Where we have been - Now where are we going

[russ1945]

Here is where we have been - these were Obama's policies to a T:

[h=1]Saul Alinsky”s Doctrine: 8 steps to topple a nation and create a socialist state[/h]BY IWB · OCTOBER 16, 2015




1) Healthcare — Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty — Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control — Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education — Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion — Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

 

[russ1945]

Now where are we going - need some help on this one but a change of direction is our only hope.

 

[russ1945]

Crime1Allow states to legalize marijuana if they chose to do so 132Legalize drugs to take profit away from drug cartels 203Defend the Second Amendment of our Constitution 14Nominate United States Supreme Court justices that will abide by the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States that includes upholding the Second Amendment 05Expand and bring back programs like Project Exile and get gang members and drug dealers off the street 16Empower law-abiding gun owners to defend themselves 0Education7Immediately add an additional federal investment of $20 billion towards school choice 38Give states the option to allow these funds to follow the student to the public or private school they attend 09Establish the national goal of providing school choice to every one of the 11 million school aged children living in poverty 210Work with Congress on reforms to ensure universities are making a good faith effort to reduce the cost of college and student debt 011Ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish 0Environment12Make America energy independent, create millions of new jobs, and protect clean air and clean water 2Families13Rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents 014Allow parents to enroll in tax-free dependent care savings accounts for their children or elderly relatives 015Provide low-income households an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit 016Create a new, dynamic market for family-based and community-based solutions. 017Incentivize employers to provide childcare at the workplace 018Provide 6 weeks of paid leave to new mothers before returning to work 0Foreign Policy19Strengthen the U.S. military and deploy it appropriately in the East and South China Seas 4120Put an end to China’s illegal export subsidies and lax labor and environmental standards 121Bolster the U.S. military presence in the East and South China Seas to discourage Chinese adventurism 022Enforce stronger protections against Chinese hackers and counterfeit goods 023Adopt a zero tolerance policy on intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer 024Close parts of the Internet to prevent ISIS from attracting recruits 1125Increase cooperation between the United States and Russia 426Work with Congress to fully repeal the defense sequester and submit a new budget to rebuild our military 027Increase the size of the U.S. Army to 540,000 active duty soldiers 128Rebuild the U.S. Navy toward a goal of 350 ships 029Provide the U.S. Air Force with 1,200 fighter aircraft 030Grow the U.S. Marine Corps to 36 battalions 031Invest in a serious missile defense system to meet growing threats 032Emphasize cyber warfare 133Pay for this necessary rebuilding of our national defense by conducting a full audit of the Pentagon 034Peace through strength will be at the center of our foreign policy 035Advance America’s core national interests, promote regional stability, and produce an easing of tensions in the world 036Rebuild our military, enhance and improve intelligence and cyber capabilities 037End the current strategy of nation-building and regime change 038Ensure our security procedures and refugee policy takes into account the security of the American people 039Work with our Arab allies and friends in the Middle East in the fight against ISIS 040Pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations to destroy ISIS 041Defeat the ideology of radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War 142Establish new screening procedures and enforce our immigration laws to keep terrorists out of the United States 043Suspend, on a temporary basis, immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism 044Establish a Commission on Radical Islam 045Declare American energy dominance a strategic economic and foreign policy goal of the United States. 0Government46Eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in Federal government spending 347Ask all Department heads to submit a list of every wasteful and unnecessary regulation 148Reform the entire regulatory code 049End regulations that force jobs out of our communities and inner cities 050Issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety 051Immediately cancel all illegal and overreaching executive orders 052Eliminate our most intrusive regulations 053Decrease the size of our government after a thorough agency review 0Healthcare54Increase funding for PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide prevention services 055Increase funding for job training and placement services, educational support and business loans 056Transform the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members 057Better support our women veterans 058Fire the corrupt and incompetent VA executives 059End waste, fraud and abuse at the VA 060Empower the caregivers to ensure our veterans receive quality care quickly 061Hire more veterans to care for veterans 062Embed satellite VA clinics in rural and other underserved areas 063Defund Planned Parenthood 1664Ensure our veterans get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it 065Appoint a VA Secretary whose sole purpose will be to serve veterans 166Use the powers of the presidency to remove and discipline the federal employees and managers who have violated the public's trust and failed to carry out the duties on behalf of our veterans 067Ask that Congress pass legislation that empowers the Secretary of the VA to discipline or terminate any employee who has jeopardized the health, safety or well-being of a veteran 068Create a commission to investigate all the fraud, cover-ups, and wrong-doing that has taken place in the VA 069Protect and promote honest employees at the VA who highlight wrongdoing 070Create a private White House hotline, which will be active 24 hours a day answered by a real person 071Stop giving bonuses to any VA employees who are wasting money, and start rewarding employees who seek to improve the VA's service 072Reform the visa system to ensure veterans are at the front of the line for health services 073Increase the number of mental health care professionals, and allow veteran's to be able to seek mental health care outside of the VA 074Ensure every veteran has the choice to seek care at the VA or at a private service provider of their own choice 075Repeal and replace Obamacare with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) 076Work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system 077Work with states to establish high-risk pools to ensure access to coverage for individuals who have not maintained continuous coverage 078Allow people to purchase insurance across state lines 079Maximize flexibility for states via block grants 0Immigration80Build a wall along the Mexican border 4981Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced 082Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans 383Triple the number of ICE officers 084Implement a nationwide e-verify 385Deport all illegal immigrants 7586Detain all illegal immigrants until they are deported 287Cut-off federal grants to any city which acts as a "sanctuary city" and refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement 188Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa 089Cooperate with local gang task forces 090End birthright citizenship 1691Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs 592Require companies to hire American workers first 093End welfare abuse 594Require employers to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers before issuing new green cards to foreign workers 795Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses 096Temporarily halt Muslim immigration as long as the threat of ISIS persists 6Jobs & Economy97Bring China to the bargaining table by immediately declaring it a currency manipulator 298Force China to uphold intellectual property laws 399Put an end to China’s illegal export subsidies and lax labor and environmental standards 0100Place a 45% tariff on Chinese exports to the United States 3101Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership 2102Impose a 35% import tax on Mexican border 1103Impose a 20% tax on all imported goods 1104Mandate a 15% tax for outsourcing jobs 0105Introduce a deficit-neutral plan targeting substantial new infrastructure investments 0106Pursue an "America’s Infrastructure First" policy 0107Refocus government spending on American infrastructure and away from the Obama-Clinton globalization agenda 0108Provide maximum flexibility to the states 0109Create thousands of new jobs in construction, steel manufacturing, and other sectors 0110Put American steel made by American workers into the backbone of America’s infrastructure 0111Leverage new revenues and work with financing authorities, public-private partnerships, and other prudent funding opportunities 0112Harness market forces to help attract new private infrastructure investments through a deficit-neutral system of infrastructure tax credits 0113Implement a bold, visionary plan for a cost-effective system of roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, railroads, ports and waterways, and pipelines 0114Link increases in spending to reforms that streamline permitting and approvals, improve the project delivery system, and cut wasteful spending 0115Employ incentive-based contracting to ensure projects are on time and on budget 0116Approve private sector energy infrastructure projects to better connect American coal and shale energy production with markets and consumers 0117Work with Congress to modernize our airports and air traffic control systems, end long wait times, and reform the FAA and TSA 0118Incorporate new technologies and innovations into our national transportation system 0119Make clean water a high priority 0120Link increased investments with positive reforms to infrastructure programs that reduce waste and cut costs 0121Appoint tough and smart trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers 0122Direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm our workers 0123Tell NAFTA partners that we intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement 0124Instruct the Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator 0125Instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China 0126Use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes if China does not stop its illegal activities 0127Unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves 1128Become independent of any need to import energy from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests 0129Open onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands, eliminate moratorium on coal leasing, and open shale energy deposits 0130Encourage the use of natural gas and other American energy resources 0131Rescind all job-destroying Obama executive actions 0132Create a dynamic booming economy that will create 25 million new jobs over the next decade 0133Reform policies with a pro-growth tax plan, a new modern regulatory framework, an America-First trade policy, an unleashed American energy plan, and the "penny plan" 0134Boost growth to 3.5 percent per year on average 0Science & Tech135Order an immediate review of all U.S. cyber defenses and vulnerabilities 0136Instruct the U.S. Department of Justice to create Joint Task Forces to coordinate responses to cyber threats 0137Order the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide recommendations for enhancing U.S. Cyber Command 0138Develop the offensive cyber capabilities we need to deter attacks by both state and non-state actors 0Taxes139Reduce or eliminate most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich 0140Eliminate the income tax for single individuals earning less than $25,000 or those married and jointly earn less than $50,000 1141Create a 15% flat tax on businesses 0142Eliminate the death tax 1143Reduce or eliminate most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich 0144Introduce a one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate 0145Reduce or eliminate corporate loopholes that cater to special interests 0146Simplify the tax code into four brackets from seven brackets - 0%, 10%, 20%, and 25% 0

