Guest Post by Matt Vespa
As some media outlets venture out of the liberal bubble to get a flavor of Trump Country, what about the Acela Corridor? What about Clinton Country? What’s changed in this deep-blue slice of America since the 2016 election? Well, Adam Wren, an editor with Indianapolis Monthly, wrote a lengthy piece for Politico about his 72 hours in Clinton land and found pretty much that nothing has changed. These voters still love Clinton, they hate Trump, and nothing he can do could change their minds.
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Oh, and they turned out to be the insufferable snobs we all thought they were, many whining about how their six-figure income lives are terrible since Trump won. While rural America suffers, these folks don’t seem to care, with a few waiting for an “I told you so” moment to rub in the faces of their less wealthy and less educated red state brethren. In short, the real deplorables are Democratic voters—and Wren found that the liberal bubble is not only strong, but also denser than ever. And from that virtually impenetrable bubble comes a gross out of touch aura that has infested Democratic politics. Yes, to a person who lives here, $1,000 is not a lot. To the struggling working class family, the families that the Left says they’re champions of, $1,000 bonus is a lot—and it goes a long way. These families are now denigrated and mocked for thinking that this bonus and the tax cuts that followed are beneficial to them.
The Democratic mindset to all of the good news from the Trump tax bill is: How dare you think this is good, you dumb redneck; we’re the Democrats. We know better. Or it’s the more abrasive ‘you’re too poor to start saving’ mantra. The closer Wren got to D.C., the more he found that people were not willing to speak with him about this subject of Trump, Clinton, and the 2016 election. In all, this piece proved that Obama was wrong (no shock in that); there are blue states and red states. There are two Americas. There is a rural-urban divide. And there’s probably no way to bridge that gap (via Politico):
Once on the decadent East Coast, I would luxuriate in its undiluted upscale liberal consensus at bookstores, wine bars, cafes and other Blue State institutions peopled by NPR tote-bagging sophisticates. Perhaps I’d drop in on something activist-y, a meeting of Resistance types. It was a trip that would take me across three states, from a food co-op in Brooklyn to an unabashedly liberal bookstore in Bethesda, all in counties Clinton won by at least 60 percent or more of the vote.
But as much as I thought I knew what to expect, I was wrong. The deeper I plunged into the Blue Abyss, the more I realized how broad the political chasm between Clinton Country and Trump Country really is.
[…]
In nearly three dozen interviews, all but two people told me they did not regret not voting for Trump. This pair, whom it took me nearly two dozen people to find, were Trump supporters, the only ones I encountered on the trip. Everyone else was a loud and proud Trump hater.
“He’s a moron,” said Meghan Early, a real estate broker still sweaty from a Beyoncé-drenched SoulCycle class on International Women’s Day in NoHo, the tony Manhattan neighborhood.
[…]
“He’s absolutely stupid,” said Barbara O’Grady, a retired 76-year-old browsing the aisles of Politics & Prose, the woke Chevy Chase bookstore owned by Bradley Graham, a former journalist at the Amazon Washington Post, and Lissa Muscatine, a former Post reporter and speechwriter for Crooked Hillary’s State Department. When I asked her what she thought of Trump’s presidency, she doubled over in pain, as if she had ulcerative colitis. “How could you do this to me?” she said. “I was having a good day.”
But I also found there was something more to the Trump hatred—a kind of closed-off complacency that also translated into how they treated me. The more I persisted, and closer I got to the beating heart of D.C., the more reluctant people were to talk to me on the record. The whole trip would leave a sour taste in my mouth over how difficult it is to perforate the Blue Bubble. It wasn’t just the clichéd dispatches from Trump Country that Clinton Country voters had come to loathe—it was Trump Country itself.
[…]
It wasn’t always so: For a fleeting moment after the election, citizens of America’s bluest areas seemed genuinely curious to learn something about the vast swaths of Red America that propelled Trump to a surprise Electoral College win…
Now, though, the bubble seems to have closed back over Clinton Country. What voters here have learned about their fellow citizens in states such as my own Indiana has left them discouraged and dispirited that they share a nation with such benighted, gullible voters.
