Once upon a time there was a man named Saul Alinsky. He was a very bad man.

He was an anti-American activist who hated everything the United States stands for and wrote an infamous book about how best to overthrow freedom: Rules for Radicals

In a nutshell, the book tells readers how to destroy and establishment in the effort to replace it with a horrendous, totalitarian, communist government. I know, that sounds like an unbelievable conspiracy theory – but it is the truth.

And it might surprise you to learn that many of today’s “progressive” leaders look to this book and its author as their Holy Grail, their Bible, their roadmap to a great new society.

It might (or might not) surprise you to learn that Alinsky and his plan of disruption are admired by Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and their many acolytes. Ms. Clinton wrote her senior college thesis about Alinsky.

A key to the Alinsky approach is lying. At its most blatant form this means lying that your political opponent is a liar. If you want to obliterate the Constitution, you say that is the goal of your opponent.

Christians have the 10 commandments to guide their behavior.

Today’s progressives have the Alinsky rules:

1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”
3. “Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8. “Keep the pressure on.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

If you have not read the book but these rules sound familiar, there are two explanations for that.

First, you may have watched progressives putting them into action. For example, no sane person could suggest that Joe Biden won the recent debate with Donald Trump. But despite the reality of his pathetic performance (dementia-fueled) they say any criticism of him is a lie; he is a genius, dynamo, bold leader, and just plain nice guy.

Second, you may have young children who are well-versed in creative fibbing to avoid blame for misbehavior. For example, the dog ate my homework or Billy made me do it.

You may also recognize the young child and modern progressive politician operate on pretty much the same intellectual level. The modern progressive is really just an evil child who never learned right from wrong and just grew physically larger.

In reality, Biden has much in common with Alinsky, who included this dedication in his book:

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins— or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer