A comparison of Community Builders (TEA Party) vs Community Organizers (Obama's Alinsky)
I have been trying to do more reading than usual - not on current events but more on underlying philosophies so as to (hopefully) lead to better blogging. One of those posts I ran across had this:
...The message from Tea Partiers is that Alinsky has not succeeded any better than his more illustrious revolutionary peers. Rather than losing all hope in the American system of liberty, justice and limited government, these community-builders -- the Tea Partiers -- are rallying to express their firm commitment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees equality under the law, not equality of material-world goods. The Constitution is designed to preserve liberty, not "empathy," for as any sentient person knows, empathy is entirely dependent upon which type of tyrant is sitting in the seat of judgment.
Take a read of the article - some have said that the TEA Party movement is nothing more than the Right's version of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Not quite so EVEN IF it may seem to be such at the surface level. Instead, it is as diametrically an opposing view of the world as one can get.
This brings to the fore the ideological battle now being played out in the news:
- Fighting for individual liberties as was pre-eminent by the writers of the Constitution, or
- Fighting for a socialistic based America as desired by the Progressives (who merely sniff at Constitutional bounds)
