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September 4, 2014

Radical Roots and the Conquest of the Democratic Party

Dateline: AmeriKKKa, 1968 -- 2006

WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, majoring in marijuana at the university, hanging out with the Progressive Labor Party, and skipping through the clouds of tear gas on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, I was convinced that any war that would send my long-haired, sensitive, poetic and acid-tripping self off to wade through rice paddies in Vietnam just had to be wrong, wrong, wrong .

In those years it was easy to see the United States through red-tinted glasses. All you had to do was load a Chillum , roll another Giant Doobie, put "Blonde on Blonde" on the turntable, plug in the Bongomatic and light everything up. Like so many others in that long ago land of Nod-Out, this ritual was my major course of study.

Once this gentle ritual sufficiently soothed my tortured soul I'd often make my way (s l o w l y) to the daily Vietnam Day Committee meeting for a righteous rap session on how "the man can't bust our music or our movement." Then I'd float my way back home to listen to my hot red-diaper girlfriend rhapsodize about her Worker's Party parents and natter on about old Progressive Labor Party parties in New York that seemed to center not on politics but on heroin suppositories. She thought "those were the days."

I wasn't so sure, but she had cool Communist credentials signed off on by no less than the dowager princess of the American Communist Party Bettina Aptheker, so I was inclined to go along with her drivel in order to get along with her. Living with a red-diaper princess who was on the steering committee of the VDC was, in those days at Berkeley, better than going steady with the Homecoming Queen.

In later life, my princess was due to come down in the world. The last I looked she was counseling families into or out of the family state. Just another ordinary therapist wading through the muck of Urban angst. Back then she was professionally oppressed by the fascist war machine and so was I. So was every other college-deferment clutching coward of my time. Fear and lust controlled us well. She, and so many others, "said 'Yes!' to boys who said 'No!'" so I memorized all the ways in which we were oppressed. She was always giving a test on this subject and I didn't do so bad.

I also found that, like any good Berkeley radical, you needed -- in this realm of unremitting oppressions so thick and so multiple that counting was foolish -- to find some good friends; some very good friends both at home and abroad. And so you looked around, not so much for friends, but for enemies of your enemy, the oppressive AmeriKKKa. You looked around the world using the dubious intellectual filter: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

When you ran everything you said and did through that filter you had no end of friends in the 60s and early 70s. Some of them even had guns, ammo, armies, armor and nuclear weapons.

The "friends" of our slice of the young America included, but were not limited to, The Soviet Union, The People's Republic of China, Castro's Cuba, and socialist and communist parties stretching across Europe and down through Mexico, Central and South America. Elsewhere they included the Viet Minh, the Viet Cong, the Khmer Rouge, the Red Army Faction... on and on until the international litany of political dementia girdled the globe in a seamless political landscape of perpetual Revolution, sexual and otherwise. You and your oppressed and draftable friends saw those groups and nations as "righteous." You saw them not as the totalitarian serial killers they were, but as the secular saviors of civilization. They were, well, just very cool guys. They were "happening, bro."

When you got done with feeling cool about those friendly states and organizations, you still weren't out of friends. Instead, you just went on to the "enemies of your enemy" that were not necessarily rooted in real estate, but in the mind and the culture. These groups have been summed up in a stunning fashion by Paul Mann in his perceptive essay "Stupid Undergrounds." They were --take a deep breath --

