AMERICA…ALINSKY AND SEARCING FOR THE NARROW GATE

Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter trough it are many.  How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life.  And those who find it are few.
Matthew 7:6 14

 

The scandals proliferate, our relationship with the world is in tatters, the country grows poorer,  our national security is a joke and Obama ignores it all with all of the insolent disdain he can muster and simply move forward to the next round of actions designed to dissolve the nation.

 

With the immigration bill and his proposals to destroy the coal industry Obama proceeds apace, fearful  of the 2014 elections, to hurriedly finish what he has always promised to do…fundamentally transform America.  His critics are divided as to whether or not he is merely naïve or the pursuer of a more malevolent agenda.  Count me in the latter group.  It is naïve to believe he is simply naïve.  It is time to face facts and believe what your eyes see and ears hear and not what a supine and spineless media and press feeds you daily as fiction disguised as reality.

We are losing our country.  Our culture is broken, uninspiring, riddled with falsehood and untruths, hedonistic and far too often… disgusting.  Our youth who are the culture’s principal products have little connection to the historic America due in no small part to the poverty of true intellectual rigor that academia has abandoned.  Our colleges  and more frequently our secondary and primary schools resemble China during the Cultural Revolution.  Our children emerge from these educational, progressive,  plantations with beliefs and values so foreign and alien to their parents and grandparents as to be unrecognizable.  They far too often tend to believe in nothing so that there is nothing for them to base moral decisions on except what popular culture determines that to be at any given moment.  Worse, many are completely unprepared or unqualified for the dwindling number of good paying jobs that this sabotaged economy provides.

We are living not through  the age of Obama but the age of Saul Alinsky the guru of Obama.  The actions of this administration read like Alinsky’s manifesto “Rules for Radicals” who he dedicated to Lucifer the first radical. “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

 In this primer for class warfare and fundamental economic, political and cultural transformation of the United States  he exhorted direct community agitation directed by community organizers.  Alinsky also wrote "One can lack any of the qualities of an organizer -- with one exception -- and still be effective and successful. That exception is the art of communication. It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there." 

 

Hence we have Obama the orator or more succinctly Obama the “emoter”  and not  Obama the leader.  Leading is not the point …radical change is the point and that is accomplished via  emotion and not reason.  Alinsky then enumerates the 13 rules for his organizers to utilize …(1)“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
(2)“Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
(3)“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
(4)“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
(5)“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
(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)"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
(11)“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
(12)“The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
(13)“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
What’s missing in these rules are any mention or even inference that the struggle and its outcome should first and foremost be about truth, morality, decency, justice, the rule of law, and fair play.   Alinsky and his disciples see the country, religion, morality, civil society and their fellow countrymen instead as the enemy.

 

 The administration has relentlessly followed the Alinsky playbook.  They politicize, dissemble, manipulate, demonize, invent facts, threaten, and relentlessly change history which in turn changes the national narrative which in turn changes the national dialogue... and before we know it we are left standing desperately in the wind defending  things like  traditional marriage because they have  redefined it as evil and us to be "hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race,"
We the people are now enmeshed in a spiritual and secular wilderness of falsehood that we are told to love, worship and act upon as if it were truth.  God has been taken out of the American story and the narrow gate of the gospels where the good and the decent and the faithful strive to pass through to a better place is today mocked as quaint or bigoted. Worse that good gate seems further distant,  more indistinct and even invisible or nonexistent for far too many in this age of lies… lies we are in danger of learning to love because we feel we have no longer have a choice!

 

ERLANDSSON