 

[russ1945]

[h=1]Trump's energy plans look to roll back Obama's climate moves[/h][FONT=&quot]By Andrew O'Reilly
Published November 21, 2016
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[FONT=&quot]President Obama’s eight-year effort to rein in the energy and mining industries with environmental regulations will likely come to a halt under President-elect Donald Trump, who is poised to green-light key job-creating projects from the Atlantic Coast to Alaska.
[FONT=&quot]With the election of Donald Trump -- and a transition team that includes GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna and outspoken climate change skeptic Myron Ebell -- both sides now see their fortunes reversing amid Trump’s promise to rescind Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan and jump-start oil, and natural gas projects.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“I think 80 percent of President Obama’s policies will be reversed very soon after Trump moves into the White House,” Robert McNally, the president of the Rapidan Group, the energy consulting firm, and former official in the George W. Bush administration, told FoxNews.com. “The Trump administration will reverse the global warming principles enacted under Obama and he will stop the politicization of infrastructure. This will definitely spur on the growth of the oil and gas industries.”[/FONT]
[h=2]Summary[/h][FONT=&quot]Trump's Energy Plans

• Invest in shale, oil, clean coal and natural gas reserve
• Open onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands
• Rescind Obama's Clean Power Plan and other executive actions
• Make the U.S. energy indpendent and create new jobs

