Hillary was working on health care now and she did not want to alienate Daniel Patrick Moynihan...”
“Rodham argued that Moynihan’s approach was an undemocratic imposition of legislation on the masses rather than the type of community-based empowerment Alinsky advocated.”
Seems to me that she wished to avoid exposure as a gross hypocrite, since her health care “solution” was nothing if not “undemocratic imposition of legislation on the masses”.
The thesis also reveals the self-contradiction implicit in her rejection of the “Alinsky model” in favor of making change through taking over government. Hillary’s model boils down to undemocratic imposition; she just wants to be the imposer.
Thank you for the post. Bookmark.
The Alinsky discussion is not just theoretical. Hillary and her followers actually implement the Rules for Radicals. Here’s an example. They use “shame” and “embarrassment” to induce guilt in order to make people do things they otherwise would not. Try saying something pro-Trump on Twitter. The next thing you know, 13,000 people start screaming “SHAME!” because the idea is that you can SHAME Trump supporters for not supporting Hillary and therefore make them support Hillary. This worked well for Obama, because of the race issue, and now they are using it for Hillary, re:gender. Here’s what works in opposition to the “SHAME!” tactic: RIDICULE. Try it, you’ll like it.
The Current Relevance of Hillary’s Thesis
Clinton’s thesis reveals several important things that are relevant to the current election campaign. First, it documents that in her student days, she was a fellow traveler with Communists considered by the Johnson administration to be national security risks because of their role in promoting racial violence, a foreshadowing of the Democratic Party’s current deployment of Black Lives Matter. Second, it shows that Clinton equates democracy with a Marxist vision of a classless society, a philosophically fallacious view that founders on the fact of human diversity, and one hardly consistent with the bicameral premise of the United States Constitution that she is purportedly running to uphold. Third, it shows that Clinton’s ideology values power above rational negotiation and is willing to use violence to attain power. Finally, its reference to Marian Wright illustrates how Clinton has continued to associate with descendants of Alinsky’s radical network since her student days. Hillary was and is a dangerous radical, and like her mentor Alinsky, she is a rabble-rousing agitator of racial violence and a threat to national security.
I would imagine the average freeper lauds the freedom riders who invaded my southern homeland in the 50s and 60s from such lovely spots like Oberlin and Wellesley and Bard
See that acronym in the article
The STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE which we called the SNVCC back then
They along with other commies were a big part of it
Yet the myths persist
Excellent! Thank you for a very informative post.