The Solution to Really Ridiculous Recalls - Think Like the left
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Summary
There is a growing problem on the left in Alberta and I have a solution that can help solve it. The Cloward and Piven Strategy and the Rules for Radicals are some of the tactics used by the left to get rid of the United Conservative Party.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 433 a.m. Sunday, December the 7th. I hope you're
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having a great start to your Sunday morning. I've got my big blue mug of coffee keeping
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me warm this morning. Chilly morning in Calgary, minus 9 today. Although I guess it's some
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progress from yesterday when it was minus 17 and I had to go out and shovel snow. I
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can hardly wait till spring. And by the way, Merry Christmas to you. If nobody has said
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Merry Christmas. I'm glad to be the first one. I think I have a solution to a growing
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problem here in Alberta. And for those of you about to click away because this is Alberta
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centric, I think there's something to be learned here. Even if you live in the rest of Canada
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or somewhere else, we need to learn from the tactics of the left. We need to turn these
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things around on the left because left wing tactics are being used with recall petitions
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here in Alberta. We're up to 18, maybe 19. I'll get to that in just a moment. We're getting
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very close to a quarter of the sitting members of the legislature here in Alberta being recalled.
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And this is getting ridiculous. I did a video on this the other day saying the UCP needs to
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end this, but they say they're not going to because I think they're afraid if they do,
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they'll be called authoritarian, even more authoritarian than they're already being called.
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But what's the answer to this? So I started to think about some tactics on the left, and by no
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means are these the only tactics they use, but a couple of things came to mind today, and I thought
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we could use at least one of these against this recall petition madness. This might seem out there,
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but I'm going to go there today. I like to think a little bit outside the box. Now the first one I'm
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going to talk about here has nothing to do with recall petitions, but it's all about overwhelming
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the system to enact change. And it's this one, the Cloward and Piven strategy. Let me read this to
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you. You learned something here. The Cloward-Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966
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by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven. The strategy aims
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to utilize militant anti-poverty groups to facilitate a political crisis by overloading the welfare system
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via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income
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and redistributing income through the federal government. So as you can tell by those last
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couple of things there, they're far leftists. So overwhelm the system. You know, you might even
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think that what's going on right now when it comes to this petition program, that the left is
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overwhelming the system right now because we're almost up to a quarter of the MLAs, as I said.
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Now, the other thing I was thinking about here was Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Now,
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if you don't know what the rules are, I've mentioned this on occasion on this channel.
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If you don't know what the rules are, you will understand the mindset of the left even more because
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a lot of them worship Saul Alinsky and what are the rules for radicals. They're easy to read.
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There's only 13 of them. And if you read the rules for radicals, you will understand how the left
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uses these things against people who are conservatives. There's a number of them here.
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I've just highlighted a couple of them in orange. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. A good tactic
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is one your people enjoy. Keep the pressure on. Pick the target. Freeze it. Personalize it and
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polarize it. Blue's coming up here to visit me. And they've done that against Pure Poly. Think about
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what they did to Pure Poly. But it's this one right here. Number four, make the enemy live up to its
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own book of rules. And when I was thinking about this petition program that we've got here in
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Alberta and how the left is using it against United Conservative Party politicians, I thought of that
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rule immediately. Because who set the rules? Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party set up
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the rules for recalls. And they didn't set it up properly. And I said that the other day. Jason Kenney
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said there had to be specific parameters so it wasn't abused. This is what he said.
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I think the thresholds to trigger a by-election as a result of a recall petition have to be high
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enough to avoid frivolous abuse of the recall mechanism by special interest groups. Listen,
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if we form a United Conservative government, we're going to have to make some tough fiscal decisions.
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And some of the NDP, big spending interest groups, are going to be ticked off. And if we have a recall
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law in place, I can see them immediately trying to disrupt the government and prevent us from
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implementing our election platform by recalling the finance minister or the premier or MLA's.
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And if the thresholds to trigger a by-election are low, then they might succeed. It won't be
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difficult in many ridings to get 10 or 15 percent of like the NDP supporters to sign a recall petition.
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I think you'll agree that this isn't working out the way former Premier Jason Kenney intended.
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A man who I despise more and more by the day, by the way, the way he refers to myself and other
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people in the independence movement here in Alberta as traitors. I think he's a bitter man.
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Got his ass kicked out of Alberta. But I did say the other day, and I stand by it, that I think his
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heart was in the right place when he came up with this legislation. But they're using the rules
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against us. Rules for radicals. Rule number four. And you need to understand, in order to defeat the
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left, you've got to play by their rules. You've got to understand the left. You've got to get them in
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your head. I know it might drive you crazy if you're conservative, but learn the rules.
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This is a Bible to people on the left. Rules for radicals. Back in 1969, there was a woman
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who wrote a thesis on this. Her name was Hillary Rodham. Clinton
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wrote a 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley College about the views advocated by community
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organizer Saul Alinsky titled, There is Only the Fight, an Analysis of the Alinsky Model. So learn
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the rules to understand them, to defeat them. Now, the reason I started thinking about this, and the
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Cloward and Piven strategy this morning is in this headline from the Western Standard.
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Go subscribe to them. Four more recall petitions approved in Alberta, including the first one for
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the NDP. And as soon as I saw that, first one for NDP, I thought, what took conservatives in this
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province so long to start this process against Amanda Chapman? The first NDP to join the list of
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Alberta MLAs facing recall petitions, as four new petitions were issued on Friday, raising the total
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18. And when I saw that, and I thought, what took us so long? I thought, we need to overwhelm the system
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to end it. It's the only way to stop this absurdity, because it's ridiculous. Now, if you look at the
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current recall list, there's 18 names here. Danielle Smith's not there yet. I was wondering why, and I know
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why, because she hasn't responded to this yet. Heather Van Snick said she received a letter from
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Elections Alberta saying she will be getting the go-ahead to start the petition drive.
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But Danielle Smith has not filed a response yet. She has seven days. As soon as she files a response,
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she'll end up on this list. And here's what you need to understand. All you have to do is start the
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process to get somebody on this list. And the process is the punishment. So if you happen to be
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somebody who has an NDP MLA, overwhelm this system, start the process to recall all of them.
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All of them. Because right now, we're almost a quarter of the MLAs getting recalled. If it gets to
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half, don't you think eventually the UCP, United Conservative Party, and Danielle Smith are going to
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say, this has got to end. This is making a mockery of the recall system. And maybe they'll rewrite the
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legislation. By the way, just to let you know, my guy's on the list. Rick McIver, I think he's the
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current speaker in the legislature from Calgary Hayes. My guy's on the list. But if you currently
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have an NDP MLA, tomorrow morning, start the process to recall them and this will end. That's
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my solution. Tell me what you think in the comments. I appreciate you being here. I really do. If you
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