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[FONT=&quot]Here are three projects that could be revived soon after Trump takes office in January:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Keystone XL Pipeline[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Workers laying parts of the Keystone XL pipeline.(The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]One of the biggest environmental flashpoints of Obama’s presidency, the pipeline’s final phase – which would create a shorter route for American and Canadian crude oil coming from Alberta to Nebraska – was rejected by Obama for not serving “the national interests of the United States.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Keystone XL faced stiff opposition from environmental groups and a minority of U.S. lawmakers amid concerns of oil spills in highly sensitive ecological terrain and worries from the Environmental Protection Agency about large increases in greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta’s carbon intensive oil sands.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Throughout his campaign Trump vowed to “immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline” -- adding he believed it would have no environmental impact and would create hundreds of jobs -- and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is already pressing the president-elect to make it a priority in his first 100 days.[/FONT]

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If I am elected President I will immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline. No impact on environment & lots of jobs for U.S.
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[FONT=&quot]TransCanada, the company tasked with building the pipeline, said it's hopeful that Trump will approve the project and that they’re working to convince the president-elect to move on it quickly.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“TransCanada remains fully committed to building Keystone XL,” the company said in a statement sent to FoxNews.com. “We are evaluating ways to engage the new administration on the benefits, the jobs and the tax revenues this project brings to the table.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Donald Trump’s stance toward offshore drilling in the Atlantic has been vague - saying only that he backs it when “done responsibly" (The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Obama administration recently moved to restrict drilling in waters off the Eastern Seaboard from 2017 to 2022, but environmentalists, fishermen and those in the East Coast’s tourism industry want to make that restriction permanent before Trump comes into office.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Despite his vocal stance on U.S. energy independence and support of increased oil and gas development, Trump’s stance toward offshore drilling in the Atlantic has been vague -- saying only that he backs it when “done responsibly" -- but if he green-lights drilling in the Atlantic it would make him many friends in U.S. oil and gas companies and could open the possibility to expand drilling other U.S. waters.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Obama, however, could prevent this by invoking an obscure section of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Act that would make it difficult, maybe impossible, for future presidents to reverse the ban. He has used the act before to safeguard parts of Alaska’s Bristol Bay and parts of the Arctic.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“That’s the big question,” David Goldston, the director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told FoxNews.com. “Will the Obama administration go beyond the five-year ban?”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]While a permanent ban is still in question, late last week Obama blocked the sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska for the next five years -- a move that was praised by environmentalists and largely scorned by oil industry representatives.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"Once again, we see the attitude that Washington knows best -- an attitude that contributed to last week's election results," Randall Luther, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, told The Associated Press in reference to Trump's surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Reviving Coal[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Coal miners in West Virginia. (The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]Trump’s campaign promises of reviving the coal industry helped him win over voters in places like Wyoming, West Virginia and other states hard hit by declining production of the energy source. Now as he readies to enter the White House, many of the voters are looking to see when – and, maybe more importantly, how – the incoming president will fulfill that promise.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Coal production has been on the wane for a number of years as Americans move toward cheaper, cleaner alternatives like natural gas and the industry struggles to cope with tighter environmental regulations imposed by the Obama administration.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Saving the coal industry is part of Trump’s 100-day action plan and, although he has not given any specifics so far, his campaign trail promises included rescinding the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and the Mercury and Air Toxics Rule.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]While those moves may delay the closure of some aging coal-fired plants, many states regardless of how they voted are opposed to new coal plants and instead actively favor renewable energy as more people become aware of the dangers of coal combustion for humans.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Coal is a dirty power source,” Goldstone said. “The more coal we burn, the more goes into the air and the more it affects people’s lives.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Besides the health risks, energy industry experts argue there is a more economic reason why Trump’s coal revival may face difficulty.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Jobs in the coal industry were not lost because of environmental policies,” McNally said. “Those jobs have become mechanized and the labor overseas is cheaper. Also there is much more interest in natural gas which is both cleaner and cheaper.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Copper and Crude[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region near the village of Iliamma. (The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]Besides Keystone XL and the coal, there a number of projects either on hold or in the exploratory phase that could move under the Trump administration -- especially in regards to copper and gold.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pebble Mine, in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, contains one of the world’s largest deposits of copper, gold and molybdenum, but the project has been hampered since its inception over concerns from environmentalists, Native Americans and local politicians that toxic residue from the mine could harm the world’s largest population of sockeye salmon and endanger the $252 million-a-year local fishing industry.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Trump has not weighed in on the issue, but Sarah Palin -- Alaska's former governor who is rumored to be on Trump’s short list for Interior Secretary – helped ease the path for what would be one of the world’s largest open pit mines by appointing mining industry officials to lead her Department of Natural Resources and embracing resource extraction.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]A view of the proposed Resolution copper mine. (The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]In southeast Arizona, the so-called Resolution Mine could supply 25 percent of the U.S.’ copper needs for the next 40 years, but stiff opposition from environmental groups like the Sierra Club and from the San Carlos Apache Tribe, which regards the land on top of the mine as one of the most sacred places on Earth, has put the project in jeopardy.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Again Trump has remained mum on the issue, but industry insiders say his massive infrastructure plans could be a good sign for the two foreign companies running the mine.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"Everyone had written copper off; now copper is absolutely motoring," Jeremy Wrath all, head of global natural resources at Investec PLC, told Investor’s Business Daily. "If you start massive infrastructure building, particularly when you start talking about modern smart-grid building, you're going to have a lot more copper use."[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Then there are the massive oil reserves in the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota, which would be carried to a shipping point in Illinois by the controversial Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Environmentalists and members of Standing Rock Sioux tribe argue that the pipeline will skirt their reservation and threatens drinking water and cultural sites.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Oil derricks at the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota. (The Associated Press)

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[FONT=&quot]The oil industry in the upper Midwest has taken a hard hit as global oil prices have dropped to between $40 and $20 a barrel over the last year in large part due to OPEC regulation. Trump has made it clear he is no fan of OPEC and believes that U.S. oil production is key to the country’s energy independence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Trump has a lot of animosity toward OPEC," McNally said. “And he’s likely to buy into the U.S.-centered business thinking.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]While analysts say that the Obama administration hopes to use the "death by delay" strategy to stop DAPL, the company building the $3.8 billion pipeline -- Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners -- hopes to receive a more friendly tone from Trump.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"Dakota Access has been waiting long enough to complete this pipeline, Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren said last week.[/FONT]
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[russ1945]

The 8 rules I posted to begin this thread are often hit upon by detracters by saying Snopes says they are not from Alinsky. Well check this out.

. This plan was not enumerated in Alinsky’s book, but Alinsky inspired two Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven to devise the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” which seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. This strategy is often attributed to Alinsky and left wing websites like Snopes have tried to discredit the plan by declaring it false because Alinsky didn’t actually write the 8 steps in his book. But Snopes conveniently fails to correctly attribute the work to Cloward and Piven.

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So Alinsky inspired these two extremists and Snopes failed to attribute the work to them. Snopes sucks.

 

[Michelangelo]

Cloward and Piven were the theorists. Obama was the actualizer.

But something happened.

A guy named Trump wrestled the Presidency away from Obama's successor and the country embarked on the greatest and healthiest transformative Presidency since FDR, repudiating the Alinskey, Cloward, Piven, Obama socialist/ communist playbook, and began in earnest the fight to regain the common sense capitalist principles underpinned by a more moral, less corrupt and self serving government, that once made the country prosperous, innovative, and enterpreneurial and the world's preeminent power.

I am going to smile for my country alot over the next four years.

I hope you document it all, Russ, so the left can see what true leadership looks like. It's gonna be delicious like a watermelon on a hot summer day.

Thank you for your service to the board, Russ.

 

[russ1945]

Michaelangelo:

I guess connecting dots is something I have to do. One thing is for sure, Trump is a true leader who listens and someone who can make changes for the better. I will try to document all I can and I hope others join in. I have been impressed with what Trump has already accomplished although this is the preliminary stage. He is looking at the best changes to make this nation great again. He will be the first President in a long time whose actions will speak louder than his words.

 

[russ1945]

Pentagon to End Gun-Free Zones on Military Bases

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On November 18, the Pentagon issued a Defense Department directive that will “allow Department of Defense (D0D) personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties.”

Secretary of Defense Robert Work approved the directive.
Military.com reports that the directive “also provides detailed guidance to the services for permitting soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel to carry privately owned firearms on DoD property.” It authorizes “commanders, 05 and above…[to] grant permission to DoD personnel requesting to carry a privately owned firearm (concealed or open carry) on DoD property for a personal protection purpose not related to performance of an official duty or status.”
The directive also makes clear that DoD will consider further changes to grant “[standard] authorizations for other DoD personnel, who are trained in the scaled use of force or who have been previously qualified to use a government-issued firearm, to carry a firearm in the performance of official duties on DoD property.” This would allow DoD with certain combat training to carry firearms without going through the additional step of making application with a commander.


President-elect Donald Trump ran on removing gun-free zones from military bases. On July 9, 2015, Breitbart News reported that Trump pledged to end the gun-free scenarios for U.S. troops by “[mandating] that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases.”

 

[russ1945]

Sanctuary Cities at Risk of Losing DOJ Funds



From the above:

The law was passed in 1996 during the administration of President Bill Clinton to force local and state jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration officials or risk losing federal funding. Part of the process requires the federal agency’s office of inspector general to certify that a jurisdiction is not in compliance in order to block funding.
“The law requires cooperation with immigration officials 100 percent of the time,” Culberson told Breitbart Texas in an exclusive interview. In February, Culberson provided Attorney General Lynch with a list of more than 300 sanctuary cities compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies.

 

[russ1945]

The liberal press is jumping on Trump about some promises he made and is changing his mind on. Let's take a look at some of Obama's campaign promises that he has 8 years to implement:



Ten Broken Obamacare Promises

By Alyene Senger

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Alyene SengerResearch Associate
Center for Health Policy Studies






Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010, many of the President’s famous promises have been routinely broken. As he so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.”[1] To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already proved to be broken.

Promise #1: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.”[2]
Reality: Millions of Americans have lost and will lose their coverage due to Obamacare.
Obamacare has significantly disrupted the market for those who buy coverage on their own by imposing new coverage and benefit mandates, causing a reported 4.7 million health insurance cancelations of an existing policy in 32 states.[3]
For those with employer-sponsored insurance in the group market, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance by 2018.[4]
Moreover, the Administration itself has admitted that employers would not keep their existing health plans. Federal regulations written in 2010 estimated that 51 percent of small and large employers would lose their “grandfathered status” by 2013—meaning a majority of employers would not keep their existing health plans.[5]

Promise #2: “[T]hat means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.”[6]
Reality: Many Americans might not be able to keep their current doctor without paying extra.
Many plans offered on Obamacare’s exchanges have very limited provider networks, decreasing the chances consumers will be able to keep their current doctor without paying more money.[7]Furthermore, many Americans who purchase coverage on their own have had their existing health plans changed or canceled due to Obamacare, resulting in some people being unable to keep their current doctors without paying additional money to do so.
Due to the significant payment reductions included in Obamacare, seniors with Medicare Advantage plans may be forced to find new doctors. The largest provider of these plans, UnitedHealth, has recently reduced its provider networks in several states.[8]

Promise #3: “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year.”[9]
Reality: Premiums for people purchasing coverage in the individual market have significantly increased in a majority of states.
A Heritage analysis shows that, on average, consumers in 42 states will see their premiums in the exchanges increase, many by over 100 percent.[10]
For people with employer-sponsored coverage, costs also continue to increase. For families, premiums from 2009 to 2013 have increased by an average of $2,976.[11]

Promise #4: “[F]or the 85 and 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing’s already happened. And their only impact is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else.”[12]
Reality: Obamacare imposes certain new benefit mandates on those with employer-sponsored coverage—a majority of Americans.
These mandates increase the cost of coverage. In fact, federal regulations written in 2010 assumed “that the increases in insurance benefits will be directly passed on to the consumer in the form of higher premiums. These assumptions bias the estimates of premium changes upward.”[13]
But higher premiums not only cost people more money; they have other impacts on coverage as well. For instance, as a response to the direct cost increases associated with Obamacare, UPS dropped coverage for spouses of employees if they are offered coverage through their own employers.[14]

Promise #5: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”[15]
Reality: Obamacare contains 18 separate tax hikes, fees, and penalties, many of which heavily impact the middle class.
Altogether, Obamacare’s taxes and penalties will accumulate over $770 billion in new revenue over a 10-year period.[16] Among the taxes that will hit the middle class are the individual mandate tax, the medical device tax, and new penalties and limits on health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.[17]

Promise #6: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits—either now or in the future.”[18]
Reality: Obamacare’s new spending is unsustainable.
Obamacare was passed into law relying on a wide variety of unrealistic budget projections. A more realistic assessment reveals that it will be a multi-trillion-dollar budget buster. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated the cost of Obamacare over the long term if certain cost-containment measures were overridden. Under that alternative scenario, which assumes that “historical trends and policy preferences continue,” the GAO found that Obamacare would increase the primary deficit by 0.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).[19]
Senator Jeff Sessions (R–AL) and the Senate Budget Committee staff, who commissioned the GAO report, translated the 75-year percentage estimate into today’s dollar amount, which would be $6.2 trillion over the next 75 years.[20]

Promise #7: “[W]hatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses, and government, those elements are in this bill.”[21]
Reality: Health spending is still rising and is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.8 percent from 2012 to 2022.[22]
While growth in health spending has been slower recently compared to the past, that is largely due to the sluggish economic recovery. Indeed, Obamacare’s new entitlements will help drive greater health spending in 2014 and beyond.[23]

Promise #8: “I will protect Medicare.”[24]
Reality: Obamacare cuts Medicare spending.
Obamacare makes unprecedented and unrealistic payment reductions to Medicare providers and Medicare Advantage plans in order to finance the new spending in the law. The cuts amount to over $700 billion from 2013 to 2022.[25] If Congress allows these draconian reductions to take place, it will significantly impact seniors’ ability to access care.[26]

Promise #9: “I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American.”[27]
Reality: Millions of Americans will remain uninsured.
Despite spending nearly $1.8 trillion in new spending from 2014 to 2023, the law falls far short of universal coverage. Indeed, Obamacare is projected by the CBO to leave 31 million uninsured after a decade of full implementation.[28]

Promise #10: “So this law means more choice, more competition, lower costs for millions of Americans.”[29]
Reality: Obamacare has not increased insurer competition or consumer choice.
In the vast majority of states, the number of insurers competing in the state’s exchange is actually less than the number of carriers that previously sold individual market policies in the state.[30]And at the local level, for 35 percent of the nation’s counties, exchange enrollees will have a choice of plans from only two insurers—a duopoly. In 17 percent of counties, consumers will have nochoice—a monopoly—as only one carrier is offering coverage in the exchange.[31]
—Alyene Senger is a Research Associate in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

 

[russ1945]

You can throw in his promise to cut the deficit in half by 2012. It goes on in on.

Has the liberal press come forward and done an analysis on how Obama did what he said he would do. Hell no.

 

[russ1945]

There are a couple of things that need to be compared from the Trump administration to the Obama Administration.

Let's compare how much the Trump's spend of our money for family vacations. Obama promised to have the most transparent administration ever. Why then did Judicial Watch have to sue in Federal Court to find out how much the Obama's were spending on family vacations. They finally got the records and the article below describes them. Keep in mind this total was through 2013:

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in August 2013, after repeated stonewalling by the White House. The group reported:

* The outbound flight to Honolulu for the Obamas’ 2012-13 Christmas vacation cost taxpayers $2, 214, 393.60. The return flight to Washington cost $1,871,961.60. Flight expenditures alone came to $4,086,355.20.
* The outbound flight to California in August, 2013 for Obama to dine with Katzenberg and appear on the “The Tonight Show” cost taxpayers $1,209,926.40. The return flight to Washington cost $935,980.80. Flight expenditures alone came to $2,145,907.20.
* The outbound flight to Martha’s Vineyard for the Obama family’s August vacation cost taxpayers $890,323.20. The return flight to Washington cost $273,945.60. Flight expenditures alone came to $1,164,268.80.
* The grand total of $7,396,531.20, Judicial Watch pointed out, only accounted for flight expenses for the three trips.
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“The fact is, the Obamas are abusing the public trust and the taxpayers with unnecessary luxurious vacations and travel,” Judicial Watch said in its report. “These staggering costs show why these documents were covered-up and we had to sue in federal court to get them. Another transparency fail for the Obama gang, but thanks to our federal lawsuit it is another accountability win for the American taxpayer.”


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Trump is going to work for a dollar. That tells you a lot.

 

[Willie99]

Russ, I always glance over this topic and never looked into it, so I have a question

Did Alinsky write these words? is this actual text? or paraphrasing? maybe interpretation?

are there descending opinions?


I ask because those words are so damning, and if true, a real look into the warped winds of socialist (read libtarded) leaders like Obama

 

[Willie99]

and I've always argued democrats actually try to grow their base by

2) increasing poverty
5) growing welfare rolls
8) class warfare (racism), what they're doing now being exhibit number one

 

[Willie99]

1) healthcare, a more recent developement and have created another wedge issue, but I always thought they simply believed in their own idiocy here

3) debt, that's bipartisan

4) gun control, I'm not worried about using force against the people, although I have concerns about our gun rights

6) education, always viewed this as a kickback issue for teachers' unions

7) religion??? interesting, I always blamed our movement towards an amoral society for contributing to the demise of our society, but I never considered it a political movement

 

[russ1945]

Russ, I always glance over this topic and never looked into it, so I have a question

Did Alinsky write these words? is this actual text? or paraphrasing? maybe interpretation?

are there descending opinions?


I ask because those words are so damning, and if true, a real look into the warped winds of socialist (read libtarded) leaders like Obama

Post #5 makes the connection to Alinsky.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Russ, I always glance over this topic and never looked into it, so I have a question

Did Alinsky write these words? is this actual text? or paraphrasing? maybe interpretation?

are there descending opinions?


I ask because those words are so damning, and if true, a real look into the warped winds of socialist (read libtarded) leaders like Obama

Willie, just read Hillary's thesis.

 

[russ1945]

[h=4]Alinsky’s 12 Rules:[/h]1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
11. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
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.

 

[russ1945]

12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals


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Saul Alinsky was a brilliant man. Evil, but brilliant. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, everyone on the Left from the President on down is playing by his rules in the political arena. Not all liberals have read his book or know his name, but his tactics have become universal. Sadly for conservatives, when two evenly matched forces go head-to-head outside of a fairy tale, the side that tries to play nice usually ends up with its head in a box. So, don't lie or become an evil person like Alinsky, but learn from what he wrote and give the Left a taste of its own medicine.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
…The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
…the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
…the fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
…the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
…the seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
…the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
…the ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
…The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
…The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
…The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. — Rules for Radicals
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1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Boycotts have fallen out of favor on the Right because the Left has used that tactic to target conservative radio. This is a mistake. That's because there are a lot more conservatives than there are liberals and we're much more capable of using the tactic effectively. There are roughly 120 million people who identify with conservatism in this country and almost twice as many Christians. When there are threats that Christians and conservatives will refuse to go see movies, stop buying products, or cancel subscriptions, it will scare some people straight. That threat should be used and carried out much more often.

2) Never go outside the experience of your people. Want to know why Republicans are so terrible at reaching out to minorities? Because identity politics works really, really well and conservatives tend to oppose it on principle. So, white Republicans are constantly trying to go outside of their experience and reach out to minorities who are generally disinclined to listen to them because they have the wrong skin color. When the GOP accepts reality, adopts the tactics of the Democratic Party, and starts paying off our own Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons to reach out to minority groups and call Democrats racists, we'll start making inroads with minorities for the first time in decades.

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3) Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. The GOP often foolishly retreats from social issues. This is a huge mistake in an era when 76% of the country is Christian and most liberals find sincere Christian beliefs to be repellent. We don't have to preach at anyone, wag our fingers, or turn into legions of Ned Flanders, but we shouldn't be afraid to talk about our Christian beliefs, stick up for Christians who are under attack, and hammer the Left for its anti-Christian bigotry. Conservatism is a pro-Christian ideology and liberalism is an anti-Christian ideology. We should never be afraid to drive that point home.
4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. This is something conservatives have gotten much better at in the last few years, but we seldom take it far enough. If we did, a tax cheat who advocates higher taxes could certainly never be our Treasury Secretary, Barack Obama would be afraid to associate with race hustlers like Al Sharpton or one percenters like Warren Buffet, and Al Gore would have either given up his mansion or his status as the leader of the cult of global warming.



