There’s a good, especially long essay at Frontpagemag.com this morning (15-minute read unless you skim a little) by John Perazzo. Read it if you want to learn about some of the political and organizational roots of Hillary Clinton and particularly, I think, the political mind and campaign machinations of Barack Hussein Obama. The author contends they and their campaigns work off their early interest in a leftist agitator—a socialist—named Saul Alinsky.
For Canadian content, while you read it, see if it doesn’t make you think of liberals and leftists generally in Canada today, and, with the able aid of the liberals and far-leftists which dominate Canada’s “news” media, their employment of very similar tactics here today. For example, their effort to drum up a pseudo revolution—often via state-funded organizations and policies like the Court Challenges Program—against any notion of Canada’s traditional families and traditional values; our country’s foundational entrepreneurial, pioneering, capitalist spirit; their increasingly vitriolic smack-downs of the Judeo-Christian principles which built our country; the now wholly despised fact among the liberal secular-“progressives” that our nation’s foundations were built on the supremacy of God and the rule of law (rather than, say, “if it feels good, baby, do it”), and other foundational roots that are now deemed utterly detestable by the left. They speciously call their new replacement values “Canadian Values”.
In the Alinsky model, “organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution”—a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America’s social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted—a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation. Thus, the theory goes, the people will settle for nothing less than that status quo’s complete collapse—to be followed by the erection of an entirely new and different system upon its ruins. Toward that end, they will be apt to follow the lead of charismatic radical organizers who project an aura of confidence and vision, and who profess to clearly understand what types of societal “changes” are needed.
As Alinsky put it: “A reformation means that the masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won’t act for change but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution.”
Then see if you don’t think of Belinda Stronach, Scott Brison, and others who actually tried to lead the Conservative Party, but after (mercifully) failing in their bids, proved to be rather left-wing Liberals and nothing short of anti-conservatives in actual fact and deed. (And liberals and the media have the gall to pretend that the Conservatives have a “hidden agenda”?) And think about the liberals in supposedly Christian churches today in Canada, such as within the United church and the Anglican church, and even in the Catholic church, who defend abortion and gay ‘marriage’ and such. Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has proven to be nothing short of an America-hating, anti-white racist and Marxist, with his Marxist-based “Black Liberation Theology”, yet leads a congregation of supposed Christians.
… But Alinsky’s brand of revolution was not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions. As Richard Poe puts it, “Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties.” Alinsky advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to introduce changes from that platform. This was precisely the tactic of “infiltration” advocated by Lenin and Stalin.
I always refer to this phenomenon—the liberal-left’s hidden agenda—as their drip-by-drip “Fabian socialism” aspirations, but this may well be a part of that.
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