President Obama and many Democratic Party leaders, media executives and union leaders have been deeply influenced by the writings and teachings of the American Marxist- Saul Alinsky. Obama and many in the Democratic Party, have aggressively adopted the principles and strategies for social revolution proposed in Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals".
It is also interesting to note that Hillary Clinton did her masters thesis on Saul Alinsky and has expressed great admiration for him and his work. Moreover, when Bill Clinton became president, the White House called Wesley College and pressured them not to make Hillary's thesis on Saul Alinsky's available to the public, to which pressure the college complied.
Saul Alinsky actually offered Hillary a job after graduating from Wesley College to work at his newly formed organization to target the middle class in an effort to bring about social change. Hillary thanked Alinsky for the job offer, but decided to go to law school instead.
Alinsky's philosophy to obtain Marxism in America was very Machiavellian. He supported the notion that the ends justify the means and that radicals were totally justified and encouraged to lie, cheat, steal, coerce, bribe or whatever it takes to attain their ends. He said that history would forgive them for any indiscretions because their end is morally justified.
Alinsky compares his movement to the "mythical" Lucifer who obtained dominion over earth through lies and deceit and felt that these tactics were essential to gain power from the establishment. Alinsky was very anti-capitalism and believed it should be destroyed at any cost and replaced by Socialist state.
Alinsky realized the futility of mobilizing the poor to achieve Socialism because there are simply too few of them to matter. He determined the best way to achieve Socialism was to collapse the system from within by targeting the middle class.
Alinsky realized that America was primarily a Judeo-Christian society and that a sense of Judeo-Christian guilt could be exploited. To create this guilt, corporations must be portrayed as exploiters of the poor and the poor must be made the victims.
Another important part of Alinsky's strategy is to shroud the poor in an ethnic cloak making it difficult for anyone to claim they are often responsible for their condition because of irresponsible life choices such as: quitting high-school, becoming young single mothers, fathers abandoning children, drug addiction, welfare addiction, illiteracy, criminal behavior, child abuse, joining gangs and a host of other dreadful mistakes with long lasting consequences.
If anyone ever asserts that the poor are often impoverished because of lousy choices made in their lives, they are immediately accused of being racist and bigots. It makes honest and open discussion impossible on poverty in America and how to actually solve it.
Even Alinsky described the welfare system as, "the worst piece of political pornography ever made against the poor because it created a class enslaved to government entitlements."
The next important phase of the "Rules for Radicals" is to get a number of Socialist in key positions of power in: the media, television, courts, Democratic Party, Unions, NAACP, political NGOs, the government, schools, universities and even in large corporations.
Once in place, these key people can then flood society with their Socialist propaganda including: America victimizes its the poor, the rich are evil, Americans are racists, Americans are bigots, Americans are selfish, Americans aren't compassionate, Americans are greedy, business is corrupt, business if evil, the free-market doesn't work, Conservatives are ignorant, Conservatives are archaic, etc.
All these themes are repeated as often as possible in as many ways as possible in newspapers, books, magazines, movies, TV programs, on the campaign trail, in the halls of Congress, in the classrooms, anywhere they can whenever they can.
Once these lies are repeated enough times, and generally become accepted by the middle class, the guilt-ridden middle class can then ease their consciences by electing Progressives to implement socialist programs and vastly increase the size and scope of the government and gradually replace capitalism with socialism.
If Conservatism is to survive, Conservatives must understand and learn how to effectively counter the "Rules for Radicals" espoused in Saul Alinsky's book.
The following are some of the main Alinsky Rules used to establish Socialism in America and how to counter them.
Alinsky Rule #1: "Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat."
Strategy:
Here Progressives try to steer discourse to find Conservative's weaknesses. Once a weakness is found, they bombard the person with trivia, lies and disinformation to keep the person off balance. They always attack the person, not the issue. If Progressives target issues, they will lose. Accordingly, Progressives must create confusion and fear and cause retreat.
How to Counter:
Remember the truth is on our side.
Don't be confused or fearful. Know the facts, don't be intimidated, be on the offensive and never retreat. Don't let Progressive bog you down in minutia. Turn the tables on them. Make them prove your own assertions are incorrect.
Progressive policies throughout history have either failed or in the process of failing. Point out the Progressive's failings (which there are many), give specific examples of where their policies have failed miserably. Make them owe up to their failures. They won't accept blame so they will be forced to retreat.
Progressives have a terrible history of failure that cannot be defended. The truth will always trump short-sighted ideas and philosophies.
Alinsky Rule #2: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
Progressive Strategy:
Progressives will try to make Conservatives look like hypocritical bigots and racist. Whenever a Conservative makes the slightest mistake, Progressives flood the media on the story until the public is sick and tired of the subject.