Apocalyptic cults and youth gangs, garage bands and wolfpacks, alternative colleges and phalansteries, espionage networks trading in vaporous facts and networks of home shoppers for illicit goods; monastic, penological, mutant-biomorphic, and anarcho- terrorist cells; renegade churches, dwarf communities, no-risk survivalist enclaves, unfunded quasi-scientific research units, paranoid think tanks, unregistered political parties, sub-employed workers councils, endo-exile colonies, glossolaliac fanclubs, acned anorexic primal hordes; zombie revenants, neo-fakirs, defrocked priests and detoxing prophets, psychedelic snake-oil shills, masseurs of undiagnosed symptoms, bitter excommunicants, faceless narcissists, ideological drag queens, mystical technophiles, sub- entrepreneurial dealers, derivative derivistes, tireless archivists of phantom conspiracies, alien abductees, dupe attendants, tardy primitives, vermin of abandoned factories, hermits, cranks, opportunists, users, connections, outriders, outpatients, wannabes, hackers, thieves, squatters, parasites, saboteurs; wings, wards, warehouses, arcades, hells, hives, dens, burrows, lofts, flocks, swarms, viruses, tribes, movements, groupuscules, cenacles, isms, and the endlessly multiplied hybridization of variant combinations of all these...

That just about sums up the enemies of our enemy, AmeriKKKa, in the Vietnam era.

As you can see we had plenty of friends.

And they and we all grew older. We survived and thrived. Some even grew up, but only a few. For most of us -- no matter what was our lot in later life -- it would always be 1968. We so loved being "The Lost Boys."

Although I was of -- and among -- many of the groups above, none of them are among my friends any longer. I have, alas, far fewer friends. Indeed, as my strange political odyssey of saying "Goodbye to all that" continues, old friends seem to melt away like the highland mist at high noon in the desert. It is sad, but still, with friends like those....

Over the four decades since 1968, the list of regimes dedicated to, and capable of, the destruction of the United States shrank. They either took a long dirt nap in history, or are now shambling towards the graveyard of all other failed but deadly fascist ideologies. The political genius and destiny of the United States lies, after all, in the fact that we do not require you to be a friend. You simply have to not be an enemy.

The American Way is, after all, that nothing need be personal when it can just be business. One on one, Americans can be very warm, understanding and generous. But piss us off too much and we'll bomb your cities to rubble. We don't like business to be disrupted too much.

In all this, the world at large has gone forward and, all in all, improved for the better. We call it "Globalization" and it seems, slowly, to be working out well for most of those people who have, as they say, "gotten with the program."

But there remains a residual group of Americans who, although they batten off the program, don't want to get with it at all -- except when it comes time to buy a new Prius, vacation in Provance, or score a country home. They take pride in never having sold out, even as they buy in. They are "the Not-So-Great Generation."

Those Americans of the 60s whose fantasies were lit by a dream of a destroyed United States have very few friends left out of the long list of countries once dedicated to totalitarianism. And the list becomes shorter with each passing year.

Time and chance also makes the list of those Americans still dedicated to becoming life-long friends of countries and movements dedicated to the destruction of AmeriKKKa shorter every year. Yet most strangely still live and thrive in the very country they hate the most.

These dreary souls without a country have made prosperous lives for themselves in our local, state and national governments and politics. They are legion in the comfortable realms of academia, entertainment world, and the media. Graying they tint their hair and continue in their quest for an enemy of their enemy to make their friend. Balding, they tie what they have back in a ponytail and strut on impertube.

They are the American Left and, risen from their impoverished conditions in 1968, they now have tenure, high position, or acolytes from which they draw comfortable stipends. Of late, they've taken more and more to coffee klatches with Islamic fundamentalists who, if they don't have the armies to bring about the destruction of the United States, have at least shown they've got enough hate to kill Americans here and abroad retail and wholesale. Besides, they're out shopping for a nuclear weapon and some smallpox, so what's not to like about these guys from an American Leftist's point of view?

Sadly the longer list of Paul Mann's Stupid Undergrounds shows no signs of shortening. Fueled by the vapid culture of cool it gets longer by the day. And it is from within this expanding list of Stupid Undergrounds that the American Left of today draws not only its strength but its fresh and much younger converts.

