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“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies.
What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events.
Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side. And will continue to be on their side no matter what they do.
The revolution is also the thing that it’s revolting against.
Democrats secured control of the country’s major cities only to be faced with the timeless leftist challenge of making the intensification of their rule look like revolution rather than totalitarianism. The USSR and Cuba directed the ‘revolution’ outward by invading, conquering and intervening in other countries. Democrat cities nationalized their politics, building entire campaigns around Trump, abortion and (to their eventual regret) declaring themselves to be sanctuary cities.
As long as Republicans existed anywhere, urban Democrats could not sleep soundly at night.
Democrat control of cities and states didn’t end bipartisan politics, just turned it into a somewhat real and somewhat fake grudge match between the party’s really crazy and less crazy wings. Craziness was a variable like ‘X’ that was defined not by the common sense brakes of intellectual diversity, but by how far the really crazy wing could push the less crazy wing.
In 2010, open borders, freeing all the criminals, men pretending to be women and support for Hamas were fringe positions of the really crazy wing. By 2024, they’re Democrat positions.
The difference between the really crazy wing and the merely crazy wing is not that they have fundamentally different beliefs, but different tactics and comfort zones. It didn’t take long for the next generation to come home for winter breaks and win over the Democrat moms and dads to police defunding, drag queen story hour and the mass murder of Jews. But first the cultural establishment had to make these horrifying things seem respectable and normal.
Had to fit banning cars and Hamas on a lawn sign right under “in this house, love is love”.
What will the really crazy wing of the party normalize next? Check the academic calendar for the next year, social media for the year after and then the protest calendar for the next five years.
The ‘revolution’ is just about the radicals running the streets getting the feckless ex-liberals running the actual show to adopt some horrendous policy derived from the ravings of a 19th century philosopher and then given a glow up by activist academics and public intellectuals.
Classic town hall politics, limited constitutional government, and checks and balances in a bipartisan system would have prevented American cities from turning into the Paris Commune, but urban politics had made a rapid transition from Tammany Hall political machines to corporate consultants to Marxist struggle sessions with little democracy to be found in any of it.
Cities aren’t run by voters but by ‘stakeholders’. Lifelong community activists and their community groups, municipal unions and their members, and a few political clubs harvest ballots, turn out votes and then end up running cities. That 1% actually runs our lives.
A new generation of young radical activists with dot com money backing and social media savvy like AOC found it easy enough to harness the power of hipster grad students living in $3K a month walkups to disrupt the system and carve out their own extremist slice of the pie.
The new red guard, like the old, however had to find something to do besides stealing money.
The lofty promises of universal health care require more money than is available even if the wings of the old crazy party and the new really crazy party stopped stealing all the money. Defunding the police by moving money from law enforcement to their leftist activist social allies is easier. And a good pogrom against Jewish stores and synagogues is a great distraction.
The revolution isn’t about killing Jews (or not just about killing Jews) but wiping out entire classes of people, reactionaries, shopkeepers and whoever else ended up in the killing fields of Siberia, Guangxi and Choeung Ek for the power and profit of a rising new political elite.
The less crazy party thinks it will never have to come to that, but as with its views on men showering with girls or exposing schoolchildren to violent pornography, this is subject to change.
Life as an urban/suburban bourgeoise with regular stops at Starbucks, Crate and Barrel, and Whole Foods before charging the Tesla in the driveway is pretty comfortable, but being a pol commissar with a dacha in the Outer Banks and the power to gulag your enemies might just be better. All of that will require not just one revolution but a cycle of intermittent revolutions.
The causes matter less than the trajectory. One day it’s the police, the next day it’s car owners and then it’s the Jews. (Say what you will, but the Jews are always a popular one.) The issue, as a certain Marxist once said, is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
Causes provide narratives. Berkeley professors and Wall Street personal assistants who have no idea where the river or the sea may be are chanting for the destruction of Israel because it’s a nice change of pace. Like all of us, leftists like to feel that they’re growing as people by embracing new murderous causes. Freeing all the criminals didn’t work so well, but freeing all the terrorists to kill Jewish people thousands of miles away feels both heroic and safe.
But the exoticism of chanting for an “intifada” boils down to a call for revolution here and now.