[…]
I discovered 64-year-old Jack Shalom, a retired math teacher who lives in Brooklyn. He voted for Stein. “For me, it’s about critiquing capitalism,” Shalom told me. The Democratic Party was no longer a “worker’s party,” he said.
What did he not like about Trump? He shrugged. “So many things,” he said. He cited Trump’s support of the “Janus SCOTUS decision,” which I’ll admit I had to look up. He was referring to Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, a case that, if it went the wrong way, was “going to destroy public unions,” he said. It wasn’t a case you heard folks bandy about back in Trump Country.
Shalom introduced me to Jennifer Cook, 49, a Clinton voter. Cook, who said her family earns more than $200,000 a year—including dividend income from a family business—cited a “malaise” that has gripped her and her friends since Trump entered office. Is there anything Trump could do to win her over? “Nothing,” she said. “Absolutely nothing.”
The best quote that Wren got, which was taken during a SoulCycle session in Manhattan, was asking Early if she ever went to the areas that Hillary Clinton described as “backwards.” She responded, “No…but I’ve flown over it.”
Yeah, sorry—you’re making $200k a year…and there’s a “malaise” taking over your life because Trump won. Get a grip, folks. Conservatives didn’t whine about 2012. Well, maybe for a few hours—at least I did, and then we worked to dominate the state legislatures and retake Congress, which we did in 2014. Not going to lie, there is a very real possibility now that Democrats could do that, but hating Trump, pushing for more taxes, peddling Russia collusion nonsense, and hoping history just plays you a good electoral hand are not the best ways to generate a wave. With the GOP, the massive stimulus package, the unpopularity of Obamacare, and the notion that spending was out of control (it still is) are universal concepts that can be embraced beyond the rigid confines of America’s cities and Democratic bastions. We’re 218 days away from the midterms. There seems to be some data to suggest that Democrats are making inroads with rural voters, but it’s not enough to suggest anything definitive yet.
On a separate note, this bellyaching from folks with two loaves of bread under their arms, snobby, and condescending is exactly the reason why Trump won. And it seems they’ve doubled down on pretty much every attitude that pushed Trump into the White House. To them, it’s not that they’re out of touch; it’s just that everyone else is wrong. In the words of Donald J. Trump: Sad!
My tax cut will be an 1872$ tax increase next year. Still better than clinton. But we could have used our hard earned money for us.
What is the reason for your increase? The tax increase on the highest earners?
My accountant told me I would be paying about $1,600.00 less next year if everything remains the same.
He is also my party go to guy and a fellow Prepper…for 15 years…and has never been wrong!
I can understand the distain for Trump (I voted for him as the lesser of the 2 evils). What repeatedly boggles my mind is the devotion for Felonia. With the massive amount of evidence over a 30 year political career of dirty dealings, lies, endless conspiracies, etc. the left is still in love with this malevolent socio/psychopath. Can it be just cognitive dissonance? There has to be more I don’t understand.
Brother Steve: I say this in all seriousness and without an ounce of rancor. These people are mentally ill. I believe so ill that we’ll eventually be forced to deal with them physically.
//Further, All Self Hating White People Need To Kill Themselves//
They can’t imagine a world in which someone has a different opinion than them. That, more than anything, is the cause of this divide.
Every so often I send in comments on Breitbart, warning these leftist traitors, gullible “Progressives”, and liberal pantywaists, that they had better reflect and temper their madness. I have pointed out that if they manage to provoke an outright civil war or imposition of a patriotic dictatorship they could easily find themselves stripped of their citizenship and deported. The worst among them will be executed – through a formal process or by more rough and ready means – or spend long years in prison. I warn these people that millions of these people could face the harshest possible outcome when they repressed rage of real Americans is unleashed on them. I remember one such fool laughing at the idea that the liberals and leftist would simply be eliminated from the United States, mocking that as impossible, crazy, and ludicrous.
