Tonight the incumbent president will appear on national TV at 8PM. He’ll explain why he’s bypassing Congress and overriding the desires of 2/3rds of the US population by granting amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal aliens now in the country.
Although many perceive his tactic as politically damaging to himself and his dedicated liberal base, some believe that he’s purposefully acting due to spite of the recent huge electoral losses to his party, and therefore himself by extension. Significant numbers also think its simply a matter of another attempt to grow a cadre of future Democrat voters. However, the answer is far simpler, and significantly more devious than that.
The basis for the strategy can be seen in “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals” by the late community organizer Saul D. Alinsky, published in 1971, in which the author detailed the following 12 points.
- “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
- “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
- “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
- “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
- “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
- “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
- “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
- “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
- “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
- “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions
Therefore, what’s being done doesn’t take any particularly sophisticated talents, capabilities or even beliefs. It’s simply a war plan for attempting to defeat adversaries by taking the other side of an argument, and then following the rules of engagement as laid out by Saul.
In this particular case, though, beyond the enjoyment of the battle itself, 5 million potential voters or more, will likely be gained in the process.
As far as the 5 million illegal's themselves granted amnesty are concerned, they represent another example of formulated effort to achieve a desired political result. This one, Cloward-Piven.
Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty."
“The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.
As far as amnesty itself is concerned, it seems every political aspect of the tactic has been well thought out by the White House to maximize voter appreciation, as follows.
According to washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics: “President Obama's announcement Thursday night of his plans to overhaul the nation's immigration system is scheduled to happen at an opportune time -- at least if the White House is hoping to reach a captive audience of Hispanic television viewers.
Obama's 8 p.m. Eastern time announcement will come at the start of the second hour of the 15th annual Latin Grammys, which begins at 7 p.m. Thursday on Spanish-language TV network Univision. At least 9.8 million viewers tuned in to all or part of last year's telecast, meaning Univision defeated CBS, Fox and NBC that night.
Univision says it will postpone part of the awards show to air Obama's speech, while the big four TV networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, currently have no plans to air the address.
Told about the scheduling coincidence by a pack of reporters, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) the second-ranking GOP senator, said, "Talk about a major pander."
In conclusion, what turned out to be most interesting is that I, like countless numbers of others have dedicated substantial time and effort analyzing, dissecting and discussing the amnesty issue and its ramifications for the nation.
However, according to the U.S Census Bureau, there were 206,072,000 registered voters in the U.S. in 2012. And therefore, all this hubbub, and time consumed by the POTUS, his staff and supporters, has been made over a group amounting to only .024% of those eligible to vote. So, that means that 99.975% of those registered are still free to vote as they choose.
All of which leads to the thought that whoever did the arithmetic in the White House concluding supporting illegal’s made sense was just like Gruber who suggested that the health care tax was a good idea. And that, in turn, points out that the incumbent president didn’t really need to institute the disastrous health care tax or grant immunity to illegal’s either.
What he needed instead were new role models, new idols and new advisors, because the one’s he chose just ain’t workin’ out for him, or his whole party either.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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