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How the organized Left got Covid wrong; learned to love lockdowns and lost it's mind: An autopsy
The Gray Zone ^ | March 31, 2022 | Christian Parenti

Posted on 04/09/2022 8:30:53 PM PDT by eclecticEel

It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures.

For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals – call them the Lockdown Left – cheered on unprecedented levels of repression aimed primarily at the working class – those who could not afford private schools and could not comfortably telecommute from second homes...

(Excerpt) Read more at thegrayzone.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid; lockdowns
This guy is a socialist; but his skewering of the lockdown left was of interest. Much more at the source.
1 posted on 04/09/2022 8:30:53 PM PDT by eclecticEel
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china going nuts again

VIDEO: Pets being rounded up in Shanghai, China to be killed

https://rumble.com/v10fuu6-pets-being-rounded-up-in-shanghai-china-to-be-killed.html?mref=71v3&mrefc=95


2 posted on 04/09/2022 8:35:08 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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later


3 posted on 04/09/2022 8:44:48 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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“calumniate” “ verb 1. make false and defamatory statements about “

I don’t think I ever saw this word before.

There are a lot of words in the English language.

Perhaps schools should pay more attention to the English lexicon than personal pronoun preferences.


4 posted on 04/09/2022 8:45:02 PM PDT by Paladin2
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After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined ...

I guess this guy is a leftist if he believes that mouthful of pig manure. lol

Pro-slavery.
Pro-gun control for blacks post-slavery.
KKK.
Jim Crow laws from 1865 to 1965.
Family destroying welfare regulations since 1965.
Now they're trying to lead blacks into a race war with the rest of America.

Yay, leftist freedom fighters! /s

5 posted on 04/09/2022 8:52:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Is it time for a general strike yet?)
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The left learned the lessons of 2009 H1N1 (Swine Flu) to not let a crisis go to waste.


6 posted on 04/09/2022 9:05:03 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Great article. Good extensive source notes


7 posted on 04/09/2022 9:52:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Long read, nice find, thanks for posting. Never thought I'd see an elite (but not elitist) leftist defending Trump. Key to the author's dismay at the left's embrace of authoritarian lockdowns is his apparent and touching belief that the revolutionary cadre ever really was interested in the working class except as a means to power. That died with Lenin, a long, long time ago. But is is a trend germane to his discussion: the betrayal of individual rights and interests by the primacy of the collective. It turns out you really can't have it both ways.

So too with the power grab of the Democrats which was the ill-disguised motive behind the Cult of Lockdown. It isn't about individual freedom and it isn't about the working class, but it definitely is a form of class warfare - there the author's Marxian model seems accurate - and the elites of the party found, as they found in the Soviet Union, that it is very good to be King and to hell with the peasants. One look at 0bama's infamous birthday party will illustrate that perfectly.

So the new boss definitely resembles the old boss, and it's been that way for a long time. "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." Marx was right about that, naive to think it didn't apply to communists as well.

8 posted on 04/09/2022 10:27:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Meow-MEOW!
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LOCKDOWN LEFT.


9 posted on 04/09/2022 10:41:45 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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I learned a new word - calumniated


10 posted on 04/09/2022 11:34:40 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Good article coming from someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum.


11 posted on 04/10/2022 12:07:33 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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This whole thing is starting to seem like it was just a bunch of "empowered" women who found a convenient way to satisfy their penchant for bossing people around. Not just some people though, it had to be a whole lot of people for them to enjoy the taste, and now they want even more. Well, how does it feel to want?
12 posted on 04/10/2022 4:09:48 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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How the organized left used covid and succeeded


13 posted on 04/10/2022 4:43:15 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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‘created’ and used COVID .. NO coincidence about it
14 posted on 04/10/2022 6:13:16 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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I saw this last night but was too tired to read it.

The fact that someone from the left wrote it gives me hope that there are others out there who can be swayed by reason for a change.


15 posted on 04/10/2022 7:41:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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