by Robert M. Traxler
I read an article in the Washington Post titled “A Warning from the 1960s Generation” by John B. Judis, who warned today’s crop of leftists not to make the same mistakes that the flower power folks in the 1960/70s made.
His point is that if the left fails to attract the blue-collar workers who are most of the nation to their revolution, it will fail. The author goes into detail about the new left being upper income tech workers, college students and faculty, former political staffers, and higher-level service occupations. These include people who feel morally superior to those who work for a wage and not for the greater good of the new world order.
The UAW has had better luck recruiting members from grad students, university staff and media workers than actual auto workers, he warns. The major recruiting areas for the leftists are the coastal areas and megalopolis; anti-agriculture, anti-manufacturing, anti-individual rights, anti-establishment bastions, but not the 80% of the land area in our nation’s heartland. The proposed mileage tax attests to that, requiring drivers to pay a Green tax based on miles traveled.
Mr. Judis is heartened that recent polling shows 61% of 18-to-24-year-olds support world socialism as opposed to 51% of millennials. They believe they are educationally and morally superior to those of us who are the face of evil. Those who accept the leftist/socialist dogma are the social and moral superiors of the rest of us.
The movement of manufacturing jobs to China is a calculated effort to reduce the traditional blue color working force, who were not in agreement with the new movement to a leftist/socialist society, and replace them with higher level service people who are more prone to embrace the leftist/socialist ideology.
President Barack Obama openly called for the elimination of manufacturing jobs and the rise of the service industry. He stated that some jobs (referring to union manufacturing jobs) were just not going to come back. President Joe Biden’s handlers, veterans of the President Obama administration, will carry on the fight to remake our nation into a “socialist utopia,” taken from the knuckle draggers in the great unwashed masses of those of us who are too ignorant to embrace the new world order of things and who value labor and family above world socialism.
Mr. Judis also warns the leftists not to splinter into minority groups, banning White/Asian membership or male membership, as was the practice in the latter days of the 1960s/1970s revolutionary movements. It is a fact that every time we see a movement to the lefties, they poke a finger in the eye of the majority who are not pure social revolutionaries, and just fade away.
Years ago, I was stationed with a man from Pulaski, Tenn., the town where the Ku Klux Klan was established in 1865. A logical question for him was, what did he think of the Klan? His answer was that the problem with the Klan is that they never amount to much because they hate everybody: Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, most women, and anyone not in 100% lock step with them.
He went on to say it is hard to have an organization that is successful when it hates everyone. The same can be said for the radical left; they catch on with the public, then they go super radical, and everyday folks reject them. The leftists need to avoid the trap of division and not exclude voters because of age, race, gender, occupation, location, employment, or other demographics.
Will they? Let us hope they are not that smart ,and are so radical as to exclude most Americans once again.
The new left believes working hard, being successful and providing for your loved ones is no longer a goal; we must above all do what is “socially just” regardless of the outcome. Those who disagree regardless of race, sex or age are referred to by the newly coined term “Multi-National Whiteness,” and racist, sexist, homophobic, basket full of deplorables.
Even if you are a gay African American woman, you must be all in for the entire social justice package or be shunned by the leftists as a Multi-National White person, an enemy of the movement, even a white supremacist. Total commitment to “social justice,” whatever in the hell that really is, is the acid test for the leftists.
Please remember that celebrating billionaires censoring speech for profit is not liberal. My opinion.
Nazi telling me i am a socialist crap crap
Mr. Jones,
Sir,
The Nazis, (National Socialists German Workers Party) or National Socialist as they referred to themselves as were wait for it…Socialists. Mr. Jones I may be a lot of things but a socialist is not one of them.
You are the gift that keeps on giving, thanks for the comment.
AB, it’s funny you claim you are not Nazis socialist and we are suppose to believe it. Many times I have claimed not to be a socialist or a Democrat, but you and RR’s clan, the hiding behind Mommy’s apron group, keep calling me both.
Let’s get on a level playing field. I do not believe you are a Nazis socialist, nor am I. I worked my ass off my whole life with no help, raised to take myself has out worked well for many years. Have a good day!
