““The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” Whatever our revolutionaries say they want, they really want to overturn the whole system.” So wrote Peter Wolfgang in the Stream. Wolfgang isn’t alone in making that observation. “An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause – whether inner city blacks or women – is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.” ― David Horowitz, Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model (2009). Horowitz and Wolfgang used that quote over a dozen years apart, but it could be used again today. Saul Alinksy is the author of the often-referenced Rules for Radicals. The Alinksy 101 made that same reference and headline quote. Some pull quotes from Alinsky 101.
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- For Alinsky, the revolutionary’s purpose is to undermine the system and then see what happens.”
- Alinsky created several organizations, and inspired others, including his training institute for organizers, which he called the Industrial Areas Foundation. But his real influence was as the Lenin of the post-Communist left. Alinsky was the practical therorist for progressives who had supported the Communist cause to regroup after the fall of the Berlin Wall and mount a new assault on the capitalist system.”
- It was Alinsky who wove the inchoate relativism of the post-Communist left into a coherent whole, and helped to form the coalition of communists, anarchists, liberals, Democrats, black racialists, and social justice activists…”
- Infiltrating the institutions of American society and government – something the “counter-cultural” radicals of the 1960s were reluctant to do – was Alinsky’s modus operandi. While Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were confronting Lyndon Johnson’s Pentagon and creating riots at the Democratic convention, Alinsky’s organizers were insinuating themselves into Johnson’s War on Poverty program and directing federal funds into their own organizations and causes.”
- Alinsky also pioneered the alliance of radicals with the Democratic Party, which ended two decades of confrontation climaxing in the convention riot of 1968. “
- In 1969, the year that publishers reissued Alinsky’s first book, Reveille for Radicals, a Wellesley undergraduate named Hillary Rodham submitted her 92-page senior thesis on Alinsky’s theories (she interviewed him personally for the project).6 In her conclusion Hillary compared Alinsky to Eugene Debs, Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King.”
- The title of Hillary’s thesis was “There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” In this title she had singled out the single most important Alinsky contribution to the radical cause – his embrace of political nihilism. An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause – whether inner city blacks or women – is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution. That was the all consuming focus of Alinsky and his radicals.”
- Guided by Alinsky principles, post-Communist radicals are not idealists but Machiavellians. Their focus is on means rather than ends, and therefore they are not bound by organizational orthodoxies in the way their admired Marxist forebears were. Within the framework of their revolutionary agenda, they are flexible and opportunistic and will say anything (and pretend to be anything) to get what they want, which is resources and power.”
Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. An array of people, mostly on the left, have embraced the ideals of the Alinsky model, sometimes adapting Alinsky-tactics to suit their own purposes. Here is a summary of those tactics.
But someone must keep in mind that some key figures in the billionaire class have embraced the left. Who says? Follow the money. It isn’t just what Warren Buffett has said, it is what Buffett has done with his money. Buffett has been backing Democrats and the political left for years. Democrats have been led by “Corporate Democrats” for years.
Back to The Alinsky 101 pull-quotes.
- The demagogic standard of the revolution is “democracy” – a democracy which upends all social hierarchies, including those based on merit. This is why Alinsky built his initial power base among the underclass and the urban poor. The call to make the last ones first is a powerful religious imperative. But in politics it functions as a lever to upset every social structure and foundation. For Alinsky radicals, policies are not important in themselves; they are instrumental – means to expanding the political base.”
- To Alinsky radicals, “democracy” means getting those who are in, out. Their goal is to mobilize the poor and “oppressed” as a battering ram to bring down the system. Hillary concludes her thesis with these words: “Alinsky is regarded by many as the proponent of a dangerous socio/political philosophy. As such, he has been feared – just as Eugene Debs or Walt Whitman or Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical of political faiths – democracy.” But democracy as understood by the American founders is not “the most radical of all political faiths” or, if it is, they regarded it as dangerous enough to put checks and balances in its way to restrain it.”
Back to Wolfgang’s essay on the Stream. He cited the lyrics from “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” Song by The Who, per LyricFind.
The song ends with the words:
But that song included these words.
