Below is the classic socialist strategy to turn a productive, growing, healthy capitalist system into a pile of dung.
My liberal friends in this publication excoriate me by my insistence President Barack Obama (and to some extent the three presidents before him) helped in slowly crippling this country. For those liberals who claim there is a huge gap between the rich and poor, it has been slowly happening for years to meet the level of the strategy below.
This is where we are headed, and President Obama increased the movement and Secretary Clinton would have continued the decline into socialism – where everyone is equal – equally miserable.
Do you think President Obama saying there should be a guaranteed annual income was his idea? He’s been a Marxist for years and loved both the Cloward-Piven strategy and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” He was an Alinsky influenced “community organizer” in Chicago for years and this strategy was followed along with Alinsky’s influence. Read and heed:
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty”.
- Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people.
- Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
- Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
- Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
- Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives. (Food, Housing, and Income).
- Education – Take control of what people read and listen to us take control of what children learn in school.
- Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the government and schools.
- Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Among the points above, President Obama and the liberal Democrats achieved 1, 2, 3 and 8. They made strides in 4 and 5. And items 6 and 7 have been completely taken over by liberals for years.
Both houses of Congress are populated by Democrats and Establishment Republicans who support the Cloward-Piven strategy, either knowingly – as enthusiastic uniformed Democrats or entrenched, uninformed Establishment Republicans going along to get along. The only thing that has put a monkey-wrench into the gears is the election of Donald Trump (an avowed capitalist) by the “deplorables, little people, the great unwashed” who won the Electoral College for Trump. Which illustrates a well-run campaign can cripple a monied campaign, but one devoid of any comprehensive message.
Now the media, Democrats, and Establishment Republicans are having a cow, because President Trump is winning – more people working, more people off welfare, wages rising, unemployment going down to historic lows and less tax burden for millions of Americans. Everything President Obama wanted to do (NOT!) – really, he was following the Cloward-Piven strategy very well.
Everything that should be low was high, and everything that should be high was low. And winning his idiotic “Obamacare” was a huge feather in his cap and now the system is falling down under its own poor design and execution. The more the American people win through President Trump’s agenda, the more volume and screaming on the left increases. Because they see the progress and their anti-capitalist agenda is falling apart.
For those of you who hate the election of President Trump, get over it. He is the best thing that happened to this country in a long, loong, loooong time. We finally have a president more in the President Kennedy vein, a pragmatist leaning towards conservative/libertarian. Kennedy lowered tax rates and money poured into the treasury. If only Congress would spend judiciously on things allowed by the Constitution and not be everything for everybody. There is no provision for foreign aid, incentives and loans for private individuals (like Elon Musk), corporate or agricultural welfare, or many of the social programs passed by Congress and never challenged in the Supreme Court.
This country is being over-run by illegal aliens pouring over the southern border. States and counties on the border; social programs, hospitals, and schools are overburdened by illegals. And the drugs and criminals who enter the country is destroying young lives and raising havoc in the cities.
What is wrong with legal immigration? I know many people, friends and co-workers that came into the country legally. They waited their turn to enter and have assimilated
What is so hard for Democrats and Remocrats to understand we cannot support or allow illegal aliens in unabated? Build the wall, build the Wall, build the WALL!
The rotting of America from within continues…
Ranger Rick,
Your opinion piece reads a lot like the tweet Lara Trump sent on 5 Nov 2017. Lara Trump is a campaign advisor for Trump 2020 who is also the wife of Donald Trump Jr.
Here’s a link to Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/lara-trump-spreads-fake-news-about-clinton-and-obama-trying-control-people-702322
Saul Alinsky was a University of Chicago dropout and community organizer who died in 1972 at age 63. (President Obama then was 10 years old, living in Hawaii in 1972) Alinsky never wrote what you, others, often Republicans and self-labeled “conservatives” have attributed to him. They have published the list for decades, perpetuating misinformation saying Alinsky was the author. That narrative gained traction when research found Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis about Alinsky’s organizing model. Even more traction when former a Chicago community organizer, a University of Chicago lecturer became a serious contender for the US Presidency who said he used Alinsy’s community organizing ideas.
The same list you included has also been called “Communist Rules for Revolution” before someone decided to attach Saul Alinsky’s name to it calling him it’s author.
What Alinsky did write and publish was “Rules for Radicals” in 1971. Interestingly FreedomWorks gives copies of the book to people in its leadership calling Alinsky’s methods at grassroots organizing “very effective.” Dick Armey, formerly of FreedomWorks, reportedly also gave copies of Alinsky’s book to leaders of the Tea Party.
Here’s the list from Alinsky’s book. Not nearly as specific or anti-American as the list you copied. It’s a primer on community organizing that has 13 points rather than 8 in the list your reprinted and isn’t nearly as frightening.
“Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.
The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat.
The fourth rule is: Make the enemy 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.
The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
The sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.
The seventh rule: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday mornings.
The eighth rule: Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
The ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.
The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying “You’re right — we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.”
The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”
The list is reprinted from a Snopes article refuting the genesis list others and yourself have incorrectly attributed to Alinsky.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/how-to-create-a-social-state/
And so it goes.
Mr. Couchman,
Sir,
Please be careful in using snopes, a wile back two very left of center women became the operators of the site and they have lost impartiality. Snopes was a good place to go for the truth in past years however it now has a left wing agenda.
You can use it of course but consider the source has an agenda and is no way as independent as it was in the past. Sad to say fairness and facts in the media is hard to find.
As a uninformed Democrat, it’s nice to see us in agreement yet again. I have been urging people not to vote for Republicans. I will say that I talked to some Danish people when I was in Mexico, and they seemed not to understand how horrible their socialistic system is. For example, they didn’t see a problem with health care for all citizens. I suppose Denmark is continuing to rot from within, too.
Uninformed Dem: blue jeans, flannel shirts, Hawaiian shirts in summer (with sandals, of course)
Mr. Basura,
Sir,
At 60.2%, Denmark last year had the highest top personal income tax rate among the 34 countries in the OECD, an organization of developed and emerging countries. And that 60.2% applied to income over roughly $55,000. $55,000. is the average income for family’s in our area.
Socialism always fails over time. Denmark is in a debit hole they can not dig out of and still digging.
Beware what you wish for you may get it.
When obama so called health care went into effect, Several Americans lost their coverage, doctor, hospital. obama lied about every word in that debacle. One day he said it was not a tax, next day he said it was. Which ever way the wind blows, you can bet obamay is there with his finger in the air. When we either lost our coverage that we were paying for or was changed to coverage that cost more, our money was paying for the illegals to receive healthcare and guess who footed the bill. NOWHERE in the Constitution does it say we are entitled to free healthcare. I ASK YOU TO SHOW ME WHERE IT SAYS THAT! So to give illegals free healthcare is something American Citizens should not have to pay for! obamy was the worst to ever occupy our White House. And he needs to keep his mouth shut during our elections. But he just has to get those big ole jug ears on TV. And the other half of obammy, is another one that should keep her mouth shut. They had their time and really did a terrible job, so why do they think we want to see them.