To the editor:

These are the eight levels of controls by Saul Alinsky to transform a nation through socialism into communism.

1. Healthcare – control healthcare and you control the people.

1. Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you provide everything for them to live.

1. Debt – Increase the debt level to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.

1. Gun control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from government. That way you are able to create a police state.

1. Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.

1. Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control or what children learn in school.

1. Religion – Remove belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in only the government knowing what is best for the people.

1. Class warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class.

This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor.

It should be clear to all how our nation is well on its way to winning its race to the bottom.

Is it our public servants in both political parties who are constitution-despising oath breakers?

Or, we the people who vote and revote them in office to sell us out?

Larry Korpi

ELO