Alinsky's Hide Your Ideology Rules. Camouflage of Marxist Ideology is Key to Obama's Alinsky Trained Style of "Organizing."

Submitted by Sofa Sogood (United States), Nov 2, 2008 at 15:43

Investor's Business Daily has a series called The Audacity of Socialism.

An article in that series discusses Obama's training at the Chicago Industrial Areas Foundation which was in the methodology of Marxist Saul Alinsky, one of whose books is called Rules for Radicals. Almost all of Obama's strategies and behavior can be easily seen as going exactly by the Alinsky Book.

An important part of the Alinsky Rules was developing the ability to impose Radical Socialism on Americans while keeping the ideology hidden, because Americans would never accept Marxism if they realized. Camouflage is key to Alinsky style organizing.

OBAMA'S RADICAL ROOTS AND RULES

IBD AUG 14, 2008

http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

Some Excerpts

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's choice of the word

Change as his campaign's central slogan is not the product of focus group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.

One of Obama's Main Inspirations was a man dedicated to Revolutionary Change that he was convinced must be preceded by a Passive, Affirmative, Nonchallenging Attitude toward Change among the Mass of our people.

They must feel So Frustrated, So Defeated, So Lost, So Futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future."

Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in1940 by the Radical Organizer Saul Alinsky. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as Director of the Developing Communities Project, which operated using Alinsky's Strategies, and was involved with

Two other Alinsky oriented entities, Acorn and Project Vote.

Capitalism always was considered the Enemy. America's corporations are a spiritual slum, he wrote, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

Obama calls his years as an Alinskyesque Community Organizer in Chicago,

The Best Education I Ever Had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Christian faith.

Camouflage is key to Alinsky style organizing.

In organizing coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama Caught Flak for not attending church himself. He became an Instant Churchgoer.

Indeed, Alinsky believed in Sacrificing Ethics and Morals for the Great Cause.

Alinsky wrote in his last book, Rules for Radicals, adding that

All Values are Relative in a world of Political Relativity.

Senator Obama told an audience that

A beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany. And you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama.

According to Alinsky, Ego must be So All Pervading that the Personality of the Organizer is

Contagious, that it

Converts the People from Despair to Defiance,

creating a Mass Ego.

Barack Obama's, Change We Can Believe In, is simply Socialism — Imposed by Stratagem because

Americans have never believed in Marxist economics.

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