Today’s
American leftists, who want to replace our system with one based on
redistribution, reject one of this country’s primary founding virtues, its
demand economy, by Larry Kelley, 1/30/19.
Saul Alinsky, the great admirer of
Vladimir Lenin, had a significant impact on at least two of our most prominent
Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Then Hillary Rodham wrote
her senior thesis at Wellesley College in praise of him. Obama’s first
job out of Harvard was that of a “community organizer” in Chicago where he
worked for an Alinsky inspired organization and taught the tactics outlined in
the Chicago radical’s book, Rules for Radicals
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Today’s American leftists, who want to
replace our system with one based on redistribution, reject one of this
country’s primary founding virtues, its demand economy. It afforded Americans
nearly complete freedom to build enterprises aimed at meeting the needs of
fellow
Americans. Approximately 100 years
after America’s founding, a German, Karl Marx, conceived of what he thought
would be a more virtuous system where government controlled the means of
production so that wealth could be more fairly distributed.
The central problem for our
redistributionists, as we can clearly see in Venezuela, is the fact, if you
hire an army of bureaucrats to take over the oil industry, you have to say,
“What about the grocery stores?” You can’t have grocers free to run their
enterprises when the oil workers are not. Soon you have vast armies of
bureaucrats and their bosses who run the whole economy. And quickly thereafter
they become the most powerful political group, able to control the police and
the courts in order to protect their position indefinitely and able to siphon
of ever-larger portions of wealth for themselves.
Parenthetically, Winston Churchill,
shortly after World War II, saw his country’s coming infatuation with socialism
and warned that a redistributionist economy could only be imposed by a police
state. In 1945, the man who saved Britain from Nazi domination was voted out of
the Prime Minister’s office. But he was mostly right.
What the American left, from
Elizabeth Warren to Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t appear to fathom, is that they are
dutifully executing the tactics preached by Alinsky, the self-proclaimed
revolutionary. His dogma seems to be ingrained in today’s left. He taught
the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. This
precept succinctly expresses the Alinsky doctrine. And for today’s
Alinsky Democrats, this can be clearly seen in their total opposition to
Trump’s wall. It is not about the wall or about protecting the nation from the
next terrorist attack or even about immigration.
For them, it’s first about flooding
the country with as many low-skilled workers as possible, people who will need
be dependent upon them and will need all kinds of monetary assistance and who
will ultimately vote for and side with the redistributionists. But more
importantly, it is about denying their enemy a win associated with his keeping
a key campaign promise and handing him a defeat.
In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky lists his thirteen rules to
overthrow the current American system which is dominated by the “Haves” who
oppress the “Have Nots.” Rule five states, “Ridicule is man’s most potent
weapon.” And rule thirteen states, “Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it.”
The implementation of these two
tactics can be seen in the abject vilification of the Catholic high school
boys, returning from a pro-life rally, wearing their make-America-great-again
caps. Despite getting the story completely wrong, the left-supporting main-stream
media and their social media allies became a mob, ridiculing the boys for their
clear bigotry. But of course, the ultimate target they wished to personalize
was Trump. The boys were guilty because they were his supporters. no matter
what issue Trump raises or what agenda item he attempts to advance, it is
illegitimate because he’s a racist.
Not only did the boys receive a
flood of death threats, but the high school, Covington Catholic, also received
so many threats of violence, it shut down for a day. Alinsky also taught that
politics is a zero-sum exercise because it is war. Their enemies embrace the
current system which places great value on compromise. But because the
Alinsky Democrats believe themselves to be at war, there is no middle ground.
They perceive everyone else as enemies on a battlefield, and they set out
to destroy them by demonizing them and ridiculing them.
Alinsky’s rule number four states,
“Make the enemy live up to his own book of rules.” This correlates with
the statement made by his mentor, Lenin, who infamously said, “The capitalists
will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Alinsky’s enemies don’t
believe they are in a war but instead believe in the rules of fairness and
inclusion. For Alinsky Democrats, their politics of personal destruction is the
weapon of choice. And because they believe they are striving for a more just
world, they have no moral code and they give no quarter.
A powerful law firm experienced in
defamation lawsuits has been retained by some of the Covington families to
pursue some major media outlets who falsely slandered their children.
This should keep this episode or raid carried out by the Alinsky Democrats
alive for a while. And who knows? Perhaps, it will give birth to
the Covington right.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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