Agitprop And Superstition

I was surfing through the Huffington Post for silly blogs to skewer, an admittedly guilty pleasure of mine, and found a real gem. Christian Parenti of the hard left Nation magazine called for "storm socialism" save us from big storms caused by manmade climate change. We have angered Mother Nature and the only cure is more government.

A primary theme of my book Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste is how Saul Alinsky was the leading American practitioner of socialist agitprop, which aimed at "rubbing raw the sores of discontent" to scare the middle class into accepting "radical change." Barack Obama and other proponents of "storm socialism" like Mr. Parenti apply this Alinsky principle and add a heavy dose of old fashioned weather superstition to scare us into accepting government direction of the economy to save us from the angry weather gods.

This combination of agitprop and superstition reminds me of a scene from Mel Gibson's movie Apocalypso where the "big government" of the ancient Maya are sacrificing there people to convince the angry sun god to stop inflicting a drought on the nation:

http://youtu.be/EIyZsABI8Gk