Students for Justice in Palestine tweeted that the ultimate purpose of the anti-Israel BDS movement is “eradicate America as we know it.” Eradicating America as we know it might seem a bit off-putting to the suburban soy dads and wine moms who make up the middle class base of the party, but they’ll come around just like they did on turning Tim into Tammy and Tammy into Tim. What else are they going to do anyway: become Republicans and have people sneer at them in Whole Foods and risk their kids refusing to come home for the holidays?
The revolution is about eradicating America as we know it. A lot of it’s gone already, but there’s still plenty of work of destruction to be done until we’re all on the right side of history. Or dead.
Revolution is all about being on the right side of history. And the revolution consists of old liberals who are terrified of being on the wrong side of it, stammering their way through pronouns and handling popular critical race theory texts like they were the sacred scriptures of a religion they don’t believe in, and young radicals certain that they are on the right side of it.
But ‘revolution’ is also just dictatorship misspelled. As George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The dictatorship in urban and sub Democrat areas is already here.
The stream of monthly revolutions make the deepening totalitarianism, the higher confiscatory taxes, the daily government scrutiny of everything from trash content to social media posts (in cities where violent muggings earn thugs no more than a free therapy session) and the ideology tests for employment, seem like liberation. But that’s what the Russians called it too.
Each revolution makes us more enslaved and less free. We are not free to walk the streets, not free to think for ourselves and not free to even work for a living. We are however free to protest.
But only as long as it’s for the revolution of the political machine taking away all our freedoms.
The issue isn’t drug dealers shot while assaulting police officers. It’s not Israel. It’s not oil or illegals. Those are just the levers which make the dictatorships running our lives more extreme. They are also how those dictatorships pretend that there’s a vibrant system of political dissent.
The issue is not the issue. The issue is that the fake revolutions are a tyranny. The issue is that we have become the slaves of a system that keeps promising to liberate us from our freedoms.
The issue is that we cannot go on living this way.
Very true Daniel.
The issue also isn’t just about America, it’s about the western world.
I predict a cyber attack from Russia that will prevent the voting machines from working because of, you know, Trump collusion.
Not our fault but we will need to, temporarily, suspend the election for two weeks to flatten the curve.
Defund the UN and NATO
Let’s not only defund the UN, let’s move them out of the US. Our homeless Vets need some place to live. Let’s start here!
That’s a good Orwell quote. The revolution aims to establish a dictatorship.
Karl Marx was not a philosopher but a crackpot, religious, mystic pretending to be a rational philosopher.
“As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: “I want it now!”—is through.” – Ayn Rand
Just what I need on a Thursday morning…..Randy’s take on Karl Marx.
Guess what, one could say the same about her……………………and you. Delusions of grandeur, perhaps?
A childish rebellion is not a revolution but a childish tantrum.
Has anybody here ever seen the movie “Rebel Without A Cause”? Or “The Wild One”? Or “Easy Rider”?
Ridiculous, childish, anti-heroes going nowhere, accomplishing nothing but destruction.
Take today’s transgender phenomenon, another manifestation of more rebellion against reality without a cause. Anti-heroes going nowhere, accomplishing nothing but destruction.
“Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against? What you got?”
“Ridiculous, childish, anti-heroes going nowhere, accomplishing nothing but destruction.”
Hmmm, sounds like you.
“Rebel Without A Cause”? Or “The Wild One”? Or “Easy Rider”? Really, really and really?
Can you say stuck in the past?
Hey, don’t sell short ridiculous, childish, anti-heroes going nowhere, accomplishing nothing. Director Roger Corman made legendary B-Movie classics with that template.
As I said…..stuck in the past.
THEREDNATION.ORG is a Revolutionary Communist Native American group that started the anti-Columbus crusade here at UNM/Albuquerque, with the U.S. now having Indigenous People’s Day. They protest alongside with ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the CPUSA at BLM riots, Ferguson, Seattle, Portland, and now national with their Pro-Hamas message.
MISSION STATEMENT: “This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism.” “Communism is the greatest expression of love for the people and our nonhuman relatives. And it is the only solution for a planet on the brink of destruction at the hands of the ruling bourgeoisie and their backwards ideologies and institutions.”
Continued: “Palestine Will Be Free
Palestine is the moral barometer of Indigenous North America. While there is widespread agreement among Native people that European colonialism and Indigenous genocide is criminal and immoral, there are a surprisingly high number of Native politicians, elites, and public figures who don’t extend the same sympathies to Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. They range from outright Zionists who support Palestinian ethnic cleansing to liberal centrists who don’t support Palestinian rights of protest and resistance. We, The Red Nation, pledge to fulfill our commitment to Palestinian liberation.