If it were only the denizens of these fringe groups that supplied the ideological cannon fodder of the American Left, it would be a small matter to marginalize them since their very mindsets marginalize them from the square numbered "1." Indeed, just a few years ago, they could only exist within the rarefied environment of on-campus humanities and ethnic-studies departments. Once removed from these hyperbaric chambers, their failure to thrive in the world outside -- absent a position in various media companies and Washington Wonk Tanks -- was assured. They were, if not really useful idiots, harmless idiots.

Sadly that is no longer the case. Recently a very large and significant American institution has stripped to the buff, oiled up, and made its body politic freely available to the tender mercies and tough love of the American Left. Indeed, the capture of this group is the single significant achievement of the American Left in decades. With the elevation of Howard Dean, the canonization of Hillary Clinton, the sanctification of Ted Kennedy, the renovation of Nancy Pelosi, the self-defenestration of Barbara Boxer, and the deification of Barack H. Obama, it is clear that the political base of the American Left has now migrated from the fringes of our political arena to the dead center of the Democratic Party. And it is there to stay.

The American Left now controls the political party that calls upon the allegiance of nearly half of the country. It is the political party that is the Plantation Party of African-Americans. It is a party that holds its members now not with the plans of what it will do for them in the future, but with the fading memories of what it did for them in the past when it was a great and honorable party. The American Left will remain in control of this Party's shell since it has brought with it not only its failed ideology and all the rag-tag constituents of the Stupid Undergrounds of America, but the very fuel source of these groups itself -- Bush Hate. And on the Left today, Bush-Hate, more than money, is the new mother's milk of our darkening politics. With Bush-Hate money can always be had. Throw that out of the Democratic Party and what money there is currently coming into the party will surely flow away.

It is true that Bush-Hate brings with it a number of disturbing ideological contradictions to the center of the Democratic Party. These were best summed up recently by Pamela Bone in her essay The Silence of the Feminists :

Dislike of George Bush's foreign policy has led to an automatic support of those perceived to be his enemies. Paradoxically, this leaves the left defending people who hold beliefs that condone what the left has long fought against: misogyny, homophobia, capital punishment, suppression of freedom of speech. The recent reaffirmation by Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie has been met by virtual silence; as has the torture and murder in Iraq of a man who would be presumed to be one of the left's own - Hadi Salih, the international officer of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. The hard left these days is soft on fascism, or at least Islamofascism.

All clear and present and very dangerous contradictions to be sure, but typical of the American Left today when you recall that a popular slogan of the AmericanLeft in the Sixties was, "Vive les contradictions!"

The conquest of the Democratic Party by the American Left which has now been consummated and will shortly be consolidated is, of course, bad news for the Democrats and for the country as a whole. A vital two or even three party system is essential to the long term balance of the Republic.

But this doesn't bother the Leftists of the Democratic Party at all. They are too busy counting the loot. And there is loot to be had.

The American Left receives many things from their conquest, not the least of which is the damage it does, axiomatically, to the United States. They also receive money, lots of it; especially when you think of the low funding levels the American Left has had for most of its existence. Their plunder also includes electoral organizations -- many -- as well as access to local, state, and national unions in the public and private realms. Add in mailing lists tens of millions of names long as well as websites and online acolytes by the thousands.

Most important of all, the American Left now has open access and control over sitting Democrats in Washington and the state legislatures. With money and organizations to win elections, the American Left now has the power over elected Democrats to instruct them to support and advance some decidedly non-centrist, non-liberal, but classic Leftist agendas. In a very real sense, the conquest of the Democratic Party gives the American Left a base that it could never hope to win, and will now probably never win, at the ballot box.

If you would see the American Left's apotheosis, regard the near vertical ascent, wreathed in light, of Barack H. Obama to hover over hordes of rapt worshipers eager to have their sins washed clean by his voice and visage.

Even though this regrettable transformation of the Democratic Party leaves it much smaller than it would otherwise be, it makes the American Left much bigger than it ever thought it could be. Those who have lingered all these years in the thick bong smoke of the 60s now have their fantasy within their grasp. They have made the enemies of George Bush and the New America at home and abroad into their friends and it is, at last, "Springtime for Lefties!"

