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| 1ad0b0e | Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Holder, and Lois Lerner are all part of this crime organization, but so are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, the envious, the resentful, the hateful, the entitled. These are the people who still have the Obama-Biden signs on their vehicles and are now eagerly anticipating Hillary. Together, they are "the criminals next door." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d5daf68 | By 2008, the entire banking and home mortgage lending industry had been corrupted by the left. It was hardly a commercial industry anymore; rather, it was a kind of progressive racket. And the racket came to an end when, first by the thousands, and eventually by the millions, the people who lacked the ability to pay back their loans stopped making their loan payments. This caused the panic of 2008, followed by the crash of 2008. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| da096ff | Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 788d3a5 | Here's how that works. First, progressives develop their pitch. They take all the virtues of the wealth creators, such as creativity, frugality, hard work, self-discipline, self-reliance, innovation, and the aspiration to success, and redefine them as vices. Creativity and frugality, for instance, become greed. Hard work and self-discipline become materialism. Self-reliance becomes arrogance. Innovation and the aspiration to success become .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 35a1443 | Alinsky profited handsomely from his rackets. Even Hillary Clinton notes in her thesis that while Alinsky spoke endlessly about poverty and disadvantage, he himself lived very comfortably, far removed from the people on whose behalf he allegedly fought.21 | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 31747ff | The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation's wealth. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 8a084bb | No wonder that Obama, Hillary, and other progressive crime bosses have no compunction about living high on the hog while continuing their dishonest pitches about fair shares, injustice, and inequality. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f193e34 | I find it amusing that progressives go on about "greed" and "selfishness" when they are the greediest, most selfish people of all. From the progressive viewpoint, Gates is a greedy, selfish guy because he has more than $50 billion and what can a man possibly want with that much money? (I'm reminded here of Obama's 2010 comment, made in the context of the financial reform debate, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.")12 T.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4c0021f | The progressives are right that there is no way Gates can spend $50 billion on himself. He can only eat three meals a day and wear one set of clothes at a time. Even his heirs can be provided for with a fraction of that amount. Gates actually knows this. He has vowed to give away most of his fortune to charity. Nor is he waiting for death to do this. He has already given away billions. He buys mosquito nets for people in poor countries so t.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1b4a052 | Hillary saw that Bill also enjoyed the attention of the ladies. Satisfying these appetites seemed for Bill to be the height of his aspirations. In exchange for tolerating his affairs, he would be her lifelong pitchman, and she could accompany him as his "roadie" until he made it big--really big. Then, perhaps, it would be her turn. Hillary did have a pitch to make. She had to pitch Bill on this arrangement. And Bill was smart: he went for i.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 611cefd | Yet Obama is able to get away with it because, for years prior to the theft, he has been convincing people that he is the great apostle of social justice. I am supposed to be "greedy" and "selfish" for possessing a sandwich and he is wonderfully compassionate for taking half my sandwich and giving it to someone else. Notice that, through this process, the recipient of the sandwich is grateful not to me but to him. He becomes the provider ev.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6c87c27 | In fact, Obama is the one who gains the most from the outcome. His gain is not the mere half sandwich he took; rather, it is the allegiance of the fellow he is supposedly helping. That guy is now indebted to Obama, and more likely to vote for him. While the other man gains a meal, Obama gains power. So now we must reconsider the assumption that Obama's actions are motivated by altruism. It's far more likely they are motivated by a will to p.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 946d197 | In the grim aftermath of World War II and the Stalinist purges, the term "totalitarianism" has become a bad word. But for progressives before the war, Jonah Goldberg points out, it was a good word. "Totalitarianism" was a term used by Mussolini in a positive, descriptive sense. It meant giving total allegiance to the state; it meant a state that took care of people's physical, emotional, and aspirational needs. Totalitarianism implied an ex.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1d123fa | Huck is initially taken in by these two rogues, in the same manner that many Americans have been conned by progressives. The progressive scams, however, have endured for a while. Huck, however, is a quick learner. He soon figures out what his high-titled compatriots are up to. "It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings or dukes either, but just low-down humbugs and frauds."10 Assessing the pitches that progr.