Arizona has been alinskied

Was listening to reports about the judge's ruling on the Arizona immigration law all day and still don't have a really clear idea about it. Apparently the judge didn't nullify the entire law, just the useful parts of it.

Then it occurred to me:  Arizona has been alinskied.

One of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals says, "pick a target; freeze it; personalize it; polarize it." That's exactly what happened to Arizona.

First of all, the immigration law Arizona is trying to implement isn't very extreme and doesn't interfere with federal law. The federal law actually gives law enforcement more latitude to profile people and demand to see the papers of anyone who looks funny to federal law enforcement types. Under federal law, people don't have to be breaking any laws, or even suspected of breaking any OTHER laws but immigration laws. Under the Arizona law, a cop can only ask for citizenship papers or a green card if he's stopped a person for some other reason, some other type of violation. Arizona's law is well within federal parameters. So why pick on Arizona?

Well, according to Alinsky, why not?

Then you freeze the target, like catching a deer in the headlights. Make your accusation, It doesn't have to be based on anything like truth. It just has to upset people. Claim that Arizona is proposing some fascist scheme to round up and shoot down anyone suspected of being Mexican. Yeah, that's pretty damn ridiculous, but the object is not to tell the truth necessarily, but to enrage people.

Then personalize it. Go ahead, invite Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to the White House. It's all her fault. And, on the other side is that poor innocent dad who just wanted to take his kids out for ice cream, according to the Comrade, and who gets harrassed by the cops for looking like a Mexican. Personalization on both sides. Jan Brewer, the mean white authority figure and the poor dad who has an accent or something, who only wants to get his kids an ice cream cone. A-w-w-w-w.

Then polarize it. This is the fun part, as far as the marxists are concerned. Where Arizona used to be full of Americans and illegal aliens, now it's full of bully gringos and set-upon people of Mexican descent who just want to make a living. The gringos, of course, are all rich capitalists coming down hard on hungry, pathetic illegals. And also vicious "coyotes" and drug smugglers, but the Comrade and his friends choose to disregard that part of the story. becuase it doesn't suit their purposes.

And now there's hatred and conflict. This is exactly what the Comrade was going for, as in, "Let's go see if we can rustle up some injustice so we can get someone to vote for us."

Load of crap, no?

And what I find particularly interesting is that 60% to 70% of the American public stands behind Arizona. Even within Arizona, a majority of Latino citizens (of the documented kind) stand behind Arizona.

But apparently the Comrade is willing to alienate 60% of the population to maybe scrape together a coalition of self-decscribe "victim" voters who will run with the radical democrats.

I don't think that strategy will work, but we'll see in November. Certainly, we can't have two and half more years of this kind of bullshit. It's destroying American social institutions as surely as the Comrade's marxist economics are deliberately destroying the American economy.

What's really pretty sad are the Latinos who take any of this seriously, as well as the whites who get riled up over it. It's just Saul Alinsky games, the Comrade's political playground.

Just refuse to play, and Save the republic.