I’ll tip my hat to the new ConstitutionTake a bow for the new revolutionSmile and grin at the change all aroundPick up my guitar and playJust like yesterdayThen I’ll get on my knees and prayWe don’t get fooled again, no, no…”
Once again, the song ends with the words:
The trusting and gullible can be led into all sorts of ‘revolutionary’ actions. It can be tearing down statues, mindlessly protesting on behalf of terrorists, pretending that there are more than two genders, or whatever. Some are paid. Others volunteer. But either way, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
And behind that revolution occurring in real time in the U.S. are billionaires who are helping to fund those protestors. Billionaires who are supporting nonprofits that in turn support those who protest against our industry, but do so in a way that often benefits the very people that they seem to be protesting against.
The whole point of having popup protest organizers ready to go is to be able to tap into the latest thing to rage against.
Sometimes it will include manufactured housing, perhaps seemingly correctly so. But in the end, it often isn’t that they propose a true solution that is better than the one being protested. MHProNews has contacted MHAction leaders directly. They have been provided with actual solutions. They apparently have no interest in an actual solution(s), they want to keep the issue. That is what the evidence that we have seen reflects. “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
But the revolutions of our day
in the USA
are bought and paid for
by billionaires, who’ve paved the way.
That was true during Covid19, during the George Floyd riots, and was true at other key points off and on for decades of U.S. history.
The smaller, generally more honest and honorable businesses in our industry are and have been under assault. But it isn’t just our profession. Others are too.
Remember. “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” The corporatists. The fascists. The billionaires who are supporting Marxists and others on the left.
‘There are any number of ways to undermine our culture.’ Mark Levin.
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Part II – Our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.
This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report, so that investors can see at glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Thus, our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines.
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In minutes a day readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that may be impacting manufactured housing connected investing.
Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – 5.2.2024
- American oil tycoon accused of trying to conspire with OPEC to inflate prices
- People look at and buy the newly launched iPhone 15 and other Apple products at a flagship store, on September 22, 2023 in Beijing, China.
- Why analysts are expecting a rough earnings report from Apple tonight
- A Tesla vehicle is plugged into a Tesla charging station in a parking lot on September 22, 2022 in Santa Monica, California.
- In surprise move, Musk axes the team building Tesla’s EV charging network
- Maryland is about to get $350 million from insurance in bridge collapse
- Home Depot customers walk by a posted now hiring sign on March 08, 2024, in San Rafael, California.
- What to expect in Friday’s jobs report
- Peloton cuts jobs and is looking for a new CEO after its turnaround plan spins out
- Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on April 09, 2024 in New York City.
- Sell in May and go away? Think again
- BC News president Kim Godwin in hot water as Disney-appointed boss conducts review
- It’s not just Taylor Swift. The world’s biggest artists are returning to TikTok
- The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023.
- The Fed announced a big change today. And no, we’re not talking about interest rates
- Amid campus protests, some teens and parents reconsider enrollment decisions
- Student journalists assaulted, others arrested as protests on college campuses turn violent
- Key takeaways from the latest Fed meeting
- Americans were paid an additional $235 billion in interest in 2023, thanks to the Fed
- Former Google workers fired for protesting Israel deal file complaint claiming protected speech
- Binance founder is sentenced to 4 months in prison on money-laundering violations
- Dave and Buster’s is getting into the betting business
- The collapse of affordable internet will hit indigenous communities the hardest
- Clashes escalate at campus protests nationwide as law enforcement makes mass arrests
- Americans have tipping fatigue. Domino’s thinks it has the answer
- Johnson & Johnson moves forward with $6.475 billion settlement of talc cancer lawsuits
- Move over New York Times, now LinkedIn is adding brain-busting games
- Starbucks just had a ‘disappointing’ quarter. Here’s how it plans to turn things around
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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 5.2.2024
- Documents: Biden WH Worked With Archives on Trump Case
- White House and National Archives (Dreamstime); Joe Biden and Donald Trump (AP).
