Posted by
Duane Bolick on Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:47:22 PM
Ask a lib to explain their favorite Obama policy. Go ahead, ask them. Then once they're finished elaborately complaining about how "eight years of failed Bush policy" caused the mess we're in, then ask them to explain it again, but this time without talking about Bush. Don't worry, they won't be able to do it. That's because modern American liberal ideology is nothing more than repackaged, watered-down Socialist drivel: "Spread the wealth." "The Government is our only hope." "From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs." This is the ideological basis of Obama's vision for the future of our country. But as well-intentioned as it seems, we know that Socialism doesn't work.
So now that Obama, the mainstream media, and the American left don't have Bush as their whipping boy to draw our attention away from actually talking about their fundamentally flawed ideology, what are they going to do? We already know the answer - all we have to do is look at the modern American liberals' playbook...
Saul Alinsky, radical liberal and political mentor of many prominent Democrats today, including the Clintons and Obama, wrote the liberal playbook, "Rules for Radicals." In his book Alinsky describes methods to effect political change by any means necessary, no matter how despicable or sleazy, as long as the end result is what you want. We've seen this sort of reasoning in our history before: A book, "The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli around 1513, contained the same sort of advice about how to gain power, and keep it. Alinsky's book provided the tactic that Obama and the left used against our last President to win the election: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." In other words, if you can't win based on ideology, then make it a popularity contest. But now that Obama's the Prom Queen, and there's nobody left to pick on, what's the left going to do?
Their solution is easy, and they've already done it: Pick the most prominent Republican icon, focus lots of negative attention on that person, and most importantly, blame the failures of government on them. Any guesses as to who the new target of the libs' Machiavellian trash-talking is? Here's a hint:
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh
and get things done,"
-- President Barack Hussein Obama
According to the Alinsky playbook, the intent is to move the debate away from your unpopular ideology (i.e., Socialism), and keep the dullards (i.e., you and me) focused on the "Ooo! Shiny!" things (i.e., the interpersonal conflicts, arguments, and scandals), so we don't start asking the important questions, like, "Sooo where does all the money for the stimulus come from?" and, "How exactly does spending get us out of a mess that we got in to by spending?" and, "How, exactly, do you 'cut' taxes for someone who doesn't pay any to begin with?"
Just watch. Rush is about to become the new Bush. If Republicans don't toe the Socialist Party line, it'll be blamed on Rush, because he's been brainwashing them. If some unconstitutional, lib's-pet New-New-Deal bill doesn't get passed, Obama or Pelosi or Reid will blame Rush for muddying the waters and preventing true "bipartisanship."
Modern American liberals and the Democratic party are ideologically, intellectually, and morally bankrupt. Their only hope is to turn our government into a reality-show farce so we don't realize just how dangerously wrong their vision for our nation is.