America: Imagine the World Without Her Page #7

America isn't the problem.

America is the answer.

Tocqueville knew that.

I know it.

And so does U2's Bono.

It's not a right-left issue.

It's a right-wrong issue.

And America has constantly been

on the side of what's right.

Because when it comes down to it,

this is about keeping faith

with the idea of America.

Because America is an idea, isn't it?

I mean, Ireland is a great

country, but it's not an idea.

Great Britain is a great country.

It's not an idea.

That's how we see

you around the world.

As one of the greatest

ideas in human history.

Right up there with the Renaissance.

Right up there with crop rotation

and the Beatles' White Album.

You and me are created equal.

If we have dignity, if we have justice,

then leave it to us, we'll do the rest.

This country was the first

to claw its way out of darkness

and put that on paper.

These aren't just

American ideas anymore.

There's no copyright on them.

You brought them into the world.

These truths, your truths,

they're self-evident in us.

But now we turn to

a political question.

If America is a force for good,

why are they trying to make us feel bad?

Who's behind this?

The shaming of America is not accidental.

It's part of a strategy.

This becomes a contest of power.

Now, power has always

gone into two areas,

those who have money

and those who have people.

We have nothing but people.

If an organizer doesn't have

any idea what to do about it,

he hasn't got any damn

business being in there.

Do I make myself clear?

Who was Saul Alinsky?

Saul Alinsky was a man of the left,

and very far to the left.

To pin it down, he was

a democratic socialist.

Meaning that he wanted the United

States to become a socialist country,

but he was willing to see that happen

slowly through the democratic process.

You tell them that I'm meeting with my staff

and with the fight leaders on Friday at noon.

I spoke to scholar and

author Stanley Kurtz,

who's done extensive

research on Alinsky.

Well, Alinsky wants to polarize.

He wants the people he calls

"the haves" to feel guilty

and he wants the people he calls

"the have nots" to feel resentful.

Alinsky perfected the art

of the political shakedown.

I have, on occasion,

remarked that I felt confident

that I could persuade a

millionaire on a Friday

to subsidize a

revolution for Saturday,

out of which he would make

a huge profit on Sunday,

even though he was certain

to be executed on Monday.

While finishing graduate school,

Alinsky sought out an unusual mentor.

Frank Nitti, Al Capone's

number two in the Chicago mob.

Known as a thug or a hoodlum.

Also known as a

racketeer and gangster.

Nitti took me under his wing.

I called him the professor

and I became his student.

Nitti's boys took me everywhere,

showed me all of the mob's operations

from gin mills and whorehouses

and bookie joints

to the legitimate businesses they

were beginning to take over.

Within a few months,

I got to know the workings

of the Capone mob inside out.

Alinsky saw up close the

ease with which the Mafia

could extract money through

theft, intimidation and murder.

But he figured out a way to do

it without going to prison.

How is it the haves prosper while

we struggle just to survive?

He wanted to build from the ground up

by creating a sort of coalition

of community organizations

that he hoped to establish

all across the country.

The one thing I've come to realize

is that any positive action

for radical social change

will have to be focused

on the white middle class

for the simple reason that this

is where the real power lies.

The American middle class is decent.

It wants to live up

to its own ideals.

Alinsky knew that if he could show a gap

between people's lives and their ideals,

he could exploit their

shame to gain power.

Alinsky became the godfather in the art

of using shame for political shakedown.

But he needed an army of recruits

to carry out the shakedown.

And he knew where to look.

The 1960s saw the birth

of a new generation

alienated from its parents,

alienated from America.

Ripe pickings for Alinsky.

But first he had to

straighten them out.

I have a hell of a lot

more love than you have

because I'm willing to go out

and get corruptive for it.

I'm willing to fight for it. I'm willing

to stick my life on the line on it.

And you're just willing to stick around

and talk about love and hippies

and not do a damn thing.

Alinsky wrote an instruction manual

for this new army of

shakedown artists.

In Rules For Radicals, we discover

that the mobster Frank Nitti

was not Alinsky's only mentor.

Alinsky was an atheist.

What could he possibly

learn from the Devil?

Three things. Polarization.

We've got to get away from

all this reconciliation jazz

and all this friendship and

all that kind of business.

Demonization.

They'd love to see all the Negroes

in America living on the reserves.

And deception.

You do what you can

with what you have

and close it with moral arguments.

Today, Alinsky's influence

can be seen across academia,

the media

and government.

And his most famous disciple lives

at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I don't think there's any

doubt that Barack Obama

really hasn't leveled with the American

public about his political past.

And this is probably the

most dramatic example.

Obama first encountered

Alinskyite organizing

at a series of socialist conferences

that he attended when he lived

in New York City as a young man.

Those conferences touted Alinskyite

organizing as the next big political wave

and as the best way to bring

socialism to America.

And those same conferences

touted Chicago

as the place to find the very

best Alinskyite organizers.

Clearly Obama has mastered the

Alinskyite strategy of deception.

We will keep this promise.

If you like your doctor,

you keep seeing your doctor.

If you like your doctor...

If you like your doctor,

you can keep your doctor.

Save a typical family

an average of $2,500.

I'll make our government

open and transparent.

We're building a transparent process.

No matter what you've heard,

if you like your doctor or health

care plan, you can keep it.

If you don't have insurance,

you'll finally be able to afford it.

Alinsky would be so

proud of Obamacare.

It's a masterpiece of

distortion and extortion.

Here's the distortion.

Obama gives the impression

that he is colluding with us

against the insurance companies.

But in reality, he's colluding with

the insurance companies against us.

He's forcing Americans to buy

insurance who don't want to buy it.

And this makes the insurance

companies very happy

because it means more

profits for them.

With the corporate and the bank

bailouts, it was the same deal.

Obama embraced the bailouts.

He recognized it was a way

for the federal government to gain

control over those institutions.

What these naive corporate

executives don't realize

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