Let us turn now to Spain in 1936. The situation there is the closest thing I can think of to the current situation in the USA. A loud, violent, arrogant leftist movement was doing its best to destroy traditional Spain and (fairly) democratic, constitutional government with it. They scoffed at the quietly seething patriotic core of Spain, imagining they had already won the cultural and political war. They were going to turn Spain into a Marxist paradise. Patriotic generals had been either weeded out or sent to remote postings.
Enter General Franco. Conservative, a monarchist at heart (not a “Fascist” has he has been called), he had obeyed orders and demonstrated loyalty to a government he despised, hoping things would return to an even keel. They didn´t and he acted. About half the country was with him, the other half with the “Reds”, as they were soon nicknamed.
Well, when the smoke cleared in 1939 the Reds were not sneering or mocking anybody. They were dead, in prison or running for their lives, most never to return to Spain.
Franco imposed an extremely harsh “cleansing” on Spain, one completely in keeping with Spanish tradition. The Spanish military has a reputation for cruelty and it fully lived up to it.
For the next 40 years or so leftists simply WERE NOT tolerated. The few idiots who tried to play tough guy and engage in armed resistance were shot, period.
So my liberal friends, just keep it up. They day you manage to unleash the tiger do not say you were not warned.
It has happened in this country before.
Tories were either killed by locals, fled to England/Europe, or sent to Canada after the War for Independence.
Methinks the airports and yacht-docks would be among the first places to be locked-down in the event of an armed uprising/insurrection/reclamation.
I have put out a similar warning to a liberal NYC Blue Bubble family member who married in and he scoffed at the possibility. During one visit to my rural compound on a sunny Saturday afternoon we were outside and four different neighbors started banging it out within minutes on one another.
He was shocked.. hearing serious gunfire from all point of the compass ..and said to me with wide eyes: “What is that!”
I proudly proclaimed: “The sound of FREEDOM!”
His face got bright red and he looked down in anger. (He knows I’m a hard core unapologetic 2nd Amendment aficionado).
A year later: He now has a shotgun stashed in his attic and is nervous about what would happen if the: “Grid ever went down”.
I like the sentiment but lament that it could never happen here. In Spain there were institutions as well as public opinion favoring the Franco ideals. There is not a single organized force in this country who supports PDJTt. Many individuals but no unifying body to exert command and control. The armed forces at the O-6 and above level have been completely purged. They were essential in Spain. Unfortunately, they will be useless in anything but surpressing the rural areas of the Red States. After the FBI ATFE, Homeland Security Police and military minded State and local law enforcement has oppressed the rubes.
I spent a lot of time reading about the Spanish Civil war but it is not relevant to our condition today. We are just going to have to grit teeth, keep quiet and pay the bills that the Blues heap on us.
Out here in Wild ,Wild West Trump is still very popular. He is still very popular with most Fedx workers. At least the owner operators who drive the big rigs like myself.Most hate what’s being done to our nation and that includes the Hispanics I talk to at the terminals. I don’t know why . Maybe Fedx is just a patriotic type of company in the North western part of our nation . Attitudes would probably be very different in Southern Calf.Anyway have a blessed rest of your day.
The Left always misinterprets the conservative gun owning mouth breathing non-violence for weakness. The left loves a good protest with bike lock wielding college professors, pepper spray, urine, bleach and other noxious substances. What they fail to understand is that we have respect for the law, life (including their miserable existence) but once we start to fight back…..it will be in a much more organized way with ferocious intent. Bosnia X’s Rwanda X’s 320M people. We didn’t ask for this, we didn’t want this. But we will not run and we will not give up our autonomy, our rights and certainly not our guns.
All it takes to start the melee is one act. In Spain the spark that lit the bomb was the murder of rightist
José Calvo Sotelo by the police as a retribution for the murder of their popular socialist police chief José Castillo. Within 3 days the coup attempt was underway and everyone in that town who wasn’t communist decided that they needed to shoot every person in the city police. I could see another police brutality act causing a similar response in America and ample cause for vendetta tends to be just under the surface especially in the South.
