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Written by Barry Donegan
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Monday, 10 November 2008 12:23 |
Community Organizer vs. Community Liberator, the battle for the 21st Century
Finally, Saul Alinsky's covert communist strategy of agitating the poor and middle class to commit economic suicide and mobilize for more state largesse have won the national spotlight. This anti-intellectual and his jingoist tactics have finally become the status quo. He is to the Barack Obama brand of folksy communism what Leo Strauss' faux-fundamentalist, theocratic front is to neo-conservatism. This tactic is called "community organizing." That is, to take the poor and agitate them to become a lobbying special interest group on their (Alinski, Obama, and other statist’s) behalf, before "the right" can.
Now that we know what their strategy is, let's examine how they were able to defeat us. What was our weakness? Our weakness was a failure to reach out to the poor. The information was there all along. "Teach a man to fish," goes the parable. While the community organizer is putting aside 5% of his contributions to run canned food drives and humiliating his constituency in a food line, the community liberator needs to sponsor events in poor and inner city communities where entrepreneurs and skilled laborers can come to teach individual responsibility, constitutional fundamental human rights, job skills, and positive mental attitudes.
It is too easy to fall into the trap of the "I earned my money, leave me alone" attitude of fiscal conservatism. That is not adequate. It is paramount that we teach the downtrodden to enhance our prosperity and theirs, and we must do this via voluntary means. If the poor learn to identify economic needs and find a way to meet it, there will be no one left to be poor, and who will Saul Alinsky's followers agitate then?
Teaching your fellow man to "fish" by voluntary means is the missing link to our revolution. While the total elimination of poverty is not a realistic goal, we need to be advocating to those who are crushed by the welfare state that freedom works and that it’s time to take off the training wheels and ride with the big boys. We're not going to get Big Brother’s hand out of our wallet by being exclusive and driving people away.
That is why I am officially coining the term Community Liberator. I think this should be the new title of merit for the freedom movement. While the Community Organizer, according to Alinsky, has the goal of using the poor to destroy the middle class, the Community Liberator has the goal of helping the poor lift themselves out of servitude to the state, and to destroy the welfare state by starving it of dependents.
Let us learn to be more hands-on with those whom public school failed to teach independence. Let us lead them to the promised land through voluntary means. This is what it takes to keep a Republic, and the wealth it will create is good for us all. |
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