(105) MasterDebaters

(105) MasterDebaters  When Obama was coming of age as a socialist community
organizer in Chicago, he was
mentored by people
who themselves had been trained at the Alinsky-founded

Industrial Areas
Foundation. Later on, Obama himself
taught workshops on
the Alinsky method. Alinsky was a communist
fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of
infiltration that have become central to left-wing
activism in recent decades. In the Alinsky model,
“community organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution”
promoting the systematic redistribution of wealth and
power, and the radical transformation of America’s
social and economic structure. But Alinsky’s brand of
revolution is not characterized by dramatic, sweeping,
overnight changes. Rather, Alinsky advised organizers
and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence
within the decision-making ranks of existing
institutions such as churches, schools, media outlets,
labor unions, and political parties—and to remake them
gradually and incrementally, as insiders.