Thank you Glenn Beck for the following interview. This should be must reading for people who think that what's going on in the Obama administration and the huge bills that are being presented to our Congress with dizzying speed and told they must be passed because the country is in a constant state of crisis is business as usual. It is not.
This is not your father's Democratic party.
"Barack Obama is an ideologue. He comes out of a left that has been trying to get power in this country for half a century. This is their best chance to do it. My parents were card carrying Communists. I was a 60's radical and cut from the movement of radicals which is now running the show. Van Jones proudly calls himself a Communist.
"You can't call yourself a Communist three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and not understand what went on in Communism and not support it. Everything the left see that's a crime, they say Capitalists did it. Like with Fidel Castro, he has bankrupted his country, he is a lunatic, but what they do is blame it on the United States.
"So when I see a guy who calls himself a Communist who has organized a revolutionary movement - it's called STORM, Standing Together To Organize a Revolutionary Movement, and writes books in which White people and corporations are pure evil and America was paradise before White people came and ruined it, I know in my gut, because I was there, what's going on. These people want to destroy the system that we live under and create their fantasy.
"America is very forgiving. It's the great thing about this country. Everybody gets a second and a third chance. But it's becoming increasingly dangerous with these people. You have to take them at their word.
"What we're seeing here is what I called in my book 'The Shadow Party', which has been put together by George Soros. You get billionaires; you get unions - radical unions. The head of the SEIU is an old SDS radical with a Leninist perspective; and you get street radicals. And Soros put them together in a coalition. And you see it embodied in a Van Jones - a street radical who graduated from Yale Law School and who is a protege of The Center for American Progress which is run by Clinton's former Chief of Staff, John Podesta. That alliance was put together about five years ago and what you are seeing unfold now are the plans that Soros laid for the 2004 election. He was defeated then when Bush unexpectedly won."
Posit this: STORM was a long time ago. There are a lot of credible people in The Center for American Progress and in The Apollo Alliance. There are respectable people and businesses involved.
"The Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition to advance very radical agendas and it includes very respectable businessmen and the Democratic party, but its muscle is unions and radicals and it was created by Rob Borosage and Center for the American Future. Borosage is an old SDS radical. When you become disillusioned with the left and you see its destructive agendas and you see the way it supports America's enemies abroad and you see the way it doesn't really advance the interests of poor people or Black people in America, you turn; and because you're very political, you want to tell other people. That's been my career and other people like me.
"But it's not Van Jones' career and it's not Rob Borosage's. They buy the agenda still. They are still seeking to overthrow this system and to create a socialist future.
"I absolutely think Barack Obama, the President of the United States, has that agenda.
"You have to see where he came from. He was an operative for ACORN. He's out of the Alinsky school. He didn't leave that in the past. When you're a radical, you are committed. It's a moral thing for people. You believe you are in the army of the saints; you're a righteous person.
"I just read Van Jones's book, 'The Green Collar Economy', and you can see that he defends himself against people who say he's selling out. That's the big thing you can't do. If you sell out you become vilified. That's what happened to me.
"So you can always tell when a radical changes because they tell you they changed, and they'll tell you what's wrong with the left. And what's wrong with the left is its agendas. What it actually does. Not what it says, but what it does.
"I don't think Barack Obama is the architect, but is the anointed one. I think these agendas are being driven by people like Soros and Rahm Emanuel. But I think this is what Obama wants.
"I made a mistake with Obama. I thought he was going to be smart, like Clinton. And I thought he was going to understand that America is a country you have to govern from the center, and he would be to the left of center. But I didn't think he was going to empower Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to drive a steam roller over the country and bankrupt it.
"When you're a radical, what you think about is power. You adopt this position, you take up that issue but it's all to advance the power. They never think about what it's going to look like or how to put it together. I can tell you a radical never spends five seconds thinking about what makes a society work. They want to know what they can get away with to advance this big agenda which is, you get power and then you change everything.
"It's becoming increasingly dangerous to ignore this. I've watched the growth of the left for forty or fifty years and this present movement toward the left started in 1972 with McGovern. There used to be a Communist Party, and that Communist Party imploded. It supported a monstrous regime. Most of the people who created this new left - we'll call it the Alinsky left after its guru Saul Alinsky - supported the Communists and still think America should have pulled out of Viet Nam and left two and a half million people to be slaughtered. But I have never seen it so powerful. And it's never controlled a major party.
"The Democratic party is certainly no longer the party of John F. Kennedy who had the same politics as Ronald Reagan.
"I have been waiting for Conservatives to wake up for twenty years. They always refer to these people as Liberals. There's nothing liberal about these people except their attitude towards hard drugs and sex. They want to control everything thing else in your life. They're intolerant, bigoted and will try to destroy you if you disagree with them.
"I have a strategic idea, but also an encouragement. The country's mentality is not radical. It may not be conservative the way conservatives like to think - socially conservative and so forth - but it's not radical. And they understand that. They're very good at that. They always talk about the private sector like they care about the private sector. As Lenin said, the capitalists will sell you the private world to hang them. In my view, we should take a page out of Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals". He says you go outside the experience of your opponent and you disorient them and you make them react in a way that reveals who they are.
"The big secret of the Left is that it claims - and of course this is the Democratic party - to be the champion of poor people, minorities, women, children, when in fact it is the oppressor of minorities, women, children.
"Start with the inner cities of America. Every major inner city in America. Chicago, Detroit, Philly, Harlem, South Central, Washington, D.C., the City Councils in every one of those cities, the School Boards, the School Districts, every one of them is one hundred per cent controlled by the Democratic Party and the Social Justice crowd and has been for a hundred years. Everything that's wrong in the inner cities that policy can affect, Democrats and Progressives are responsible for. They have their boot heels on the necks of poor Black and Hispanic children everywhere in America and the Republican Party lets them get away with it and never says a word about this.
"Now they're attacking old people. They want old people to die sooner. They don't want to give them the care that will keep them alive.
"The Democrats are brilliant at pretending to be on your side. Health care, for instance. How do they sell it? Forty-seven million people who can't get health care. We know that's a big lie. But that's what they do. They put a human shield in front. A little Black kid; a little Hispanic kid; an old person. Republicans have to stop talking like businessmen and accountants and stop thinking of politics as a management problem with waste and inefficiency. Yeah, there's waste and inefficiency.
"But it's what they're actually doing to real people. That's their Achilles heel. They need to be called on it."
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