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The Democrats and liberals have successfully made the working class in this nation and the world hate those that have been financially successful. We see it every day in the news.
Those rich people aren’t paying their fair share. Those rich people are greedy and are able to go around all the laws. Those rich people have gotten rich on the backs of the workers. Computer hackers in Russia are heroes for stealing rich Americans money. And the most absurd, which made me write this letter: if the homes close to the fire on the Redlands weren’t owned by rich people the fire department wouldn’t have shown up. It is sad it has come to this.
We are letting them lead us down the path to class warfare. The greediest of all are the politicians themselves. They got us into this mess and blame everyone else. It’s all a smokescreen to cover up what they have done to us. Don’t let them influence us to hate each other. In America there will always be rich and poor. The beauty is you can be whatever you want.
SCOTT HOWARD
Grand Junction
7 Responses to “Liberals are leading us into class warfare”
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 9:35 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
And I think that this divisiveness starts with the term “working class” or “workers of this country” or the “working people of America”. Those who use these terms refer to income categories but the term implies that those above the income category are not workers. It implies that whatever wealth has been obtained came through inheritance, crookedness, or by exploitng others. It is the politics of envy.
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 12:28 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
bullishfrog, I believe that, “Liberals have lead us into class warfare and are trying to keep us there by adhering to the following rules:”
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
We have experienced these rules, from Saul D. Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals”, become exploited on these blogs. Alinsky devised these rules for community organizers to successfully take on corporations and government. Unfortunately, Alinsky did not devise rules for elected officials to successfully manage government.
Replacing direct, personalized criticism and ridicule with facts and evidence, thereby enlarging everyone’s expertise and knowledge, will go a long way toward leading us away from class warfare.
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 1:54 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
In the same sense, Obama’s use of the word “middle class” and such phrases as “empowering the middle class” succeeded in fooling the American public into voting for a philosophy and policies that are the polar opposite of what this great country is all about.
One can’t help but pose the question of whether, in fact, the “middle class” in this country were at all “suffering” during the previous administration (before Bush lost sight of fiscal conservatism which started us towards this day). One has to wonder where the idea came from that middle class working Americans are so oppressed and unhappy - or did Obama and other Liberal Dems just succeed is convincing us that we are? Even now, all but our poorest of poor live lives of luxury compared to what most Americans experienced during the “real” depression.
I wholeheartedly agree with Howard. We are fools if we sit by and let the current administration foment the class warfare that has become all too real as we read the hateful death threats that have been made towards AIG employees - or how ACORN is “training” people to break the locks on homes they haven’t paid for.
Why wouldn’t Obama show some leadership and speak out against such irrational and unlawful behavior? Because he himself had a hand in creating it. Just as his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel quiped “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”. The time is ripe…
Welcome to the American Bolshevik Revolution….
Sound familiar?
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/OctRev.html
Is that what we want?
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 2:52 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
LOL… Henderson seems to be writing about the head of the GOP and Rush Limbaugh’s playbook.
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 3:50 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Get your facts straight Kismet. It should be widely known by now that both Hillary and Obama were followers of Saul Alinsky.
For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 25, 2007; Page A01
CHICAGO — The job offer to “Miss Hillary Rodham, Wellesley College” was dated Oct. 25, 1968, and signed by Saul D. Alinsky, the charismatic community organizer who believed that the urban poor could become their own best advocates in a world that largely ignored them.
Alinsky thought highly of 21-year-old Rodham, a student government president who grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She was in the midst of a year-long analysis of Alinsky’s aggressive mobilizing tactics, and he was searching for “competent political literates” to move to Chicago to build grass-roots organizations.
Saul D. Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer whose ideas intrigued and influenced Hillary Rodham and Barack Obama as they began their careers.
Seventeen years later, another young honor student was offered a job as an organizer in Chicago. By then, Alinsky had died, but a group of his disciples hired Barack Obama, a 23-year-old Columbia University graduate, to organize black residents on the South Side, while learning and applying Alinsky’s philosophy of street-level democracy. The recruiter called the $13,000-a-year job “very romantic, until you do it.”
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“Neither candidate would agree to be interviewed about Alinsky. But Marian Wright Edelman, the Children’s Defense Fund leader, who knows Obama, worked closely with Clinton and spoke at Alinsky’s funeral, said the organizer’s allure was formidable, particularly in the energized 1960s.
“He was brilliant. He was working for underdogs. He was trying to empower communities, which we still need to do. He spoke plainly. He had his outrageous side, but he also had his pragmatic side,” Edelman said. “Both Hillary and Barack reflect that understanding of community-organizing strategy. Both just know how to leverage power.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401152.html
“LEVERAGE POWER”
And if you care to hear it more from the horses mouth, here’s Obama himself:
“I Chose My Friends Carefully… The Marxist Professors and Structural Feminists” (from his book)
And……..
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784
“It is a fact that activist-cum senator Barack Hussein Obama started off his career as an activist with a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned, in Alinsky’s own words, how to “rub raw the sores of discontent”.
“Meanwhile L. David Alinsky, perhaps unwittingly put Obama into the proper perspective by stating without reservation: “Obama learned his lesson well.”
“In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.
“Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.
“No one can blame Alinsky for the pretentiousness of the Ancient Greek Temple from which Obama addressed plebes, or for the tacky neon colours on display at the Pepsi Centre, but it was Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals, the bible of the far left.
“Says Alinsky’s son L. David Alinsky of his father’s influence at the Dem Convention: “ALL the elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situation and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.”
“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style, the Communist guru’s son wrote in a letter published yesterday in the Boston Globe.
“The Artful Dodger may be less than pleased that he has been pegged as a Saul Alinsky Poster Boy by the guru’s own son.
“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness,” Alinsky Jr. wrote to the Globe. “It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.
“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784
Posted March 31st, 2009 at 5:38 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
JMH, I salute you. Nice Research!!
Posted April 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Mr. O may not be pleased with being connected to Alinsky, but it was a well defined thread that ran through his campaign.
Welcome To Camp Obama
He has started a kettle of soup boiling that very well may boil over. I’ve heard it predicted that this social unrest could come to an ugly head as early as this summer. Meanwhile, he just keeps stirring.
If there is any revolution, it will resemble the French Revolution (off with their heads!) rather than anything peaceful. Cases in point, the ACORN tour busses that drove past the AIG execs homes or the banker (Sir Fred Goodwin) whose home and car were vandalized by anti-capitalists.
I fear for the country under under this adminstration.
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