Posted on 07/15/2019 2:25:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
While you were enjoying your Fourth of July weekend, I was attending a national conference on socialism.
Why? Because socialism is having its moment on the left.
Since theres often confusion as to what socialism really is, I decided to attend the Socialism 2019 conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend.
The conference, which had the tag line No Borders, No Bosses, No Binaries, contained a cross-section of the most pertinent hard-left thought in America. Among the sponsors were the Democratic Socialists of America and Jacobin, a quarterly socialist magazine.
The walls of the various conference rooms were adorned with posters of Karl Marx and various depictions of socialist thinkers and causes.
Most of the conference attendees appeared to be white, but identity politics were a major theme throughoutespecially in regard to gender.
At the registration desk, attendees were given the option of attaching a preferred pronoun sticker on their name tags.
In addition, the multiple-occupancy mens and womens restrooms were relabeled as gender neutral, and men and women were using both. Interestingly enough, the signs above the doors were still labeled with the traditional mens and womens signs until they were covered over with home-made labels.
One of the paper labels read: This bathroom has been liberated from the gender binary!
While the panelists and attendees were certainly radical, and often expressed contempt for the Democratic Party establishment, it was nevertheless clear how seamlessly they blended traditional Marxist thought with the agenda of whats becoming the mainstream left.
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Story notes that the socialist model favored by the Democratic Socialists is....Sweden.
You know, that country with all those tall, blonde, blue eyed...Aryans.
These people’s politics are straight out of Clan of the Cave Bear. Nazi agit-prop gussied up as internationalism, gone trendy.
This, from one of the speakers, is the real reason they want these people here - already molded to obey their "betters".
Maybe I’m a wet towel, but that pick isn’t funny to me at all!!
It’s freaking scary as hell!!!
It is beyond simple laziness now (at least for the average young low-information leftist); they can see very clearly that they will most likely have a noticeably lower standard of living than previous generations of Americans, and they have no confidence the status quo will ever address that.
These people disgust me with their politics of envy, but don’t ignore basic realities they face. My teen children are working for the same hourly wage I earned 30 years ago - not adjusted for inflation, but the same actual wage - which is ridiculous. The wages are suppressed because borders are left open to stop supply & demand from ever raising those wages. So now those young Americans can work for depressed wages, and on top of that, they are surrounded by far more imported foreigners than most of us ever encountered (and I grew up in a “diverse” area). They have little hope of ever providing for a family, owning a car (not just for the price of the car itself, but the costs of insuring and maintaining it), or ever owning a home - there is simply 0 economic stability (outside of government work) that would give people the confidence to make these leaps of faith at various points in their life to attain what we used to know of as “The American Dream”.
What we are seeing now is our young people ending up in the same place Western Europe’s people arrived at decades ago, with the same political and demographic disasters as result (non-breeding people voting socialist, with trafficked foreigners filling the country and consuming much of the “freebies”).
LOL
Curiosity killed the cat.Thats true - but the irony is that our brains run on curiosity. Our neural nets are constantly looking for patterns, seeking to optimize. The trouble is that that can actually work against us.
discusses the topic of Phantom Pain. This is the phenomenon of amputees complaining of pain in" appendages which they no longer even have. Of course we know that pain is perceived in the brain, not in an arm or leg. So why would an amputee receive pain signals from a missing finger??? The answer lies in the fact that the brain cells dedicated to processing sensations from a locale are constantly seeking information. And when they dont get stimulation from the normal source they will find it elsewhere. Thus, phantom pain which seems to be from nowhere.
- The Mind and the Brain:
- Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force October 14, 2003
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD, and Sharon BegleyWhat does that have to do with socialism? Much, IMHO. Socialists are nodes of intelligence/curiosity in society which feel rather than thinking. They create the pain that they exist to detect. What they say is a problem is something else entirely.
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