If a technique works, it doesn’t matter whose idea it was. Looking at Bloomberg News tearing itself apart, I have concluded Donald J Trump is directly following the advice of Saul Alinsky
[t]he job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.’ [According to Alinsky], the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer’s] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular invitation.[14]
I’m pretty sure Hillary has read the book. It’s surprising she didn’t figure it out. Perhaps the book only sat on her coffee table.
I’m pretty sure he has also read the Art of War by Sun Tzu, and he is a big fan of boxing. Time for Trump to challenge Mitch OConnell to a steel cage match. Mitch still doesn’t get the idea that if you lower corporate tax rates it will increase revenue to the government.
bloomberg interviewed Wesley Clark today about Trump’s cabinet choices.
Hillary wrote her entire senior thesis on the Alinsky Method….. http://www.hillaryclintonquarterly.com/documents/HillaryClintonThesis.pdf
I guess when you become the “Establishment”, you think the method can’t be used against you.
Was alinsky a Republican?
Rules for Radicals is a great book. The rules can be easily manipulated and used against anyone. The three Ds of Alinsky (Deny, Demonize, and Deflect) are very useful, they are a primer in sales and in transactional analysis.
And… so is The Art of War, although for personal edification I like Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Salesman in the World.”
I think Alinsky was doing to Shriver, exactly what you mentioned in your excerpt paragraph in your post.
Alex Jones is playing this to the max. A year ago, almost nobody knew about infowars. Now the media and Democrats can’t stop talking about him
Alex is kinda going sideways on the ‘carp’ that is going on now. he seems to be more focused on himself lately and bragging that he has talked with Trump and ‘has his ear’.
He also partied with ‘Rex’ .
then all these dum-ass actors telling the electoral college to vote to for Hillary. Martin sheen thinks he really was president. I couldn’t watch that show cause clinton was in the white house. I like Tia Leoni , but I can’t watch secretary of state tv show because of Hillary.
all actors do is make half of their fans dislike them, when they flap their yap.
parrott
When people take office, Republicans will control 32 state legislatures. Calling Mark Levin’s Constitutional Convention is becoming quite plausible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures
If the purpose is stated to get rid of the electoral college, Democrats will be in a bind. Once the convention is called, the convention can expand its scope. Anything it proposes still has to be approved by 37 states, so ending the electoral college will never happen.
Yeah, I tried listening to Alex’s show again last night, and I still couldn’t take it… ‘grating’ is the word that comes to mind. Why buy any of his cleanse products when you can just listen to his recent monologues for a dose of roughage? 😉
The only way I can take it is I listen to the podcast and make “liberal” use of the fast forward button. The network rejoin is at 08:00, so the first 8 minutes are usually just killing time.
Similarly, I toss at least half of John Batchelor’s show overboard – some of his regular guests just don’t interest me. Stephen Cohen I always listen to in order to get my marching orders from comrade Putin.
The NY Times has a report that Barack Obama talked to Putin and told him in a really stern voice to “just cut it out” with the hacking.
“Stuxnet”
Ol ‘Stuxnet’ that one is funny, they supposedly put Stuxnet on some thumb-drives with CIA – Camel and Goat porn aimed directly at the Iranians and they’re foreign workers. Genius ! L0L ! CIA supposedly alledgedly
( Hawk) threw the drives out of a drone and they landed every where around the Centrifuge facilities and also (allegedly ) dropped them in Somalia. And they made it into the nuke facilities. Genius !
“The NY Times has a report that Barack Obama talked to Putin and told him in a really stern voice to “just cut it out” with the hacking.”
Putin probably told ‘obo’ to Kiss his KGB a$$ .
( no reason to go to Thermonuclear war)
Methanol cannot be made non-toxic.
Parrott
One of the people hired by my boss at NASDAQ freely discussed that as a teenager in Bulgaria he was recruited by and trained by the Russian military. Another guy (not a direct report to me) was an immigrant from China.
This was about the time Tom Clancy’s book “Debt of Honor” came out – the plot centers around foreigners planting remote control code bombs inside stock markets that would cause the stock markets to forget all the trades and cause an economic collapse.
One day, my Bulgarian friend sent me an .exe file that was a Christmas card