Understanding a Subversive Alinskyite Presidency - 1

 

Excerpts from David Horowitz, Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution, The Alinsky Model: 2009

 

The Alinsky Strategy: Boring From Within:

Conservatives think of war as a metaphor when applied to politics. For radicals, the war is real. That is why when partisans of the left go into battle, they set out to destroy their opponents by stigmatizing them as "racists," "sexists," "homophobes" and "Islamophobes."

 

It is why they so often pretend to be what they are not ("liberals" for example) and rarely say what they mean. Deception for them is a military tactic in a war that is designed to eliminate the enemy.

 

Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is first of all a comradely critique of the sixties' New Left. What bothers Alinsky about these radicals is their honesty - which may have been their only redeeming feature.

While the Communist Left pretended to be Jeffersonian Democrats and "progressives" and formed "popular fronts" with liberals, the New Left radicals disdained these deceptions, regarding them as display of weakness. To distinguish themselves from such popular front politics, sixties radicals said they were revolutionaries and proud of it. ...

 

The most basic principle of Alinsky's advice to radicals is to lie to their opponents and disarm them by pretending to be moderates and liberals. Deception is the radical's most important weapon, and it has been a prominent one since the end of the sixties.

 

Racial arsonists such as Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright pose as civil rights activists; anti-American radicals such as Bill Ayers pose as patriotic progressives; socialist pose as liberals. The mark of their success is reflected in the fact that conservatives collude in the deception and call them liberals as well....

 

Alinsky chides New Lefties for being "rhetorical radicals" rather than "realistic." New Lefties scared people but didn't have the power to back up their threats. The most important thing for radicals, according to Alinsky, is to deal with the world as it is, and not as they might want to be.

 

"An an organizer I start from the world as it is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.... That means working in the system."

 

This is the passage from which Michelle Obama selected lines to sum up her husband's vision at the Democratic convention that nominated him for president in August 2008. Referring to a visit  he made to Chicago neighborhoods, she said, "And Barack stood up that day and he spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'world as it is' and 'the world as it should be.' And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two and we settle for the world as it is even when it doesn't reflect our values and aspirations." She concluded: "All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."

 

George H. Kubeck - In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sunday,June 16, 2013

 

P.S.  Mrs. Barack Obama: Abortion on Demand and Same Sex marriage are not American Values.

"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Barack Obama , election eve, 2008