Yesterday, President Joe Biden conducted a solo press conference to close out his first year in office.

Despite all the delusion on display that he “has done as much in one year” as any President, and his frequent loss of thought train, the one thing he said that stuck out to me more than any other was his rhetorical question, “What are Republicans for?” “Name me one thing they’re for.”

I’m no Republican, but I’ll take that challenge.  Sorry, I can’t name just one. 

Republicans, in contrast to Democrats, are for:

• The Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• Individualism and personal responsibility

• A free-market capitalist economy

• Secure borders that control legal immigration

• Law and order

• Lower taxes

• Energy independence

• Voter ID and election integrity

• Unification of all Americans

. . . and a few things Republicans are not for:

• Marxist socialism

• Centralized government in control of every aspect of life

• Collectivism, whereby the people are deemed too stupid to take care of themselves

• The “political paradise of communism”, per Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

• Open borders advertising free stuff, courtesy of the American taxpayer

• Rampant crime sprees in major cities with “get out of jail free” cards

• Higher taxes

• Dependence on foreign energy due to restrictions on American producers

• Manufactured phony ballots that steal elections and disenfranchise actual citizens

• Division of Americans by race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and/or religion

That first list is essentially the Republican platform.  The second list is the Democrat platform.  Which one do you like?

Comments welcome

PART 2 – if you have not read Part 1 yet, please click HERE

Barack Obama burst onto the national stage during the 2004 Democrat National Convention in Boston, delivering the Keynote Speech that was revered by the affectionate media.     

On 30 October 2008 at a campaign rally in Columbia, Missouri, Obama said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

(Paine):  That was the red flag that no one seemed to notice.  Did anyone think to ask him what he meant by “fundamentally transforming” America?  Into what?

Dr. Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, says that the definition of totalitarianism is to “seek to fundamentally transform – specifically, to fundamentally transform human nature via some form of political-ideological-cultural upheaval.” [1]

From Obama’s beginnings as a community organizer in Chicago, picking up where Alinsky left off, his modus operandi has been to divide and conquer along racial and ethnic lines, by socio-economic status, relentlessly pushing for the redistribution of wealth from the “Haves” to the “Have Nots”, by vilifying, ridiculing, and condemnation of all political opposition, by attacking traditional institutions, such as law and order, criminal justice, social values, the military,  and the Constitution itself.  The MSM dutifully carries the banner of the DNC.  Isn’t it ironic that the party of tolerance and diversity, a classic liberal tenet, has no tolerance for diverse opinions?

That is why I have said we are now the Divided States of America.  This discord between the liberal left and the conservative right has been simmering for many years, kept respectfully at bay until Barack Obama rose to power. The movement towards socialism/communism did not begin with Obama.  It’s origins go back into the late 19^th century, but it has accelerated under his direction, following Alinsky’s playbook almost to the letter.  He is the one person most responsible for driving a wedge between political viewpoints and urging his followers to become more aggressive, more intolerant, more hateful, more divisive towards the “other side of the isle”. It was always his plan to “divide and conquer”, intentionally.

Patriots did not create this division. It was fomented by Obama in a deliberate effort to establish a grievance industry between the “Haves” and the “Have Nots”, to incite racial tension, and to entice all opposition into retaliations that could then be exploited by the left, using the media as his ideological delivery system. That is the true Obama legacy.

I only wish we could stop it and restore America back to the intentions of my fellow founders, a group of United States, with representatives of the people who truly serve to protect its citizens, bestows basic human rights to all men regardless of race, religion, sex, or creed, and offers opportunities for anyone to thrive.

Alinsky wrote, “From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.” [2]

(Paine):  How many U.S. Presidents have organized a 30,000 member group of political activists while in office?

ANSWER:  Just the one.  In fact, on his third day in office, Obama recruited and organized the Organizing for America (OFA) political action group, to which he appointed one of his campaign organizers as first Director.  Organizing for America was moved into and run by the Democratic National Committee to mobilize support for Obama’s policy agenda, and to campaign for re-election.  Supposedly separate from the DNC, and organized in all 50 states under national direction, the group filed for, and was granted tax-exempt status as a 501 (c)(4), “as long as it is not primarily involved in activity that could influence an election.”

WHAT?  Primarily?  I wonder if the activists had to document daily time sheets that were no more than 49% dedicated to campaigning?  Remember, it was run by the DNC and Obama’s hand-picked Director.  Tax status aside, the takeaway here is that he started this organization to push his socialist agenda, and it is still active today.

