How the Obamas have used the Alinsky method in order to not disclose the truth
Freedom Outpost – Sid Wolfe –
1/8/2014
Fascinating article
Politics is all about power
relations, but to advance one’s power, one must couch one’s positions in the
language of morality – “Community organizers are ‘political realists’ who see
the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived
immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale (words) for
expedient action and self-interest”(p12). Gore
Vidal once said “Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will
solemnly vote against their own interests.”
There are three kinds of
people in the world: rich and powerful oppressor (haves); the poor and
disenfranchised oppressed (have-nots); and the middle-class (have a little,
want more) whose apathy perpetuates the status quo – “the Haves, possess, all
of ‘the power, money, food, security, and luxury’ and resist the ‘change’
necessary to relieve the Have-Nots of the ‘poverty, rotten housing, disease,
ignorance, political impotence, and despair’” (p18). In 1820, Daniel
Webster said: “In the nature of things, those who have no property and see
their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be
favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes
numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder,
and is naturally ready, at times, for violence and revolution.”
Change is brought about
through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts
society as it is
There can be no conversation
between the organizer and his opponents. The latter must be depicted as being
evil – “The compulsion to “agitate” makes it sound as if the organizer is
disinclined to converse with those with whom he disagrees. You don’t communicate
with anyone purely on the rational facts or ethics of an issue” (p89) – “Moral
rationalization. To converse with one’s opponents is to humanize them. The
objective – demonize those who stand in the way of his designs for change. The
organizer “knows that there can be no action until issues are polarized to this
degree” (p78).
“All truth passes through
three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident” – Arthur
Schopenhauer
The organizer can never
focus on just a single issue. He must move inexhaustibly from one issue to the
next – hence “multiple issues,” (p76).
Justice
William O. Douglas echoes Heston, writing “Restriction of free thought and
free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions….could most easily defeat
us.”
Obama employs Alinsky’s
tactics; however, not to give voice to the people and implement REAL reform;
but, to provide those in power with means to advance an ideology and goals
outlined decades ago. Liberal
democracy describes a form of government with a Constitution, Rule of Law
and freedoms. What “liberals” and “progressives” have difficulty with are the
basic principles. Distorted views “of the world as it is” vs. their version of
a “world as it should be” results in an oligarchy wherein democracy slowly and
systematically corrupted by elitists who create the illusion of representation
and reform.
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