Rules for Radicals Revisited

        I first posted about rules for radicals on February 4, 2014.  It is the left’s playbook, and we need to take another look at it.

        Saul David Alinsky (1909-1972) is recognized as one of the first and most prominent community organizers, starting in the south side of Chicago.  His work has worked out well for Chicago, right?  Community organizer Barrack Obama was strongly influenced by Alinsky’s ideas.

Alinsky was also a writer and published Reveille for Radicals in 1946.  He is often noted for his book Rules For Radicals, published in 1971 just prior to his death.    He said the book was written to show the “Have-Nots” how to take power from the “Haves”. 

        I was a collage student in the 1960’s and remember the student demonstrations protesting the Vietnam War and advocating many of Ailinsky’s ideas.  I was never involved in the demonstrations, because I was a full-time student and also worked full-time so I never had time or interest.  I  understood the Vietnam protests, but I dismissed Ailinsky’s radical ideas and felt the students influenced students would eventually grow up and become productive citizens. 

Saul Ailinsky advocated eight objectives for creating a socialist state.  They are:

1.   Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.

2.   Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if they are provided everything they need to live. 

3.   Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.  This will justify increasing taxes, and thus produce more poverty.

4.   Gun Control - Remove the ability of the people to defend themselves against the government, and create a police state.

5.   Welfare - Take control of every aspect of people’s lives. (Food, Housing, and Income)

6.   Education – Take control of the media and what people read and hear, and take control of what children learn in school.

7.   Religion – Remove any reference to belief in God from government and schools.

8.   Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor.  This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take from the wealthy with the support of the poor.  (Wealth Redistribution)

I think it is interesting that Saul Alinsky’s books have the word Radicals in the titles when his ideas sound like today’s Modern Progressives.  Have we moved too far left?  The left is adopting on all of Alinsty’s steps to socialism and have already achieved some of them.  America must wake up before it is too late.

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