Barbara Curtis: Blogging Rules for Radicals Chapter One

"I wonder what Alinsky would make of the fact that rather than giving power to the people, these organizations have become political juggernauts exploiting people to build political power for one political party. The Democrat Party has for decades built a solid voting block of citizens dependent on government, even as they continued to foment a 'never enough' mentality and racial hostility to keep that block at their disposal.

"Alinsky describes this strategy as 'charitable handouts dressed up in ribbons of moral principle and "freedom," but with the price tag of unqualified political loyalty to us.' (p. 9)

"The way the Democrat Party has treated blacks is shameful, denying their individual personhood by laying waste to black conservatives. They’ve replaced segregated water fountains with an even more sinister form of segregation: robbing blacks of individuality and intellectual freedom."