Posted on 03/16/2015 3:00:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
He believes that social justice academics, like himself, just haven't re-written history well enough - that they've come up short in their efforts to convince (retain and radicalize ) a majority of people into accepting that the America they know, is evil and was founded on a false premise (lie).
Critical thinking must still be alive and kicking if socialists are still scratching their heads, trying to work out why, after all that they've done to advance social justice, that there still "persists a democratic spirit" that "helped to fuel the explosive rise of the Tea Party."
[No mention of excessive taxation and crippling regulation in any of his "scholarly" essay].
We were not shopping. We were showing those who had forgotten it, or forsaken it, that “This is what democracy looks like.” And with good reason we imagined that the President whom we had done so much to elect would “march” with us – for he had promised in 2008 that he would don his walking shoes to do so whenever workers’ rights were threatened. But he did not. And not only did Scott Walker and Company win that battle, but now, just this past week, Walker signed the Right-to-Work bill. Surprisingly, labor historian Fraser makes little of the Wisconsin Rising. He simply notes that it was just another example of the right and conservative rich whittling away at workers’ rights. We, however, will not forget what democracy looks like.
Sarah Palin gives 'em "what for" in Wisconsin.
4 month siege on the Wisconsin state Capitol - and aftermath: 2011 Wisconsin Protests
July 6, 2011 Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future "......[snip].....This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.
What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States.".......
On a recent C-Span Washington Journal, I asked the director of a Progressive policy institute, “How will I recognize the arrival of the social justice you seek. What will it look like?”
He responded that America will never get there, will never achieve social justice. I was initially surprised, but believe he told me the truth.
He meant continual revolution and oppression of opponents. With every leftist failure, they come up with another freedom grinding tyrannical measure to correct their past mistakes and continue to bleed our very souls.
Having taken over the machinery of government and society, the next leftist frontier is thought control. They are increasingly aggressive when it comes to those who disagree. Campus speech zones, prohibitions on “hurtful” language, global warming baloney, Common Core, takeover of the internet, threats to those who criticize Obama all point toward Stalinist/Maoist thought repression.
And we are told to just keep voting.
The author fails to realize what his fellow citizens have long known, that by and large they are getting screwed by government, not by evil capitalists.
And those folks today who are "heading across campus" are heading to the “School of Gevernment” or whatever it’s called campus to campus to prepare for what they hope will be a lifetime ride on the gravy train.
Lefties just love Democracy.
Democracy is the opiate of the dumbmasses, the mind’s roadmap to gulags.
[No mention of excessive taxation and crippling regulation in any of his “scholarly” essay].
I skipped a lot, but got the same gist. Democracy is not the american dream, but a nightmare of mob rule.
Haha. Liberal prof gets told by student that the liberal coursework actually offers no valuable life skill!
Democracy is just dandy.....until you’re the fattest one in the lifeboat.
As David Horowitz (who knows their very souls) wrote in June 2000: "...For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal—"social justice"—is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.
Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know."....
Of course not, taxation is the tool for spreading the wealth, and regulation is the tool to prevent the dependent man from becoming an independent man. To them the collective living in misery is better than the few having it great, with rest ranging from middle class to poor. Of course their utopia fails when one questions why the powerful few may still live in extreme opulence.
Yes. They’ve set up and run schools of government, schools of education, schools of journalism - their mission and purpose is to train socialist activists.
“He responded that America will never get there, will never achieve social justice. I was initially surprised, but believe he told me the truth.”
He is absolutely correct. We will never get more ‘social justice’ than it takes to usher in a dictatorship, which is the goal the liberals seek.
Great points.
And just as Third World dictators do, America's socialists blame free market capitalism for the plight of the poor who live under their dictates (as those who live in Democratic Party stronghold inner cities are subjugated) - - "It's white, racist, Tea Party conservatives who have brought this upon you."
bttt!
And they’re egging on the riots as we type.
I would only point out that those stupid, slave owning, rich white guys of 1787 designed a system of government that recognized and dealt with man's nature. It is the approach that best ensures national happiness and wealth.
The result of every attempt to create the “New Man,” whether from a secular (communism) or religious (islam) standpoint, is indescribable horror.
What the author miserably fails to mention is that the other 5,657,564 Wisconsinites, (2014 estimate), stayed home until election time, than went to the polls and resoundingly gave Scott Walker and his policies victory after victory, giving their opinions where and when it mattered.
I'm glad the idiots demonstrated against Walker, it gave Americans everywhere another opportunity to see what filthy creatures liberals really are.
bttt!
It was a godsent.
Gee, without the so-called scholarship of guys like this from the University of Madison, none of us “Tea Party” types would have ever figured out that we were being screwed by Wall Street and the Cronibus Bills.
We will forever be in your debt. Let’s increase deficit spending for higher-ed!
Oldplayer
No mention of excessive taxation and crippling regulation
Those issues are the great unmentionables of that crew because they know them to be the levers that empower any hope they have of overcoming the 1787 structure that they rage against. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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