Sun Tzu (Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher, 544 BC – 496 BC) said in THE ART OF WAR: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
We have shown above the 12 Rules For Radicals listed in Saul Alinsky’s book by the same name. You have probably heard his name before, but have little understanding of who he was or of his vision for societal change. He was born in 1909 in Chicago to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, although an agnostic since the age of 12, he always claimed he was Jewish. In 1926 he entered the University of Chicago and studied under Ernest Burgess and Robert E. Park who were prominent in America’s first sociology department. They argued “. . . social disorganization, not heredity, was the cause of disease, crime and other characteristics of slum life.” The Great Depression focused Alinsky on criminology, and he spent two years as a “nonparticipant observer” as he hung out with Al Capone’s mob. There, he learned the importance of power and personal relationships. In 1938 he devoted himself full-time as a political activist and became instrumental in organizing workers against businesses. He founded the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation), mentored the TWO (The Woodlawn Organization), and FIGHT (Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today). He became famous for his original tactics including black mass bussing, threats to unleash rats, sit-ins, bills for pennies bank exchanges, and fart-ins. Although he never joined the Communist Party, he was sympathetic to their efforts to aid blacks and sharecroppers, and to Russia for taking a strong stand against Hitler. His ideas have held cannon-like sway in community organizing literature. Saul Alinsky died in 1972. (Wikipedia). There is much more to be said about the man, but not in this blog.
Many who are causing discontent within our Nation today are using Alinsky-like tactics. We will simply call it ALINSKYISM. Citizens and parents need to know about the “Alinsky Method” and “The Delphi Technique” (refer to the writings of Albert V. Burns, tysknews.com, Either Zone, published September, 2002). In order to counter this threat to our Nation, you must not only know who you are, and what you stand for, but you must also know who you are fighting against, and how they operate. We intend in this blog to emphasize only one word in Rule 12 of Rules For Radicals, “POLARIZE”. You may not have considered how POLARIZED we have become as a Nation in the last several decades. It has been sometimes a slow insidious slide, sometimes a rather shocking abrupt fall. There have been many attempts to dissolve the bonds that have held us together. Most of these attempts are on-going, several seem to have been successful. Only though our awareness of them, and our efforts to counter these attempts, will our Nation survive as it was originally intended. We will list several pairs of opposites to prove how POLARIZED we have become, and we list them in no particular order. Maybe you could list other ways we are POLARIZED?
Rich vs. Poor
Democrat vs. Republican
Globalism vs. Nationalism
Oligarchy vs. Capitalism
Black vs. White
Atheism vs. Christianity
Ungodly vs. Godly
Aliens vs. Citizens
Marxism vs. Freedom
Tyranny vs. Liberty
Secrecy vs. Transparency
CCP vs. U.S.A.
Censorship vs. Speech
Scientism vs. Science
Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated
Masked vs. Unmasked
Blue vs. Red
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” (Jesus, Matthew 12:25). “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” (Jesus, Mark 3:25). “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” (Abraham Lincoln)
Unity often comes as a result of exterior forces. As a Nation, we were unified during World Wars I and II, and to some degree, at least for a short time, after 9-11. We hope that it doesn’t always take a catastrophe, perpetrated by a malevolent entity, to bring about National unity. In reality however, malevolent forces do not always come from outside the walls of our Nation, but they can breed, grow and infest within our Nation as well. When we recognize these forces against us, and then work together to overcome them, we will be united together again as one Nation. Think of it in these terms. You are on an airplane at cruise altitude, and have acquired a seat in the back of the plane. Suddenly your flight encounters turbulence. You look up and notice that all the heads you see above the seats in front of you simultaneously move in response to the rough air. You could never orchestrate such a reaction in a theater or auditorium. Some would always be bit slow, or some too anticipatory, and movements would never be uniform, some would exaggerate and some would minimize. Maybe actors or dancers in a play could mimic this action, but only after hours of practice and rehearsal. In the plane, all are simply responding in unison to the outside threat, all in sync. This is what it will take to save our Nation from these internal and external threats. We need to be unified, not divided. We need to be in step with each other and move forward boldly, shoulder-to-shoulder. We must not allow government entities, biased media, or large corporations and businesses, to inflict their will upon our Nation’s citizens. We must follow our founding principles, our Constitution, believe in our Declaration of Independence, and hold fast to our Bill of Rights. As we do so, we can expect resistance, and their efforts will not always be peaceful, legal, moral, or pretty. Many have sacrificed their lives in our history to bring us the greatest Nation the world has ever known. Let us also be found worthy, to be able to tell those who follow us that we acted together, in unison, to save our Nation, to reclaim our freedoms and liberty, and to retain them.
DO NOT ALLOW OTHERS TO FORCE US INTO OPPOSITE GROUPS, OR FORCE YOU TO PUT MASKS BACK ON, OR TO FORCE OUR COUNTRY INTO LOCK DOWN EVER AGAIN. REMAIN FREE. STAND AND FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.