This actually touches upon a broader issue with the modern Democrat Party (and by modern, I mean post Clinton era). The hard core marxist left, which used to just be a small but highly motivated contingent of the party consisting of parts of coastal California (not even the whole state) and a smattering of elitist Northeasten states, gradually took over the leadership of the party and pushed out the more moderate but still generally patriotic heartland and southern Democrats (I would say former Senator Earnest Hollings would be a good example of that). Truman and Kennedy would have nothing to do with today’s Democrat party – hell, they probably would have been ousted if they didn’t leave voluntarily. Marxism is grounded, rooted in the neer-do-well malcontents, lazy losers, moral reprobates, and socially inept people who need to use the powers of the State to right their contrived, & concocted perceived wrongs, and take from those who strive to use the talents that God gave them to build and grow economically. Their ideology is completely one of weaponized victimhood; they compete to accumulate the most “cards” in this game they play. The view of attractive women is no different; it is a commodity that needs to be appropriated. The current wave of feminists (and I think we are on the 4th “wave” from what started in the 1920s) despise physically attractive married women who chose a good partner to create a family with – and no amount of voting Democrat or giving money to them for that woman is going to change that. Its a baked-in facet of the marxist-leninist- maoist dogma.
First, I do not think there is such a thing as “marxist-lennist-maoist dogma” and I am almost sure none of those self-identified latter-day feminists or otherwise-branded “hard-left” even read anything by Marx, Lenin, or Mao.
Next, PERSONALLY, I think the key to understanding latter-day “culture wars” in the so-called “West” is Charles Dickens’ greatest (in my opinion free from false humility) novel Great Expectations.
Forget for a while the romantic clap trap of Ms. Havisham grooming Estella to “break his heart.” And forget for a while whose, if anyone’s other than Ms. Havisham’s heart got actually broken.
The underlying plot is a convict going to Australia, enriching himself at the expense of the native people, and sending most of his money back to England for PIP to become educated as “a London gentleman.”
What does “a London gentleman” actually know or do? NOTHING other than some ancient philosophy and some partying.
And that is basically the ideal of the American “talking classes”: sitting on their butts and getting paid to merely talk, getting paid, that is, by money traceable back to the colonies.
Incidentally, and also stripping out the clap-trap romance of a dead woman’s daughter who loves one cousin but marries another, is the basic plot of Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: a strange found boy who grows up to disappear in the West Indies and returns with a fortune which he increases by enticing the established British “class” into gambling debts.
Or again, of the other Bronte sister’s Jane Ayre: a man forced to marry the crazed heiress of a fortune made in the West Indies after having squandered his own fortune on some French prostitutes and is rescued in his final destitution and blindness by the working-class Jane, who had herself suddenly come into the inheritance of a fortune made in America.
So, the hard right basically loves the hard left because without the other neither would have a subject to attack and get paid for attacking.
As for the REAL intellectual work of engineering infrastructure and treating patients, easy: just import foreign engineers and foreign doctors and get paid to argue how far to make them miserable.
And for the REAL work of growing food and transporting it to American tables, same answer: just import foreign agricultural workers and truck drivers and get paid to argue how far to make them miserable.
The REAL awakening will not be of the extreme left-talkers against the extreme right-talkers, or vice versa, but of those who do the REAL intellectual and physical work against those who want to continue getting paid for just talking about things.
Women do not belong in politics. The men are terrible. Women are many times worse. Women govern more on emotion than thought or logic. Women take love of self and greed to aditional levels beyond what even men do. Repeal the 19th Amendment.
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This actually touches upon a broader issue with the modern Democrat Party (and by modern, I mean post Clinton era). The hard core marxist left, which used to just be a small but highly motivated contingent of the party consisting of parts of coastal California (not even the whole state) and a smattering of elitist Northeasten states, gradually took over the leadership of the party and pushed out the more moderate but still generally patriotic heartland and southern Democrats (I would say former Senator Earnest Hollings would be a good example of that). Truman and Kennedy would have nothing to do with today’s Democrat party – hell, they probably would have been ousted if they didn’t leave voluntarily. Marxism is grounded, rooted in the neer-do-well malcontents, lazy losers, moral reprobates, and socially inept people who need to use the powers of the State to right their contrived, & concocted perceived wrongs, and take from those who strive to use the talents that God gave them to build and grow economically. Their ideology is completely one of weaponized victimhood; they compete to accumulate the most “cards” in this game they play. The view of attractive women is no different; it is a commodity that needs to be appropriated. The current wave of feminists (and I think we are on the 4th “wave” from what started in the 1920s) despise physically attractive married women who chose a good partner to create a family with – and no amount of voting Democrat or giving money to them for that woman is going to change that. Its a baked-in facet of the marxist-leninist- maoist dogma.
First, I do not think there is such a thing as “marxist-lennist-maoist dogma” and I am almost sure none of those self-identified latter-day feminists or otherwise-branded “hard-left” even read anything by Marx, Lenin, or Mao.
Next, PERSONALLY, I think the key to understanding latter-day “culture wars” in the so-called “West” is Charles Dickens’ greatest (in my opinion free from false humility) novel Great Expectations.
Forget for a while the romantic clap trap of Ms. Havisham grooming Estella to “break his heart.” And forget for a while whose, if anyone’s other than Ms. Havisham’s heart got actually broken.
The underlying plot is a convict going to Australia, enriching himself at the expense of the native people, and sending most of his money back to England for PIP to become educated as “a London gentleman.”
What does “a London gentleman” actually know or do? NOTHING other than some ancient philosophy and some partying.
And that is basically the ideal of the American “talking classes”: sitting on their butts and getting paid to merely talk, getting paid, that is, by money traceable back to the colonies.
Incidentally, and also stripping out the clap-trap romance of a dead woman’s daughter who loves one cousin but marries another, is the basic plot of Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: a strange found boy who grows up to disappear in the West Indies and returns with a fortune which he increases by enticing the established British “class” into gambling debts.
Or again, of the other Bronte sister’s Jane Ayre: a man forced to marry the crazed heiress of a fortune made in the West Indies after having squandered his own fortune on some French prostitutes and is rescued in his final destitution and blindness by the working-class Jane, who had herself suddenly come into the inheritance of a fortune made in America.
So, the hard right basically loves the hard left because without the other neither would have a subject to attack and get paid for attacking.
As for the REAL intellectual work of engineering infrastructure and treating patients, easy: just import foreign engineers and foreign doctors and get paid to argue how far to make them miserable.
And for the REAL work of growing food and transporting it to American tables, same answer: just import foreign agricultural workers and truck drivers and get paid to argue how far to make them miserable.
The REAL awakening will not be of the extreme left-talkers against the extreme right-talkers, or vice versa, but of those who do the REAL intellectual and physical work against those who want to continue getting paid for just talking about things.
Interesting ideas
Sure Gramps
Weirdo
“The hard core marxist left”
Yeah, sure. Thanks for the laugh buddy.
Women do not belong in politics. The men are terrible. Women are many times worse. Women govern more on emotion than thought or logic. Women take love of self and greed to aditional levels beyond what even men do. Repeal the 19th Amendment.
An excellent example of beauty of both parties… just turn on The View.