How to Counter:
-Show the Progressive their hypocrisy on the matter. Expose instances where they have done the same thing (usually much worse) and it wasn't a problem. Put them on the defensive. Remind them of their failures.
It is also important to practice what you preach. If mistakes are made, don't cover them up. Apologize immediately, explain the true facts of the situation and, depending on the situation, impose appropriate punishment and move on.
Whenever Progressives break the rules, hammer them with all you got. Keep the scandal in the news until people are almost sick of it but not to the extent where it backfires and looks spiteful.
Embarrass them, keep digging for dirt, find it, exploit it and destroy them, get them angry, make them look silly. Show their immorality, how they cheat, catch them in their lies. Don't let them off the hook. Throw the truth in their face. Make them dive for cover.
Rule #3) "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
Actually, Alinsky is correct and Conservatives should use this rule as much as possible.
Ridicule Progressives as much as possible. Expose their lies, show how their programs never work. Show how ignorant they are. Show them how they just "don't get it." Show the failure of their war on poverty.
Compare and contrast the philosophical differences between Conservative and Progressives: Conservatives create jobs/Progressives give food stamps. Conservatives project power in foreign affairs/Progressives project weakness. Conservatives lower taxes/Progressives increase taxes, Conservatives support business/Progressives villianize business, Conservatives protect the Constitution/Progressives want to destroy Constitution. Conservatives want to enforce the law/ Progressives want to bend the law, Conservatives have a history of growth and prosperity/Progressives have a history of poverty and contraction, Conservatives want to build/ Progressives want to destroy.
The differences are stark and numerous and must be made clear to the electorate.
Ridicule the Progressive every chance you get. Show them where they are wrong. Show them their ideas never work and are hurtful to the country.
Contrast and conquer. Show the poverty of their ideas, show their disgraceful history of failure. Show them the numbers. They have no way to counter the truth. Truth and history will destroy the Progresive movement.
Rule #4: "The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself. (Man-made Global Warming, Illegal Immigrants, Tea Party members, Rush Limbaugh, etc.)
How to counter
Don't let the progressives get away with their Chicken Little disaster tales. They create imaginary threats they claim will destroy the world or the economy to generate fear and to posture the government as the only solution to these imaginary threats.
Expose their lies. Show the true nature of the situation and down play their disaster scenarios. Show them that they spend too much time on imaginary threats and not enough on real threats like the Federal Budget deficit, jobs, energy security, terrorism, run away government, etc.
Make their disaster scenarios a joke and don't forget to show them later they were wrong.
Rule #5: "In a fight, anything goes. It almost reaches a point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt."
How to Counter:
Expose their dirty lies, their deceitful and games: corruption, voter fraud, labor union scams, special interest group collusion, etc. It is important to get as much evidence as possible to show the public how dirty they are and to what means they are willing to use to achieve their ends. Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.
Follow the law, but do play offensive ball as Alinsky suggests. This is a fight for the future of our country so, within the law, anything does go. Be absolutely brutal with Progressives. When they make a mistake or are caught in a lie, crucify them and don't be ashamed of showing their past mistakes and dredging up the past. Remind the American people daily that Progressives can't be trusted and are just concerned about gaining power for themselves and not what is best for the country.
Rule #6: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
This is probably the easiest Alinsky tactic to beat. Unlike the Progressives, Conservatives have proven programs and philosophies that can lead our country to peace, prosperity and freedom. The Progressive philosophies will lead to higher taxes, higher debt, international political instability and eventually to tyranny.
Push Progressives to give specific details of their proposals and then show how the proposals will be a disaster for the country. Show were they are being naive, where their numbers are wrong, where and why their programs will fail. Give historic examples of their failures.
Rule #7: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame."
This is a very effective strategy often used by Progressives. The recent Obamacare Bill is the best example of this rule. Obama picked the target-health care, kept it in the news for over one year-froze it, personalized it by countless stories and letters from real people (often fraudulent) expressing the failure of the current health care system-personalized it, and polarized the country by making people feel guilt about the uninsured and portrayed those against Obamacare as racist, selfish and indifferent.
The Progressive movement currently has complete control of our great nation and threatens to destroy our Constitutional Republic and replace it with socialism and eventually tyranny.
In order to defeat Progressivism, we need to understand the strategies they employ and how to counter them. In addition, the Republican party needs to form a strong agenda between now and November.
Republicans must currently be the "Party of NO" but we must also be the Party of ideas and the Party of solutions to solve the many problems that threaten to destroy our economy, our Constitution, our freedoms and the American dream.
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