Obama’s Alinsky Tactics Go into Overdrive

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Obama’s Alinsky Tactics Go into Overdrive
April 3, 2013 By John Perazzo

In back-to-back interviews with a pair of Spanish-language television networks last Wednesday, Barack Obama expressed confidence that an immigration-reform bill—i.e., a path-to amnesty for 10 to 20 million guaranteed Democratic voters—could be passed “certainly before the end of the summer.” The following day, Obama surrounded himself with surviving relatives of the Newtown massacre victims and issued a renewed call for “common-sense” gun-control measures that purportedly would save many innocent lives. Also on Thursday, our busy-as-a-beaver president signed an executive order establishing a special commission “to improve the voting experience in America,” particularly as regards such issues as the voter-ID requirements which Obama and his Justice Department view as discriminatory measures designed to disenfranchise African Americans.

So many crusades, so little time. One day it’s voting rights; the next day, gun control and immigration reform; then health care; then student loans; then climate change; then oil drilling; then the coal industry; then gay marriage; then minimum-wage and living-wage laws; then a brain research initiative. And of course, every so often we are treated to presidential sermons about the need for tax hikes on the loathsome “corporate-jet owners,” “fat-cat bankers,” and “millionaires and billionaires” who are “sitting pretty” at “the very top” of the economic hierarchy, largely as a result of their “breathtaking greed.”

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Understanding the limits of the human attention span, Alinsky emphasized how vital it was for radical organizers to focus on multiple issues and adopt multiple approaches, just as we see Obama doing today. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag,” Alinsky wrote. “Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time … New issues and crises are always developing…” “Keep the pressure on,” he continued, “with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

Toward that end, Alinksy advised radical organizers to be sure that they always kept more than one “fight in the bank”—i.e., a stockpile of varied crusades to which they could instantly turn their attention at a moment’s notice. These “fights in the bank” work synergistically, Alinsky explained, serving to prevent one another from going “stale” as a result of excessive public exposure. “Multiple issues mean constant action and life,” he said.

This, in a nutshell, is why Barack Obama is constantly shifting our attention from one issue to another, to another, to another, to another. The Alinsky disciple learned his lessons well. It’s that simple.

Socialism and communism - HERE WE COME!

[Freeper]

If they get voting rights this country is done for.

[JohnnyReb]

If they get voting rights this country is done for.

The only answer seems to be......buy more ammo.