Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Wake Up and Smell the Alinsky

From Cheryl Chumley at The Washington Times:
America’s frustration — sane Americans’ frustration — grows.

“A revolutionary organizer,” Alinsky wrote, “must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives — agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.”

Like waiting on the coronavirus “welfare” stimulus checks — afraid to rock the government hand-out boat? This is not to say that coronavirus is a manufactured ailment aimed at bringing down America, a la Alinsky style, a la planned and purposeful and plotted from the get-go, from the very beginning. But: Coronavirus has certainly given an opportunity for the left to exercise its power-lust grabs of individual freedoms. Coronavirus has presented the chance for the likes of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — who’s busily stamping out any seed of freedom in her state of Michigan — to flex ye olde Gestapo muscles and send chilling messages to freedom-minded Americans that government can do as it wishes. That government can even suspend the Constitution if it wishes. Stay-at-homers ought to take the stay-at-home time to read a bit of Alinsky, through the veins of these modern crushing times. The applications of then-to-now, of words-to-wings of reality, will prove eye-opening. Eye-opening and rousing, hopefully. (Read more.)
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julygirl said...

Historically I am guessing this is not the first time the Constitution has been trampled, but knowing how private citizen Donald Trump had his Constitutional rights trampled and how local government is currently doing the same, one needs to be aware. We are abiding by the request for 'social distancing' in groups for health reasons, but allowing police to remove one or two people on the beach, in the surf, hiking the wilds of a National Forest, or a father throwing a ball to his child in a park, etc., is overstepping the bounds of law enforcement. This also goes for the Governor of Michigan deciding and designating what she considers essential items.