Of course, it is a crowning irony to note that the proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." was originally an Arab proverb, as were, indeed, the fuming chillums of 1968's Not-So-Great-Generation.

But hey, as me and my hardcore leftist friends said way back then, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em.".

First published 2006-09-08

Posted by Vanderleun at September 4, 2014 8:03 AM

When an American legislator repeats one the communist manifesto planks: "from those with the ability, to those with the need" - my blood boils, and mostly for the simple reason that I know most dupes just nod in agreement. I saw Hillary & Kucinich say that.

I liken Hillery's chameleon antics to her donning her centrist Trojan outfit in preparation for '08. It makes me sick to think she's privy to all the high level stuff being on the Armed Forces commitee - from a Chicago Eight defense team member, to a regular GI Jane. Huh?

Which reminds, does the right have a sufficient portfolio of Hillary statements, video of her early days, etc.?? We need another SwiftVets scenario, eh?

She would make the impact of Slick's tax hikes look like childs play. Of course "they'd" own the rising economy and take credit for it yet again. We all know we are still in a systemic LT growth path thanks to RWR (28%), the economic juice of the Contract w/America, in spite of the tax hikes in '93 to 40+%, all hitting the wall; an ostrich Reno, Y2K, Clinton/Rubin strong dollar policy, and the always present for market crashes, Fed'l Reserve.

America's problems are far deeper than it's radical left wing, although they have been considerable. What of the Corporate/Political revolving door? What of the fact that the Rockefeller created CFR has been the incubator for every US Executive and the highest cabinet positions?

Rockefeller cornered the oil markets with the help of the Rothschild's Int'l banking combine becoming Rothschild's man in America along with Morgan, and who earlier supported Marx/Engels, and later thru I. G. Farben, helped the Nazi war machine to balance Stalin. The American branch was American I. G..

These are the guys (CFR) that put Senator Aldrich, Paul Warburg, and others, on a secret train trip to Jekyll Island where Warburg wrote the new Federal Reserve law. It was quickly passed.

Then they confiscated the precious metals the Founders insisted was necessary colateral to protect our currency's value. Problem is, all these unconstitutional things that were done, were done by both parties, and are still seemingly tolerated being that so many Republicans are CFR & TriLateral members. The members list includes all the biggest politicians in recent history, Kerry & W, RWR and most of his cab too, and the fantastically wealthy and powerful.

Supposedly the CFR/TLC/Bilderburger/Rothschild Elites have played left against right for over a century, supporting both sides of every war, creating economic swings they can profit from. Hence their need for an American Central Bank with which to manipulate the American economy.

Supposedly the Rothschilds sit on the largest concentration of bullion in the world and have a contolling interest in every major bank in the world, which is said to be achievable with as little as 1%.

This IS the New World Order. This incestuousness between politics and finance is noted by such luminaries as Murray Rothbard. And since the Rothschilds control every major bank, and the Fed being their created tool, they will in effect rule the World.

I am curious if this bothers anyone else???

Posted by: Glenn at February 14, 2005 5:15 PM

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Write more on marijuana please.
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Don't like drug war.
Against drug war.
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Posted by: xsmoker at February 9, 2005 5:53 PM

The finest and best chronicle of what the road to here was like for you, me and, I suppose, millions. But, while Mari might not be in the
house or even the neighborhood, we'd know where to find her if that fancy crossed our minds. A song that comes to mind is Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty. Rock on dude.

Posted by: Steel Turman at February 10, 2005 1:44 AM

I disagree in only one area. I agree that the Left is rushing to get behind the Kennedy/Pelosi Democrats, but those players themselves are just doing their usual dance with the moonbats. The kitty must be fed and all, but Teddy couldn't care less about any of the stuff he preaches to the Lefties.

What they're doing is setting themselves up as the radical wing, at which point Hillary will be sent in to rein them in and centrify the party. The moonbats will ride along because they always hear what they want to from Democrats and assume any centrism is a charade.

