The Nazi Option: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VI (continued 2) « NewsReal Blog

The Nazi Option: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VI (continued 2) « NewsReal Blog

Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me: Part I

Hell on Earth: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part II

Boring From Within: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part III

To Have And Have Not: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part IV

Post-modern leftism: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part V

Means and Ends One: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VI

Means and Ends Two: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VI Continued

Radicals are focused on the future – usually the distant future – the moment when they will achieve power and institute the reign of social justice. Consequently they view and evaluate the present and the past instrumentally – as means to annihilating their adversaries and achieving power and thus instituting the happy future. From an instrumental perspective, it is always helpful in a political battle if your opponents can be portrayed as defending an indefensible and — better still — evil past rather than whatever it is they actually happen to be defending, and thus if they can be identified with that evil themselves.