Friends, today socialists and Republicans are in perfect agreement! They're united in celebrating Abdul El-Sayed's win in the primary to determine the Democratic nominee for Michigan's open Senate seat. Socialists love him because, well, socialism, but Republicans are excited because he's a hardcore leftist and may well go down in flames, making it darn near impossible for Democrats to take control of the Senate in January. Let's hope so!!!
Dr. Waddy: Its probably one thing for this neomarxist to win an election in which the entire electorate consists of Dems ,unless Michigan has one of those bizarre crossover primary arrangements , in which case lots of GOP might have invaded to secure a perceived unelectable opponent for Nov. Its really not a big jump from an already markedly radicalized DSA/Dem party to outright loony left. They've sought to have unwanted and unneeded "fundamental transformation" forced on America for some time now .
ReplyDeleteBut the nomination of this until now assertive and unapologetic opponent of common sense America is a different matter. I expect El Sayed will make a disingenuous turn to the middle in order to get elected to the Senate and then be free to bustle in vindictive far left dudgeon. He may well banish Mr. Piker his company for the endurable three months in which he must "front" being just another good 'ol union hall bib overalled fella.
What would be sweet, though it would be harrowing, would be to see equally proletarian Senator Fetterman kill El Sayed's triumphant accession in the shell on election day morrow by bolting a DSA/Dem party which is recklessly pushing this Pennsylvania patriot and turning him into a reliable and revealing touchstone for their now double time march toward bolshevism.
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ReplyDeleteDon't forget that El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, died 1099) is still the National Hero of Spain, and even Spain's socialists approve of that. And even while he was alive, Rodrigo liked to hobnob with Muslims from time to time. Just an historical tidbit.
Ray: I wonder if Muslim fighters thereafter were bade pay special attention to Christians bound to their horses.Perhaps they considered using the tactic themselves.
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DeleteYou must be making reference to the last scene in the movie "El Cid". Right?
Dr. Waddy: Oh my, this epic victory is loosening the tongues of frantically hopeful radicals. One is now denouncing Thankgiving and a close Comrade of Mamdani is pushing for the abolition of rent . WELL !
ReplyDeleteRay: Yes, I saw the movie; is it historical fact that they did that? I always assumed it was (?).
ReplyDeleteJack: My understanding is that during the filming of "El Cid" the Spanish expert on The Cid, Ramon Menendez Pidal advised on the set for historical accuracy. However, the producers and directors of the movie side tracked his advice. So, I guess we can assume that maybe that last scene falls in the category of "who knows for sure". There is an epic poem about The Cid, and I suspect a lot of it is myth of a sort to make Rodrigo Diaz look a lot better than he was in real life.
DeleteDr. Waddy: One reason for far left hatred for President Trump is that he seemingly ended the "transformative" dreams of the radical faction of the boomers by denying their final savior her chance to work grim and fundamental vindication of all their youthful "verities." Time was already working against them by 2016.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, we who were the product of the Greatest Generation's relief at having survived its travails in the Depression and WWII are a much unyouthful lot now but we can still vote .
Lo and behold! An all unexpected opportunity for our generation's radical rump to ruin the country they loath so much for having gifted them unparalleled prosperity and security has risen. The DSA already expects to draw perhaps decisive support from a new disaffected generation. To add to it though they may well benefit from the nostalgic "the way we were" crowd which sees in today's far left an unapologetic and assertive DSA after their very own example. At least the prospect of a triumphant valedictory amazingly yet in store for them and their ungrateful screed will propel them to the polls. A rampaging AOC would give them good rest. Aquarius restored!
Dr. Waddy: On 8/4 you suggested that people finding life in blue cities unendurable might well repair to common sense localities which might welcome them.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, I agree with a comment on Fox today that its time for the GOP to make a strong effort to affirmatively welcome those fleeing the Marxist beleagured husk of the once loyal Dem party, into the GOP. Such an effort could be couched in these terms: " You were a faithful democrat but your party is no longer faithful to you. Its leadership either consists of clearly and frankly DSA radicals who fully intend to force historically proven catastrophic "fundamental transformation" of an America they hate, or those surrendering to them , eg. Charles Schumer.
