“Freedom Is, Like, So Complicated!”
By Mitch Berg
Patt Morrison at the LATimes talks with Karen Bass, Speaker of the California House of Representatives, and a key player in California’s current fiscal meltdown.
And she does it by beating conservatives with a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, of which more in a bit:
How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature’s work?
The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.
So you caught that? Dissent isn’t merely unpatriotic – it’s “terrorist”.
Which is, naturally, the way lefties are going to play it in the future. It’s straight out of Alinsky: Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.”
“Sticking to ones’ conservative principles and asking your elected legislators to do the same” equals “terrorism”. It’s nonsense, it’s irresponsible – but it does pick, freeze, personalize and polarize.
I don’t know when Karen Bass had time to read Josef Goebbels, what with flushing California’s future down the toilet, but the jackboots look divine, don’t they?
This is politics in the age of Obama.
Thanks, lefties.
