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The Michael Berry Show

Saul Alinsky's 'Rules For Radicals' Is Bearing Fruit In Our Country Today

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The Michael Berry Show

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giving a lot of thought to productive things

0:09.5

We can do not just to win elections but to take back our country.

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I've been giving a lot of thought to that because I get many emails from people saying

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Michael what can we do?

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And I realize that when I say everything all the time

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people don't realize I'm serious.

0:32.0

I also realize that many people want a blueprint. They want specific

0:40.2

orders. Tell me what I need to do and I will do it. And I've never really thought that

0:47.6

was the appropriate way to go about this. I think that real change that matters that lasts just like a diet, just like a study plan,

1:02.1

just like a business plan, a business plan, is not something someone can hand you,

1:07.0

and you simply implement it.

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Because in short order, the fervor dies down and you're left directionless. But I did

1:20.3

think you know what I'm going to go back to the book that the left has used for years,

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that I read in college that so impressed me then for its zeal for winning by organizing and that is Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.

1:47.5

Alinsky was a communist and avowed, he would refer to himself as a communist and a

1:54.0

and a Marxist at different points in his career.

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But for the sake of this argument it's the same thing.

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Zilinsky's, Zilinsky,

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Alinsky's influence was profound and continues to this day.

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Because Barack Obama's, but Barack Obama personally and his mentors and his organizations

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used his writing as a Bible.

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