I always laughed when right-wingnuts told me Hillary was determined to regain the White House and Marxify the country, but after that tolerance speech I am not even chuckling.

Never underestimate the Lefty capacity for self-delusion or the cynicism of politicians. The moonbats are getting tooled--again. It should be fun to watch them "adapt" and sell out everything they ever professed to believe.

Posted by: spongeworthy at February 10, 2005 8:51 AM

I have to admit that I wan't able to get through your entire post as I am bored by middle-aged now right-wing regret & guilt for the folly of youth. I hear it from some of my own personal acquaintances and I find it only a sign that back in the '60s and '70s they were shallow, too.

That said, can you look back and find anything of value which cames from the '60s and '70s? Is there anything of substance there for you at all, besides cheap leering sex?

Posted by: Raw Data at February 20, 2006 8:32 AM

Well said.

I especially loathe the unwillingness of these bongwater-baptised useful idiots to try and live in a dictatorial People's Republic and see how it fits their notions of a just society.

Final thought. Did it ever strike you as ironic, disrespecful (or a pathetic attempt to sound like real men) that you and your former fellow travelers coopted a phrase used by your fathers in the service of their country during the war, "Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!"?

Second final thought. How are you coping with living in the belly of the multi-culti beast?

Posted by: Mike Lief at February 20, 2006 9:28 AM

Jesus, has anything become more predictable than the rantings of lefty '60s revolutionaries turned rightwingers? Move over Hitch and Horowitz.

Here's the deal. I am of your same vintage and was active in New Left politics on my campus too, but I never went to the extreme you are describing of majoring in marijuana and canonizing South American revolutionaries.

It's often been observed about Christopher Hitchens that his original journey to the far left set him up for a journey to the far right. Such personalities find the middle road impossible and while their politics may change when they move right, their devotion to the extreme remains intact (and their self-perspective as distorted as the Alice of Grace Slick's song). Thus Nancy Pelosi, from the far shore of Rightwingia, seems far left. But to those of us whose politics have been less bipolar, Nancy looks like a moderate with an edge.

It's also tedious to launch these predictable attacks and then excuse yourself from official labeling as a Republican. Because, you know, you're not. A man without a party. That is also consistent with the '60s persona. Lyndon or Dick, they both were' the man.

I have to say, too, that your carping about drug culture, esssentially a culture of the sensory, feels especially juvenile given your longtime position with a titty magazine. I suspect you have held on quite well to the hippie sexual ethic now embarassingly rechristened "libertarian" by many. Maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: cbb at February 22, 2006 8:45 AM

Has anything become more predictable than the ire of liberals offended by the opinions of former leftists?

As for Hitchens being a far-right extremist, how do justify that assertion? Seems to me that you can do so only by redefining "far right" as "opposed to tyranny and appeasement and lies." Same goes for Horowitz. But your language is no surprise, given how eager so many liberals are to call those they disagree with 'fascist' or 'racist' or 'corporate tool'.

Posted by: pst314 at February 22, 2006 10:46 AM

Excellent piece. I *particularly* liked the paragraph/observation beginning with: "Over the nearly four decades since 1968,..."

As far as marijuana goes, it has a "half-life" of about 6 years (Acid: 18 months, Coke: 2 years, Heroin: 9 months) -- most people use it regularly for about that length of time, then usage rapidly tapers off and turns to a rarity rather than the casual norm... (or, in the case of something like heroine or coke, it breaks you and you either die or turn homeless).

Of drugs, only nicotine and alcohol violate this general rule of usage and demonstrate little-to-no "half-life".

