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September 25, 2008
Barack Obama and Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths
Topics: Political News and commentaries
Any piece that begins with the following quotes has automatically got my attention; and this is especially the case when it is offered in the context of the warlike political style of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that borders on the psychopathic, with the former of the two being the most accomplished and ruthless disciple of the Alinsky model for radicals:
"... the community organizer ... must first rub raw the resentments of the people; fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression.'In his piece today at American Thinker, James Lewis frames the kind of political behavior we are seeing since the "Boomer Left" took over the Democratic Party as psychopathic for its lack of conscience, and most especially when Barack Obama was promoted to a position of prominence among Democrats, as he emerged unto the scene having been carefully molded and packaged by the far left radical setting of southside Chicago and the far left side of the party. Here are a few excerpts to peak your interest:
-- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals"There Is Only The Fight --- An analysis of the Alinsky Model."
-- Hillary Clinton, BA Honors Thesis, Wellesley College, 1969."(Barack) Obama worked in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky, who made Chicago the birthplace of modern community organizing...."
-- The Nation
[...] A psychopath is a person without conscience; someone who constantly breaks the moral rules of the community. Saul Alinsky was a "community organizer" who found a career that fit that personality disorder. In the Orwellian upside-down world of the Left, community organizers disorganize communities. That is the meaning of revolution, to overturn whatever exists today in the raw pursuit of one's own power.[...] Alinsky's disciples -- including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- have a warlike political style. They learned politics as war from the Master. Obama is so well-trained in Alinsky tactics that he used to teach workshops on it. That is why Obama can knowingly violate Federal law against usurping the presidential power to negotiate with Iraq before ever getting elected. Actual election to head of state by the voters means nothing, just as it means nothing to Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, who have negotiated with Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood in clear violation of law while serving in Congress.
Teaching hatred for the normal majority is the key to power for radicals. But Alinsky taught that you can't easily hate millions of people. To do that effectively you need a one-person scapegoat to focus all your hatred on. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That is the politics of personal destruction, and it doesn't matter if the target is black like Clarence Thomas, or a woman like Sarah Palin, or a severely wounded war veteran like John McCain.
That is why Obama is now instructing his followers to "get in their faces" of those Americans who are not down for his cause. Obama acts like a nice guy, but he is a political warmonger. He's been very clear about that: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." That's the language of gang war.
Today we can see the Left's rage reaction to John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin. The New York Sun quoted one feminist saying "All of my women friends, a week ago Monday, were on the verge of throwing themselves out windows ...People were flipping out. ... Every woman I know was in high hysteria over this. Everyone was just beside themselves with terror that this woman could be our president -- our potential next president."
The "comedienne" Sandra Bernhard suggested that Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by blacks in Manhattan" if she dared to go there.
A British Leftist writing for Pravda (!) called "Sarah Palin - The Devil in disguise...
Sarah Palin, Mrs. Nobody know-it-all shreiking cow from Alaska, the joke of American politics, plied with a couple of vodkas ... cheap little guttersnipe ... suppose you shut up ... you pith-headed little bimbo from the back of beyond ... So next time suppose you keep your mouth shut and while you're at it, make sure the members of your family keep their legs shut too. ... "That warlike rage has been systematically whipped up over decades by the Left. That's what college "Women's Studies" does, just as "Black Studies" is deliberately designed to whip up black rage and victimhood. Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis is a case in point.
Lewis goes on to write that the single most important point about Alinsky's "community organizing" strategy is that normal people can be trained to act like psychopaths and become convinced that a "higher morality" allows them to act without conscience, which Alinsky called "pragmatic radicalism." In this he differed from his Communist friends only in being more practical and less ideological, and was a radical because it suited his personality, because it was fun, brought him power and influence, and made him feel good. He was very clear in saying that, and he inspired the Boomer Left to follow his lead. As we see in Barack Obama and the politics of destruction practiced by the Boomer Left, Alinsky's teachings are very much alive and much practiced today. And as was the case with Alisnky, it's all about power and influence, and nothing to do with what's right for America. Barack Obama's change is clearly the wrong kind of change for our great nation.Alinsky called ordinary Americans "the enemy." Normal people don't declare war on all of society. But Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals that radicals
"...have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt ... They are right ... "Normal, decent America is the enemy for these people.Obama and Hillary are lifelong followers of Alinsky. They use his tactics and ideology. That is why American politics became the politics of personal destruction when the Boomer Left came to power.
Read Lewis's entire piece here ...
In the way of a post script here, the McCain camp would do well to read Rules for Radicals; after all, it is exactly the tactics and planning being used by the Obama camp.
Posted by Abdul at September 25, 2008 9:08 AM
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