Empty Chairs and Alinsky's Rule 13
Tea Party Tribune ^ | 2012-09-03
National Empty Chair Day (formally Labor Day), was quite a success judging by the lack of mainstream media coverage. I bet the nation's amber waves of grain were obscured by millions of empty chairs stretching from sea to shining sea.
A hint to the new holiday's success was the Clint Eastwood marathon on American Movie Classics that same day. "Clint Eastwood resonates with voters outside the snotty, derisive NY-DC-Hollywood axis," conservative columnist Michelle Malkin told Politico, "He braved derision and ridicule for standing on the [Republican] convention stage."
Make no mistake, the left's mockery of Eastwood's empty chair stunt was intended to blunt its brilliant effect. You see, Eastwood used community organizer Saul Alinsky's Rule 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Obama is using Rule 13 to marginalize opponent Mitt Romney, attacking him for being too rich and too cancer-causing.
However, we should remember that Alinsky's Rule 13, which was used to marginalize Gov. Sarah Palin when she ran as the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 2008, was in turn used by Palin to marginalize Obama Democrats, establishment Republicans and to successfully advance Tea Party candidates in the midterm elections of 2010.
Eastwood's novel twist to Alinsky's ploy tied his "target" to an empty chair as a symbol of every empty-headed, left-wing Obama initiative - from failed stimulus to a failed green energy policy and a "cost-saving" healthcare entitlement that is driving up medical costs.
It is a hallmark of the political left to make extraordinary claims: They can end poverty; they can end war and make our enemies love us by bowing to them; economies and successful businesses are built exclusively by government; or, as Obama claimed in 2008, that government in the right hands has the power to slow the "rise of the oceans" and literally "heal" the third planet from the sun.
The left insist these beliefs are a sign of high intelligence and sophistication. In reality they are the infantile and irrational ravings of lunatics aimed at incurable rubes ... those persons whose homes are littered with cheap infomercial products that fail to live up to their slick advertising hype.
An empty chair is the perfect metaphor to polarize the focus of left-wing insanity.
Its four thin legs are more than capable of supporting the light-weight Progressive absurdity now seated upon it in the person of Barack Hussein Obama. |
