Creating a Socialist America, One Democrat at a Time

by Mike Stoker

We just finished celebrating the greatest birthday of all birthdays: America's Independence Day. Hopefully, as we celebrated July 4th it was more than a picnic in the park, eating hot dogs, watching fireworks, and maybe playing a game of America's pastime...baseball. Hopefully, we contemplated and were reminded of what our founders fought for, what they gave up, and what they gave us.

It began with a Declaration of Independence from the Great Britain of King George III that clearly stated, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

It ended with the most remarkable political document ever written: the U.S. Constitution.

After nearly 250 years as a country, the question we must ask is whether our America has become what those founders fought and died for?

Rules for Radicals

To best assess whether we are the Constitutional Republic envisioned in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution or a socialist state our founders would have opposed, there is no better place to look than in Professor Saul Alinsky's book “Rules for Radicals.”

Alinsky was a professed socialist who openly advocated for a socialist America. He wrote “Rules for Radicals” (first published in 1971) as a guide for aspiring socialists to follow a strategy that he asserted would ultimately lead to the goal of a socialist America.  

Though the 63-year-old radical socialist died 52 years ago (unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1972), his writings continue to influence those in political control of our nation even today. Recall that Hillary Clinton’s college thesis was on Alinsky, and President Obama described Alinsky’s influence on him in his autobiography “Dreams From My Father.”

Alinsky, by the way, acknowledged Lucifer as the “first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment.”

Alinsky stated there are several levels of control that must first be obtained before one is able to successfully create a socialist state. The first is the most important: healthcare – “control healthcare and you control the people.” Alinsky goes on to advocate increasing the poverty level as high as possible – poor people are easier to control he asserted and were more likely to support your efforts to supply everything for them to live. Increasing government debt to an unsustainable level would allow you to increase taxes, which would produce even more poverty. Removing the ability of the population to defend themselves, especially from the government, Alinsky suggests, is an easy way to create a police state.

Other levels of control include a sizeable increase in welfare, which would allow the incipient socialist to control every aspect of the population’s lives: food, housing, and income. Taking control of what people read and listen to is another important task, particularly that of what children learn in school. Removing belief in God from the government and schools would also make it easier to take control, and finally, by dividing people into the wealthy and the poor (Class Warfare) would cause more discontent, making it easier to take taxes from the wealthy with the support of the poor.

All of which would lead to a socialist takeover of society.

Does any of this sound like it is happening in the United States of America?

Perhaps.

What we do know is what Alinsky advocated and asserted is the pathway to socialism in America.

It is my opinion that many of the critical steps have been completed or are almost complete. If you support a socialist America, my bet is that you believe the conversion of the United States to a socialist country is almost complete.

You may be right.

If you don't support socialism, however, and are a patriotic American who would like to rekindle the idea of an America our founders fought and died for, I submit that four more years of a Biden (or whoever) Democrat administration will bring us that much closer to the dream of Saul Alinsky’s Socialist States of America.

On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of the month of November (this year, it’s November 5), Americans will decide whether we want Saul Alinsky's America or an America that Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams wanted.

I pray that the “one nation under God” will prevail.

Mike Stoker is the President & CEO of the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Advocacy Center-SBCTAC

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