Yes, as a liberal , you found the GOP unacceptable and would not have thought of voting GOP. But can you, with conscience ,embrace the very far left swing of your party? The far left still manifests the strategies and the incalculable evil it forced on hundreds of millions of unfortunates in the 20th century
We can be a refuge for you from this disastrous occupation of your once representative party by true, verifiable extremists. They are all the more condemned by their casual embrace of their 20th century almost inhuman exemplars like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Do you really wish to abolish policing, the military and prisons ? Do you wish to dismantle our 225 year successful Constitution, which has outlasted almost any other country's vitally constructive principles , by doing away with the Senate, the Presidency as we know it and the vital
independence of the Supreme Court? Surely you would also harbor grave concern that such changes would have negative consequences you did not anticipate in your creditable wishes for change : "unanticipated consequences" or "collateral damage (eg. incipient Marxist totalitarian change ).
We advocate measured and carefully considered progress as is exemplified by America's, yes ,sometimes painful, but not frantically and wrongheadedly transformed history. Yes, we had a Civil War but its consequence was a preserved and much improved America united against the monstrous totalitarian threats of the 20th century. Need we repeat that 1861-1865 cataclysm? This time it might go terribly wrong.
You would be welcomed to join with us in defeating this declared threat to all America cherishes. There would still be room in our coalition for highly constructive, truly democratic progress free of the influence of those who would charge headlong into untested radical change.
Schumer says the Dem party has a "big tent". It does not; it is captured now by a thoroughly and militantly intolerant DSA grimly devoted to a forceful and complete overturning of American civilization to fit their fantastic views.
This perhaps decisive encounter in our nation's life will almost certainly outlast the midterms, into the '28 campaign, which will commence in Nov. '26. In the midterms it is probable that the DSA ,its Marxist views and those in the erstwhile "democratic " party who have (probably not unwillingly in many cases)knuckled under to them , will have made onerous gains . Following the classic far left pattern, the DSA will overreach and launch an all out effort to recapture the Obama "magic" wasted by , well, by the Obamas. The DSA will accordingly strive not to so waste another such opportunity.
I suggest this as an overall strategy for those who fully realize the unprecedented good fortune of being born American, incorporated in concise advertisement , of the gravity of this contest.
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ReplyDeleteI'm sure you remember Eugene V. Debs, a five time socialist candidate for President of The United States of America in the early 20th Century. Looks like he lost his bid all five times.
Needless to say, El Sayed's chances depend almost entirely on the size of the "blue wave" that will afflict the nation in November. And the size of that wave will depend on countless factors, one of the most important of which is Iran's ability to "entangle" Trump ad infinitum in conflict. Probably Iran does have that ability, but its people will pay a very high price to give aid and comfort to the Democrats. Its leaders, perhaps, will not pay any price, or they may pay the highest price of all, if Trump gets testy enough.
ReplyDeleteRay, I would be surprised if the historical memory of El Cid bears much resemblance to the historical reality of El Cid, but we'll never know for sure, unless we invent time travel, which we might, if we let AI take a crack at it...
Jack, welcoming former Dems to support Trump and the GOP is naturally a great idea, and it's something Republicans have done many times, to good effect, as in Dick Nixon's day, for example, and more recently by bringing on board former leftist luminaries like RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. And plenty of Dems HAVE bolted the party for a wide variety of reasons, most recently because of wacky wokeness. Having said all that, this tends to happen with particular alacrity when the GOP is riding high, and this cycle, by all appearances, it isn't.
Eugene Debs should have played the long game and stayed a Democrat! He might have played a more useful (or destructive, depending on your perspective) role in American history if he had had the sense to be more subtle about his goals and allegiances. Just my two cents.
Dr. Waddy: I see the midterms as analogous in some ways to First Bull Run; forgive my perhaps fanciful speculation. DSA may have a chance to achieve therein a status major enough for it to plausibly contend it all in '28. Bull Run showed the Confederacy to be a very serious opponent for the Federal forces.
ReplyDeleteDSA has in its leadership a figure in AOC who could have as astonishing an effect on their fortunes as did Lee eventually for the always underdog Confederacy . Lee's value inhered in consummate military skill and in the reverence it generated. AOC's may well turn out to be in visceral and extraordinary demagogery and the emotional strength it could lend her in an always "feelings" commanded far left and its brainless cadre. Could she do what Gore and Hillary could not do; overcome that pesky Electoral College? She might just have the extra "oomph!" And we cannot rule out the possibility that the DSA might do a better job of gaming it than did the hidebound Dem "establishment" in 2000 and 2016. As unlikely as it seems, we had better take it very seriously.
