“isolate and polarize the opposition”, does this seem to be what the Obama administration is trying to do?
Question by Adam: “isolate and polarize the opposition”, does this seem to be what the Obama administration is trying to do?
Remember that famous picture of Obama at the chalk board? http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/3386/thumbs/s-OBAMA-AT-CHALKBOARD-large.jpg
He is teaching Saul Alinsky, who says this in “Rules for Radicals”: “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.)”
Looks like they are following this model word for word.
I bring it up because Obama seems to know all about it, he is teaching it from memory…
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Answer by Country First Always
Thats ironic considering they are both progressive radicals who hate the free market. I see a trend…
What do you think? Answer below!
Hey he looks just like Glen Beck in that photo!
Okay. I shouldn’t joke. It really isn’t funny.
Saul Alinsky’s methods are a disgrace to radicalism and a hairsbreadth away from being the tactics of a fascist state.
All we have to do is sit and watch you nimrods torpedo yourselves.
No, the nutcases are doing it because they can’t handle being in the losers seat.
BTW-keep bringing up Saul Alinsky. That really shows that you can think for yourself. NOT!
Republicans have done a great job of polarizing and isolating themselves – no help necessary – by letting the fringe radicals at Fox TV lead them around by the d*** for the last 20 years.
The truth is available to those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear it.
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But perhaps the most cunning propaganda feat in history has been undertaken for the past 8 years. As Jonah Goldberg expertly expounds in his book, Liberal Fascism, American left-wing ideologues have managed to dissociate themselves from all the horrors of fascism with a “brilliant rhetorical maneuver.” They’ve done it by “claiming that their opponents are the fascists.”
Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:
“…in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University…students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations – a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative – and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
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Barack Obama’s involvement with the Communist Party USA
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barack_Obama_and_the_Communist_Party
er… this is VERY BASIC political strategy…
this is what Beck is constantly trying to do by calling all liberals communists… polarize them…
too bad Beck is bad at it… lol…
have you ever read alinsky’s rules? it’s basically a half-hearted rewrite of Tsu’s “rules of war”… there’s not ONE new idea in there and politicians on every side have used those rules since Rome and still use those “rules”…
maybe they are all evil communists… HAHAHa
Obama has been using the Alinsky model for years quite effectively, but I hope the people of this country are capable of countering him.
You Betcha, says Sarah Palin
Divide and conquer. Welcome to the New World Order.
I never realized how much power the President of the United States because right now Obama is abusing it. I’ve never seen a larger power grab ever than this administration has performed to date. They are corrupt, don’t care about the American people, and are obvious socialists. Come November, we need to get these libs out of office!!!!!!
If you pay attention, it’s the Republican party that is the one doing the isolation and polarization to themselves.
The Democrats aren’t going to have it easy, but it definitely helps when the GOP is busy cannibalizing itself.
“the Republican party that is the one doing the isolation and polarization to themselves.”
You must be blind. Dems’ talking points include: “They are the party of No.” Fact is they had tried to be a part of the health care bill but they were shut out. Other than Obama’s 7 hour meeting, there was next to nothing. Why did the Dems spit on the idea of being transparent? Because they were not including the Republicans. Who did the isolating? The Dems.
If this were required reading in schools the Democratic party would cease to exist.
They can only use emotions to motivate their base. The facts are their enemy so this is the only option they have. Rather than think through the issues themselves, their supporters are taken in by the constant Ad Hominem attacks and even pick up the bleat themselves.
Sadly, the quote “What luck for rulers, that men do not think.” by another socialist Adolph Hitler seems apply here.
Yes sir it does, and Saul is one of 0bama’s mentors as he sure seems to employ Sauls tactics right and left in my opinion!