Well hell I've been duped again. Don't know what they expected to gain with a false lead in like that. I still found it interesting, looking for what makes them tick.
Gotta laugh at the antiquated anti-Alinsky notions still about from ideologues as Evan Sayet.
"Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer." .. your link .. https://www.truthorfiction.com/marshall-kamena-donald-trump/
Even more since reading, back when, the rise of the Tea Party owed much to Alinsky tactics.
Classic case of my enemy's friend is my friend, too. Haha. Surely that one also deserves to be proverb.
The Right Wing Resurrects Saul Alinsky
By Peter Dreier 07/10/2012 06:46 pm ET Updated Sep 09, 2012
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Alinsky was hardly the subversive, however, that Gingrich and other conservatives have portrayed. During the Depression, some of the key leaders of the industrial labor movement were members of or close to the Communist Party, and Alinsky worked alongside them in building an alliance between the neighborhood, the church, and the unions —- but he was neither a Communist nor a socialist himself. He was fond of quoting Madison, Jefferson, and Tom Paine. He considered himself a patriotic American. He eschewed ideology. His closest political ties were with the Catholic Church. He frequently spoke at seminaries advising future priests to express their faith by putting Catholic social teachings into practice by helping to organize their parishioners rather than doling out charity. In 1969, a coalition of Catholic groups in Iowa gave Alinsky its Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, named after Pope John XXIII’s encyclical on war, peace, and social justice. Today, many of the community organizing groups that follow Alinsky’s ideas are rooted in religious congregations that constitute a progressive counterpart to the upsurge of rightwing activism among evangelicals.
Tens of thousands of organizers and activists have been directly or indirectly influenced by Alinsky’s ideas about organizing. Most of them — like the young Barack Obama, who did not work for Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation but for another church-based community organizing group in Chicago’s poor neighborhoods from 1985 to 1988 — have been progressives, following Alinsky’s instincts to challenge the rich and powerful.
The left, however, has no monopoly on using Alinsky’s techniques. After Obama took office in 2009, even as the Tea Party and conservatives like Beck attacked Obama for being an Alinsky-ite and a “socialist,” they began recommending Alinsky’s books as training tools for building a rightwing movement. Freedom Works, a corporate-funded conservative group started by former Republican congressman Dick Armey, has used Rules for Radicals as a primer for its training of Tea Party activists. One Tea Party leader explained, “Alinsky’s book is important because there really is no equivalent book for conservatives. There’s no ‘Rules for Counter-Radicals.’” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/the-right-wing-resurrects_b_1663154.html
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Shaping Tea Party Passion Into Campaign Force [.. insert excerpt ..] Staff members like to say that they model FreedomWorks on the Grateful Dead or Virgin Atlantic Airways: they want to build a like-minded community, an endeavor that is as much fun as work. But they are also deeply ideological; a portrait of Ayn Rand hangs on the office walls along with one of Jerry Garcia. FreedomWorks was founded to promote the theories of the Austrian economic school, which argues that economic models are useless because they cannot account for all the variables of human behavior, and that markets must be unfettered to succeed. New employees receive a required-reading list that includes “Rules for Radicals [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23alinsky.html (below)],” by Saul Alinsky, the father of modern community organizing, and “A Force More Powerful [ http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/ ],” about 20th-century social movements, as well as Frédéric Bastiat’s “The Law,” which argues that governments are essentially stealing when they tax their citizens to spend on welfare, infrastructure or public education. FreedomWorks urges Tea Party groups to read the same works. (“It’s better than ‘Going Rogue,’ ” said Mr. Steinhauser, referring to Ms. Palin’s memoir.) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=53781986