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 0284192 | Basically the Alinskyites were trying to steal money from the banks and, in the process, force the banks to make loans to people that they had no intention of making loans to. The banks acquiesced, and eventually the whole scheme came crashing down. It was toppled not by greed but by the sober reality that when you loan money to millions of people who cannot afford to pay, those people are very likely to default on those loans. That's how A.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b664cf2 | So what changed? What changed is an aggressive campaign, conducted by progressive politicians and community activists, to force banks and financial institutions to lower their lending standards. This goes back to the early 1970s.3 Before that, progressives had focused their political energies in getting government money to build large housing projects for the poor. These projects, however, soon became dens of dilapidation, decay, and crimin.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| cb209e4 | In fact, there is nothing just or fair about it. Aristotle says that justice is equality but not for everyone, only for those who are equal.9 What Aristotle means is that justice is giving people their due. Obama, however, inverts this Aristotelian principle. Obama's position is that justice requires that the unequal be treated as though they were equal. This is the progressive definition of "fairness." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 2dcfe3c | Horwitt describes an occasion in the spring of 1972 when Alinsky organized a student protest at Tulane University's annual lecture week. A group of anti-Vietnam War protesters wanted to disrupt a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations, and an advocate for President Nixon's Vietnam policies. While the students planned to picket the speech and shout antiwar slogans, Alinsky told them that their a.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a6db6d3 | But even after the surrender of the Confederacy--a surrender that presaged the final destruction of slavery--there were Democrats who refused to accept the outcome. One of them, John Wilkes Booth, decided to take action. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer from Maryland. Earlier Booth had joined a volunteer militia of Democrats in attendance at the hanging of abolitionist John Brown. Booth and the Democrats came armed to prevent abolitionis.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fada6ab | The coup failed. Booth did kill Lincoln, who became the first president in American history to be assassinated. But the co-conspirators did not kill Vice President Johnson or Secretary of State Seward--although Seward was gravely injured. There was a national backlash against the conspirators. Booth was killed in a shootout with the authorities, and eight co-conspirators were tried and four were hanged. Thus the last effort of Democrats to .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 48e52d5 | One can see here that for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. Alinsky | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| bc8990f | Jackson's conduct in this respect echoes the Obama administration's refusal to comply with laws and court rulings that Obama finds uncongenial. From the Defense of Marriage Act to welfare reform to Obamacare to immigration, today's progressives seem willing to bend the law to their own purposes. This tradition of Democratic lawlessness has its true forefather in Andrew Jackson. The Cherokee continued to protest. The tribe owned a printing p.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 938d7d5 | Today when Republicans who are black, Hispanic, or Native American expose Democratic chicanery, they are routinely denounced--not just by Democrats but also by their allies in the press--as sellouts and, in the case of African Americans, "Uncle Toms." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d60aa2f | Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Section 45, Grid U-35, Arlington National Cemetery." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| a879e0a | But starting in the seventeenth century and continuing through the nineteenth century, slavery came under attack. The attack was two-pronged. The first prong of the attack was the American founding, which had no power to end slavery but which established a framework for reducing, corralling, and ultimately placing slavery on a path to extinction. The second force, which emerged almost a century later, was the Republican Party, a party expli.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6642e27 | For example, political scientist Manning Marable said of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, "Ethnically, Thomas has ceased to be an African American." Columnist Carl Rowan of the Washington Post wrote of black economist Thomas Sowell, "Vidkun Quisling in his collaboration with the Nazis surely did not do as much damage as Sowell is doing." And Spike Lee said that Michael Williams, a black appointee in the Bush administratio.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| e439ef7 | All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 --Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 72f0d42 | The Trail of Tears has gone down in American history as cruel and infamous. It certainly was, although its actual perpetrator was not "America" but rather the Jackson Democrats." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7e7cc4d | What kind of generosity is it that forcibly seizes and then disburses other people's money? This is not generosity; it's larceny. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d467dc9 | As first lady, she claimed to know nothing about the Travelgate firings when the evidence showed she ordered them herself. Later, on the 2008 campaign trail, she repeatedly told a story about how she had been under sniper fire and ran for cover when her plane landed in Tuzla, Bosnia. Video footage, however, showed there was no sniper fire and in fact Hillary was greeted on the tarmac by a child who read her a poem. She blamed the Benghazi a.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1568e68 | In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f5c73f9 | Jackson's true modern counterpart--as you have probably figured out by now--is Hillary Clinton. Their stories are closely parallel. If Hillary started out "dead broke," as she claims she did, after her husband's presidency, so did Jackson begin with nothing as an orphan. Neither of them became successful through starting and running a successful business. Rather, they cashed in on their political influence. Just as Jackson made money on lan.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4e0b754 | The roots of the Clinton Foundation can be found in the land-stealing policies of Andrew Jackson. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b7a65c2 | Second, the Democrats pretend to have no connection with the thievery of Jackson and his fellow Democrats. They might acknowledge that Jackson cleared the Indians out of several states in order to build constituencies of grateful whites who then settled those states. Faced with facts, they may also concede that Jackson enriched himself and his cronies through his land stealing. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 8a591a7 | Even so, today's Democrats profess to be shocked, shocked to see their fellow Democrats engaged in such behavior. That was then, they suggest, and this is now. What does this have to do with us today? What does it have to do with Hillary? No resemblance to the current frontrunner of the Democratic Party is even suspected. Yet as we saw with the Clintons in Haiti, the tradition of Jacksonian piracy is alive and well in today's Democratic Par.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1721b7a | In other words, progressives who are forced to acknowledge the Democratic Party's pro-slavery history promptly respond, "We admit to being the party of slavery, and we did uphold the institution for more than a century, but slavery ended in 1865, so all of this was such a long time ago. You can't blame us now for the antebellum crimes of the Democratic Party." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4e72417 | Democrats in the 1880s invented segregation and Jim Crow laws that lasted through the 1960s. Democrats also came up with the "separate but equal" rationale that justified segregation and pretended that it was for the benefit of African Americans." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6f17689 | It bears repeating that Republicans provided the margin of victory that extended civil rights protection both to minorities and to women. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 8e17b4c | Of course many southern whites did switch from voting Democrat to voting Republican, helping the GOP become the majority party in the South, as the Democrats once were. But remember that racism declined sharply in the South during the second half of the twentieth century. There is quite literally a mountain of scholarly data that documents this. And this was the very period of GOP ascendancy. So as the South became less racist, it became mo.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 316661e | Back to the Big Switch: the basic idea is that starting with the Civil Rights Movement, Democrats saw the light and became the good guys, while Republicans became the bad guys. What happened to all the racist southern Democrats? Look, say the progressives, they all became Republicans! That's why the South today is largely Republican.13 This would seem to support the progressive story line. The narrative of the Big Switch has one more thing .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 40683a8 | Remarkably, southern whites made the journey from Democratic to Republican for the same reason that southern blacks switched parties from Republican to Democratic. In both cases, the switch occurred for economic--not racial--reasons. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 677ab1d | Humans have natural rights in the state of nature but they do not have civil rights. Civil rights are derived from membership in a society. The Republicans who controlled both houses of Congress after the Civil War knew this. They also knew that, before conferring civil rights, they had to once and for all abolish slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f7bfa6a | In a classic case of nepotism, Hillary was appointed to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform during Clinton's first term. The plan was so half-baked, and presented so poorly, that even Democrats shunned it, and the whole scheme collapsed and had to be withdrawn. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 57917bc | Hillary served as a U.S. senator from New York but did not propose a single important piece of legislation; her record is literally a blank slate. Liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas admits that she "doesn't have a single memorable policy or legislative accomplishment to her name."2 Despite traveling millions of miles as secretary of state, Hillary negotiated no treaties, secured no agreements, prevented no conflicts--in short, she accomplishe.. | Dinesh D'Souza |