Who knows who Saul Alinsky was?

Saul Alinsky was a radical Marxist community organizer from Chicago and wrote the book “Rules for Radicals” in 1971. He was a mentor of Hilary Clinton who wrote her college thesis on his tactics.

And Barack Obama taught his tactics as a community organizer in Chicago.

Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is to politics, what Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” is to fighting.

It’s a playbook on down and dirty, take no prisoners, win at all costs, grassroots organizing. If you understand Rules for Radicals, you will know why the Democrats act the way they do, because it’s their playbook.

And you will be able to use their rules against them.

There are roughly 12 rules.

Rule # 10 says the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. The enemy properly goaded will be your major strength. In other words, if they can get you angry, you look foolish and you lose the argument.

So the number one rule in dealing with those on the left is to be calm, smile a lot, joke a lot, the more composed you are the angrier you will make them. Remember, their goal is to make you lose your temper.

Rule #5 says Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon, it’s hard to counterattack and it infuriates the opposition. So have some fun with them, it drives them nuts and makes them look foolish.

Rule # 3 says go outside the experience of an opponent. Liberals normally do not have the facts and speak from emotion. So ask questions. Pin them down for names, dates and places. The more you press them the more foolish their position will seem.

As an example, who saw the Ben Stein movie about Expelled? This was a classic example of rule #3, getting people outside of their experience, in this case by asking questions.

In one scene he was talking to a professor who believed in evolution. And simply asked him how evolution got started.

The professor recited the big bang theory and one celled animals.. Ben pressed him, you mean 2 rocks collided? When the professor said yes, he said, I don’t understand, who created the 2 rocks? The more the professor tried to explain it, the more foolish he looked. He would say there were these gases, and Ben would say were did the gases come from. You could see on his face, that he was not sure of what he was saying, he actually got red in the face.

1. Take the time to read the 12 rules, you don’t need to read the whole book.

2. Inform yourself. I subscribe to the Washington Times Weekly edition, it gives you all the major events of the week in a nutshell

3. Irritate your opponents by remaining calm.

4. Make fun of your opponents. It doesn’t have to be vicious.

5. Ask them questions, the more you ask them the more foolish they will appear.

The Radical left Playbook…

Rules for Radicals

Ever wonder why Democrats tell bold face, provable lies? They are following the advice of Saul Alinsky, who wrote the book, Rules for Radicals in 1971. He was a mentor of Hillary Clinton, who wrote her hard to find college thesis on his tactics. Our President, Barack Obama not only knows “The Rules,” he taught them as a community organizer for The Developing Communities Project in the early eighties in Chicago.

Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, is to politics, what Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, is to fighting. Anyone who does not know them, is at a disadvantage in a political discussion.

In 1971, Saul Alinsky, a radical Marxist community organizer from Chicago , wrote a classic on down and dirty, take no prisoners, grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. It provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics.

Alinsky begins this way: What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

One of Alinsky’s guidelines was “conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action” In other words, the ends justify the means, you can lie, cheat, steal elections and smear your opponent. Because your cause is just, all that matters is that you win.
Another of Alinsky’s tactics was to go on the offensive when caught in a compromising situation. In other words, if you are caught red handed stealing money from a cash register, accuse whoever caught you of spying on you. This explains why Hillary claimed the Lewinski scandal was not only not true, but was manufactured by “a right wing conspiracy” out to get her husband.
For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they will not try.

The organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.” This explains why Democrats continued to say Bush stole the 2000 election, despite the fact that the New York Times reported on November 11, 2001, that after a six month recount by the Times and others, Bush won every way they counted.

Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.

Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.

Rule 1. Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do. This explains why the Mainstream Media always has a tight photo of a small leftist protest group.

Rule 2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3. Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4. Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.” This explains why the Democrats always pretend to be outraged and demand that Republicans resign over the slightest infraction.

Rule 5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. This explains the treatment of Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and George Bush by the Democrats, the Mainstream Media, Saturday Night Live and other “entertainment” outlets.

Rule 6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7. A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8. Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.” This explains the relentless attacks by the ACLU and others on traditional American values, business and Republicans.

Rule 9. The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation. This explains Jesse Jackson’s shakedown of corporations with the threat of demonstrations.

Rule 10. If you push a negative hard enough, it will become a positive. Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid 20th Century incurred management’s wrath that eventually brought public sympathy to their side). According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.” This explains why when Gore debated Ross Perot on Larry King, he constantly interrupted him to upset him. And why Democrats tell bold face, provable lies…it infuriates and flusters the person they are debating.

Rule 11. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?” This explains why Democrats never have a solution and only speak in platitudes.

Rule 12. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame. There are so many examples, Talk Radio Hosts, Palin, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, last by not least “Bush lied and men died”

RULES FOR RADICALS IN A NUTSHELL (BULLET POINTS)

Rule 1:. Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark. and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more.

Rule 2. Never go outside the experience of your people.

Rule 3. Whenever possible, always go outside the experience of an opponent. It puts them on the defensive and makes them seem unsure.

Rule 4. Make opponents live up to their own rules. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

Rule 5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage

Rule 6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7. A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag.

Rule 8. Keep constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9. The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. This explains Jesse Jackson’s shakedown of corporations with the threat of protests.
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ule 10. If you push a negative hard enough, it will become a positive. Provoking violence from the other side can win the public to your side.

Rule 11. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent who says, “Okay, what would you do?” That’s why Democrats never have a solution and only speak in platitudes

Rule 12. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

sent here by a great American…
Conrad Q