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 I believe that we conservatives not only have the right, but the responsibility to use whatever measures necessary to preserve and protect our American way of life. If adopting Saul Alinsky’s methods will help us reach that goal, so be it.

How the left and Obama have successfully used the Alinsky Method

As we all know, Obama not only learned the “Alinsky method” while working as an organizer in Chicago, but later taught Alinsky to other community organizers. He was well versed in the Alinsky philosophy and has used the tactics in his political campaigns and now, in the activities of his administration.

He has played down his association with Alinsky’s philosophy because it would be politically damaging to be viewed as having had a Marxist mentor, but he has stated that while a community organizer, he got the "best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School."

It is very easy however to find Alinsky’s fingerprints all over Obama’s campaign for the Presidency and the actions of the democrat party and other left-wing organizations for many years.

As you read through the following dissection of the Alinsky philosophy, you’ll recognize how its use has been successful in influencing those citizens who were not really engaged in the political process, how that impacted the Presidential election, and how it’s still propping up Obama’s approval ratings.

Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Marxist who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States since. His motto was, "The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results."

In the Alinsky model, "organizing" is a euphemism for "revolution" -- a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America's social and economic structure.

• Right now, we conservative Christians are the “oppressed segment of the population” and we want change.

The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted -- a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation. Thus, the theory goes, the people will settle for nothing less than that status quo's complete collapse -- to be followed by the creation of an entirely new system upon its ruins.

Toward that end, they will be apt to follow the lead of charismatic radical organizers who project an aura of confidence and vision, and who profess to clearly understand what types of societal "changes" are needed.

• Like Barack Hussein Obama, for instance?

Alinsky viewed as supremely important the role of the organizer, or master manipulator, whose guidance was responsible for setting the agendas of the People's Organization. "The organizer," Alinsky wrote, "is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach -- to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God."

• Like “The Messiah,” Barack Hussein Obama?

But it is not enough for the organizer to be in solidarity with the people. He must also, said Alinsky, cultivate unity against a clearly identifiable enemy; he must specifically name this foe, and "single out" precisely who is to blame for the "particular evil" that is the source of the people's angst. In other words, there must be a face associated with the people's discontent.

• So they demonized George W. Bush.

Alinsky summarized it this way: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…. There is no point to tactics unless one has a target upon which to center the attacks."

"The organizer who forgets the significance of personal identification," said Alinsky, "will attempt to answer all objections on the basis of logic and merit. With few exceptions this is a futile procedure."

• Until now, we have attempted to thwart the advance of the left by way of logic and merit – and generally it has been, as Alinsky says, a futile exercise. Against all logic and merit, Obama won didn’t he? And his approval ratings (while dropping) remain high.

Alinsky stressed the need for organizers to convince their followers that the chasm between the enemy and the members of the People's Organization was vast and unbridgeable. "Before men can act," he said, "an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil."

In Alinsky's brand of social warfare, the ends (in this case, the transfer of power) justify virtually whatever means are required (in this case, lying). He said, “In war the end justifies almost any means.”

• We’ve seen ample evidence of this in the radical left-wing of the Democrat party. To them, there is no reason not to lie, fabricate, and obfuscate, those activities are neither good or bad, they are merely useful tools.

Alinsky stressed that organizers and their followers needed to take care, when first unveiling their particular crusade for "change," not to alienate the middle class with any type of crude language, defiant demeanor, or menacing appearance that suggested radicalism or a disrespect for middle class mores and traditions.

• It looks like Obama, who Joe Biden called “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” fits Alinsky’s pattern to a “T.”

Alinsky stressed the importance of "learning to talk the language of those with whom one is trying to converse." To appeal to the middle class, Alinsky continued, "goals must be phrased in general terms like 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'; 'Of the Common Welfare'; 'Pursuit of happiness'; or 'Bread and Peace.'"

But Alinsky understood that there was a flip side to his strategy of speaking the palatable language of the middle class and the reassuring parlance of morality. Specifically, he said that organizers must be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably willing -- for the sake of the moral principles in whose name they claim to act -- to watch society descend into utter chaos and anarchy. He stated that they must be prepared, if necessary, to "go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion."

