“They’re not communists,” comedian Dave Smith recently told Tucker Carlson, referring to leading Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris. “They work for big business!”
Sure, but beside the point: they spew out commie talking points not as an excuse to overthrow the state and set up a communist one, but to overthrow the last vestiges of the Constitution — free-speech rights, private property rights, the whole shebang — and consolidate power in the corporatist, neo-mercantilist fascism that yearns to squelch all dissent.
National candidates talking “far left” allows gullible left-leaners to back powerful insiders against the real outsiders, the churchgoers, the small business owners and entrepreneurs, free-lance professionals and the like.
The real revolution is what Garet Garrett, expanding upon Aristotle, called “revolution within the form.”
So, are Kamala Harris and Tim Walz just “useful idiots” preparing the way for the plutocrats’ totalitarian end game?
Would-be Cackler-in-Chief aside, the Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman posits that Walz may be an out-and-out communist:
- “As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which ‘everyone shares’ and gets free food and housing.”
- “Walz’s rosy description of communism in China is similar to his recent controversial remark that ‘one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.’ It also reflects his longstanding ties to the country.”
- “After returning to the United States in the early 1990s, Walz started leading trips to China for American high school students, with support from the Chinese government. The trips were ‘arranged by a friend of Walz in China’s foreign affairs department,’ the Star-Herald reported at the time. The Chinese government also provided some of the funding for the program.”
True-believing communists in the old style? Or just woke, post-Marxist totalitarians?
It hardly matters when the point of what they say is not the dogma, but the performance, allowing them to revolt against us, and the constitutional order we rely upon.
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Sincere communists have quite typically been unwitting tools of those without communist aspirations.
For much of my life, the political left would laugh “We don’t want D; we only want C!” as they intruded into our lives, only later to laugh “We don’t want E; we only want D!” and then “We don’t want F; we only want E!” By the time of the Obama Administration, almost no one bought the pretense that the left would ever willingly stop, short of control of everything; and the left largely abandoned that pretense, though they didn’t just come-out and declare that they wanted indeed to have control of everything.
Harris and Walz have spoken more freely of what they would grab, and have not even bothered to insist that they wouldn’t grab still more. What is plainly true of them is that they have no stopping principle short of logical exhaustion. (Do Harris and Walz actually believe that, with such power, they will improve the lot of the common man? I dunno, but in any case their respective narcissisms trump all else.)
This intrusiveness would be grossly wrong even if the people who have selected Harris and Walz as their spokesmodels were perfectly sincere, and even if socialists could somehow solve the problem of economic calculation. But, in reality, the thinly disguised totalitarian socialism of Harris and of Walz is a stalking horse for a neo-feudalism, with a ruling class that would, at least in the short term, live comparatively high on the hog and unchallenged, even as the more typical subjects of this order suffered ever worsening material conditions.
Other countries have been there before. The left here doesn’t learn from their experiences; the left there doesn’t learn from their experiences. They fantasize that if X were virtuous enough, then X would be able to attain socialism and to make socialism work. The cycle will be repeated until-and-unless the educational system is wrested from would-be rulers and useful idiots.
So basically business as usual for both parties?
The main difference between the Democrats and the GOP is that the Democrats have an OPENLY socialist wing instead of trying to hide their predilections.
Are you familiar with Project 2025?
“True-believing communists in the old style? Or just woke, post-Marxist totalitarians? ” Is there a difference? A tyrant is a tyrant is a tyrant. The arc of history bends toward tyranny. We, the American people, will get exactly what we deserve if we don’t revolt against totalitarians of all stripes.
What a wuss! You don’t have the guts to write about the “dictator-in-waiting” Trump. He wants to be a dictator! How about writing about Project 2025.
“Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project,[3] is a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation that aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential elections.”
Why don’t you write about something that is a real danger?
You don’t think Biden was dictatorial with all his executive orders on day one to allow illegals to surge the border and to restrict American domestic energy production? Trump is merely following Biden’s example when he says he wants to be dictator FOR A DAY in order to reverse Biden’s disastrous policies that were implemented by executive order. You take everything literally. I guess Democrats never learned about metaphor.
Did you get your knowledge from Trump University?
Pam,
Of Project 2025, Trump has said “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” Yet the people who tell you what to think and say have told you to pretend that Trump supports Project 2025, and you just do.
Anyone can advise anyone else. I could advise you to be thoughtful and genuine. That doesn’t mean that I’m one of the People behind Pam, and that you’re going to do what I tell you.
Of particular note, K’s real daddy (not sugar) has not been happy with her.
“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” _Donald J Harris
It’s just neighborliness.
Except that it’s at gunpoint.
Other than that, identical.