Rules for Radicals, p. 113,
“The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”
It’s no wonder that President Obama and other politicos on the Left have embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement. They do it, not in spite of the excesses, but because of the excesses. In true Alinsky fashion Obama finds affinity with a group of anti-capitalists who defecate on police vehicles. Obama is a product of his Alinsky training, and of the 1960′s counter-revolution.
It is second nature for Obama to sanction the types of political dissent with which he is familiar. When he saw a peaceful demonstrations by the Tea Party, that sought smaller Government and less debt, he was confounded. At first he tried to ignore it, and when that became impossible he famously referred to the Tea Party as,
“Folks waving Tea Bags around”
Occupy Wall Street is right in Obama’s wheelhouse. After all, the objective of Alinsky in his quasi-Marxist approach, was to inspire “revolution not revelation” (Rules for Radicals, p. xviii).
Alinsky went on to say,
The significant changes in history have been made be revolutions. There are people who say that it is not revolution, but evolution, that brings about change – but evolution is simply the term used by nonparticipants to denote a particular sequence of revolutions as they synthesized into a specific major social change (Rules for Radicals, pp. 3-4).
The class warfare we see today is nothing new, and the fact that Barack Obama embraces it, and preaches it should come as no surprise to anyone who has taken even a cursory look at Obama’s past as a Community Organizer. Again, it is probably best encapsulated in the words of the man who fathered Community Organization when he says regarding class distinctions,
The setting for the drama of change has never varied. Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores (Rules for Radicals, p. 18).
While those of us who have been paying attention know that Barack Obama studied and taught Alinsky methods, and became a Community Organizer in the Alinsky mold, many are still in denial. Perhaps none are so in denial about Obama and Alinsky as the Left.
This “Yahoo Answers” response probably sums up the way too many still feel about Obama and the Alinsky model. The best chosen answer to that Yahoo question not only demonstrates an ignorance of Obama, Alinsky, and what it means to be a Community Organizer, but it also drips with the type of snarkiness that seemingly only comes from the thoroughly uninformed. In part, the answer to the question, “Does Obama use the Saul Alinsky tactic Rules for Radicals keep your enemies close?” says,
No, but right wingers appear to be more familiar with the Alinsky rules, considering the fact that they mention them so often. You are using a form of projection in order to try to criticize President Obama. Is that one of the Alinsky rules?
The author of “the best answer” goes on to say,
You’ve simply made up some theory identifying alleged “enemies” and then you’ve accused President Obama of dealing with these alleged enemies a certain way. It is all nonsense conceived in your own fevered imagination.
To the Left, everything and everyone can be separated into groups with neat little identities. They divide us by race, socioeconomic status, sex, sexuality, and on and on. And yet, it is the Left who screams about racism, sexism, and so on. Conservatives would prefer to just think of us all as Americans, and although we are all created equal it is insane to believe that we should all remain equal regardless of how hard we work.
This is the ignorance we are dealing with, but at least those of you who do your homework know what’s really going on.
Or Alinsky defeater’s have been paid to infiltrate…