Saul Alinsky wrote the 'Rules for Radicals' on the left

Some people know all about Saul Alinsky, but I would bet the vast majority of our population, including those who vote, have heard the name but know nothing about the creed of this extreme radical person. Below please find a skeletal outline of what Alinsky recommends in his books for radical transformation that have been embraced by very many Democrats. I just read sections of his "Rules for Radicals" — the Prologue and Tactics chapter — so these comments are what Alinsky wrote. Radical is an understatement. This is an old book, but his ideas were studied by Hillary Clinton, who chose him as the subject of her college honors thesis, and by Barack Obama, who was trained in community organizing by an Alinsky successor at a group Alinsky co-founded.

Alinsky starts with a battle cry he borrowed but embraces — burn the system down by rejecting the materialism of your parents while also having contempt for leaders of the country. He sees only failure in our social and political life. Why are we walking on the moon while people are on welfare? Sound like a devotee of socialism? You bet. He feels death hanging over our nation with no meaning to our lives. He wants a reformation of thought and then a revolution. His formula is to agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with current values. What good can possibly come from this type of philosophy? The summer of 2020? He wants the have-nots to take power away from the haves with the encouragement to revolution with the statement — better to die on your feet than live on your knees. This is the type of individual that created the far left that is plaguing us today. Extreme views and extreme tactics.

Alinsky advises to get a mass-based organization but if that is not possible raise a clamor to deceive the actual small size. If the organization is tiny, stink up the place. He recommends going outside the experience of “the enemy” to create confusion, fear and retreat. Make the enemy live up to their “rules” while you have no such limitations. In a fight, anything goes. Also, pick a target, freeze it and polarize it. Ridicule is an important weapon so pick an individual at the corporation, not the actual company. He feels labor and capital are enemies. He says the have-nots lack money but have lots of people who can be organized to accomplish their goals. A couple of his infantile strategies were to buy 100 tickets to a concert and send a group there who had eaten beans to stink up the place. He threatened to have people tie up toilets at O'Hare airport in Chicago and stay there for hours so nobody could use them. He also once threatened to send 3,000 Black people into a store that only hired Black people for the most menial jobs to paralyze the operation.

Obama and Joe Biden have adopted tenets of Alinsky Strategy. The radical transformation formulated by Alinsky has become the Democrat concept of governing. Equality has become equity and there are specific examples of every Alinsky religion being implemented.

The top classes in society, except the elites in power, will be dragged down to a level where there are few differences among everybody else. It used to be called Feudalism, with a king (Democrat president), an aristocracy (the politicians and the billionaires), and the rest of us as peasants. Think about this the next time you vote for the party of social justice.

“The decision rests with you.”— Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Mike Zuroick lives in Langhorne.

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