We criticize O a lot here. I've been keeping an eye out for explanations of his behavior as well as motivations for it.
O uses catastrophic events as his base line for change. If a catastrophe does not exist he creates it. Then at the last moment he rides his white horse to the rescue and saves the people from the bad! Republicans.
It is obvious to me he is operating from a set of core set of planning principles because he keeps doing the same things over and over. I've been looking for his set of core planning and plan execution principles.
I think I found the explanation for part if not all of the answer.
A friend sent me notes from an article attributed to Phyllis Schalfly in which she partially quoted from the article " Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era,"
"The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:
ego ("reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God"),curiosity (raising "questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern"),irreverence ("nothing is sacred"; the organizer "detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality"),imagination ("the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer organizing"),a sense of humor ("the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule"), and anorganized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only "as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.'..."'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'"
Doesn't that describe O to a T?
I dug out the original article that Schafly may have quoted from. It explains even more and can be read here -
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If I'm right, and these are O's planning principles and guidelines, and if I'm right that he uses the same techniques over and over, it should be fairly easy to disrupt his common tactics. But it will take some specially trained folks.
We hear talk of a third party because republican politicians seem helpless when Obama gets rolling on an issue. In my view, a third party is not the answer. We don't have time for a third party. What we really need is to train the politicians we have and create an entity to guide them.
What the republicans should do is hire a team of trained PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) operators. Men and women, discharged from the US military, who attended the Special Operations PSYOPS School and have field experience.
Get them together in a room. Give them each a copy of Alinsky's book and show them this post. They can take it from there.
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