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"Start them easy, don't scare them off." -- Ace organizer Barack Obama followed the Alinsky playbook.When Barack Obama trained community organizers for an ACORN subsidiary, Project Vote, he taught from the 1971 book 'Rules for Radicals', by the late socialist Saul Alinsky.
Obama calls his Alinskyite experience "the best education I ever had." (He also attended Occidental College and graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.)
The selection from 'Rules for Radicals', below, reveals:
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A Marxist category called the 'middle class' consists of people who are
"numb, bewildered, scared into silence" and whose lives are "tedious."
• To engage a revolution, the 'middle class' must be targeted with an appeal for "Hope."
• Community organizers must deceive the 'middle class' in order to win its support.
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When the 'middle class' is radicalized, the private sector will cease
to exist and corporate executives will surrender to radicals' demands.
excerpted from "Rules for Radicals", by Saul Alinsky: The Way Ahead
(nwrepublican.blogspot.com)
[...]
The middle classes are numb, bewildered, scared into silence. They
don't know what, if anything, they can do. This is the job for today's
radical - to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To
say, "You cannot cop out as have many of my generation! "You cannot
turn away - look at it - let us change it together!" "Look at us. We
are your children. Let us not abandon each other for then we are all
lost. Together we can change it for what we want. Let's start here and
there - let's go!"
It is a job first of bringing hope and doing
what every organizer must do with all people all classes, places, and
times - communicate the means or tactics whereby the people can feel
that they have the power to do this and that and on. To a great extent
the middle class of today feels more defeated and lost than do our poor.
So
you return to the suburban scene of your middle class with its variety
of organizations from PTAs to League of Women Voters, consumer groups,
churches, and clubs. The job is to search out the leaders in these
various activities, identify their major issues, find areas of common
agreement, and excite their imagination with tactics that can introduce
drama and adventure into the tedium of middle-class life.
Tactics
must begin within the experience of the middle class, accepting their
aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don't
scare them off. The opposition's reactions will provide the "education"
or radicalization of the middle class. It does it every time. Tactics
here, as already described, will develop in the flow of action and
reaction. The chance for organization for action on pollution,
inflation, Vietnam, violence, race, taxes, and other issues, is all
about us. Tactics such as stock proxies and others are waiting to be
hurled into the attack.
The revolution must manifest itself in
the corporate sector by the corporations' realistic appraisal of
conditions in the nation. The corporations must forget their nonsense
about "private sectors." It is not just that government contracts and
subsidies have long since blurred the line between public and private
sectors, but that every American individual or corporation is public as
well as private; public in that we are Americans and concerned about
our national welfare. We have a double commitment and corporations had
better recognize this for the sake of their own survival. Poverty,
discrimination, disease, crime - everything is as much a concern of the
corporation as is profits. The days when corporate public relations
worked to keep the corporation out of controversy, days of playing it
safe, of not offending Democratic or Republican customers, advertisers
or associates - those days are done. If the same predatory drives for
profits can be partially transmuted for progress, then we will have
opened a whole new ball game. I suggest there that this new policy will
give its executives a reason for what they are doing - a chance for a
meaningful life. [...]
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