Trump in SOUTH PARK comes from RULES FOR RADICALS by Saul Alinsky

“South Park” premiered last month with a scene showing President Trump in bed with Satan discussing Jeffrey Epstein, the White House attacked the series as a “fourth-rate show” and said that it “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years.” — NY Times

What does South Park have to do with ***Rules for Radicals* — Saul Alinsky’s book on community organizing?**

Saul Alinsky shares 13 tactics by which the have-nots can push back against billionaires and corporate greed through grassroots activism and community organizing. Tactic #5 is “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”. That’s how South Park portrays Trump.

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Rules For Radicals — Sauly Alinsky

Power organizing tactics

Alinksy offers a list of rules of “power tactics,” meant as basic guidelines for organizers and community activists:

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

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Haves and Have-Nots

“Society has three groups: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores. On top are the very few Haves with power, money, food, security, and luxury. They suffocate in their surpluses while the Have-Nots starve. The Haves want to keep things as they are and are opposed to change. They are cold and determined to freeze the status quo. The Haves always justify the status quo. Religious, economic, social, political groups attack demands for change as immoral, fallacious and against God, country, and mother.

On the bottom are the most people. Have-Nots. They are chained together by the common misery of poverty, rotten housing, disease, ignorance, political impotence, and despair. Their jobs pay the least and they are deprived in all areas basic to human growth. Caged by color, physical or political, they are barred from an opportunity to represent themselves in the politics of life. The Haves want to keep; the Have-Nots want to get. Many Have-Nots have given up and resigned to their fate. But there are glowing embers of hope which can be fanned by the building of means of obtaining power. The power of the Have-Nots rests with their numbers.” — Rules For Radicals

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TakeAway: Learn how to apply Saul Alinsky’s Rules Ror Radicals.

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