I forget where I read the above, it was the results of a fairly extensive study on addictive behavior patterns some years back, ca. 1991 +/- 5 years, more likely earlier than later

Posted by: OhBloodyHell at February 23, 2006 4:32 PM

Great essay, Gerard. We must disseminate it widely. As someone who was on the other side of the demo lines in London I always guessed that there would be good people among you, once the hallucinogens had subsided - those of you that made it, that is. One small pernickety point though. Do you mean Provence when you write 'holiday in Provance'? Or perhaps there is a township called Provance in the US, if so then I stand corrected. We have Kermit over here just now on a State visit with his latest wife - you know how sensitive they are.

Posted by: Frank Pulley at March 27, 2008 5:14 AM

Thank you for these essays from your archives. You wrote, "They are legion in the comfortable realms of academia, entertainment world, and the media." I would add, "and the churches." For example, the chanceries of most Roman Catholic dioceses are full of these people. Then again, maybe their brand of religion is "the entertainment world", and you had it covered from the start. Wishing you all the best!

Posted by: Daniel at March 27, 2008 9:00 AM

Gerard, you are in good company. Neoneocon, David Mamet, Shrinkwrapped, Gagdad Bob, and many others have traveled the same path.

I have a dream. That in the not too distant future even more misguided lefties will wake up and begin to see the world as it is....imperfect, imperfectible, and that, in fact, we wouldn't want it any other way. That more people will take pleasure in seeking a relationship with our Creator, sensing the simple joy that such a relationship can bring. That, most of all, a person is judged not by the color of their skin, the size of their bank account, or the "things" they own, but, instead, by the content of their character. (With apologies to MLK.)

Remember, you are exceptional......just like everyone else.

Posted by: Jimmy J. at March 27, 2008 2:17 PM

"That said, can you look back and find anything of value which cames from the '60s and '70s?"

The '70's are a good teaching moment, but the '60's? 'Wipeout' is a great tune to play in the convertible when you're whipping down the road.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 27, 2008 4:37 PM

The good news is that the precious counter-insurgency and population control methods and strategies learned in Iraq can also be applied here in the United States to fragment and destroy the power of the Democrat party.

The bad news is that most of the knowledge is with the military, which is outlawed from influencing or directing politics.

Posted by: Ymarsakar at March 27, 2008 6:57 PM

Food. We did really, really well with food.

Did I mention I was around when we built Chez Panisse?

We were poets, film-makers, politicos, and graphic artists.

Plus one very obsessed and very pretty woman, Alice.

Posted by: vanderleun at March 28, 2008 9:19 AM

Speaking of radical...Would your “church,” if you fellowship with one, put on it’s bulletin board hateful articles from the anti-semitic, terrorist group Hamas? Barack Obama’s CURRENT church, Trinity United Church of Christ, did just that.

We just found out in the last 48 hours that Wright, while giving a eulogy in 2007, said that “(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him… The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”

Now comes a report by NBC News that while Wright was in charge at Obama’s CURRENT church, reprinted anti-Israel writings, including one column by none other than Hamas leader, Mousa Abu Marzook, appeared on the bulletin board there.

The column by the Hamas leader, Mousa Abu Marzook, asked: “Why should any Palestinian recognise the monstrous crimes carried out by Israel’s founders and continued by its deformed modern apartheid state?”

The question becomes one of judgment, character, integrity, honesty and intelligence.

If I were to believe Obama’s defense that he didn’t, and still doesn’t, know what was, and still is, going on at his church for 20 years, then, in my opinion, he must not be very observant nor intelligent, and does not possess sensible judgement. Therefore he cannot be qualified to be the POTUS, in my opinion. If I do NOT believe Obama, then his integrity, character and honesty is woefully insufficient to be the POTUS, in my opinion.

Obama went to Harvard Law School (they don’t let just anybody in), where he became the first African-American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991. Now do you think he is NOT aware of what his church and ex-pastor are all about? Be AFRAID! Be VERY AFRAID!

Barack Obama’s political FRAUD against the American People continues…

Read the rest of this article here...http://777denny.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/barack-obama-reverend-wright-trinity-united-church-of-christ-and-hamas/

Posted by: Denny at March 28, 2008 11:57 AM

Obviously I've been scrolling through some past articles and I came across this one. I wanted to write some things now for posterity.

