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01 February 2009

You Say You Want A Revolution. Well, We'd All Like It If You Tried Evolution ... To Big Boy Pants Instead. III




VII.  YOU TELL ME IT'S THE INSTITUTION. WELL, YOU KNOW. YOU'D BETTER FREE YOUR MIND INSTEAD.



Unusual for me, I am going to turn it over to a Prog, Lee Siegel, for a little while.  In the lead in to his new article "What Occupy Harvard Should Tell Liberal Elite Parents on Thanksgiving," The Daily Beast writes "[A]s the sons and daughters of America’s wealthiest rough it in Harvard Yard, Lee Siegel offers a plan for when they get home to their liberal elite parents for Thanksgiving: help Mom and Dad clean up their own house."



"And the truth is, Mom and Dad, we no longer have two political parties. We have one party, the Democrats, divided into a right wing and a left wing. And we have a party, the Republicans, that has dissipated into a movement, a collection of intense emotions that have no outlet in a clear political program. When the head of a household of four, who is earning $60,000 a year, cannot be convinced that people making several million dollars a year should pay more money in taxes so that he can afford health care for himself and his family, common sense seems to have disappeared down the rabbit hole. Why is it so hard to convince this man, who is decent, rational, and responsible in other aspects of his life, that his politics are incoherent?

Here’s why, and pour yourselves some more wine. Liberal elites like you are strangling liberalism.

 "Republicans tell him that life in America is winner-take-all, and that they are the people who will let him keep what he has."

The man making $60,000 a year who can’t afford health benefits for his family looks at you, the liberal elite—sorry, guys, but let’s call a spade a spade—and sees that the fix is always in. You went to the same private schools. You graduated from the same handful of Ivy League universities. You live in the same exclusive urban neighborhoods, and you summer in the same exclusive enclaves. Your children—like us—network through your pre-established connections to the top of society. You prescribe conduct for others that you will never have to follow yourselves. You pass laws that will never apply to you. You turn on your own constituents, like public-school teachers, at the drop of a hat. You sell out the middle class by passing legislation that makes it almost impossible to declare bankruptcy. You make the middle class pay with soaring premiums for expanded Medicaid programs that will bankrupt state treasuries, thus fueling the backlash against the push for universal health care.

The man you think is a “sucker” because he votes for Republican candidates who don’t seem to give a hoot about him will vote for them every time. He looks at you, the crowd of The-Fix-Is-Always-In, and he casts his lot with the crowd of wealth and initiative.




You see, Mom and Dad, they don’t lie about his prospects. They tell him that he has to sink or swim. They don’t disrespect his willpower by promising that government will make life easier for him. They tell him that they respect his individuality. They tell him straight out what you, the liberal elite, know to be true but will never say. They tell him that life in America is winner-take-all, and that they are the people who will let him keep what he has. They tell him that his religion, his wife’s capacity to reproduce, his children—whether they are “successful” or not—are his treasure. They tell him that they don’t care if he is a person of modest ambition, little sophistication, and humble means. What they value is his capacity to change his own life.

What you tell him is that he should put his life in your hands. Yet you scorn his religion. You mock his faith in the sacredness of conception. You deride his belief in family. You tell him that his love for hunting makes him a murderer, and that his terror at being economically displaced makes him a xenophobe and a racist. Then you emasculate his hope for the future by telling him that if his ship comes in—that dream of a ship that makes the grinding disappointment of daily life worth living through—you’ll help yourself to a big slice of it. And you expect him to believe your rhetoric about fairness and equality when, all the while, you are accusing him of gullibility in his politics and bad faith toward the least fortunate of his fellow citizens. When, all the while, you are living untouched by your own policies. When you are cushioned against life’s hardness, not by government, but by simply knowing other people in your class. You expect him to buy your talk about equitable distribution of wealth when you are sailing through tax loopholes off into the sunset. For this man, his emotions make all the rational sense in the world.

Whew! Sorry for the speech. But before we go back to school next week, we want to clean up our own house. Truth and justice begin at home.

One more thing: Do you mind sparing the Porsche for the ride back? The train is too slow and the Democratic Socialist Club at UMass is serving us breakfast early tomorrow morning."


 


And, Mr Siegel nails it, as does my favourite Prog, Walter Russell Mead, on so many occasions - this being merely one - and why The Ferret, Thomas Friedman and the obnoxious, Thomas "What's That Matter With Kansas?" Frank continuously swing wide, miss, and fall on their faces ... all of the time.

The Middle Class knows that Progressive elites hold them in nothing but disdain.  Their upbringing, religion, education, hobbies, interests, sports, favourite foods and drinks, homesteads in Flyover America are mocked, hated, dismissed, rejected, and belittled.  Yes, Sarah Palin is a small town girl, who went to 5 colleges and had 5 children, one who many in elite circles would have aborted.  She also took on corruption and became the governor of her state.  There was a time in this country that her trek and success in life would be celebrated ... regardless of whether you agreed with her political positions.  Not now.  She is stupid, a redneck, ignorant, a rube, classless, an idiot, and an appropriate object of scorn.