Wouldn’t have happened if Adam Wren had come to Bernie territory in the Green Mountains, where The Bern scored 87% in the Dem primary. (Shillary Klepton got shut out with 13%.) F*ck the lattes, yoga mats, and élite urban book stores. We’re the bluest state in the Yoosa even though we’re rural and struggling because we know the difference between real reform that would get government working for all of us, and Y’all Qaida/Yee-hawdi Praise Jeebus Trumpite and Evangelical dumpster-smoke that hides the real issues and gets people hating each other and falling for that crap against their best interests. Come poking around our town looking for weirdo anti-Trump voter stories to entertain the Hoosiers and Wren’s more liable to find a Savage tactical smiling at him than crybaby oh-Trump-this-and-oh-Trump-thats. The real challenge to Trump and all his poor misbegotten Donald Worshippers in Wherever USA ain’t the angst-filled trans cis whatever MochaFrappaLatte Drinkers in Brooklyn and Bethesda, bless their little cotton chest binders. It’s the people who got Bernie’s message that a very small number of very rich, well-informed people are reaming the heck out of the American public, robbing us from here to Sunday, and we’re getting poorer, stupider, and more addicted every day it goes on. Poking fun at the Shillarites and feeling all superior back in IN and OH and MI about how you’re the Real Americans and aren’t we all so frickin Real just sets us all up for more bullshit like we saw in 2016. Nothing good was gonna come from the Clinton Machine, and nothing good sure is coming from Trump and his kleptocabinet. Stop feeling so damn smug and wise up. Whose on your side? F&U.
Then how on Earth did you you miss that both Bernie and his wife were the exact same thieving parasites reaming the heck out of the American people?
I can’t stand a socialist, but I absolutely hate a hypocrite and that phony is a world class plaster saint.
GrnMtnRad,
You got to be be shit’in me…”Feel the Bernie”….he would have rimmed U.S. out so fast our anus would have been wide enough for four years of a new Federal Acronym: The CCCC: Constant Commie Caravan Camps…from both hemispheres.
I’ll take the Orange Wild Card over the Jezebel Bitch and the Commie Light Curb You Enthusiasm for Freedom “radical” impersonator…7 days a week.
Your right about Hillary…Trump is still in the game…but Bernie was…is…and always will be just a soft socialist tyrant…who once in power would rip the mask off.
Come on… a Communist is just a Socialist in a hurry.
Stay cynical and edgy but if you back a Socialist…get ready to get stabbed in the back.
Your acronym is: “CCCC”.
I wont even say what yours is. But it rimes with “I’m fricken clueless about whose really on my side”.
First of all: won’t, rhymes, and who’s. Three cheers for publik skool.
Second: why bust my chops? I pointed out that the acronym for “Constant Commie Caravan Camps” is CCCC, not CCCP.
Ha. Proves the Hard Right doesn’t have a corner on the bad-grammar-when-you’re-typing-on-a-damn-iPhone market. Honestly, don’t mistake progressive moderation for commie collectivization. Totally different, but American conservatives just can’t quite shake that boogie man out of their pipes, and look what we end up with: sanctimonious identity politics from the Corporate Dems and dog-whistle race-waving shoot-yourself-in-the-butt self-inflicted casualities on the Right. Where did our common interests go? Down the toilet.
Taxation is theft at gunpoint. If you do not have economic freedom, you have no freedom at all.
If you want a lending library, go out and convince your neighbors to chip in voluntarily for it.
If you want a fire department, pay your premium. If you didn’t pay, better hope your garden hose has good pressure.
Break your arm? Pay the man.
All of this robbing people via taxation is nothing more than a way to curry votes and favor with the masses. Government sucks at providing services, period, yet people clamor for more of it. They have bloated, unnecessary administration and bureaucracy. They face no repercussions for poor performance. They have no incentive to increase productivity or efficiency.
Case in point: I went to get title on a motorcycle I bought last September. I waited this long because, DMV. I walked in to standing room only. 12 windows, 4 were staffed. I could see DMV staff wandering around in the background, eating, drinking coffee, chatting. It took well over an hour. Do they give a shit? Nope. You can’t take your business elsewhere. You can’t complain. You can’t do anything but take it. And they know this.
