Mr. Perlstein's apparent unwillingness to follow up on Alinsky tells me volumes. I remember the 1960s
East Village Other,
Berkeley Barb,
Ramparts, etc. and all kinds of radical groups and individuals.
I think Mr. Perlstein's reply suggests you touched a nerve with your post, #78 I believe.
How anyone could claim to understand today's liberals without knowing that era and Alinsky's influence (Rules for Radicals for example) is -- well, lacking important facts.
There I go again. Bringing up facts vis-a-vis a discourse with today's liberals, sorry. Liberalism is all about feeeeeeeeeeeeelings. (Hee, hee. A little Alinksky there, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." Oh, how the left has ridiculed the conservatives for decades. Now conservatives are fighting back and left feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels it's not fa-a-a-a-air. Hee. Hee.)
Check out how anti American PRC expats, PRC immigrants and various other PRC bootlickers are bashing Bush - on a
forum run by a guy out of Columbus Ohio. I am not sure of the forum owner's status, US Citizen, permanent resident or on some sort of visa. Anyhow, there has been a steady flow of undermining garbage there ever since 9/11. Yep, that's right, they were already going after Bush even before the war in Iraq, as if by some sort of preexisting plan. I recommend you and others here to witness this for yourselves.