- A trove of unsealed documents connected with the investigation into allegations that former President Donald Trump mishandled classified materials has revealed that several top Biden administration officials were working with the National Archives to help bring Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against him. [Full Story]
- Israel at War
- At Least 2,000 Arrests on US Campuses: AP
- Hamas Headed to Cairo to Keep Up Cease-Fire Talks
- Joni Ernst Presses WH to Halt Gaza Refugee Plan
- IDF Chief: Preps to Go on ‘Attack in the North’
- Israel: Turkey’s Erdogan Breaking Pacts by Blocking Ports
- Hamas Signals Opposition to Latest Hostage Deal Proposal
- Extension on Ultra-Orthodox Israelis’ Draft Deadline
- Israeli War Cabinet to Meet on Hostages, Rafah Plan Thursday
- Blinken: Can’t Back Rafah Assault Minus Humanitarian Plan
- Report: Biden Mulls Asylum for Some Gazans
- Newsmax TV
- Dershowitz: ‘Great Fear’ Protesters Will Become Terrorists
- Jillian Michaels: Must Level Playing Field in Women’s Sports
- State Supt.”Will Not Comply’ on Title IX Rewrite | video
- Drea de Matteo: Dream Government ‘Might Not Exist’ | video
- Va. AG Morrisey: Emulate Courage of Banned Girls | video
- Israeli Olympic Bobsledder: Protests Driven by Hate | video
- NYPD’s Chell: Expel Students for ‘Hate Speech’ | video
- Cammack: Applaud Univ. of Florida’s Protest Stance | video
- Newsfront
- Trump Demands Judge Merchan Remove Gag Order
- Former President Donald Trump, in a post early Thursday before his trial in Manhattan was to resume, slammed trial Judge Juan Merchan over the gag order the judge fined him over earlier this week. In his Truth Social post, Trump called Merchant “corrupt and highly… [Full Story]
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- Trump Trial Judge Signals Another Fine Over Gag Order
- Poll: Many Voters Say Second Civil War Likely
- About 4 in 10 likely U.S. voters think that the United States could [Full Story]
- Tehran Professor: Anti-Israel Protesters ‘Our People’
- Anti-Israel protesters who have invaded U.S. college campuses in [Full Story]
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- Police Move in to Dismantle Anti-Israel Protest at UCLA
- Tensions Escalate as Police Confront Protesters at University of Wisconsin
- NYPD Clears Fordham University Encampment |video
- Mayor Adams: Outside Agitators ‘Radicalize’ Our Children
- NYU: Over Half Arrested for Anti-Israel Riots Not Tied to School
- Outside Groups Linked to College Student Demonstrations |Platinum Article
- Biden Says ‘Order Must Prevail’ During Campus Protests
- At Least 2,000 People Arrested at Pro-Palestinian Protests on US Campuses: AP Tally
- Maryland Officials Release Timeline, Cost Estimate, for Rebuilding Bridge
- Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over [Full Story]
- Stocks Rally, Dow Up 322, as Fed Signals Dovish Bias
- S. stocks rallied Thursday as investors weighed the Federal [Full Story]
- Trump Vows ’24 Election Challenge If Fraud Is Evident
- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said [Full Story] | video
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- Biden Campaign: Trump ‘Danger to Constitution’
- Michigan Poll: Trump Holding 15-Point Lead Over Biden
- RFK Jr. Running Mate Blames US for Deaths in Ukraine, Gaza |video
- Biden Ad Blames Abortion Restrictions on Trump
- US Accuses Russia of Chemical Weapons Use in Ukraine
- The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the [Full Story]
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- Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine’s Odesa for 3rd Time in Week, Injuring 14
- Russia Denies US Accusation it Violated Chemical Weapons Ban in Ukraine
- Mistrial Declared in Suit Filed by Fmr Abu Ghraib Prisoners
- A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was [Full Story]
- Franklin Graham: Mike Johnson Is the ‘Best Speaker’
- The Rev. Franklin Graham on Wednesday called on Rep. Marjorie Taylor [Full Story]
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- Meuser to Newsmax: Motion to Oust Johnson ‘Inappropriate’ |video
- Rasmussen Poll: Speaker Johnson’s Favorability Rises to 44%
- Speaker Johnson: Greene’s Motion to Vacate ‘Wrong for the Country’
- One-Vote Rule to Vacate Chair Likely Changed by Year’s End
- Boebert: ‘Makes No Difference’ Who Speaker Is
- Speaker Johnson Hopes to Lead GOP Next Congress
- IRS to Address Nearly 5X More Audits of Black Taxpayers
- The IRS said Thursday that it has taken steps to address a wide [Full Story]
- 13 Dems Join House GOP to Rebuke Biden on Immigration
- Thirteen House Democrats joined with all Republicans to vote in favor [Full Story]
- South Dakota Gov. Noem’s Puppy Story ‘Damages Her Nationally’
- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have killed her shot at becoming [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- Michigan Poll: Trump Holding 15-Point Lead Over Biden
- An April Kaplan Strategies poll has former President Donald Trump [Full Story]
- Outside Groups Linked to College Student Demonstrations
- Tent encampments that appear remarkably similar down to the same [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Two Months
- A Boeing whistleblower has died due to a surprise infection, [Full Story]
- Neuropathy is Not From Low Vitamin B (Meet the Real Enemy)
- WellnessGaze Neuro
- Biden Calls Japan, India ‘Xenophobic’ on Immigration
- President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries [Full Story]
- NYPD Arrests Close to 300 Pro-Palestinian Protesters
- Following a full crackdown on the protests plaguing some New York [Full Story]
- McDonald’s to Sell Supersized Burgers
- McDonald’s plans to step up deals and value messaging to combat [Full Story]
- Joni Ernst Questions Biden on Gazan Refugee Plan
- Joni Ernst, R-Iowa., sent a letter to President Joe Biden on [Full Story]
- Conservative Group Fights WH Student Loan Push
- Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage [Full Story]
- GOP Lawmakers Introducing Bill Aimed at Fauci
- House Republicans are reportedly ready to introduce a bill [Full Story]
- TikTok, Universal End Feud With Music Licensing Deal
- TikTok and Universal announced a new licensing agreement Thursday, [Full Story]
- Education Secretary Cardona: Title IX Not Just for Women
- At a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Department of Education [Full Story]
- Arizona Dem Gov to Sign Abortion Restriction Repeal
- Arizona is waving goodbye to a Civil War-era restriction on nearly [Full Story] | video
- US Urges China, Russia to Vow AI Never Controls Nukes
- A senior U.S. official Thursday urged China and Russia to match [Full Story]
- USDA: Ground Beef Tests Negative for Bird Flu Virus
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday that all [Full Story]
- Duane Eddy, Twangy Guitar Hero, Dead at Age 86
- Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric [Full Story]
- Gaetz: Antisemitism Bill ‘Ridiculous Hate Speech’
- Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., derided a House measure titled the [Full Story]
- Columbia University Goes Remote for Remainder of Year
- On Wednesday, Columbia University made the decision to make all [Full Story]
- Biden to Visit Slain Officers’ Families in N.C.
- President Joe Biden will travel to Charlotte, North Carolina, on [Full Story]
- Trump: ‘Take the Radicalism Out From the Democrats’ on Abortion
- Treading into a topic Democrats use as an election weapon against [Full Story] | video
- More Newsfront
- Finance
- Universities Blundered on Protest Crisis Management
- It’s a balance, but not an impossible one. UCLA, like other universities, has rules and regulations about where and when protests may be held so as to respect that balance…. [Full Story]
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- NYPD Chief of Patrol Chell: Expel Students for ‘Hate Speech’
- Violence, Chaos on Campuses as Protesters, Counter-Protesters Clash Over Gaza War
- FTC Approves $60B Exxon-Pioneer Deal
- Big Gov’t, Big Labor & Volkswagen Union All Colluded
- FCC: Telecoms Need $3B More to Replace Huawei, ZTE
- Election ’24 Cultural, Ideological Fight for America’s Soul
- More Finance
- Health
- New Study Identifies How Anger Harms the Heart
- Feeling angry constricts blood vessels in unhealthy ways and could raise a person’s long-term odds for heart disease, new research warns. “If you’re a person who gets angry all the time, you’re having chronic injuries to your blood vessels,” said study leader Dr. Daichi…… [Full Story]
- New Study Links a High-Fat Diet to Alzheimer’s Disease
- Sleep Apnea Increases Risk for Late-Life Epilepsy
- MRNA Vaccine Effective Against Deadly Brain Tumor
- Pregnancy-Related Deaths Fell to Pre-Pandemic Levels
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- NOTE 1: Chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
- NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
- NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm. Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
- Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.
- Note 5: Gifts of Sight and Insights, What’s in Store for 2024? Including 2023 Year End Reflections, manufactured homes, manufactured housing, mobile homes, MHVille, USA Snapshots, Manufactured housing industry year in review 2023.
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2023 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
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