The following is an excerpt from AlinskyDefeater’s new book Rules for Radicals Defeated – A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama / Alinsky Tactics
The fifth rule of ethics of means and ends is that concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
Alinsky recounts a time when he was embroiled in a conflict with a corporation, and people hired by the corporation caught Alinsky in a sexual indiscretion with a young woman. When they threatened to reveal his affair, Alinsky came forward and said,
Go ahead and give it to the press. I think she’s beautiful and I have never claimed to be celibate. Go ahead!
Shortly afterwards, someone came forward from within the corporation to offer Alinsky information about a leader of the opposition who was caught in a homosexual indiscretion. Alinsky refused to use the information, “Thanks, but forget it. I don’t fight that way. I don’t want to see it. Goodbye.” Alinsky confesses that he would have used the information if it had been the only means available to him.[i]
Alinsky does not base his objection to using such tactics on some sense of morality, but rather, on the perceived morality of the people he is trying to influence. This is an important point. Where most Conservatives would base their actions on their sense of some absolute moral standard, Alinsky teaches his followers to use the method that is perceived as most moral by the people most important to accomplishing the goal. The object is not to act a certain way because it is right. The object is to act a certain way because it will garner you the most support for your cause. In other words, expedience trumps morality, or perhaps more correctly – creates the morality. Alinsky’s crusade against poverty is based on the moral imperative that one must act when confronted with those who are poor and lack political power. Where does Alinsky get this morality? Apparently, he gets it out of thin air, and then discards it when it becomes inconvenient to his “noble” cause.
[i] Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, p. 33.
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David Axelrod’s Alinsky machine is hard at work pumping out one desperate ploy after another to keep his candidate’s chances of a second term alive. There’s not much chance of Obama winning a second term running on his abysmal record, and so the Alinsky machine is in high gear.
The current strategy is to try to lure Romney and the rest of us into a conversation about social issues in order to avoid things like the economy and foreign affairs. It’s standard Alinsky stuff. Alinsky’s rules two and three deal with trying to operate in your area of strength and whenever possible, make your opponent operate in an area where he is not strong. Hence, the Obama / Axelrod strategy is to throw out divisive social issues that are intended to force Conservatives to react in a way that could be seen as backwards or even intolerant. As Alinsky says,
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
They want to goad you into to talking about peripheral issues like gay marriage, and some alleged attack on women in order to keep you from concentrating on the economy and the myriad of Obama’s other broken promises. Obama certainly can’t run as the candidate of “hope and change” any longer, and so his team has to hope you will fall for the diversions. If they’re lucky, maybe they’ll even get Romney or another prominent Republican to say something intolerant in response to their ersatz gestures concerning their chosen social issue du jour. It’s not as though social issues are unimportant, but the trick is to fight them on our terms not theirs. That means we frame it, and we time it. We don’t react. We make them react.
Advice: Keep on message. Keep the pressure on them. Spend as much time as possible pointing out Obama’s complete failure on the economy, along with his broken promises from 2008. Point out his divisive class warfare attacks, and remind people of his bowing and otherwise acquiescing to American enemies. In short, make the election a referendum on Obama, not some litmus test for Republicans on every social issue they can think to throw out. It’s a lot easier to win on the social issues when you win the office first.
For a more in depth discussion of this strategy please see my book entitled Rules for Radicals Defeated – A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama / Alinsky Tactics available at Amazon in print and on Kindle.
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