“Organizing for America is essentially a nation-wide lobby organization to promote and build support for Obama’s political agenda” [3]

“Organizing for America has provided logistical support to local community groups, including holding conference calls with volunteers, sponsoring events and house parties, using social networking and New Media, and providing talking points.” [4]

(Paine):  In other words, log in to the conference call and get your instructions.  You will be provided with the “proper” catch phrase on the issue of the week.  Have you noticed the collage-style video clips run by Fox News hosts with all the MSM talking heads echoing the same exact phrase?  That’s the propaganda machine regurgitating the message written and directed by the DNC, perhaps Obama himself.

Just recently, the Biden White House called several media outlets to the carpet, to pressure them into easing up on negative coverage due to his sinking approval ratings.  That sure seems like an Obama move.  Can we see the transcript of that phone conversation?

A newer version, rebranded in 2013, as Organizing for Action, refocused on OFA’s original mission, furthering Obama’s agenda.  He couldn’t just “ride off into the sunset” like every surviving President before him.  No, he believes he must direct the movement to complete his “fundamental transformation” of America into that “political paradise of communism” described by Alinsky.

(Paine):  If you know of any “political paradise” under communist rule that has ever existed in history, please let me know. 

Make no mistake, America as we have known it, is under attack.  It is happening right now.  It continues and escalates every day.  The DNC appears to be under the control of former President Obama.  It is his agenda that is progressing at an alarming pace.  Do you actually believe Joe Biden is running the country?  He can barely read a sentence off the teleprompter.  He’s a puppet being controlled by the “man behind the curtain.”

Their goal is to “fundamentally transform” America into a socialist nation, which will rapidly mutate into a communist nation.  They truly believe that the collective (government bureaucrats) must be in control of nearly aspect of life.  The individual is too stupid to care for himself/herself.  A massive bureaucracy must be in charge of everything in order to mold and shape society as they see fit, classic collectivism.  Nonconformists must be silenced and censored, a phenomenon we see more and more every week, with stories of prominent opponents having their social media accounts suspended by big tech oligarchs.  The “transformation” is in full swing.

Here’s another excerpt from Rules for Radicals;

“ORGANIZATION FOR ACTION will now and in the decade(s) ahead center upon America’s white middle class.  That is where the power is.   . . .

Activists and radicals, on and off our college campuses —people who are committed to change—must make a complete turnabout. With rare exceptions, our activists and radicals are products of and rebels against our middleclass society. All rebels must attack the power states in their society. Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized, and corrupt.” [5]

(Paine):  If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Obama wrote that.  He even named the 2013 version of his army almost exactly the same as Alinsky’s.  If you recall, Obama’s campaign slogan was “Hope and Change”.  What most people don’t realize is, he sees himself as the Supreme Commander of a revolution of his own creation, attacking the status quo, relentlessly proposing the transfer of wealth, from the “Haves” to the “Have Nots”, and establishing a communistic society.  That’s the “change”. If these radicals are so desperate for change, why don’t they start a GoFundMe campaign and buy their own island where they can live their own socialist utopia? True American patriots like this country just the way it was founded.

He says whatever he needs to say to make the “Have Nots” think they have “hope”, but hasn’t delivered any meaningful results.  He had 8 years as the most powerful man in the world.  How much better is life on the south side of Chicago now?  Or anywhere?

Comments welcome

[1] Kengor, Dr. Paul ; CNS News, 16 January 2017

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/dr-paul-kengor/how-obama-made-good-his-promise-fundamentally-transform-united-states

[2] Alinsky, Saul D. ; Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ;

Random House, New York, Vintage Books Edition, 1989 ; p.119

[3] Sourcewatch

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Organizing_for_America

[4] Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_for_America

[5] Alinsky, Saul D. ; Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ;

Random House, New York, Vintage Books Edition, 1989 ; p.184

PART 1

The parallels between these two men is so deep, I’ve broken it up into two parts, giving a brief bio of Alinsky and some excerpts from his most famous work.  I’ve added a few comments along the way. 

Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972), American “community activist” and political theorist, wrote a book titled, Rules for Radicals, a book about how to successfully run a movement for change.  His goal was to create a guide for future community organizers, to use in uniting low-income communities in order for them to gain by any means necessary social, political, legal, and economic power. [1]

(Paine):  We saw that “plan” in action every day for the entire summer of 2020 in Seattle, Minneapolis, and other cities, as rioters (pardon me, “mostly peaceful protesters”) converged on areas of their respective cities, to burn and loot without repercussion, as officials stood down under orders from “authorities”.  Organized groups like Antifa and BLM committing crimes in plain sight, on video, gaining social power “by any means necessary”, a favorite catch-phrase of the left. 

Alinsky was active in Chicago in the 40’s, organizing groups like the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (BYNC), and the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), through which he focused on the training of community organizers.

He remained at the forefront of revolutionary change during the tumultuous 60’s, inserting himself into the Rochester Race Riot of 1964, pressuring the community and it’s largest employer, Kodak, to open up employment and city governance to better opportunities for African Americans. [2]

In Rules for Radicals, from The Prologue, Alinsky opens the book with this line;

“THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCE today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, ‘Burn the system down!’ They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change our world.” [3]

He goes on, “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. 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 chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.   . . .   A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives— agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.” [4]

(Paine):  Tell me that doesn’t sound like Obama – from the victim/grievance attitude to “create disenchantment”, and a “passion for change”.

In the chapter titled, The Purpose, he starts out, “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.” [5]

Further, under The Ideology of Change, Alinsky said,

“The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth. For example, a Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order or the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage—the political paradise of communism.” [6]

(Paine): Democrats can’t wait to arrive at their delusional “political paradise of communism”.

Under Class Distinctions: The Trinity, he wrote,

“Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores. On top are the Haves with power, money, food, security, and luxury. They suffocate in their surpluses while the Have-Nots starve. Numerically the Haves have always been the fewest. The Haves want to keep things as they are and are opposed to change.”

He goes on, “On the bottom are the world’s Have-Nots. On the world scene they are by far the greatest in numbers. They are chained together by the common misery of poverty, rotten housing, disease, ignorance, political impotence, and despair; when they are employed their jobs pay the least and they are deprived in all areas basic to human growth.  . . .   They hate the establishment of the Haves with its arrogant opulence, its police, its courts, and its churches. Justice, morality, law, and order, are mere words when used by the Haves, which justify and secure their status quo.

. . .  Between the Haves and Have-Nots are the Have-a-Little, Want Mores—the middle class. Torn between upholding the status quo to protect the little they have, yet wanting change so they can get more, they become split personalities. They could be described as social, economic, and political schizoids.” [7]

Rule No. 5 of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is;

 “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.  It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule.  Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.” [8]

(Paine):  Remind you of anything the DNC and the media employs today?  They run that play like Vince Lombardi ran the power sweep.  We know they are going to run it.  They know we know they are going to run it.  And they know we can’t stop it because anyone who mentions it is vilified even further. 

Ridicule is the “bread and butter” play of the MSM propaganda campaign, constantly brainwashing their viewers that conservatives are nothing more than a “basket of deplorables”, a collection of uneducated racist hillbillies, implying that they hold some sort of moral superiority on the topic of discussion.  The infuriating part is that they overstate their own “authority” and hold the “bully pulpit”, the platform from which all this egregiously offensive behavior emanates.

It is the duty of true American patriots to speak out at every opportunity on any available outlet that the garbage being fed to unsuspecting consumers of “fake news” is pure propaganda.  Get involved.  Research the issues and critically analyze what the “right thing to do” should be in terms of adhering to the Constitution and our founding documents.  Typically, you’ll find that virtually every proposal the DNC comes up with is anti-American, and requires a transition towards communism.

Alinsky’s biographer, Sanford Horwitt, credits Alinsky “more than anybody . . . for demonstrating that community organizing could be a lifelong career.”  Horwitt saw the influence that Alinsky had on Barack Obama’s work in Chicago as Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP) from June 1985 to May 1988. [9]

As you will see in Part 2, those influences developed into much more than mere community organizing.  Obama used many of Alinsky’s principles to attack the foundations of America, not by circumstance, but by design.

Comments Welcome.

[1] Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

[2] Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky

[3] Alinsky, Saul D. ; Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ;

Random House, New York, Vintage Books Edition, 1989 ; p.6

[4] ibid. ; pp. 11-14

[5] ibid. ; p. 19

[6] ibid. ; p. 25

[7] ibid. ; pp. 32-33

[8] ibid. ; p. 132

[9] Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky