Who here has Rush memberships? Or heard the show? I would like to talk about this. Especially if you know your Alinsky.
You should be able to read a transcript here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/06/26/the_left_s_moral_relativism_has_eaten_our_culture_alive_and_conservatives_have_no_political_strategy_to_stop_it
It’s the first 17 minutes of audio in particular.
Do you recall seeing Obama on magazine covers in 2003, 2004? Even at the time I thought it was odd to see the same guy from out of nowhere on both Time and Newsweek side by side. “Who is this nobody,” I wondered, “and why is he the Next Big Thing?”
Duh. For all my banging on about Alinsky, and my appreciation of the race weapon, I missed it. Or at least I hadn’t put all the pieces together at the same time. The Obama Presidency is exactly Alinsky’s Rochester plan.
Not just that it works out that way. Obviously it’s working out that way. But it just kind of popped into view how obvious the set-up is. I realize that there are great swaths of people who will never agree, but I’m not interested in convincign them. i want to know who thinks the same thing. That Barack Obama was elevated through the ranks of the DNC specifically to be used as Alinsky’s baked beans wepon. The progressive school has a free hand to be as totalitarian as they wanna be, because the cowardly GOP will not criticize the first black president.
I get that it is happening, and I have long felt that there was a loose set of fellow travellers who knew enough of the tune to jam, unrehearsed. But suddenly I think it actually has been a program, and a wildly successful one.
I’m still in the first hour. Rush is edging right up to saying that the GOP Establishment actually prefers losing because they find it profitable. He was here in the middle of Obama’s first term, which is why I was so mad at Rush for getting right with the GOPE in the primaries last time around. Kinda made him look establishment, but I also understand what he meant when he said (on endorsing a crunchy-con candidate), “Not my yob, man.”
Rush is just on fire. Fricking FIRE.
— Posted this over at Ricochet as well. Good startup with RMcR
Happy to pm McR about here if you like.
I wish the talkers would spend a bit more time (a bit earlier than they have done in the past) helping to winnow the field…Until we get that Convention of the States, aren’t we still a two-party system? Alinsky doesn’t surprise me…I’m hoping there’s a ramp into Galt’s Gulch.
On the one hand, I tend to share some of the gloom that conservatives feel everywhere.
On the other hand, I note that several times in our past we have been at equally (seemingly) horrible crossroads. The (Un)Civil War was one such time. The South just wanted their slaves, and wanted their way. And many agreed that they had the right to secede. But interestingly, even in the South there was considerable feeling about staying in the Union. Indeed, the idiot Beauregard was given orders to “do something” about Ft. Sumter as a means of getting blood in the face of Alabamans who were already beginning to waver and want to go back to the union.
Perhaps we are at such a time. Perhaps there are many that feel similarly that our nation has been taken over by unfamiliar parasites. Perhaps people are getting just a bit testy. The Baltimore Sun of all pieces, had an editorial a month or so ago stating, in brief, that whites had no racist feelings towards blacks; they were just exhausted by all the noise from the black community. I grasp their sense. I tend to feel that many other Americans are also just that – exhausted by the social wars.
I have that hope – or it’s shooting, and I definitely don’t want that.
In re civil war: Yes, a few hundred people ruined their states in disregard of the people & mocking law. The worst thing about the South was the despicable attitude of contesting an election & then seceding when they lost. They only lost because their Dems fought each other & split their vote, but lose they did. No secession in 1856 or before: Winning was tolerable–losing was not. Only a scoundrel nonpareil thinks that’s politics or law or respectability.
As for latter-day defenders of the South in the Civil War: Have you ever hear people tell you, the South had a right to secede because people have a right to rule themselves? They say that about the people who were willing to go to war & hell just to deny the right of self-rule to millions! The insanity there is both obvious & deep…
In re the current discontent: Yes, thinks are far less fearsome now. There is far more risk of people hating each other for ideological abstractions than of anything else. It’s the fact that both sides are full of people who are just waiting to hear the wrong word or phrase said so they can pounce! Everyone is suspicious, or soon will be. That’s where hell will open up–because this does not depend on parties or elections or judicial decisions–it depends on whether people are anymore willing to listen & to disagree without fearing that they must do the unthinkable before the other side does it, or does it again…