Do you remember the left, the old Left which used to be all for the working class and getting them a better deal against their Moloch loving oppressors. Sure you do, it was all about organized labor and a just wage.
Then everything changed. They stopped caring about workers and switched focus to bathrooms, sex changes, virtue signalling identity politics and rainbow riding, all the while pushing for open borders and an unrestricted influx of dirt-cheap unskilled labor into the US.
Who stands to benefit from the millions of immigrants crossing the Rio Grande? Existing American workers? Hardly, their wages get slashed. So do the math. Someone, and it's not the labor force, is making money. Let's put it a different way.
This rural Texan town used to rely on cotton. Cotton was king and made people minor fortunes while employing a lot of workers; this town was 20,000 strong in the 1920s, now it's 7,000. What went wrong?
The cotton industry went to India and there was nothing to replace it. The people that owned the business made a lot of money and continue to do so, the people left behind, not so much.
It's a small lesson in open borders and you'd think that the champions of the working class, the Left, would be up in arms about it. But no, they're all in favor of unchecked immigration, globalization and the de facto cheapening of labor.
For them, fighting for the oppressed means attacking binary sexuality and pushing for transsexual sex-ed in kindergartens. All the while unemployed coal miners live on welfare in shacks in West Virginia.
The American working class, living in its asset stripped rust belts saw through this and voted for Trump; at least he promised he'd shift heaven and earth to bring back jobs and industry. Will he and is the project even possible?
Who knows, but what we do know is that the Left hates this project and will do anything in its power to stop it.
My question is, when did they start to hate the working class?
Cheers,
LSP
I think that the Donkeys felt that they "owned" the American working class, in the same way that they feel that they "own" the black vote. That is changing and they are a Party in search of supporters. If Americans (outside of inner city hells) won't support them, the felt that they could buy the votes of illegal aliens (who technically can't vote - but do), then they'll import voters.
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton took the union vote for granted and lost in the heavily union, industrial heartland. She didn't bother to campaign in those states because it was a "done deal". Imagine her anger at the betrayal when the bought-and-paid-for unions didn't step up and bring votes...just imagine how much gin that it took to put the old hag down on election night. She's an alcoholic, and I'm sure that even after a dozen Singapore Slings, she was still ranting.
In the mid-terms, the great hope is that the histrionics of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing will get them a lot more votes. They look to polling but we know those are completely unreliable. They look to The View or CNN (fewer viewers than the Cartoon Chanel) and the venom that is spewed out over the air waves.
Christine Blasey (Ford) looked as if she was a drunk when in high school, and possibly a pass-around girl. That doesn't mean that she should have been roughly handled, but when you pass out naked at parties on a regular basis, it certainly draws doubt on her memories, 36 years past, that she didn't share by name until Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteDear LL, how do high school kids get bottles of booze? And where were the parents when this orgy was taking place?
DeleteYeah, i was never one of the "cool" kids. Even back then, decades before having come to Christ on his terms, the Lord had evidently put up a hedge to keep the reprobates at bay.
The left hates anyone who thwarts their agenda. Lately, rank and file union guys have bailed on Democrats in favor of Trump. That irks the left to no end. Now that workers (both union and non-union alike) are getting behind The Donald, the left hates them now with a purple passion.
ReplyDeleteWhen did the left start hating workers? Since about Nov 6, 2016. Give or take.
They never did like the working class, only their votes. The actual people are unworthy of the notice of their betters.
ReplyDeleteThe dems have never cared about the "working man." Unions? Just a way to line their pockets. Through their systematic march through the institutions they've decided they have enough brain-dead useful idiot followers to declare to the world exactly who they are.
ReplyDeleteThey will not win.
In the meantime some prayers for our retired pastor and next door neighbor, Father Bill, who had a massive stroke last Sat. would be much appreciated, LSP. He has opted for Hospice and I fear the end is not long off.
"My question is, when did they start to hate the working class?"
