“It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people,” Alinsky wrote. He taught his followers to focus on human experiences – and how to twist words to achieve that focus. “In mass organization, you can’t go outside of people’s actual experience. I’ve been asked, for example, why I never talk to a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister or a rabbi in terms of the Judeo-Christian ethic or the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. I never talk in those terms. Instead I approach them on the basis of their own self-interest, the welfare of their Church, even its physical property,” Alinsky wrote. “Communication on a general basis without being fractured into specifics of experience becomes rhetoric and it carries a very limited meaning.” “Is this manipulation? Certainly, just as a teacher manipulates, and no less, even a Socrates,” said Alinsky. -- mikesright.wordpress/2013/06/23/liberals-and-the-art-of-lying-er-twisting-words/
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