The midterm campaign and midterm election are, I think, but the opening sallies and salvos in the '28 confrontation. Who could have predicted that Obama would be elected President a veritable moment after his entry into the Senate? Something like it could happen again and this time empower a President invulnerable to the siren call of luxurious perks of office which intercepted the Obamas ' ultimately frivolous revolutionary dreams.
Dr. Waddy : Much of the American labor force in Debs's time consisted of immigrants who knew danged well that they had it far better than in "da old Country". And they had learned what unshirted hell working people were experiencing under the Bolsheviks.
ReplyDeleteInternational Workers of the World (the Wobblies) leader Big Bill Haywood repaired, full of withering scorn for free enterprise, to living in the workers' paradise of Soviet Russia but was soon enough completely disillusioned of his Marxist dreams by the bitter experience of Stalinism, the inevitable product of Bolshevism. By then Debs should have realized his terrible folly and any further advancement of Marxism on his part became thereby consummately evil. The same is true of today's DSA commie reenactors ; they know better so just what is it that motivates them now ?! Some of them protest "oh we just didn't do it right the first time". So what; give them 100 million more of their own citizens dead to experiment upon ?!
Jack, I would say that nowadays a presidential candidate's experience and background contribute VERY little to his or her electability. Turnout is driven by blinding hatred and terror, and that's almost all to do with the "other guy", not one's own preferred candidate. So, yes, AOC could end up wearing the crown.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, Stalin's crimes weren't necessarily obvious to the Russians in his day, and were even more opaque to outsiders. The commies could claim a degree of plausible deniability, I think.
Dr. Waddy: I wonder how the Berlin Blockade crisis in 1948 would have turned out if we had had a President Henry Wallace ? He was widely reputed to admire Stalin. Had he, unlike Truman, given Stalin the benefit of the doubt what additional "liberties "might that hell hound have taken?
ReplyDeleteBut alot of people were misled about the unthinkable inhumanity of the Russian regime. The sealing off of Russia as it underwent forced collectivization and purposeful starvation helped conceal the horrors that it manifested. The frantic and emotional conviction by tragically idealistic Western dreamers who pontificated that " we have seen the future and it is here" (in '30s Russia!) prompted them to recklessly trumpet its supposed virtues. The use of "Potemkin Villages " to flim flam influential visitors may well have fostered abysmal ignorance. And of course the imposition of unspeakable terror on the" broad masses" effectively stifled protests which otherwise might have garnered international attention as did the Russian revolution itself. "Jubilant workers and peasants labor to build socialism in one country" labeled many a fulsome poster of socialist realism, some of which no doubt graced gatherings of American Marxist believers.
Still, some word of the indescribable conditions must have gotten out, perhaps with people who managed to escape. Some of them might have attempted to warn the world of the limitless and unprecedented evil Marxism in practice was proving to be. Eg. the many Polish immigrant workers in American industry had to have known about the horrid Ukrainian famine so casually imposed by demonic Stalin. Did they have an effect on US labor or academic leaders , especially in light of the doubts about our economy and politics raised by the harrowing Depression years? I'm going to do more reading about that. And of course the image of "Uncle Joe" Stalin "leading", after his fashion, the , yes, heroic defense of Russia is well known. It appeared to suggest to FDR that we could get along with those good folks. Their tyrants certainly were not so amenable.
Churchill feared and hated Bolsheviks, both before and after the necessary alliance with them in WWII. He sized them up early as barbarians motivated by an unworkable doctrine. His prescience in having fathomed their inhumanity before so many other observers is in many ways of a kind with his monumental and courageous stand against the Nazis even before their mortal threat was widely realized . In both instances he was treated to castigation and political exile in part because of his eventually proven prophecies. But he had the "unconquerable constancy" and visceral steadfastness to warn a maimed and exhausted Great Britain after both World Wars that profound danger yet obtained.
And in that story is a lesson for us today. Totalitarians persist , even after civilization's crushing victory over them in the closing years of a 20th century they had scourged , this time within the US. We must assume them fully capable both of what they now openly admit their intentions but of that very, very much more their positions show them , confirmed by history's grim lessons, terribly likely.