4A) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Conservatives have a tendency to try to win every debate with logic and recitations of facts which, all too often, fail to get the job done because emotions and mockery are often just as effective as reason. The good news is that liberals almost never have logic on their side; so they're incapable of rationally making the case for their policies while conservatives can become considerably more effective debaters by simply adding some emotion-based arguments and sheer scorn to their discourse. This has certainly worked on Twitter, where conservatives keep making the Obama campaign look like buffoons by taking over its hashtags.



6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. Sometimes Republicans get too serious about politics. Why not hold a fund raiser at the gun range? What's wrong with having Kid Rock or a bunch of popular country musicians play at a massive voter registration drive? How about building some giant puppet heads of our own, featuring Nancy Pelosi injecting botox into her face or Barack Obama punching the Pope in the stomach? A little controversy and fun draw in the eyeballs and gets people excited.

7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. This one seems self-explanatory, but in practice, it can be tough to keep things on a timeline. This is what happened to the Occupy Movement, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Republican race for the presidency, too. If it goes on too long, people sour on it whether it’s a war, an election, or a tactic.

8) Keep the pressure on. Conservatives fall down on this one all the time. Just when Obama's SuperPac was starting to feel real pressure over taking a million dollar donation from Bill Maher, conservatives eased up. This is also why liberal film stars feel so comfortable trashing conservatives, Christians, and Americans -- even right before their film comes out. It's because we get offended, shrug our shoulders, and then almost immediately let it go. Sometimes, an apology doesn't fix everything. How often do liberals accept an apology at face value and let an issue go?

9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. How about we treat the Left to some of its own medicine? Libs throw a pie at a conservative author on campus; then we promise to shower every liberal speaker on the same campus with garbage. They post a conservative address online; we post two liberal addresses online. They hold a protest at someone's house; then we hold a protest at someone's house. They hit one of our politicians with glitter; we hit one of their politicians with coal dust. Liberals have a mentality that says, "Everything we do is harmless, but everything conservatives do is potentially dangerous." Yet, we're usually too well behaved to copy their tactics. Mimic those tactics once or twice and the Libs will freak out so hard that they'll start declaring it to be off limits for everyone, including their own activists.

10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. When you launch an attack, tie it in as part of a theme and never stop hammering the theme as long as it's true and it works. John Kerry is a flip-flopper, Bill Clinton is a liar, Barack Obama is bankrupting the country and wrecking the economy -- tie your attacks into themes that can be picked up on social media, talk radio, cable TV, and in the blogosphere over the long haul. Why does McDonald's keep running ads? Because it may be that 50th ad or 100th ad you see that gets you to go buy a Big Mac, just as it may be the 50th or 100th time someone hears that Obama is bankrupting the country and wrecking the economy before it sticks.

11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside. The winner in politics is almost always whoever is on offense. Liberals understand this in an intuitive way that most conservatives don't. We think because we have this wonderful, honest, logical response to a charge that we're scoring major points -- but, except in rare cases, it's not true. If you're spending all of your time refuting the charges that you're extreme, racist, hate women, and despise the poor -- you're losing. That's because some people will assume where there's smoke, there's fire, and disbelieve you no matter how good your explanation may be. Additionally, if you're busy defending yourself, you can't go after the other side. Defend when you absolutely have to, but make sure most of your time is spent attacking relentlessly attacking.

12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Honestly, this is more of a liberal problem than a conservative one, since liberals always seem to be clamoring to rip out some functional necessity of American society so they can replace it with an ill-defined hodgepodge of ideas that they think will shift power their way or be less "mean." Our ideas work; so coming up with a constructive alternative is seldom a problem.

13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Conservatives tend to do well with this one until they get to the last part. Polarization is at the core of the Left's strategy. According to liberals, if you're conservative, you hate blacks, Hispanics, gays, Jews, Muslims, women, the poor, the middle class, the environment, and probably a half dozen other groups I've forgotten. Even when something is in front of our face, conservatives shy away from polarization. What's wrong with pointing out how hostile the Democratic Party has become to Christianity? Why not point out the truth: that most white liberals are racists who think black Americas are too stupid and incompetent to compete with white Americans, which is why they push Affirmative Action and racial set asides? Why not note that liberals want poor Americans to stay poor and dependent, because as long as they do, they'll keep voting for the Democrat Party? There's a reason Barack Obama bows to foreign leaders, is constantly apologizing for America, attended an anti-white, anti-American church for 20 years, and it's why his wife was proud of the country for the FIRST TIME because she thought it was going to elect her husband. The sad truth is that these are people who hate and despise this country. Why do you think "hope and change" appealed so much to Obama that he made it his theme? When you look at America as an evil, racist, unfair, horrible place to live inhabited by ignorant trash and "bitter clingers," what else would you do other than hope for change? If you love this country and the values it represents, the people in the White House not only don't share your values, they hold people like you in utter contempt.

