Art of Conservatism---No Fair Peeking

As I write this, it's Monday, and I just sent an E-mail to my best friend, Len Watson, who writes his own blog here on Blogspot, called “DC to White Light”. Here it is:

“OK, buddy, here is a trivia question for you. No fair peeking at the source, but here it is:
“To whom is the book "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky dedicated?
“The answer is a stunner, rather creepy, and very indicative.
“And the other question, which is much easier to answer if you think about it, is, "to what other book can 'Rules for Radicals' be compared?
 “Once you have those answers, it will make you more interested in reading both. I mean that. And I'm going to let you guess why. BTW, that 'other' book was required reading in my senior year of high school. Yes, it was, and still is, creepy, too. Come to think, I'm really surprised that "Rules for Radicals" wasn't on our list.”

That's pretty much the E-mail. Now, since I'm really trying to make a point here, I won't make you my readers look all this up. Here are the answers, and the point:

Answer to first TQ: “Rules for Radicals” was dedicated to Satan. Yup, Beelzebub. The Devil. Really. No kidding. Kind of let's you know where Alinsky's mindset was, plus maybe a clue to the nature of his afterlife. No, not really a judgment, but an observation. There's a difference there.

Answer to second TQ: “The Prince”, by Machiavelli. At least for me, I can't think of either book without thinking of the other. You have to admit that, if you've read either one or both, the two books are at least diabolical. I had to read “The Prince” in high school. To say the book was creepy, especially to a little 17-year-old naïve Christian kid, was something of an understatement. What gets me is that the thing almost nobody remembers about “The Prince”, is that its author ended his days caught in the very traps he laid out within his own book, outflanked by his own enemies who had read it and who then applied the rules he devised on him. His last days were spent in prison. Fitting.

It is way too bad that a similar fate did not befall Alinsky. Today, decades after his death, in radical Leftist circles, Alinsky and his evil little book are lionized by the Left, and whole college courses are taught around it. We need look no further for proof than to the fact that our Leftist-in-Chief, one Barack Obama, himself taught such a college course for a few years.

Which brings me to my point. We who want to see this nation survive, recover and thrive after years of continuous abuse at the hands of the Left, need to read this book. All too often we forget the wise saying, “Know Thy Enemy”. Yes, we need to know the Left better, we need to get inside their heads, and in this instance, we're blessed, because what's inside their heads is all written down, the formula, the very recipe for turning America into something it was never intended to be. It's all in the pages of those two books: “Rules for Radicals”, and “The Prince”.

Don't get the notion that reading these two books will change us to the 'dark side'. Remember that we as Conservatives already know the truth. When you're in that position, that mind set, you read these things not for indoctrination, but for inoculation, as a means of arming yourself to fight the Left and what it stands for. In that sense, let not your heart be troubled. If anything, once you've read these, you'll want to fight all the more. Good .

The bottom line is this: if the Left is going to be defeated, We The People have to know it better. They certainly know us, and more important, how to manipulate us and thus, they think, defeat us. Remember, they consider us to be sheep. We don't have to be, but we can't fight back effectively unless we know the tactics of the Left, and thus how to defend against them.

To make a sports analogy: for a football team to even hope to win the next game, they have to learn and know the upcoming opponent better than that other team knows itself. Otherwise, why even have a film room? Payton Manning, in his retirement speech, said as much: “Yes, there are others who had more physical skills than I did, but no one could out-prepare me.” That same mindset applies here.

So it is with Politics, War by Other Means. Knowing what's in the heads of the statist radicals who would destroy America, we have to know them, out-prepare them. The good news is, learning them is as easy as reading two, not-very-long books. Want to see an example? OK. should Ted Cruz become the Republican  standard-bearer, see how much he out-prepares Hillary in the debates. Heh-heh.....

We should be so blessed. And, armed with the truth and the knowledge of what are the root of the lies of the Left, We The People are.

Now, hold your nose and start reading. And, believe that 'they' believe all of it. It's working for them, so far. It's time it stopped working for them. That's what we're for.

For Art of Conservatism, I'm Art Reis.