And these are the same people you’d like running your “progressive moderate” government? Ain’t no such thing, my dude, sorry. Pay your own damn way and get your hand out of my pocket.
Gee Rdawg…I caught the CCCP and changed it to CCCC within a minute…your like the Spell Check Avenging Hawk! (SCAM)
Just teasing buddy…
Sorry, it’s like Tourette’s with me.
You crack me up!
That makes two of us, anyway!
Rdawg, taxation is how a free society democratically decides to convert private resources into the things we choose to collaborate on for the sake of a civilized life, like public education, roads, libraries, police/fire, parks & rec, health care, state colleges, the state national guard, and more. We go to town meeting every year to debate outlays and vote on what our (Vermont) town needs. We have a state-wide health care safety net so no kid ever has to go without health insurance. If we keep fighting, we will eventually have a universal health care system. Our schools rank in the top 5 nationally. We’re proud of the society we’ve created over generations and don’t take it for granted. Neither does Bernie. It’s an asset of incredible value: trust, dedication, civility, Freedom & Unity. I feel sorry for your crappy, inefficient DMV – sounds like the good people in your state need to get together and kick out half of the under-motivated, incompetent workers there – but while that libertarian dogma of yours shows what happens when somebody gives up on government and on the common good, it sure ain’t any way to run a modern society. It’s baby out with the bath water: government’s accountability to the people is broken so why not just rip up the whole thing and tell people to sign up for private fire companies and turn their backs on the least among us? Tell you why not: it doesn’t work. Ask Kansas and Oklahoma. BAsket cases. Teachers all on strike now. That’s the road to barbarism.
Your lost in the funhouse, brother. Bernie’s for real people and the rest are taking you to the cleaners. Check out his record, not all the Drumpster crap. Socialist Spooky Spooky. Ever been to the damn public library? Or had to call the fire department?
That’s bullshit Shillary propaganda and bullshit GOP propaganda. They are good people. Nobody’s perfect but they are both one HELL of a lot better than the Trumpo Show. Better lay off that coolaid.
Burlington College.
’nuff said.
Not quite ’nuff. Swift boats. Pizzagate. Russiagate. Child actors. That’s a red herring that won’t stick
So the college is still open?
Sure, and Kerry’s sabotaging his crewmates, they’re screwing toddlers in the caverns under Connecticut Avenue, and somebody’s just put out a casting call for the next bowling alley “shooting” (bring your own ball).
Is Bernie Sanders A Communist?
Come on GrnMtnRad read this and lets debate….the ball is in your court…
Oh yea, and “Bolshevik Bernie” went to Moscow on his Honeymoon…really he actually did – but you knew that…and his two favorite tools are a hammer and a sickle.
Yea, he is the real deal like Uncle Joe was a kindly ole Uncle.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bernie+sanders+went+to+moscow+for+his+honeymoon&view=detail&mid=3B9DD27B49AAF8435F893B9DD27B49AAF8435F89&FORM=VIRE
You are really falling for all that baloney. If he were a real communist then the good people of Vermont wouldn’t have voted for him so many times. He’s a hard-working, honest social democrat. Judge him by his actions, not all that hysterical paranoid self-important word-slinging that you right-wingers do to make yourselves feel better after your republicans sell you to the highest bidder.
That’s your debate answer? I provide a detailed factual explanation of his LIFE TIME Communist past and there is no denial just a statement that “I” fell for the baloney. Did you even read the link about “Bolshevik Bernie” written by a former comrade…comrade?
Are you serious – I challenge you to “factual TBP debate” and your laughable retort is that the support of some of the “good people of Vermont” proves his lifetime of shilling for the Commies didn’t really happen…in spite of endless overwhelming documented evidence. What are you a gullible chicken living on the Vermont Animal Farm?
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Yea man, don’t believe your eyes, ears or his past….the dude has three houses now and and is driving a $187,000 car. You can’t be serious????
If Sanders ever got any real power you won’t feel the Bern…you’d feel the hammer and sickle shoved up your ass.