The fact of the matter is this:  The Middle Class recognises that people like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain know their lives because they live them.  The Middle Class doubts seriously that the Obamas know anything about their lives - even though they may.  The Middle Class also knows that the Progs' Useful Idiots, who live Ramien Noodle and store name beverage lives, but talk Brie and Chardonnay, have as much contempt for them as those that live in the Hamptons or Malibu do.
 
"We're a country that is 'just downright mean,'we are 'guided by fear,'  'we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents.'"

- Michelle Obama, 3 March 2008


"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country..."

- Michelle Obama, 18 February 2008


"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And, it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

- Barack Obama, 6 March 2008


"...[I]t's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." 

- Barack Obama, 12 April 2008


"When people tell me they've all stressed about racial discord, well, you know, try slavery for a while."

- Barack Obama, 11 April 2008

“This is a great great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades.”

- Barack Obama, 29 October 2011

 
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?" (in an appearance at an Iowa farm)."

- Barack Obama,  27 July 2007


While I will not say that I approve of what happened, I will ask, "Who on Earth could have possibly been surprised by Michelle Obama's reception at NASCAR?"

Let me ask it this way:  What do you think would have happened if President George Bush had opened the Oscars?

Who do you think NASCAR fans would want to have a beer with and who do you think members of the Academy would like to share a bottle of 1963 Pommard Grand Cru with while savouring Wolfgang's latest delectable creations?

Get real. 








VIII.  BUT, IF YOU GO CARRYING PICTURES OF CHAIRMAN MAO...



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Even the Iranian regime understands what the movement is all about...so do the North Koreans...as does Hugo Chavez...as does Fidel Castro... as does al Qaeda and as did Anwar al-Awlaki before he died.  They are all down with it, dude.  Capitalism is the antithesis of freedom....according to them.  Of course, Shari'ah Law and Communism MUST be bastions of freedom and liberty in this alternative universe.






 Joseph Arthur - We Stand As One (#occupywallstreet)

We occupy wall street

Take back our soul

Take back our country

Take back control

Take back our health care

Take back our mind

Take back our freedom

Give up the grind

We occupy wall street

No more fear

No more acceptance

Of insanity’s sneer

No more division

No more restraint

Our canvas is freedom

Your blood is our paint


we stand as one




You who have robbed us

You who have lied

You who were greedy

While the needy ones died

You who believed

You were better than them

Who sat in the flower

Ignoring the stem

You who denied them

Doctors and care

Humanity’s basics

As if death were their share

You who denied

The struggles of most

Like a pig you consumed

And like a pig you will roast


we stand as one




We occupy wall street

The system has failed

As the innocent ones

Are beat down and jailed

The criminal minds 

have stolen this land

By taking our freedom

And binding our hand

To the cuff of misfortune

To the cuff of our need

To the cuff of self pity

To the cuff of a seed

Lost in the desert

No chance to survive

No love to nurture

No water to thrive

we stand as one
   
 


 We are Legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget



 
We occupy wall street

The system has failed

As the innocent ones

Are beat down and jailed

The criminal minds 

have stolen this land

By taking our freedom

And binding our hand

To the cuff of misfortune

To the cuff of our need

To the cuff of self pity

To the cuff of a seed

Lost in the desert

No chance to survive

No love to nurture

No water to thrive


we stand as one




A chance education

A chance to secure

A place for our families

Our right to a cure

The disease is insane

The disease is just greed

The disease is your pain

Ignoring their need

The disease is your reason

Your will is unchecked

But the blood is all over

The lives you have wrecked

But blessed are the meek

For we stand as one

We stand against

The crimes you have done
we stand as one
 



In 1969, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.


Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt – her signature uniform – Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."

Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"





We stand against

Your desire for more

Hear how we knock

Soon there won’t be a door

And what you won’t share

Will be ripped from your hands

Your body destroyed

The way fire lands

Burning your homes

The privilege you snake

The payback beyond

Anything you could take

Naked you’ll be

And full of regret

And the way they were treated

You’ll long to forget


we stand as one


  
You’ll wish you could go back 

and undo whats been done

You’ll wish you were never

Insanity’s son

You’ll wish you were fair

You’ll wish for compassion

But it will be late

And long out of fashion

Strung up you’ll bleed

Like the pig you became

A symbol of hatred

And one with no name

And our country will come back

Belonging to us

Regain it’s spirit

Regain our trust


we stand as one




Regain it’s standing

Regain the world

The dream of our fathers

A new and bold world

Where people have chance

And can live with respect

And people can dance

Beyond their neglect

Where health is a right

And education within

The grasp of the poor

Who may still one day win

We occupy wall street

So that we may begin

To live in a country

Of freedom again.


we stand as one






Yesterday is a memory.

Today is a blessing in order to prepare.

Tomorrow is an opportunity to put your experience and preparations into practise in a real world way that might just save your life and the lives of others.



Know yourself.

Know your enemy's strengths and weaknesses.

Know your strengths and weaknesses.
 
 All warfare is based on deception.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. 

Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.

Thereby, you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy, who is not, will be victorious.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?







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