• Doesn’t that beg the question, “could it be that our current economic upheaval is part of a grander plan”?

One way in which organizers and their disciples can broadcast their preparedness for this possibility is by staging loud, defiant, massive protest rallies expressing deep rage and discontent over one particular injustice or another.

• Take heed, my brothers and sisters, the Tea Parties could and should become our Genesis.

“Such demonstrations can give onlookers the impression that a mass movement is preparing to shift into high gear, and that its present (already formidable) size is but a fraction of what it eventually will become.”

• This is why we need to dramatically increase the number of participants in the upcoming July 4 Tea Parties. It will reinforce the impression of our coming together and at the same time, display evidence of a gathering momentum, drawing more to the movement.
• One of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” states: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. They’ve been conditioned to think that our power has diminished. But the 623,000 (Pajamas Media) that showed up for the April 15^th Tea Parties awoke a few from their complacency. We need to follow that with another, even bigger turnout on July 4^th to help create Alinsky’s impression.

In Alinsky's view, action was more often the catalyst for revolutionary fervor than vice versa. He deemed it essential for the organizer to get people to act first (e.g., participate in a demonstration) and rationalize their actions later. "Get them to move in the right direction first," said Alinsky. "They'll explain to themselves later why they moved in that direction."

• We need to convince Americans of all persuasions that it is time to protest the government’s gradual elimination of the freedoms that we hold dear and the movement away from our revered Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Alinsky taught that in order to most effectively cast themselves as defenders of moral principals and human decency, organizers must react with "shock, horror, and moral outrage" whenever their targeted enemy in any way misspeaks or fails to live up to his "book of rules."

• We can certainly do that. Every time that an opposing high-visibility administration member or congressperson misspeaks or is caught in a lie, that event needs to be brought to the attention of everyone. Sooner or later, even the unengaged will notice. We need to pound their fallacies over and over into the public’s awareness. 
• Another “Rule for Radicals,” Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

Moreover, said Alinsky, whenever possible the organizer must deride his enemy and dismiss him as someone unworthy of being taken seriously because he is either intellectually deficient or morally bankrupt.

• Isn’t this exactly the way that President George Bush was treated? As unworthy and intellectually deficient? Again, they were following the Alinsky method.

"The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength," said Alinsky.  He advised organizers to "laugh at the enemy" in an effort to provoke "an irrational anger." "Ridicule," said Alinsky, "is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

• If you want to see a perfect example of the left’s use of this tenet, simply watch the video of Keith Olberman and Janeane Garofalo right here on Pesky Truth. 
• We must ridicule and deride the opposition; based on their actions, they are worthy of little else. This action is intended to belittle them in the eyes of the voters.

According to Alinsky, it was also vital that organizers focus on multiple crusades and multiple approaches. "Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time … New issues and crises are always developing…" "Keep the pressure on," he continued, "with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."

A People's Organization, said Alinsky, can build a wide-based membership only if it focuses on multiple issues (e.g., civil rights, civil liberties, welfare, rent, urban renewal, the environment, etc.) "Multiple issues mean constant action and life," Alinsky wrote.

• In our case, there are many issues we can focus on: 
  • Illegal immigration / amnesty
  • National security / war on terror
  • Reduced federal spending
  • Tax cuts
  • Rights of the unborn / abortion
  • Second amendment gun rights
  • Supreme court and judicial appointments
  • And other issues, like Obama’s unreleased records 
• And remember that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition to be unethical.

During the 1960s Alinsky was an enormously influential force in American life. In 1966, Senator Robert Kennedy allied himself with union leader Cesar Chavez, an Alinsky disciple. Chavez had worked ten years for Alinsky, beginning in 1952. Kennedy soon drifted into Alinsky's circle. After race riots shook Rochester, New York, Alinsky descended on the city and began pressuring Eastman-Kodak to hire more blacks. Kennedy supported Alinsky's shakedown."

Alinsky died in 1972, but his legacy lives on as a staple of leftist method, a veritable blueprint for revolution (which he and his disciples euphemistically refer to as "change").

Two of his most notable modern-day disciples are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.