“Allah Akbar!” https://youtu.be/bi1I-fgB_xg?si=ihjQugqkgZHujNwZ
Germany in 1918 is a good example of of succeeding governmental systems. The Trilateral Commission won’t be able to put the brakes on either. Continuing destruction until there is nothing.
“The crazy wing,” and the “real crazy wing.” There you have it friends and neighbors: The most simple and succinct description of the Radical Left you’ll ever get. Our work is done here. I think we can all go home now.
I always get moderated, and half the time I get censored outright, when I post what I am about to say in street vernacular, but I will try to get this in under the reader quick-like …
“The crazy wing” and the “Jive-ass wing.” THAT is what we are talking about.
To Allan Goldstein:
You have to be subtle and clever when using street vernacular. Some people get it, some don’t. Those of use who get it prefer it because of it’s succinctness with a punch. And it pisses off the haughty over-educated anal retentive (aka, ass holes) types!
“Crazy” vs “Jive-ass”
Bang on, mate. This one news to be shared wisely
Needs t be shared Widely
Absolutely brilliant Daniel!
The NYT sickens me – even tho it’s still the paper of record. It’s bias is so pervasive – if the censoring commissars don’t agree with your pt of view – you don’t have your comment published, Welcome to the USSR. & the elephant in the room is the Black injection to all of this e.g. Ta Nahisi Coates scourge of the U.S. as so many blacks & liberal whites do. IMHO this is an unsolvable problem because there’s that eternally lingering resentment of slavery in their consciousness and its come to rule their minds. Demonize whites – that’s the ticket. (I just heard a play reading last night about WWII re enactors and its a major part of the mousetrap that blacks weren’t allowed to serve with whites. Just drive the trucks of the Red ball express & that several hundred blacks blew up with an ammunition ship ( not that it might have been caused by a mistake made by one of them- and a good reason not to want to fight with them shoulder to shoulder) & the Tuskegee Airmen singlehandedly won the war. So in this play it placed segregation in the foreground of the canvas and the fact that the Holocaust took place in addition to 60 million people perishing – 7K Marines on Iwo alone. So that our Gen z is wallowing in comfort – the largesse that victory gave us- wallowing in guilt. This is a slippery slope. Factor that in with a substantial # of dudes on the street shuffling w/their pants half way down to their knees – an anti social statement of ‘what? me work? ‘ the future looks grim to me. Civilization always falls by decay from within.
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The Great American Play Series.
The greatest event in World History: The Resurrection of Yeshua Ha’Machiach. The Second greatest event in World History: The Declaration of Independence of the USA, what Eric Hoffer said, “The only new thing in History”. GO FOR IT, Young Communists, I hope you get what you deserve – the final clampdown of the most oppressive government ever – “done right, at last”. You foolish fools.
You have over the years have knocked out some incredible articles . I thought you could not top some of the great ones from the past. Well ,you did!
This is one for the books . An amazing recounting of the twist and turns of Dialectic bunk . You’ve taken hundreds of years of revolutionary thinking and condensed it to a handful of paragraphs amazing.
I’m with you on the Israeli and the Jews, but as a traditional Catholic, I wish you would include them as one of the groups that are under attack .throughout the world and in the USA no one even reports on the churches in Canada that have been burnt down and praying Catholics in their churches in the states being assaulted.
As an old timer who have been in the battles politically over many years, there’s not much I can do now individually, I’m left with make some donations to the right causes and get a few vicarious thrills by wearing my Trump is Superman shirt with the symbol and walk around Whole Foods and having mothers cover their children’s eyes. God bless you good work
The great philosopher Eric Hoffer said what I believe is the second wisest thing anyone has ever said:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
The great economist Thomas Sowell, who happens to be black, said what I believe is the wisest thing anyone has ever said:
“The important question is not what is good. The important question is who decides what is good.”
The most obvious fact in the history of the world, which the Politically Correct Morally Superior Class refuses to acknowledge, is this:
The only thing worse than economic inequality is forced equality. Forced equality ends up in failure, disaster, genocide and misery. Every time. Every time.
Children believing the 1619 variety of lies may one day pay a very high price for the consequences of their actions. There is after all a gravity to behavior called “reaping and sowing”.
Claiming America was Build t on Slavery is one of the biggest lies along with Evolution and Climate Change