[muawiyah]

You have to watch out for crediting Alinsky with too much ~ after all you can look around you just about anywhere and observe that Alinsky methods do not dominate life.

The guy was a mentally ill crank ~ his followers are on that route themselves ~ giving them credit rather than Ritalin or Thorazine just encourages them.

Put the real stuff in their chai when they're not looking.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Nonetheless, it was one of Alinsky’s tactics to “isolate and ridicule.” That it has become imbued in the very fabric of their perception does not mean that it was not a planned part of the strategy of the Statists.