Mr. Longstreet,
Sir,
A good comment but you could have left the Mommy’s apron strings crap out of it, my mother has passed away.
The leftists/socialists will tell you, as President Obama did, that you did not do that, be successful, people did it for you, meaning the government. He went on to say the roads you use, the things that made you successful are because of the government.
Your words “I worked my ass off my whole life with no help raised to take (care of) myself has worked out well for many years” you sounds like a Republican, good for you.
Thanks for the comment.
My mother passed away also. I did not call you an apron hider, just these commenters with aliases. Sorry, not a Republican. Either vote for the person not the party.
And yet you vote for Democrats, the same people who care not a wit for normal hardworking people but want everyone on the government dole so they can control you. How witless you are, the Democrat party left you about 20 years ago.
AB, you a Nazi? That’s a good one!
Doh! Army Bob, you probably believe China is a People’s Republic, too.
My goodness, Joe McCarthy sure left a lasting impression on you. Watch out for those lefty boogeymen. They might give you health care or student loan reform. Maybe even a healthier environment while they’re at it (but probably not)!
Mr. Gless,
Sir,
Allow me to recommend you study Benito Mussolini’s teachings. Hitler referred to him as “My Teacher.” Mussolini, the father of fascism, was a life long socialist, his father a diehard socialist leader even before Benito was born. I have only read four of his six books, but reading them he comes across as a lifelong and unapologetic socialist.
Thanks for the comment.
Mr. Jones. You are a treasure, an eloquent and verbose person with a diminutive brain. Typical of a Democrat, knows the price of everything and the value of nothing!
If you can’t ascertain the meaning if this post, maybe the publisher can help you.
Mr. Traxler,
Sir,
I grew up in Wayland, and I’ve always been grateful to its teachers and community elders who tried to set good examples for us, and help us learn. Though I no longer live there, I still care about my hometown, and I try to keep in touch. So, I very much appreciate the efforts by you, David, your fellow columnists, readers and sponsors to keep us informed, paying attention, and thinking.
In your last three columns, if I counted correctly, you used the words “left,” or “leftist,” or “lefties” a total of 67 times. The words “social,” or “socialist,” or “socially,” or “socialism” were used 40 times. And the words “liberal,” or “liberals,” or “liberalism” were used 27 times. Those words and labels were usually used in pejorative contexts and associations, regarding both current and historical events. For some readers, these words play like their favorite song. It gives them pleasure, and they laugh and sing right along. For others, it’s like seeing that same old TV commercial, over and over again, and it just makes them angry.
Your columns also provoked reader comments to you and each other that remind me of a humorous military personal hygiene training video from many years ago. In that video, one soldier walks by another, looks at him while holding his nose, and says “peee-youuu!” Soldier #2 takes offense and replies: “Are you saying that I smell?” The first soldier responds: “Nope. I smell. You stink!”
Of course, a columns’ content and messaging are the columnist’s prerogative. I respect that. I also respect your readers’ rights to comment however they wish. But do I worry that for too many years, we’ve all become addicted to the journalism equivalent of “caffeine jitters” or “sugar high.” Like too many cups of coffee or too many candy bars, all tasting good at the time but really doing little to enhance our productivity or health, our continuing broken record narrative about leftists, socialists, and liberals, or their respective “deplorable” (heh, heh…) antonyms, always gets people flapping. But I suspect that they aren’t really helping us to fly.
So, with respect, here’s my idea for the day: let’s consider what we could accomplish if we had less jittery sugar and caffeine in our journalism diets, and instead we produced and read more substantive and nutritionally-rich content that could enhance our collective productivity and health. Instead of ruminating about who did what years ago, who stunk then, who stinks today, who will stink tomorrow, what names they are called, and who is to blame, we might consider changing our focus. Let’s read, write, and talk about what’s working today, what isn’t, what solutions we might consider and choose, and what actions we will take to help raise the bar for all, especially our children and grandchildren.
Flapping may be fun, but I’ll bet that flying is even more fun. And it might actually help get us to a better place.
Thank you for your service!