Don't let them think we are not organized! We've got the left right where we want them!

Today I listened to Andrew Breitbart guest-hosting the Dennis Miller radio show. I have immense respect for Breitbart, as he has attempted to fight back against the left's fascistic control over the entertainment industry. However, I heard Breitbart joining the chorus of attacks on Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and it saddened me, because of what I thought I knew about Saul Alinsky. Either I was and am the most naive person on earth, duped by Alinsky, or our leaders of the fight against the left are misunderstanding what Saul Alinsky was all about.

Breitbart was lamenting the left's use of "Alinsky's community organizing tactics" to stifle dissent among entertainment artists. He had on a guest (who later this afternoon will be on Glenn Beck's television show) who was exposing the use of those tactics by officials at the National Endowment for the Arts, against any artist who strayed from the pro-Obama line. Breitbart brilliantly ridiculed these leftists by saying they were trying to "community organize America."

Way more than most people, Alinsky understood that change happens in cycles, and that those who are powerless, if and when they get power, will likely use it against a new generation of people who are relatively powerless! Nevertheless, Saul Alinsky chose to align himself with the powerless, the "have-nots." He ridiculed the leftist revolutions in Russia, Cuba and China, and elsewhere, for replacing old dictatorial regimes with new ones.

The important point here, though, is that we must recognize that leftists are now in control of our government, and many of our organizations, such as the National Endowment for the Arts. I so appreciate Andrew Breitbart, who, among other things, has organized a blog called Big Hollywood, (in my bloglist to the right) dedicated to giving artists who are not leftists a chance to speak out.

Breitbart, though, like other talk radio spokespersons, today seemed to take pride in the fact that the people who are speaking out in public forums are not organized, but just speaking out as individuals who do not like where the Obamaites are taking our country. Please, guys and gals, don't make the mistake of being proud that we are not organized! I understand Breitbart's point: the left has unfairly characterized us as being an organized mob. Fine, let them think that! Our reaction should be to capitalize on their fears and say, "Yes, we are organized, and we will no longer stomach your fascistic efforts to mischaracterize us or stifle our freedoms of speech and assembly!"

We've got the left right where we want them! They are reacting to what they did not expect and have never seen before: middle class people showing up at town hall meetings to speak out against the proposed government take-over of the health care industry. "The action is in the reaction," wrote Alinsky. If San Fran Nan calls us "UnAmerican," then we've got our next organizing issue: the Speaker of the House of Representatives calling Americans who attend town hall meetings "UnAmerican."

Obama has stumbled badly on this issue, trying to use the U.S. Postal Service as an example of private firms like UPS and Federal Express competing successfully with a governmental entity. Just as Alinsky would have hoped, middle class Americans laughed irreverently at Obama's attempts to reassure fearful citizens by using the example of the U.S. Postal Service, which every middle class person knows is an outdated anachronism in today's internet world of free-flowing communication. Brilliant commenters (organizers?) like Limbaugh and Beck immediately picked up on Obama's gaffe. Sarah Palin spoke up about the "death panels," in which the V.A. counsels veterans to make "end-of-life decisions," thereby hopefully saving the V.A. some money. Again, Limbaugh and Beck, knowing that many senior citizens fear Obamacare rationing of health choices and dollars currently available to them, jumped on the ridicule bandwagon, just as I believe Saul Alinsky would have done.