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kXxWaMWgDKDwNjLRuevyrwHaFf&w=290&h=208&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7
A curious Conservative genie captured a Social Democrat and her Conservative friends and banished them to the desert for a week. The genie allowed each person to bring one thing. The first friend brought a canteen so he wouldn’t die of thirst. The second friend brought an umbrella to keep the sun off. The Social Democrat brought a car door, because if it got too hot she could just roll down the window!
The Conservative genie’s suspicions were confirmed.
GrnMtnRad
Last chance…read the link below and counter it with FACTS not blather platitudes or change your handle to:
GrnMtn- Useful Idiot!
BETWEEN THE LINES
IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST?
Exclusive: Joseph Farah shares evidence Democratic Socialists group now tries to hide.
Published: 01/25/2016 at 7:49 PM
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Donald Trump has called Bernie Sanders a “communist” and a “maniac.”
Was he wrong?
You decide.
But before I make the case that he is, consider that in my misguided youth, I would have described myself as a “communist.” I traveled in many of the same circles as the young Bernie Sanders – Students for a Democratic Society, anti-Vietnam War protests, various Marxist organizations.
I stopped calling myself a socialist and a communist a long time ago. But Bernie has never given up the utopian dream.
It began for him when he joined the Young People’s Socialist League while a student at the University of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1964. What was the mission of the Young People’s Socialist League?
It was spelled out in the preamble to its constitution: “The Young People’s Socialist League of America calls upon all young people who are interested in the emancipation of the working class from the chains of wage slavery to join its rank and through it and its associated organizations of the International Socialist Movement, to work for the overthrow of the present capitalist system in all its social and economic ramifications, and for the establishment in its stead of a worldwide socialistic cooperative commonwealth.”
Today Sanders still calls himself a socialist, but he says don’t worry – “I don’t believe the government should take over the grocery store down the street or the means of production.” I guess the next question one should ask a socialist is, “Why not?”
Has Sanders’ definition of socialism changed since he was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League that called for a complete overthrow of the capitalist system to be replaced by “a worldwide socialistic cooperative commonwealth”?
While my views have changed quite a bit since the 1960s, Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to have evolved very much politically.
In 1990, still a socialist, he got elected to Congress in the rural state of Vermont. One of his first actions in Congress was to found the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was partnered with the Democratic Socialists of America. No surprise there, because most Americans have no idea of what the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Democratic Socialists of America are really all about.
Way back in 1998, I reported on Bernie Sanders’ little creation.
Back then the Congressional Progressive Caucus shared a website with the DSA. In other words, these two organizations, one government-funded and the other a tax-exempt nonprofit, were of like mind and on the same page politically.
What I found back then was astonishing – even for me.
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On this shared website, that was quickly scrubbed after I exposed it, was a collection of songs I can almost hear Bernie, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus singing in harmony.
One of my favorites back then – – was “Red Revolution” sung to the tune of “Red, Red Robbin.”
Here are the lyrics for your edification and amusement:
When the Red Revolution
Brings Its Solution
Along, Along
There’ll be no more lootin’
When we start shootin’
That Wall Street throng
Wake up you proletarians
Don’t act like seminarians
Expropriate Barbarians
Build a Workers’ Republic
Exploitation and Degradation
You Won’t Find Here
Surplus Value and Capital Will Disappear
I’m Just a Red again,
Saying what I’ve said again,
When the Red Revolution… da, da, da, da
Brings Its Solution…da, da, da, da, da
Along
Hello? Is this the same Democratic Socialists of America and the Congressional Progressive Caucus that claims not to be communist?
“When we start shootin’ the Wall Street throng”?
How do these people get away with denying they are redder than a robin’s breast while singing songs like this – and printing them on the Internet?
But it gets worse. Here’s another touching old ballad for you to consider, called “Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie,” sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques.”
Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
And when the revolution comes,
We’ll kill you all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
For those not trained in the lingo of communism, the dictionary definition of “bourgeoisie,” is, and I quote: “(in Marxist theory) the class that, in contrast to the proletariat or wage-earning class, is primarily concerned with property values.”
