Six Alinsky Rules That Explain Obama’s Words and Deeds
April 5, 2013
By Jack Kerwick
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Below are six ideas, six “rules,” that the Godfather of community organizing packs between the covers of Rules, ideas that Obama’s imbibed hook, line, and sinker.
(1). Politics is all about power relations, but to advance one’s power, one must couch one’s positions in the language of morality.
Community organizers are “political realists” who “see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest” (12).
(2). There is only three kinds of people in the world: rich and powerful oppressors, the poor and disenfranchised oppressed, and the middle-class whose apathy perpetuates the status quo.
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(3). Change is brought about through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is.
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(4). There can be no conversation between the organizer and his opponents. The latter must be depicted as being evil.
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(5). The organizer can never focus on just a single issue. He must move inexhaustibly from one issue to the next.
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(6). Taunt one’s opponents to the point that they label you a “dangerous enemy” of “the establishment.”
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Again, Obama does not want unity. He wants division.
Obama constantly moves from one divisive issue to the next, from Obamacare to gun-control, from amnesty for illegal immigrants to support for “same-sex marriage.” We see now why this is so.
Obama does not want unity. He wants to keep the country as polarized and disoriented as possible.
To know why Obama speaks and acts as he does, we need to know about Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
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