Sometimes a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Americans disgusted at the greedy corporate fat cats and ready for a systemic change away from the cold, market-based cruelty of capitalism is not really a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Americans disgusted at the greedy corporate fat cats and ready for a systemic change away from the cold, market-based cruelty of capitalism.
And that’s because sometimes it’s just a bunch of paid shills, many of whom wouldn’t be able to express their disaffection in English, even were they truly disaffected — and not actively taking advantage of the capitalist system by selling their labor to those who are trying desperately to market anti-capitalist sentiment.
I know. The irony is kinda fun. But seriously, was anybody buying this whole orchestrated puppet show as anything more than what we all knew it to be — namely, an attempt to pretend that the left is having its own “Tea Party” movement, something they’ve been complaining that they need for, well, a couple years now?
The disturbing part of all this is not the various “occupations” (with the attendant Jew hate and fringe carping about modified food or the mistreatment of transgendered persons whose dignity is wounded by the cruel segregation of sex-labeled public restrooms); no, what’s disturbing is that the Democrat left actually thinks we’ll buy their narrative — and so have thrown themselves officially behind this collection of fringe nutjobs, open Marxists, spoiled under-employed recent college grads, and paid protesters, all in an effort to try to gin up class warfare and stoke civil tensions, itself just a transparent ploy to distract from the Administrations scandals and failing policies, and give Obama a phony backdrop of civil unrest against which to play his cynically populist campaign message.
What a disaster the progressive left is proving (yet again) to be.
Christopher Schneider catches the upside-downishness of the modern progressive’s knee-jerk this morning. It’s hard to tell who they think they’re fooling when they beclown themselves so readily.
And with “our” money.
These are Washington latinos. We have New York latinos too.
What, you couldn’t get real Cubans?
More connections.
The question that is troubling me is this: Are we the Kadets of 1916 Russia, committed to the destruction of the established order (in their case the Monarchy, in ours the Trans-Party Establishment), who unwittingly have opened the gates for the totalitarians (in their case the Communists, in ours the communists) to seize power? Is this what it felt like to be one of them? Their non-Regime enemies were unbelievably vicious, happy to use violence to achieve their objectives, while the Kadets were committed to an objective that requires a social(in addition to a legal) commitment to peaceful public interaction: constitutional democracy. Our opponents have demonstrated that they will break any rule, run away to prevent any vote, make up the rules as they go along, engage in civil dis-obedience on a continuous basis, and LIE, LIE, LIE to achieve their objectives.
geoffb If we had a press, that clip would be on every network newscast this evening. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together. Yes they are.
I’m a forewarned Kulak.
Motionview, I prefer to see ourselves as American minute men in 1773 telling King George to get stuffed rather than Russian Kadets.
Of course todays pinko fag commies are closer to your analogy than the Tories, but still…
Motionview – American proggies do fit your description – but they are far from employing violence (well, outside the ATF and D of Ed swat teams, etc). I see the Tea Party as more of a Czechoslovak Legion – get in our way and we’ll (electorially) stomp you flat. But we just want to be left alone, thanks very much.
LTC, I wish I could be as sanguine as you about the prospect of the proggies being far from violence. It seems to me there are plenty of examples of them dabbling in it, and plenty of examples of them openly agitating for it. We’re one good incident (that is to say “tragic incident”) away from rationality taking a vaction.
Honestly? I hope I’m reading the tea leaves wrong (as well I could be), as I try real hard not to be alarmist. But the way things are going seems a little too deliberately provocative and staged.
To put it another way, LTC, it looks like battlespace preparation. I think there are those on the left that are orcestrating and agitating such that the not directly stated – but implied – threat of violence will swing things in their direction. It would be a very Alinskyite thing to do, anyway.
LB the Minutemen are my hope if needed, the Kadets my fear. The progs are definitely nibbling around the edges of direct action Colonel: the anti-TEA party SEIU beatings, the Longshoreman overrunning that plant a few weeks back, the threat from Jimmy Hoffa. We’re not there yet, and I want to make sure we don’t get there.
Quite, motionview.