 

[russ1945]

[h=1]SIX ALINSKY RULES THAT EXPLAIN OBAMA’S WORDS AND DEEDS[/h][FONT=&quot][h=3]How Obama is implementing the vision of the Godfather of radical community organizing.[/h]April 4, 2013
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In spite of the media’s conspicuous silence on the matter, it is no secret that Saul Alinsky’s manual for “community organizers”—Rules for Radicals—exerted an immeasurable influence over the world’s most well recognized community organizer, President Barack Obama. Thus, to understand why Obama does what he does, we need to be familiar with the vision that Alinsky delineated in his book.
Below are six ideas, six “rules,” that the Godfather of community organizing packs between the covers of Rules,ideas that Obama’s imbibed hook, line, and sinker.
(1). Politics is all about power relations, but to advance one’s power, one must couch one’s positions in the language of morality.
Community organizers are “political realists” who “see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest” (12).
(2). There is only three kinds of people in the world: rich and powerful oppressors, the poor and disenfranchised oppressed, and the middle-class whose apathy perpetuates the status quo.
“The world as it is” is a rather simple world. From this perspective, the world consists of but three kinds of people: “the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.” The Haves, possessing, as they do, all of “the power, money, food, security, and luxury,” resist the “change” necessary to relieve the Have-Nots of the “poverty, rotten housing, disease, ignorance, political impotence, and despair” from which they suffer (18).
The Have-a-Little, Want Mores comprise what we call “the middle class.” While Alinsky believes that this group “is the genesis of creativity,” (19) he also claims that it supplies the world with its “Do-Nothings.” The Do-Nothings are those who “profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change [.]” Alinsky remarks that in spite of their reputable appearances, the Do-Nothings are actually “invidious” (20).
This being so, they are as resistant to change as are the Haves.
(3). Change is brought about through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is.
Since both the middle and upper classes have none of the organizer’s passion for radical change, he must do his best to “stir up dissatisfaction and discontent [.]” He must “agitate to the point of conflict.” The organizer “dramatizes…injustices” and engages in “‘trouble making’ by stirring up” just those “angers, frustrations, and resentments” (117) that will eventuate in the “disorganization of the old and organization of the new” (116 emphasis original). He is determined to give rise to as much “confusion” and “fear” as possible (127).
(4). There can be no conversation between the organizer and his opponents. The latter must be depicted as being evil.
If his compulsion to “agitate” makes it sound as if the organizer is disinclined to converse with those with whom he disagrees, that is because, well, he is. Alinsky is blunt on this point: “You don’t communicate with anyone purely on the rational facts or ethics of an issue” (89). It is true that “moral rationalization is indispensable,” (43) that the organizer must “clothe” one’s goals and strategies with “moral arguments” (36). But there can be no conversation with one’s opponents, for to converse with them is to humanize them.
The organizer’s objective is to demonize those who stand in the way of his designs for change.
The reason for this is simple: “Men will act when they are convinced that their cause is 100 per cent on the side of the angels and that the opposition [is] 100 per cent on the side of the devil.” The organizer “knows that there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree” (78).

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Elaborating on this theme, Alinsky asserts that in “charging that so-and-so is a racist bastard and then diluting” this “with qualifying remarks such as ‘He is a good churchgoing man, generous to charity, and a good husband,’” one convicts oneself of “political idiocy” (134). The winning strategy is to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it” (130 emphases original).
(5). The organizer can never focus on just a single issue. He must move inexhaustibly from one issue to the next.
The organizer “must develop multiple issues,” (76) for “multiple issues mean constant action and life” (78). Alinsky explains: “A single issue is a fatal strait jacket that…drastically limits” the organizer’s “appeal,” but “multiple issues…draw in…many potential members essential to the building of a broad, mass-based organization” (120). The only “way to keep the action going” is by “constantly cutting new issues as the action continues, so that by the time the enthusiasm and the emotions for one issue have started to de-escalate, a new issue” has emerged “with a consequent revival” (161).
(6). Taunt one’s opponents to the point that they label you a “dangerous enemy” of “the establishment.”
Finally, in order “to put the organizer on the side of the people, to identify him with the Have-Nots,” it is imperative that he “maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy’” (100).
Just because Barack Obama has left behind the low-income Chicago communities in which he once agitated doesn’t mean that he left behind the skills as a community agitator that he learned from Saul Alinsky. Rather, he now regards the country as his community to organize as he sees fit.
Obama not infrequently invokes American ideals, even while he conspires to “fundamentally transform” America.
In spite of what he says, Obama does not want national unity. There can be no unity with a people who one wants to fundamentally transform.
The President regularly speaks and acts as if there is perpetual class warfare being waged by “the Haves” on “the Have Nots.” Indeed, this is what he wants for Americans to believe. It is this desire on his part that accounts for why he spares no occasion to demonize both “the richest one percent” who he accuses of refusing to pay “their fair share,” as well as those Republicans who threaten to impede his plans to raise taxes.
Again, Obama does not want unity. He wants division.
Obama constantly moves from one divisive issue to the next, from Obamacare to gun-control, from amnesty for illegal immigrants to support for “same-sex marriage.” We see now why this is so.
Obama does not want unity. He wants to keep the country as polarized and disoriented as possible.
To know why Obama speaks and acts as he does, we need to know about Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.


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