ReplyDeleteMy short answer is that it started when the working class was no longer their cash cow (union dues).
Many have remarked that the unions benefited the working class early on. I agree. LL puts it well over at his place. As the unions became more powerful and more politicized, they got greedy and priced themselves right out of the world labor market. IMHO, Thomas Friedman is a liberal hack, but his book 'The World is Flat' is quite enlightening. As you point out, the jobs went across the borders and overseas. No jobs, no wages. No wages, no union dues.
Out with the old and in with the new. The new is open boarders and a flood of immigrants (new dem voters). The working class values are at odds with this and thus they must be destroyed as a political force.
"For them, fighting for the oppressed means attacking binary sexuality and pushing for transsexual sex-ed in kindergartens."
These are non-issues that have been politically weaponized to disorient and divide their enemy (us). The bit about " fighting for the oppressed" is just lipstick on the pig.
LL, the left's shift away from their old constituency has been on my mind for a while and I think part of it's to do with the ascendancy of cultural marxism over the old fashioned proletarian uprising version. When did that occur? Well, it's been percolating since at lest the '60s and seems close to having a full head of steam.
ReplyDeleteBut well said, they're a party in search of supporters and seem to be betting the farm on radical rainbow riders and immigrants. Let's see how their approach pans out in the mid terms, I don't sense a huge amount of sympathy for the Kavanaugh hatchet job and its stooge/fall girl.
Ford's father was CIA, apparently, and she's not unconnected too. Curious if true.
Certainly a date to remember, Fredd. A leftist friend said to me the other day that "coal mining's a really stupid industry and needs to go." I'd imagine that won't go down too well in certain parts of the country. We'll find out in a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteYes, Jim. OBEY your rulers!
ReplyDeleteI'll be sure to pray for him, Adrienne. And yes, they won't win.
ReplyDeleteNice analysis, RHT.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree about the non-issues and see them as a kind of smokescreen. Saying that, destroying the "bourgeois claptrap of the family" has a long pedigree and the nihilsm of the Frankfort School and their descendants looms large. The Dems seem to have gobbled it up but I'd be surprised if it sits well with anyone outside of their radicalized bi-coastal enclaves.
I guess the proof will be at the polling stations.
The Left believed the 'old' working class in America and Europe had failed to bring about the Revolution the Left wanted. As the 'old' working class had failed in its revolutionary mission it was necessary to create a 'new' working class that would carry-out the revolution the Left wanted. Central to this is the concept of 'diversity'. Instead of the homogeneous and monolithic character of the 'old' working class, the 'new' working class is a fragmented alliance of numerous interest groups defined by identity politics. By controlling the interest groups the Left controls the 'new' working class in away it was never able to control the 'old' working class. The existence of 'old' working class threatens the narrative of the 'new' working class and as a result the Left denounces the 'old' working class with a new language with terms like Islamophobia, Trans-phobia, Homophobia and the old favorite Racism. They openly refer to the 'old' working class by derogatory terms like white van man/football hooligan/skinhead/prole/alt-right/far-right/Neo-Nazi/thug/knuckle-dragger/chav. As far as the Left is concerned the 'old'working class failed in its historical mission and must be consigned to the dust bin of history as quickly as possible, so that the 'new' working class - controlled by the Left - become the means of bringing about the Revolution.
ReplyDeleteThere have been times in my life when women exposed their breasts in front of me. Was I offended? Was I technically assaulted sexually by their conduct? Should I call the US Senate and come forward as a victim?
ReplyDeleteI am scarred by the memories.
"Why the Kavanaugh accusations matter so much to teen girls like me" by @lizlove000
ReplyDeleteSounds a bit like cultural Marxism, Anon!
ReplyDeleteLL, I can only imagine...
ReplyDeleteVery fortunate, Sue.
ReplyDeleteAnon, sometimes it's better said in... song.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M59qnTxbYBE