Posted by
Traci Martin on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:02:22 PM
The Country is ripe for the picking, Saul Alinsky, community organizer and writer is probably throwing a block party in his grave right now. Barack Obama could not have hoped for a better political environment for his ideology. The crash of the stock market was almost strategic, as if orchestrated by God. It's as if Lucifer one upped God and got to choose his prize. "I will take Stock market crash, October 2008."
A low approval rating for Bush, combined with a country tired of a five year old war, Obama looks like a breath of fresh air. That is in fact the message he comes in singing. He capitalizes on the fetid air of our country; who wouldn't.
Saul Alinsky, one of Obama's mentors and teachers taught that to form a revolution you need to work with the people at the grassroots level, and find an environment of despair, lack of hope, anger, loss of vision for the future. In my own words, the people need to be looking for deliverance from their unchangeable and utterly deplorable circumstances. They need a messiah like figure who can come in and sweep them up and carry them across the ocean into a better and brighter world. Below is an excerpt form Alinsky's book.
In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing in the prologue,
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."
Obama found his revolutionary people in the Trinity Church, and his grassroots are planted firmly in the cement of Chicago. He has Reverend Jeremiah Wright doing his dirty work, rabble-rousing the people making sure they felt trampled on, held down by the foot of the white man. Meanwhile he used the corruption of the Chicago machine to do what he needed, to get where he needed to go.
Obama was right their, with his hanky, and his shoulder, and his many logos for many people, ready to hear the cries of the many people. Obama hears you, your fight is his fight! I mean you too Selma!
Obama is not a uniter, a bringer of peace, he is a radical, a rebel and a leader with a cause.
Saul Alinsky said, The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power.
Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away".
I think Obama would have made him VERY PROUD.