“Yes, why not tax the already hard working kids of that age group even more, and give demonstrating students more puppies and coloring books?”
Pretty much sums up the Left in academia and government.
A motivated researcher could dig through the video way back machine and find plenty of footage of American commiescum announcing, loud/proud and clear, their intent to conduct a “Long March” through all our institutions.
We sat on our hands and just let it happen.
It’s as much our own fault as it is the domestic enemy’s. We allowed an obvious and self declared domestic enemy completely redefine the rules of engagement to suit themselves at will. We allowed that same domestic enemy to redefine words and concepts, including our Constitutional “protections” to suit their own ends at will and without contest.
We played the Vichy and the Quisling.
We were, all of us, moral cowards in refusing to confront the blatant domestic enemy in their predations and perfidies.
Media are part of the elite...paid off by the politicians, married to politicians etc. Many are power hungry control freaks who gravitated to journalism because they could control people with their own spin. Control and lust for power is what socialism is, so naturally they are all a bunch of leftists.
Once enough of these leftists gained a foothold in the media and press, they systematically drummed out anyone who was not like them.
Just like in the university system, the leftists gained power little by little until they hit the tipping point. Now there are maybe 8% of professors nationwide who are not raging communists. I think we have more commies in America now than in Russia.
First question first: Why do you call journalism “the media?”Because you mean nothing else, anymore - and you shouldn’t. Originally the use of “the media” included the leftist tendencies in movies and TV drama. But, people seem to have absorbed the lesson (tho not likely from my having argued it here, I’m not that optimistic about my own influence) that you can’t censor fiction, the most you can do is shame fictional “non”fiction.
Next question: Why is journalism monolithic? That, I have concluded, follows naturally from the fact that journalists talk - to each other - a lot:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsAnd people of the trade of journalism not only read each other’s output, they get most of their information from the wire services. Thus, they read each other’s input as well as output. Wire service journalism is group-think.But what is the nature of journalism at its core? It is the reporting of news that will attract attention. Does the news that I plan to build a house qualify? Probably not. Does the fact that I have bought a lot qualify? Probably not. Each increment of the process is mundane, and after a period of months a house appears and I move in. With no excitement. But let that house burn down, and what is the reaction??? The change in value - from no house, to a house, took place gradually and predictably - but the destruction of the same house took place overnight. The change in value is much quicker, and it is negative instead of positive. Journalism is about bad news, almost exclusively. It is scarcely too much to say that “good news is advertising.”
So journalism is all the same, and journalism is negative. And yet, knowing it is negative, journalism claims to be objective. There are objections to this. The first is that it is an arrogant claim; no one can know that they actually are objective. Secondly, it is a self-negating claim, in that the sine qua non of any attempt at objectivity is candor about the reasons why you might not be objective. The claim of actual objectivity - not just of diligent effort towards objectivity - is precisely the opposite of such candor. And third, the claim that negativity is objectivity is cynicism.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.For “some writers” substitute “journalists” (“the media,” if you must). For “society” substitute “workers” (if you must; actually “society” is the correct word). Recognize that to identify “a blessing” (society) with an "evil” (government, even if “necessary”) can only be described as cynical about society, and naïveté about government.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
"The contempt for workers” is cynicism about society. “The media” is “on the left” because it is cynical about society, and naive about government. Which I take to be the proper definition of “socialism.” Or, “on the left."
The left supposedly was about the worker, but it turns out they are only about workers if they can be used as cannon fodder. In the west it turns out that workers have their own agenda, and would like to be left alone to pursue it... this makes them unsuitable as cannon fodder. So the left has had to go in search of others to use as mobs and shock troops.
Its OK, though. There are always disaffected, ignorant, unhappy souls to be exploited. The left will find them if they have to invent them.
Those who can’t do...teach! Those who can’t teach...teach gym!
It’s not so much contempt for workers as it is blind worship of the Holy Mother Welfare State. Journalists will defend it to the death - even going so far as to support those Republicans who back its expansion and to bash the few Democrats who want to rein it in. They always reflexively support the candidates who most strongly favor expanding and strengthening the welfare sate, having been taught all their lives that - as Bob Scheiffer once put it - such candidates are “on the side of the angels.”
Media are on the left because media people don’t think of themselves as working for a living even when they speak the phrase. They think of themselves as crusaders for the right and Good. At the same time they do not have any emotional attachment with Work. They feel they are awarded a stipend so that they can pursue their calling of Making the World a Better Place which quickly becomes making everyone (else) absolutely “equal.” Any connection to the real world that may have held over from their youth dissipates in most of them. Academics and many teachers suffer from the same disease. Trust fund kids and those who got too rich too fast have variations of the syndrome. For them lots of money is just the background of existence. Others’ lack can only be due to the system or to nefarious greedy types taking it away. They have no understanding of what money is and where it comes from.
I had a professor who was a proud communist.
He even showed me his Communist Party of America Card.
He would stroke his beard in class and tell us how great communism was.
I sat next to a very pretty girl in this class.
I had been in a couple of classes with her.
She was an average student.
She was receiving really high marks in this class.
I had to park several blocks from the campus because students were a low concern for this school.
I was trudging through the snow to get to my car that I had to open the hood to start because I was too poor to rebuild the carburetor when I noticed a new Datsun 260Z coming down the road.
That was my dream car.
The communist professor was driving that sports car.
The pretty girl from his class was in the passenger seat and waved to me.
The professor wasn’t a real communist.
He was just a dirty old man.
He was BSing the coeds with how mysterious and deadly he was so he could get in their pants.
Karl Marx had promised (and proven with “scientific certainty!“) that the proletariat would rise up and take power through violent revolution, and communist party fat cats, being the “avantgarde of the proletariat” and all, would be their leaders and beloved rulers. Or so they thought.
But nothing happened. Workers showed the stinkers the finger and just wanted to be left alone. Since then, leftists hate Western workers. Obviously they were fascist, anyway. Now, their new “working class”…or at least pet underclass, are 3rd worlders. Muslims, who hate the West and its inhabitants as much as the lefties do. Now they are planning to import as many unemployable Muslims as possible, who are totally dependent on leftists and their welfare state, until their numbers are large enough to overthrow the hated capitalist regime.
Apparently, leftists expect again that their new Muslim underclass will elect them as their leaders and beloved rulers. Boy, are they going to be surprised!
Our next battle should be taking-back our schools and colleges. My school-teacher cousin unfriended me when I called nonsense on his assertion that Trump will soon round-up all us Jews and put us in concentration camps. He is intelligent and well-educated and another hopeless Brain-dead Liberal.
The Left & the MSM have the highly mistaken notion that ‘they are above all of us’ & they only put up with us so that their menial work can get done.
They think they are smarter than any of us & they never take a split second to think that POSSIBLY they might be wrong about anything.
I hope that George Stephanopolous gets his brain cleansed when it finally comes to light just how corrupt his favorite person—Shrillary—really is and has been.
He is in complete denial that she could ever do anything wrong. I wonder how much $$$ he donated to the Clinton Foundation.
This begs a question-—IF it is found that the Clinton Foundation was just a ruse to get money from people—can those tax deductions for ‘such donations’ be reversed & back taxes must be paid???
Very good read, thanks.
It’s all about power. They have such overweaning pride in their intellectual pretensions that they truly believe they are the oligarchical elite and are meant to rule the deplorable lower classes.
Because anyone who works for a living is a sucker and not smart enough to get “freebies” and or advantages from the government.
When a socialist gets into a position of authority they will only hire fellow socialists. See college and newsrooms.