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Bernie Sanders

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts) Fri May 29, 2015, 04:39 PM May 2015

A timely quote--

"A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won’t act for change but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution. Those who, for whatever combination of reasons, encourage the opposite of reformation, become the unwitting allies of the far political right."

Alinsky, Saul (2010-06-22). Rules for Radicals . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.