Left Wing Fear

In a previous post, I stated that what we needed in this country was the formation of an asshole party. We haven't gone that far as of yet, but the Tea Party has woken up the American people on both sides of the political spectrum. No, I'm not calling the Tea Party assholes. I am not a Liberal. Actually, Liberals would not call the Tea Party members assholes, they would say they were stupid. The Left considers anyone that doesn't agree with their positions to be stupid as well as any Average American to be stupid. However, I do feel that the Left is about finally to suffer their well deserved comeuppance. We have had enough of their hubris. Average Americans, who Professor Angelo Codevilla dubs the Country Party, are furious. Elite Liberal Americans, who Codevilla calls the Court Party, are scared. They should be. Their entire worldview, based on a society socially engineered into Democratic Socialism with them accruing the majority of the spoils confiscated from small business owners and those without college degrees who work for a living, has finally been shown for what it is: Left wing socially engineered pseudo-Communism. They kept it under wraps for years while they were working to create this "Utopia" behind the scenes through incremental Socialism was put into place.However, things are different now. The lid is off of the trash can, and the little people are looking down into that trash can and seeing the maggots crawling all over the garbage, which stinks to high heaven. It can't be hidden anymore. The Left moved their agenda too fast, and the average Joe and Jane finally woke up and smelled the sewage. The entire Progressive agenda has been shown for what it is. It is a fraud. The social engineering factory has produced too many defective products, and is now poised to go out of business. The "investors" in this system (read taxpayers), are now demanding a full accounting. Through their own arrogance, the Left has set itself up for failure and moral bankruptcy, and their are scared to death. We are no longer buying into their world view. We tolerated it for half a century, but it's now time to clean house.

Americans have finally woken up to the fact that the Left has always worshiped Communism. Liberals have longed for Marx's tenant that there would be a revolution in which the Proletariat would rise up against the Bourgeoisie , which at the time of Marx, through the Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age, and until we became part of the Global Economy, was the Capitalist Industrialist ruling class. However, the workers joined up with the Capitalists and enjoyed a good solid middle class standard of living. Years ago, this put a class of self-absorbed college educated liberals in a bind. They envisioned themselves as a ruling managerial class that would control the masses until the Proletariat were ready to rise up in revolution, keeping themselves in place as society's managers. To them this was their birthright. However something that Marx never predicted happened. The Proletariat combined forces with the Capitalist Bourgeoisie, and together created a standard of living here in the United States that was the envy of the world. Compare the standard of living of the working classes and lower middle classes in Europe, with the standard of living of the same here in the US. There is about a 40% difference. While the "Managerials" too enjoy a good standard of living, there was something missing. They didn't become the ruling class, which destroyed their self-importance. Not only that, here in America, unlike Western Europe, a high school drop out owning a small business, could earn more money than someone with a PhD. This wasn't fair. How could it be possible that some crude "common" high school graduate owning, heaven forbid, a McDonald's franchise, make a million dollars per year, when the Elite, with a PhD in something ending in "Studies," might find themselves "saving the world" from the Capitalist pigs, working at Revolutionary Books for $10 per hour, or better yet ironically, working for $10 per hour for that high school graduate, or better yet, for that dropout McDonald's franchise owner millionaire, flipping burgers.

Ah, the "unfairness" of the Capitalist system. It doesn't recognize intellectual talent like a command and control European style Social Democratic system where salaries are based on education level, and dictated by federal law. This mindset was addressed by the famous Austrian School Economist, Ludwig von Mises in a book called, The Anti-Capitalist Mentality, published in 1956. It's worth a read, and is available as free download from the Ludwig von Mises Institute website. In addition, von Mises addresses another bone of contention of the left...the fact that their leaders in academia and the non-profit industries get little respect from the American business community. That's because the Capitalist American business community considers them a bunch of Socialist whiners. European society is more willing to suck up to them than we are. This is one of the main reasons for the Left pushing for a European style Social Democracy here in America. They feel that they are entitled to that level of respect when all they have accomplished in life is acquiring a college degree, and been involved in spending other peoples' money.

Here was the Liberals dilemma. When was Marx's revolution going to take place, in which the workers would rise up against the Capitalist system and allow the "Managerials" to lead the revolution, rise to dictatorial power, and secure their place as the vanguards of the Proletariat. What happened to their self-ordained birthright to become society's ruling class? It didn't happen, and it's not going to happen.

Here's the irony. As we have evolved from a manufacturing economy to a service economy where college degrees are the necessary pedigrees needed to secure a career that will allow a solid upper middle class existence, those educated, arrogant, paternalistic liberals have become the new Bourgeoisie...and the Proletariat are ready to rise up in revolution against them. The Progressive Left is scared to death. This is why Liberals are so quick to denigrate Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman. Both ladies, while only one is a serious presidential contender, have stirred up the masses. The Left claims that Sarah Palin is politically irrelevant. If she is, why spend so much time trying to destroy her? Because, she has mobilized Middle America, and the Left hates and fears Middle America more than they hate and fear the failed products of their social engineering factory that reside in our inner cities. Things could get violent and they know it.

This is something that is happening world-wide. Look at the riots in Greece, Italy, and Ireland, and the current riots in Britain. When are those riots going to happen here? Wait, they are. Take a look at the "flash mobs" comprised of young Black men that are attacking white people. If you look at the pictures and amateur videos of the riots in Britain, you will notice that the rioters are black, white, male, and female. All are products of an over-generous safety net, that has included the American dollar equivalent of about $80,000 in public education costs that they didn't contribute one penny to. Now let's look at the flash mobs in this country. Notice anything? You don't see those hoodlums going after the rednecks. Rednecks have guns, and they will use them. They are going after those that are considered easy targets: members of the class of middle class and upper middle class whites and/or their children. Most of them DON'T have guns.

Why are these youths rioting and creating mayhem? In England, the standard excuse is they are angry, because of an increase in college tuition and a reduction of social services. I think that is goes much deeper than that. Using the United States as an example, I have other ideas. Here's a theory. It's "Rage Against The Machine." Could it be that the youth of the Black community have started to wake up to the fake bill of goods sold to them by guilt ridden and power hungry white liberals? BINGO! These policies have done little to benefit those that the policies were designed to benefit. Instead, they created a permanent underclass of unsocialized urban blacks, rural poor whites, a new class of suburban poor Hispanics, while creating a self-ordained ruling class of college educated "professionals"drunk with the entitlement of power to rule over the other demographic groups? Ah, the poverty industry. Flush with government money, corruption is king, and it has devolved into a racket. Al Capone would be proud. Guess what? We the Little People noticed. Like I said, the lid is off of the trash can. The Left can not hide their intentions any more.

What is at stake here is an ideology bases on the following: revenge, restitution, reparations, revolt, redistribution, re-alignment, and rage, not necessarily in that particular order. We are no longer going to tolerate those seven "r" items. There is going to be no more free lunch. The kitchen is closed. I will address each of these items in subsequent posts.