Concerned with property values, are you? Better watch out for Bernie Sanders’ knives and guns. He’s coming to get you.
From my own personal experience, many socialists and communists hide their true objectives. But unlike the Muslim Brotherhood, they have trouble doing it well. The socialists and communists leave a paper trail about what they really believe that is hard to miss – if you look for it.
As one formally trained in such matters, I can tell you it’s still on the Internet despite their attempts to whitewash it!
You’ll also find “The Internationale,” the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism, front and center.
Not to forget that old standard, “Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie, See How They Run,” sung to the tune of “Three Blind Mice”:
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
See how they run,
See how they run
And when the revolution comes,
We’ll kill them all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
Are you getting the picture? This is the real Democratic Socialists of America and Congressional Progressive Caucus – the one they don’t want you to see.
And Bernie Sanders was the founder – not back in 1964, but in 1991. I didn’t look for this stuff until 1998. And when I reported it, it was coincidentally removed – except for the unforgiving Wayback Machine.
Yet, there’s Bernie Sanders running for president. Nancy Pelosi, another member of these groups, served as speaker of the House until 2011.
Imagine the outcry if there were prominent figures like this belonging to some other extremist “hate group” quietly preaching violent revolution. Is there really any moral distinction between this kind of violent “hate speech” and what we hear from neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan?
The Democratic Socialists’ goal is clear from their own literature. The goal is Communism. Never mind that the history of that system is littered with more death, oppression and destruction than any other “ism.” Never mind that it has been discredited everywhere it has been tried. The DSA believes the right people just haven’t been in charge. They want to try it here – in the United States of America.
The Progressive Caucus and congressional members are a big part of their game plan. The Democratic Socialists actively seek out “celebrities” and Democratic party officials for outreach purposes. They use them to recruit — to achieve mainstream credibility.
And look at how well it is working!
“While it’s certainly true that one can’t build a mass socialist movement simply by recruiting celebrities, they are very important in legitimizing both the organization and the concept of socialism,” explains one DSA organizational document geared toward its youth program that I uncovered years ago. “When you tell someone that Ron Dellums, Barbara Eisenreich, Gloria Steinem, Wimpy Winpisinger and Ed Asner are members,” it helps take the horns off of socialism.
Furthermore, the Democratic Socialists’ chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party.
“Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work,” the same document explains. “The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals.”
Yet, that radical subculture is alive and well within the Democratic Socialists of America and its affiliate group, the Progressive Caucus of Congress.
Make no mistake. These folks are revolutionaries. They may dress in suit and tie. They may not carry guns and bandoleers. But the Red Army Caucus in Congress is at the vanguard of a Communist movement that has no respect for the U.S. Constitution, individual rights and the freedoms America takes for granted today.
And Bernie Sanders is their leader.
Their rhetoric is a little more sophisticated at times than Stalin’s, but the goals are the same – a dictatorship of the proletariat, that oh, so elusive worker’s paradise, re-education camps … you get the picture.
In one article on the DSA site, a “fundamental restructuring of our socio-economic order” is demanded.
“While the freedoms of democratic capitalism are gains of popular struggle to be cherished, democratic socialists argue that the values of liberal democracy can only be fulfilled when the economy as well as the state is democratically controlled,” the statement continued.
Gee, I can hardly wait. How about you?
OK, granted we’ve survived seven years of Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America.” But can we take any more?
Now you know the real Bernie Sanders. What are you going to do about it? And please don’t tell me you’re going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
You know what? I think Donald Trump was right: Bernie Sanders is both a communist and a maniac.
She believes that all that shuffling of paper on the coast are actually productive and have value. The heart of the country is where true wealth is produced; not in banks , insurance or computers. It takes WORK to create wealth. But they are good at stealing …..
Once the Crunch hits, the worthless currency will illustrate how a $200k income is worthless if you have no real assets.
We are several countries in one. Some of them believe in hard work, prudent saving, family, RKBA and responsibility; others believe in victimization, permanent welfare, idleness, theft of all kinds, power and greed, and so on. Some of the countries will survive the Crunch and use it to re-organize their lives and priorities; the others, well ……