In your final paragraph, you stated:

It has already been suggested by a reader that Alinsky’s political strategies have merit for conservatives and I can’t help but agree. For organizational purposes, I will save this discussion for a postscript, but feel free to indulge yourselves in the comments as you see fit.

I too have considered that, but as I said, I find the tactics so nauseating that I am loathe to use them. I wonder if we could brainstorm on an effective Anti-Alinksy cookbook that would blunt or deflect those attacks, while using truth and reason to sell the principles of liberty and justice for all.

Despite all the hardship, we remained positive. HIV-positive, that is.

It’s the only explanation I can think of for why you are such a ugly, hate-filled bigot.

Poor Dave.”

I only had two dads, actually.

Alinsky’s naked contempt for his fellow man begs the question: Is it the American way of life that dehumanizes man? Or is it the radical/elitist view of Alinsky and his followers? (As well as Nazi Germany, Russia, and China?) In 2009, one certainly sees this naked contempt from the highest White House echelons to the teensiest trolls who prowl conservative blogs with vicious personal attacks and little substantive discussion.

The Left is elitist and disdainful of those who don’t agree with them?

“The poor man does not need to be educated. His station gives him a compulsory education. He could have no other.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in “Emile”

“Distrust the judgment of the multitude in matters of reasoning and philosophy; its voice is that of wickedness, stupidity, inhumanity, unreason, and prejudice…” — Denis Diderot, author of “L’Encyclopedie”

“For men, as they have been hitherto educated, are incompetent to form a correct or sound judgment on any subjects except those which are connected with the certain sciences in which they have been instructed. On all others, in consequence of being compelled from infancy to receive the absurd doctrine of free will and responsibility, they have necessarily been rendered irrational.” — Robert Owen, father of American socialism

“Psychologically, this talk of feeding the starving masses is nothing but the expression of saccharine-sweet sentimentality characteristic of the intelligentsia…” — Vladimir Lenin

Nah.

As the quotes above certainly demonstrate, Leftists are paragons of caring, compassion, and selflessness.

U still don’t understand 1040 stuff, and didn’t ask her.

“I guess you don’t understand taxes.”
As a matter of fact I do.

It is you who don’t understand what income is. Income are your earnings. Look at your statement again. After taxes are what you are “allowed” to keep by the state. You cannot derive “income” through deductions…you can only keep MORE of what you EARNED to begin with.

I always know I’m talking with a leftist moonbat when I see a comment like “he/she/they got another source of income by doing X with the tax code”.

No, they kept more of what they originally “earned” as it is THEIRS to begin with.

Goodbye vivo.
nmewn