THIS AIN'T THEIR PARENTS PARTY

It appears that the Democrat Party has truly taken the next step beyond liberal, progressive, and socialist. The fact that they are on the verge of having an outright communist as their candidate is fairly noteworthy. This has been accomplished with much help from the media, academic indoctrination, and the refusal of the center to accept it. The media have done their best to hide his past and encouraged hatred of capitalism instead of hatred of criminal capitalists. Academia refuses to mention to students the negative results of communism. Equal time is no longer allowed there.

On a side note: did you know that the anarchist (I think we know what that term actually means) Noam Chomsky was allowed to speak to cadets at The United States Military Academy? Our cadets should have never been contaminated by his crap. Small cuts. They're taking us down with small cuts. Generation by generation. But they never look at their own rotten and deadly past.

The reason that the communists will eventually win is that even if Obama loses, the country cannot survive if nearly half the voters don't mind voting for a communist. They want change! They'll be getting it, eventually.

Someday posts like this one will be permanently deleted as is routinely done throughout the rest of the communist world. The gulags, re-education camps, and killing fields are about to be expanded to North America. All comments such as this one will be examined and the commenter dealt with by some KGB sort. The communists have a new army of about 15-20 million illegal immigrants which I predict will do most of their killing for them. Also, we have all those "progressive" students in our high schools and colleges. Add to that the Soros, Kennedy and Gates types with their money as well as CBS, MSNBC, the Tribune papers, and the internet with which to coordinate and communicate.I predict the plans are in their final stages. The only question is: How much blood will be shed?

Notes:

McCarthy was apparently right.

JFK would not be too happy as he was a proud American. I doubt even FDR would be happy about it.

The people who survive will be poorer.

Party leaders will always be well taken care of.

How many times does humanity need to make the same mistakes before they learn?

The cancers of the Nazi's, the KKK, and others have always been with us. The melanoma of communism is killing us.

***Most importantly: Hopefully I'm wrong. I hope so.***

Posted by: JD at May 14, 2008 9:18 AM

I don't think this will come to pass if Obama bin Biden wins (the reality of such a victory will be bad enough: 1970's again, anyone?), but, if Obama turns out to be our Hugo Chavez or Salvador Allende, how will we, as a people, respond? And keep in mind, that relatively speaking, Obama doesn't have to be as egregious a menace as those two I mentioned to be a threat to what we are or wish to be.

We have no Pinochets -- for which I am grateful -- and no history of prior coups like South America, grateful again. But the down side to that is that if it did turn out that the "Blessed One" started twisting America into the shape which his more alarming speech fragments hint strongly at, what would freedom-loving Americans be willing (and able) to do?

And who are these Americans anyway? How many of us still think this way? Keep in mind that during the American revolution, the populace could be divided into roughly three equal parts: the rebels, the loyalists, and the fence-sitters. When enough of the loyalists starting acting more lkie fence-sitters, the British efforts were doomed. Keep in mind also that the British fate wasn't really sealed until the infusion of French troops and navy.

If this was the case back then, what is the case now? Different times, different sensibilities, and in many ways, a different kind of people.

Posted by: Roderick Reilly at September 3, 2008 1:27 PM

This is one of my favorite GVDL essays; it reminds me that we are seeing the showdown between the newleft generation of '68 and everyone else; I really belive this election will smash the left if Obama loses...

if Obama wins, well, the left will drink deep of that poison cup - to borrow and image from Wretchard - that they have been denied since '68.

Posted by: Doug at September 3, 2008 5:21 PM

Gerard, great read! Thanks.

The entire Leftist proposition is phony, from the passive/aggressives who have to keep a close watch on their violent tendencies (hidden under all that "peace" and "love", man) to the Wharton accountants who find the best money managers for all that do-re-mi.

