[Jan_Sobieski]

Saul Alinsky's, "Rules for Radicals" (only 6 of them)

(1). Politics is all about power relations, but to advance one’s power, one must couch one’s positions in the language of morality. [Truth is of no use]

(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. [Everyone who is rich is an oppressor, and every middle class person is apathetic]

(3). Change is brought about through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is. [Violence is a means to an end]

(4). There can be no conversation between the organizer and his opponents. The latter must be depicted as being evil. [Anyone who disagrees with me is EVIL!]

(5). The organizer can never focus on just a single issue. He must move inexhaustibly from one issue to the next. [Don't give anyone time to critically think. Declare war on strawmen]

(6). Taunt one’s opponents to the point that they label you a “dangerous enemy” of “the establishment.” [There is a diabolical wisdom in this...but the truth in the caricature, however the masses tend to not believe the caricature]

[edwinland]

In such a scholarly article is it too much to ask for a source or at least a date for the quotations? I’m interested in thee intro Lenin quote but can’t find a single source online that says when or where he said it.

[Louis Foxwell]

This nation was birthed to provide freedom for the individual under God. It will not easily give up that principle.

[CharlesOConnell]

"Sen. Quayle, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was my friend. Sen. Quayle, you're no Jack Kennedy."

"Sen. Bentson, if Jack Kennedy could rise from the dead at this moment, he would think that the Democrat Party had been taken over by the Communists."