Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Page #7

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perfectly competent.

Certainly didn't deserve

to be forcibly sterilized.

And he says in this famous

damning line in his opinion,

''Three generations

of imbeciles is enough.''

No! Please!

- [shouting indistinctly]

- All right, deep breaths.

Hang on, just hang on.

[Goldberg] Forcibly sterilized,

back in those days, meant something.

It meant holding this woman down,

doing these terrible things to her,

through the power of the state,

simply because the state had this idea

of what the population

should look like

and who should have the right

to be able to have children.

Tens of thousands of people across

the United States were sterilized.

The opening video of

the Democratic Convention in 201 2...

''Government is the one thing

we all belong to. ''

No, government belongs to us.

We don't belong to it.

We are citizens, not subjects.

You remember the ''Life of Julia'' ad

that the Obama administration put out?

Every frame begins with the words,

''Under President Obama, ''

Julia gets this kind of scholarship

and this kind of loan

and this kind of promised job.

The creepiest sentence

in modern American political history

was when the ''Life of Julia'' ads says,

''Under President Obama,

Julia decides to have a child.''

Nowhere in this

do you see Julia's family.

There are no parents,

there's no husband,

there are no friends.

It's just the state,

as personified by Barack Obama.

Community, churches,

synagogues, family, friends,

mediating institutions,

as the social scientists call them,

that give us a sense of order

and place in the world,

that's what the role

of the state is playing.

And it was completely contrary to the

ideas of the founding of this country.

The classic liberal ideas

of the founding of this country,

the fruits of your labor

belong to you,

our rights come from God,

not from government,

we are citizens, not subjects.

So, Progressivism is actually

progress away from the founding.

Yeah, no, that's right.

That's right.

- Jonah, thank you very much.

- Hey, my pleasure.

[D'Souza] After World War ii,

the Democrats stopped

using the word ''progressive. ''

It was too much associated

with eugenics and Fascism.

But they never admitted

they were wrong.

They simply needed a new con,

and so they turned to an expert

in the art of stealing.

There's a whole myth

surrounding Saul Alinsky

as a tireless crusader

for social justice.

He fought on behalf of unions

and working people

and African Americans.

The real Saul Alinsky emerges

in a March 1972 interview,

that he gave in the very year

of his death, with Playboy magazine.

Not at all.

Were you politically active in college?

I suppose I was

a kind of instinctive rebel.

[D'Souza] Alinsky described his first

experience in community organizing.

[Alinsky] I remember sitting

in a crummy cafeteria one day,

saying to myself, ''Here I am,

a smart son of a b*tch,

but I can't make a living. ''

And then it came to me.

That little light bulb

lit up in my head.

I told the cashier

that I lost my ticket.

I-I'm really sorry, ma'am.

I-I lost my ticket.

[Alinsky] And she'd seen all I had

was a cup of coffee,

so she said to me...

That'll be 5 cents.

[Alinsky] Then, I walked a few blocks

to the next cafeteria

in the same chain

and ordered a big meal,

a buck-45.

I ate in a corner,

far away from the cashier.

Then switched the tickets and paid the

nickel bill from the other cafeteria.

Five cents, please.

Thank you so much.

[Alinsky] My eating troubles

were taken care of.

[D'Souza] Alinsky didn't stop there.

[Alinsky] I put up a big sign

on the bulletin board

and invited anybody.

[chattering]

- 7:
00.

- Yeah.

All right, guys, it's real easy.

All you got to do is...

[Alinsky] With the help

of a big map of Chicago,

with all the branches

of the cafeteria marked on it,

I split my recruits up into

squads according to territory.

One team would work

the South Side for lunch.

Another, the North Side for dinner.

And so on.

All of us were eating free.

Didn't you have any moral qualms

about ripping off the cafeterias?

Are you kidding?

The right to eat takes precedence

over the right to make a profit.

Did you continue your life of crime?

It was not crime.

It was survival.

But my Robin Hood days

were short-lived.

I was awarded the graduate Social

Science Fellowship in criminology.

I decided to make

my doctoral dissertation

a study of the Al Capone mob,

an inside study.

- Doing all right, Nitty?

- Yeah, I'm good, Les. Thanks.

[D'Souza] Alinsky was introduced

to Frank Nitti,

the number-two operative

in the Capone gang.

[Alinsky] Nitti's boys

took me everywhere.

[grunting]

[groans]

[Alinsky] Showed me all of

the mob's operations.

Once, when I was

looking over their records,

I noticed a $7,500 payment

for an out-of-town killer.

I said--

Look, Mr. Nitti,

I don't understand this.

You've got at least

20 killers on your payroll.

Why waste that much money

to bring in somebody from St. Louis?

[Alinsky] Nitti says--

Look, kid, sometimes our guys might

know the guy they're hitting.

If it's a friend, right away he knows

that when he pulls that trigger,

there's gonna be a widow,

kids without a father, funerals.

This is a business,

not some kind of charity organization.

[Alinsky]

Frank was a little disappointed

by my even questioning the practice.

He must have thought

I was a bit callous.

Don't be so damn callous!

Didn't you have any compunction

about consorting with,

if not actually assisting, murderers?

None at all.

And let me tell you something.

I learned a hell of a lot about the uses

and abuses of power from the mob.

Lessons that served me in good stead

later on, when I was organizing.

[D'Souza] Alinsky wasn't

a social justice guy.

He was a petty thief.

He dropped dead near the beaches

of Carmel in 1972,

but little did he know that he would

actually influence two people

who would go on to far bigger rackets

than he could ever imagine.

Barack Obama started

his political career in Chicago,

studying and even teaching

Alinsky-ite techniques.

But Obama's first mentor

was someone closer to home.

[Obama] Over lunch,

I explained to a group of boys

that my father was a prince.

''My grandfather, see, he's a chief,

so that makes my father a prince.

He'll take over

when my grandfather dies.

The tribe is full of warriors.

Like, 'Obama,'

that means 'burning spear.'''

And I felt the boys read just to me.

Miss Hefty has invited your father

to come to school on Thursday.

She wants him to speak to the class.

[Obama] ...my mother told me.

I couldn't imagine worse news.

I spent that night

and all the next day

trying to suppress thoughts

of the inevitable.

My body squirmed as if it had

received a jolt to the nerves.

I was still trying to figure out

how I'd explain myself,

when my father walked

into our class the next day.

We have Mr. Barack Obama

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