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In looking for one of my old posts for a reason unrelated to this topic, I came across this post made a few weeks after Obama first took office in 2009. The Thread topic was "Where is the unity Obama spoke of in his campaign?" I'm quoting my own old post about Obama and Alinsky:
"Obama was a community organizer with Saul Alinsky as his role model (Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on him). Alinsky outlined some tactics to achieve his socialist (redistribution of wealth) agenda: Agitate, Aggravate, Educate, Organize.
Stir the pain of economic suffering/create economic dissatifaction. Make them angry at the "haves" for their personal situation. Identify pain, stir them up, then dangle the promise of hope to organize them. Ridicule your opponents so people laugh at them instead of listening to them. Convince the middle class to side with the organizer leading to their own middle class self-destruction by acting like you are listening to them. Make them think they are aimless, confused, to be pitied. Alinsky told organizers to use the language of the community to move people in the way the community organizer wanted them to move and to ditch the terminology people might find distasteful. Show good manners and outwardly show respect for their religious beliefs so the middle class will listen to you. Be condescending, not confrontational.
"Rub raw the resentments of the people of a community." Alinsky - "Rules for Radicals" Does that sound like "why can't we all get along?"
So now it's 6 years later. Stir the pain of economic suffering? Make them angry at the "haves" for their personal situation? Identify pain, stir them up then dangle the promise of hope? Ridicule your opponents so people laugh at them instead of listening to them? Convince the middle class to side with the organizer leading to their own middle class destruction? Ditch terminology people might find distasteful and use the language of the community? Outwardly show respect for their religious beliefs so the middle class will listen to you?
I'd say in 2015, Obama is doing a swell job following the Alinsky blueprint.
I had a good chuckle over this thread. Raising taxes on the rich to Reagan levels but far below the 90% tax rate of the Eisenhower era is somehow "socialist.". Take a Xanax and settle down.
In looking for one of my old posts for a reason unrelated to this topic, I came across this post made a few weeks after Obama first took office in 2009. The Thread topic was "Where is the unity Obama spoke of in his campaign?" I'm quoting my own old post about Obama and Alinsky:
"Obama was a community organizer with Saul Alinsky as his role model (Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on him). Alinsky outlined some tactics to achieve his socialist (redistribution of wealth) agenda: Agitate, Aggravate, Educate, Organize.
Stir the pain of economic suffering/create economic dissatifaction. Make them angry at the "haves" for their personal situation. Identify pain, stir them up, then dangle the promise of hope to organize them. Ridicule your opponents so people laugh at them instead of listening to them. Convince the middle class to side with the organizer leading to their own middle class self-destruction by acting like you are listening to them. Make them think they are aimless, confused, to be pitied. Alinsky told organizers to use the language of the community to move people in the way the community organizer wanted them to move and to ditch the terminology people might find distasteful. Show good manners and outwardly show respect for their religious beliefs so the middle class will listen to you. Be condescending, not confrontational.
"Rub raw the resentments of the people of a community." Alinsky - "Rules for Radicals" Does that sound like "why can't we all get along?"
So now it's 6 years later. Stir the pain of economic suffering? Make them angry at the "haves" for their personal situation? Identify pain, stir them up then dangle the promise of hope? Ridicule your opponents so people laugh at them instead of listening to them? Convince the middle class to side with the organizer leading to their own middle class destruction? Ditch terminology people might find distasteful and use the language of the community? Outwardly show respect for their religious beliefs so the middle class will listen to you?
I'd say in 2015, Obama is doing a swell job following the Alinsky blueprint.
So who was harping on Alinsky on Fox this week?
I think this post is what ignorant people think intellectuals sound like...
Because no one would notice that they are underpaid/underemployed and barely able to make ends meet if not for Obama/Democrats pointing it out to them? Seriously?
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Originally Posted by LauraC
Convince the middle class to side with the organizer leading to their own middle class self-destruction by acting like you are listening to them.
Sounds like far right wing politicians and their policies.
The same can be said of your entire laundry list. That's because the right uses the exact same tactics on its opponents as the left does. It's called politics. The only difference is the left hasn't attached a name to it in order to use it to rile up and terrify their base. Hey, that's an Alinsky tactic!! Well done, right wingers!
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Originally Posted by TreeBeard
I had a good chuckle over this thread. Raising taxes on the rich to Reagan levels but far below the 90% tax rate of the Eisenhower era is somehow "socialist.". Take a Xanax and settle down.
I chuckled at the title of the thread, too. Alinsky is one of the far right's code words, a boogie man of their own creation that they use to scare all the good little right wingers with. I'm sure Tea Partiers check under their beds and in their closets every night before they climb into bed to make sure no Alinskies are lurking there, ready to pounce.
This is funny, funny stuff, OP. Thanks for starting my day off with a hearty laugh.
Because no one would notice that they are underpaid/underemployed and barely able to make ends meet if not for Obama/Democrats pointing it out to them? Seriously?
Sounds like far right wing politicians and their policies.
The same can be said of your entire laundry list. That's because the right uses the exact same tactics on its opponents as the left does. It's called politics. The only difference is the left hasn't attached a name to it in order to use it to rile up and terrify their base. Hey, that's an Alinsky tactic!! Well done, right wingers!
I chuckled at the title of the thread, too. Alinsky is one of the far right's code words, a boogie man of their own creation that they use to scare all the good little right wingers with. I'm sure Tea Partiers check under their beds and in their closets every night before they climb into bed to make sure no Alinskies are lurking there, ready to pounce.
This is funny, funny stuff, OP. Thanks for starting my day off with a hearty laugh.
Replace "Alinsky" with "Ayn Rand", "far right" with "far left", and "right wingers" with "left wingers" and your statement remains accurate. Both sides have their boogeymen.
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following the Alinsky blueprint.
How is Obama Doing With The Alinsky Plan?
thanks for sharing
