Dream On, Leftie Dreamers

grasstopsusa.com ^ | 08/19/2011 | Don Feder

[massmike]

One of the left’s more charming conceits is the certitude that it has bonded with the common man, that it has a picture window on his soul.

The left still thinks it can lead a popular uprising – that the people are out there, just waiting for a down-with-capitalism, single-payer-health-care, we-could-be-as-great-as-North Korea message – hungry to be led to the collectivist Big Rock Candy Mountain by activists who’ve never come closer to blue-collar types than reading the ruminations of Karl Marx – a man who never once set foot on a factory floor.

“Progressives Say American Dream Movement Rivals Tea Party,” bruited the headline on a story on a leftie website. The latest attempt to lead the American people to the sunny shores of a classless society is called the American Dream Movement (described in the story as “burgeoning”), which has its Contract for the American Dream, signed by 260,727 on-line supporters – some of whom do not reside in Berkeley, Cambridge or on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

They “want jobs instead of spending cuts.” “People are fighting against Republican attacks on the middle class,” MoveOn.org director Justin Ruben commented.

The Dream Movement is led by Van Jones, who claims it’s the real thing, unlike the Tea Party, which was started by “Fox News and the Koch brothers.” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), who thinks Barney Frank is a compromiser, will push the Dream agenda in Congress.

[Excellence]

“Don’t fear the reaper” is running through my head, only it’s more like, “don’t fear the dreamers, we could be like they are, North Korea, baby take my hand, don’t fear the reapers.”

I’m depressed.

[oyez]

There will always be at lest two classes of people; rulers and followers.

[MeganC]

Exceptional post. Thank you for posting it.