Saul D. Alinsky, the famous Chicago radical and admitted Marxist, dedicated his life to teaching people like Barack Obama how to organize the “Have-Nots” to seize power from the “Haves.” Saul’s son David credits his father with having taught Obama how to politically initiate such change.

That is the subject of Phyllis Schlafly’s February 2009 Report titled, “How a Community Organizer Became President”. She begins with David Alinsky’s comments concerning the organization of Obama’s presidential quest and the Democrat party’s campaign to win last year’s Presidential election.

David says, “It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.” 

Saul Alinsky’s ideology and mass organization techniques are clearly presented in his 1971 book, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. His dedication of the book includes these words. “… The first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment [God] and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.” One wonders where the Obama presidency is headed and how it will end? Will our democracy, our economy and our work ethic survive it?

Schlafly sums up Obama’s training under the Alinsky School this way, “Saul Alinsky’s world view was that the United States is an oppressive and racist society where most people (The “Have-Nots”) are the victims of economic injustice with a future of despair. He wanted a radical change of America’s social and economic structure, and he planned to achieve that through creating public discontent and moral confusion. His goal was not to arrive at compromise or a peaceful solution; his goal was to crush the ‘Haves’ and transform society.” Obama became a teacher at the Alinsky School which was founded by Saul in 1940 and called the “Industrial Areas Foundation.”

“What Alinsky calls “‘change’ means massive change in our socio-economic structure. What he calls ‘organizing’ means pursuing confrontational political tactics.”  The lesson is that “Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.” And all of this subsumes that the end really does justify the means. First you decide what it is you want to do. Then you create make believe principles to justify what you are doing and dress them up in clever, but irrelevant and insincere moral arguments.

Schlafly points out that according to Alinsky, “… unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act … stir up dissatisfaction and discontent … begin … ‘trouble making’ by stirring up these angers, frustrations, and resentments, and highlighting specific issues or grievances that heighten controversy.” That is, once you have broken all the china, it will be easy to convince others that it is necessary to buy a complete new set, or to pass an egregious stimulus bill or to enact an omnibus federal budget with eight to ten thousand payola earmarks for those special interest groups who helped get you elected president.

Alinsky’s organizing methods worked so well during Obama’s presidential campaign that the White House and the Democratic Party are now redirecting the election machinery and effort, “… into the service of broad changes in health care, environmental and fiscal policy.”

And the campaign never ends as is evidenced by President Obama’s almost daily absence from Washington during the melt down of our markets and financial institutions while he flies around the country promoting and extolling things that truly have almost nothing to do with the nation’s recovery from its overwhelming economic crisis.

At the same time the residue from Obama’s presidential campaign apparatus is being directed into new channels of internet communicating and social networking. Of course this is what the Saul Alinsky Community Organizer School trained him to do -- and he does it well.