Posted on 08/12/2019 12:14:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The late Saul Alinsky, the legendary left-wing community organizer, must be looking up from wherever he is and smiling. The direction lately taken by the Democratic Party shows they’ve bought into his tactics, hook, line and sinker.
In his most famous book, “Rules for Radicals,” he opens with the following observation: “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.”
Sounds pretty much like the economic plank for the Democrats’ platform as enunciated by the leading contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, recently said he wouldn’t stop until “the poor got richer and the rich got poorer.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed a wealth tax. And just about everyone in the field, from former Vice President Joe Biden on down have promised to repeal the Trump tax cuts as part of a class-based appeal to envy.
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How many ways *don't* they? Thanks ChicagoConservative27.
How socialists threaten economic security.
How socialists threaten economic security.
There are a lot of white *have-nots* and a lot of wealthy POC and wokejokes.
So, yeah: careful which revolution you’re rooting for.
Dems are the crazy spouse who will burn the house down if they don’t get their way.
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