Posted on 05/08/2009 9:20:44 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
Alec Baldwin narrates the story of legendary community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and his modern-day legacy.
"The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy," narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy.
The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky organizations to show how his techniques developed over time including The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, in Chicago's blighted stockyards in the 1930's. By forming an unprecedented coalition between the Catholic Church and the Meatpackers Union, Alinsky was able to force several landmark concessions from the meatpacking industry. These three organizations show how Alinsky's ideas, in turn, influenced the civil rights movement, the farmworkers struggle and many Vietnam era political protests...
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Yeah, and Alinsky left Chicago the pillar of great communities all should follow the example of. /sarc
I’ll send dog turds to Larty Sinclair’s Limo Lover
A vile and seething pox be upon Chicago....unremiting and without mercy.....unless, of course Her Heinous is caught with her arm in the cookie jar and she is held to account......Zero is just her boy.
The more pressing issue for us is, how do we answer the bastids?
Yeah...I was thinking the same thing...after years of denial of those very connections...
We should read the book, looking for away to exploit its tactics against them.
Know thy enemy.
There is a danger when fighting a devil of any sort, that he may hypnotize you into becoming much like him.
The high and hard road is that of puncturing the lies while not imitating the dirty deeds.
It is past time the Repubs/Conservatives LEARN the Alinsky methods.....and USING THEM AGAINST THE DEMS! Wake up people.....
They do things that anyone with a conscience still left would be ashamed of.
I didn’t say “imitate”. I said “exploit”.
In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing in the prologue,
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.(Think Obama's demeanor) They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. (Think Rahm's "Crisis" statement along with what Frank and Dodd have done) This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."[4]
It is clear from his strategy outlined above that his main target is the poor and middle class. He aims to frustrate them, so as to become the "answer bearer" of all their frustrations. The exploitation opening in that is that in order to maintain that power over them, he can never really relieve the frustration. Our job is to exploit that fact. Educate the poor and middle class of the real source of frustration. Sin.
Alinsky new that man has a sinful nature. He exploited that fact for his own purpose. He picked a class of people and pointed out their sin. In this case I'll use the "Rich" or Upper Class. He pointed out Greed. Now the deception comes when he doesn't tell the other classes their sin, greed. And envy too. He instead tells them they deserve what the Rich have and that the Rich don't deserve to be rich because of their sin of greed.
Our job then becomes to tell the truth. Yes greed exists in the Upper Class. But it also exists in the Middle and Poor Classes too. Educating the classes on this will be hard since the "Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" (Charlotte Iserbyt) has caused a numbness of the brain and soul.
We have to get the masses to understand that there is a thing called "The Greedy Poor" and they've been duped into calling it "Fair" or "Worker's Rights".
And finally, once we get the masses to understand that they've sinned, we need to show them how to be healed of that sin, The Gospel. The only true way to combat the devil's "Rules for Radicals".
Many such "poor" actually are doing well by traditional middle class standards, so "poor" is a misnomer.
“Many such “poor” actually are doing well by traditional middle class standards, so “poor” is a misnomer.”
And by world standards, the USA has arguably the richest poor people on the planet!
We wait for Reagan to rise from the dead.
We can only rally behind the Gipper.
All others fall short of his glory.
When is this stranz gonna STFU? January ‘13, I guess...
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