Posted by: AbigailAdams at September 4, 2014 11:44 AM

To me it seems that when I look back it was the weed that was the hardest to put down. But the whole enchilada was certainly regrettable. It wasn't like I wasn't warned. Most of it was all bullshit, but there were definitely some dangerous people then. The scowling guys in sunglasses that guarded the doors of the Black Student Union, the crazy guy in the Army surplus jacket that got into a shoot-out with the State Police...I never seriously thought they would attain the highest offices. What a fool I have been.

Posted by: Will at September 4, 2014 1:42 PM

If you were a sixties freakazoid like the distinguished Gerard or myself and you still cling to the delusions of that time you're a moral pygmy, a third rate mind, someone who has 'loser' stamped on their forehead.
For God's sake if you're sixty masturbating to a Woodstock poster, why don't you move to Oregon and see if you can get a prescription to put yourself out of your misery. Go to hell, sixties.

Posted by: bill at September 4, 2014 3:15 PM

actually, the conquest of the Republican Party by corporate-socialist, Zionist-imperialist neo-conz is precisely equivalent to the "Left" takeover of the Democrat Party. Out-of-control, ever-expanding Government is the net outcome, via both domestic socialist encroachment and the Orwellian "War on Terror" (read: wars to keep Israel on the map and wars to keep the World on the debtbuck). Have a nice day.

Posted by: Wise Cave Owl at September 4, 2014 3:47 PM

You demonstrate again here, Gerard, why the truth is so out of fashion -- it makes the fakers and liars cringe.

Wise Cave Owl, given the shambles that the shiftless Republican Party is in, for our edification and your deification, please name the corporate-socialist, Zionist-imperialist neo-conz who are in charge of the Party? Do you mean Eric Cantor who was recently shit-canned by his constituents?
Among these controllers do you mean the Jews -- Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and their Jewish VP's, Jewish Secretaries of State and Defense, all mesmerized by Jewish Svengalis? Kissinger is of the Jewish faith. Was his opening to China a disloyalty, a mistake by ingratiating himself to the Jews Chou En Lai and Mao Tse Tung? Did he force hot Rumanian pastrami-on-rye sandwiches on the billion+ Chinese WITHOUT mustard?
I did not know that Karl Rove was of the Jewish faith; when did he convert?
Yes, there were some important advisers who were Jewish. There were also some advisers who wore A-shirts and not T-shirts. Were they disloyal in advising support of Israel and opposing its tyrannical blood-lusting enemies?
There's no slide toward socialism if there is no taxation to grease the slide. Have you contributed toward socialism by paying your taxes?
I commend to your attention Philippians 4:8
I commend you for your honesty; we are all entitled to our erroneous opinions for they offer us a burden to take up -- to seek the truth, not simply to marinate in our honest errors.

Posted by: Howard Nelson at September 4, 2014 6:04 PM

@Howard Nelson. Evidently you were not paying attention when - not 98, not 99 - but 100 out of 100 "American" Senators recently stood up on their hind legs, barked in unison, and sent Israel another $billion in weapons and ammo to continue the Gaza Massacre...and this w/o even being asked. Why? Because they are OWNED: via Wall St. Zionist money (Blomberg, Blankfein, Dimon, etc.), Las Vegas Zionist money (Adelson, Wynn, etc.), Hollywood Zionist money (Spielberg, Geffen, etc.), and random Zionist money (Unz, Koch Brothers, etc.). As for apparatchiks like Rove, they're ZOG poperty too: Rove works for Murdoch, whose debt is owned by...Rothschild. As Limbaugh said in one of his rare, lucid moments: "just follow the money trails". Which of course applies to Limbaugh and all the other (Hannity, Hedgcock, Cunnigham, Coulter) neo-con'd Republican talking heads.The only one who refused to submit to Zion - Pat Buchanan - has been, as you're aware, exiled from the MSM ever since.

Posted by: WiseCaveOwl at September 5, 2014 7:54 PM