The Snowflake Meltdown and the Forgotten Man

The Democrats have a lot of fence-mending to do with a once-key constituency of their political coalition---the Forgotten Man---blue-collar voters who get up and go to work every day, obey the law, pay their taxes, and don't think responsibility is a four-letter word. The Forgotten Man has consistently been given the backhand by the party whose elites cynically and mockingly refer to them as "flyover country." It is The Forgotten Man who just handed the keys to the White House to a political neophyte who gave voice to their frustrations and connected with them as no one has since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Democrats could take a huge first step in the long process of reconciliation by addressing head-on the Snowflake Meltdown, the hideous emotional collapse of millions of politically ignorant, pampered, self-indulgent youth who have thrown an infantile, nationwide hissy-fit since Election Day. The Snowflake Meltdown is the rotting corpse of Woodstock, the last gasp of 1972 takeover of the Democratic Party by their aging ideological soulmates. They embraced and promoted a value system inconsistent with objective reality, and took over the principle organs of state propaganda---that being the media and our education system. Taking control of the education system and the minds of our youth is a page right out of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, a German import courtesy of the Frankfurt School of Marxist ideology.

The Snowflake Meltdown has taken the form of riots, sit-ins, daily walk-outs from high school and college classes with instructor approval, and massive traffic tie-ups. Obama and the Democratic leadership (in and out of office) have as yet refused to address the Snowflake Meltdown and their manifest disruptive activities. The Democratic leadership should move quickly to call out the Snowflake Movement by name and disavow their childish, disruptive activities often undertaken with the approval and encouragement of their academic mentors preying on their ignorant charges. The vast majority of working-class Americans look upon these activities with disgust and disdain. So do most students. My son, a junior at a major state university, tells us that campus Snowflakes are the subject of widespread ridicule that cuts across racial, gender, even ideological lines.

But, don't look for this to happen soon. The Snowflakes are a key part of the Coalition of Misfits that comprise the democrat coalition. The Snowflakes are also part of the farm team for tomorrow's blue-state jurists, school administrators, journalists, and lawmakers. The democrats will no more criticize campus Snowflakes than the border crossers that they hope to groom into reliable voters.

But democrats find themselves caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Trying to reconcile with The Forgotten Man while retaining the loyalty of their hard-left constituencies may be a bridge too far.

Hopefully they have lost the old Reagan “silent majority” for good.

For a long time democrats have benefited from the leftover belief that they are the party of the blue collar, working people.

In fact 50 years ago they turned their backs on patriots and working people and hitched their wagon to the moocher/criminal/illegal alien/wealthy leftist elements.

The only things that have kept the working class voting democrat ‘til now are the residual effect (the family has always been democrat) and the wealthy labor union bosses.

Let’s hope that Donald Trump has changed that for good.

It was Marx himself who said that history repeats first as tragedy and second, as farce. We've reached the farcical.

But this was always the case with the hard Left, for whom an exaggerated regard for the working class seldom included actual membership. And it was true from the very beginning: Proudhon, for example, a genuine working man shoved to the side in the First International by the working man's hero Marx who actually never held an honest job, Bakunin, prototypical anarchist whose family owned "only" 500 serfs, Engels, whose father was a factory owner; these were later incorporated in Lenin's theory into a revolutionary vanguard nominally of the working class but in fact who admired the working class without the sad necessity actually of belonging.

In short, it's a fake and always has been. Revolutionary vanguard gave way to cadre, to Party, and then to a New Class aristocracy, wealthy, corrupt, and eventually senescent. The state never did wither away as promised, but the vanguard did.

So the weird New Left coalition of soft-handed entertainment and media celebrities, academics and their students, and professional politicians far more skilled at acquiring power than using it responsibly, isn't really anything new. It's a lot more visible now that the skeptical public has found an alternate voice in the Internet and broken the lock on the part of the New Class on communications. This forum, for example.

The regard on the Left for oppressed minorities is sharply bounded by the ability to translate those classes into power. The ecological vanguard doesn't give a crap about the coal miners, for example, and wants them all dead or out of the way. Were those miners more adept at gathering power, i.e. cash, for the Left, that might be a different thing, but ecological activism is far more lucrative. A dirt-poor black farmer is nowhere as interesting as a fiery black urban orator in a thousand-dollar suit capable of burning whole neighborhoods and of wholesale intimidation and extortion. That's power. Actual women who raise families - Sarah Palin, for example - are marginalized if they can't be radicalized, to the point where they are grandly declared not women at all, unlike that avatar of things feminine, Hillary Capone Clinton. Of course it makes no sense, it isn't intended to make sense, it's intended to make power and to force the nonsensical on the public is demonstration of brute power.

Another facet of this odd jewel is the working class itself, in this country at least very far indeed from the Marxian proletariat. Yes, they will tend to vote class interests, but given that union pension funds are among the largest investors in the stock market, those are capitalist interests, not revolutionary ones. Visit a factory sometime. The first thing you will encounter is a large parking lot full of working-class motor vehicles. No proletarian could ever aspire to that. And so part of the disassociation between revolutionary cadre and working class is that the cadre never were members of the class to begin with and the class has become utterly unlike Marxist imaginings. That's a very large gulf to span with spin.

They're no longer even trying except in impassioned dorm room polemics where the more perfervid True Believers are neither cadre nor worker and never will be. The Left is becoming further and further divorced from reality with each passing day. Marx had a term for that, too: "alienation". The irony abounds.

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