{"id":8076,"date":"2018-01-18T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:45:38","slug":"539-radical-ruler-the-legacy-of-saul-alinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8076","title":{"rendered":"539 – Radical Ruler: The legacy of Saul Alinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the author of 1971’s Rules For Radicals<\/em>, were he alive today, Saul Alinsky<\/strong> would no doubt be pleased to see his own radical views and tactics resulting in progress for those on the Left \u2013 particularly his beloved Democratic Party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Some of the Alinsky symptoms: <\/p>\n

  • increased violence during political rallies<\/li>\n
  • the growing intolerance of differing views on campuses<\/li>\n
  • the polarization of political forces along lines of racism and the haves and have nots<\/li>\n
  • the manufacture of fake news, and much more<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

    All of these symptoms reflect the \u201crules\u201d outlined in Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals<\/em>. Many attribute today\u2019s decline in civilized political discourse directly to Saul Alinsky. His book has been often cited as a reason for the successes of Bill and Hillary Clinton<\/strong> and Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    As we share the opinions of Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/strong>, David Alinsky<\/strong>, and Ralph Benko<\/strong> as heard during a July 20\/17 C-SPAN debate about Saul Alinsky\u2019s radical rules, the controversy begins with the book\u2019s opening epigram dedicated to the \u201cfirst radical\u201d \u2013 Lucifer. (After all, it is to Lucifer\u2019s kingdom that the Leftward road of good intentions leads.)<\/p>\n

    Yet, there are those who would describe Alinsky as a champion of the Right. Indeed, from communists to libertarians, representatives of all stripes have regarded Alinsky as \u201cone of them.\u201d<\/strong> How is this possible?<\/p>\n

    The contrast in perceptions of Left and Right held by those professionally and politically engaged on the front lines of that very polarity are fascinating to hear. It is symbolized in the controversy over whether Saul Alinsky represented the Left or Right.<\/p>\n

    As usual, confusion reigns whenever the Left-Right polarization becomes the unwelcome elephant in the room. But from its very beginnings as a \u201cpragmatic primer for realistic radicals,\u201d Alinsky\u2019s legacy, both in theory and practice, has always pointed Left and away from anything Just Right.<\/p>\n

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    As the author of 1971’s Rules For Radicals, were he alive today, Saul Alinsky would no doubt be pleased to see his own radical views and tactics resulting in progress for those on the Left \u2013 particularly his beloved Democratic Party. Some of the Alinsky symptoms: increased violence during political rallies the growing intolerance of [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,520,5,596,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-audio","category-books","category-ethics","category-ideas","category-latest","category-society","issues-left","issues-left-wing","issues-political-spectrum","personalities-david-alinsky","personalities-dinesh-dsouza","personalities-ralph-benko","personalities-saul-alinsky","category-7-id","category-12-id","category-520-id","category-5-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14209,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/14209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}