The education of Tricia Cotham
F.Paul Valone, “The Anti-Radical”
“Of Means and Ends” – Saul Alinsky
- …the classic question of whether ends justify means is “meaningless”
- “…the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, ‘Does this particular end justify this particular means’”
- “In war, the end justifies almost any means”
- “All life is warfare”
This week, formerly Democrat Representative Tricia Cotham got a lesson in Saul Alinsky’s “rules in the methods of means and ends” (above) as well as a couple of his thirteen “Rules for Radicals” for good measure.
As one of three Democrats who failed to vote when Republicans overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of pro-gun Senate Bill 41 – and already at odds with her caucus – Cotham found herself on the receiving end of leftist threats on social media and elsewhere; ostracized by her own Democrat caucus; and harassed in public places with her child. Even her minor children were targeted by leftist political operatives.
Rep. Cotham had offended the cabal of Democrat leftists so indoctrinated with Alinsky-esque flexible ethics that they will viciously eat their own (metaphorically speaking … I think)…