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Originally Posted by Guest
Alinsk's rules have been mentioned in several posts. They always try to tie these rules to Hillary, and President Obama to label them as communists. Read the rules, and don't look at the author's political leaning. Here they are form Glenn Beck's web site:
1) Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. Power is derived from the sources people, and money.
2) Never go outside the expertise of your people.
3) Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of you enemy.
4) Make the enemy up to its own set of rules.
5) Ridicule is a man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It's irrational.
6) A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8) Keep the pressure on. Never let up.
9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10) If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through, and become a positive.
11) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
12) Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
You can follow these rules, and communism is the furthest thing on your mind. These tactics are being used by both parties. Also, they are being used by national news station to attack each other.
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These rules and the book have become much to publicized. His work and theory go far beyond this.
A poster in another thread mentioned his/her admiration for Alinsky and he was a man who was an activist for the downtrodden.
If yo read further, you will find that many who have studied him, including Hillary Clinton do not like the tactics LITERALLY, and I am not speaking only to these 12 rules. His philosophy, and these are my words, is to overthrow. I think in my reading some Clinton things, that is what stymied her.
Alinsky was for overthrow, and then there was a vacuum. He never offered what happens once you overthrow all the power. He believed every man can make it on his ow.
Never heard anyone critique the man for his ideas or his character, but he was an anarchist at best.
Would love to read H Clinton's thesis to see WHY it was sealed.