“… The middle classes are numb, bewildered, scared into silence. They don’t know what, if anything, they can do. This is the job for today’s radical – to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To say, ‘You cannot cop out as have many of my generation! You cannot turn away – look at it – let us change it together! “Look at us. We are your children. Let us not abandon each other for then we are all lost. Together we can change it for what we want. Let’s start here and there – let’s go!’
“It is a job first of bringing hope and doing what every organizer must do with all people all classes, places, and times – communicate the means or tactics whereby the people can feel that they have the power to do this and that and on. To a great extent the middle class of today feels more defeated and lost than do our poor.
“So you return to the suburban scene of your middle class with its variety of organizations from PTAs to League of Women Voters, consumer groups, churches, and clubs. The job is to search out the leaders in these various activities, identify their major issues, find areas of common agreement, and excite their imagination with tactics that can introduce drama and adventure into the tedium of middle-class life.
“Tactics must begin within the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don’t scare them off. The opposition’s reactions will provide the “education” or radicalization of the middle class. It does it every time. Tactics here, as already described, will develop in the flow of action and reaction. The chance for organization for action on pollution, inflation, Vietnam, violence, race, taxes, and other issues, is all about us. Tactics such as stock proxies and others are waiting to be hurled into the attack.
“The revolution must manifest itself in the corporate sector by the corporations’ realistic appraisal of conditions in the nation. The corporations must forget their nonsense about ‘private sectors.’ It is not just that government contracts and subsidies have long since blurred the line between public and private sectors, but that every American individual or corporation is public as well as private; public in that we are Americans and concerned about our national welfare.
“We have a double commitment and corporations had better recognize this for the sake of their own survival. Poverty, discrimination, disease, crime – everything is as much a concern of the corporation as is profits. The days when corporate public relations worked to keep the corporation out of controversy, days of playing it safe, of not offending Democratic or Republican customers, advertisers or associates – those days are done.
“If the same predatory drives for profits can be partially transmuted for progress, then we will have opened a whole new ball game. I suggest there that this new policy will give its executives a reason for what they are doing – a chance for a meaningful life. ..”
The above lines should sound familiar because they provide the back strategy for the Obama campaign’s frontal themes. The above quote comes from Obama’s favorite book, “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky, the Chicago-based Leftist organizer who sired a generation of far left organizers, agitators and activists and taught them to be political chamelons, masking a radical socialist, anti-individual freedom, anti-traditional American values agenda in the language and symbol of its intended victims.
That would be you and me.
If this scares or inspires you to want to know more, I strongly suggest you head over to NWRepublican and check out the six-part series on Obama, ACORN and Alinsky.
