Posted on 02/14/2011 9:14:45 AM PST by Nachum
Like the dog that finally catches the car, the radicals have become the establishment. Those free-wheeling students of the ’60s – fighting “the man,” bombing government buildings, burning draft cards – now work for that government and are counting the days when they’ll receive their taxpayer-funded pension and retiree health care.
In fact, the radicals of the 1960s are now pushing retirement age, wrapping up careers that saw them control so much of American society — the news media, academia, government bureaucracy and Hollywood. When Obama told audiences during the 2008 campaign that “We are the change we’ve been waiting for,” it must have been an unsettling realization for these radicals, and likely triggered an existential crisis for some of them.
In my research of the left, I’ve gone down a few rabbit trails. I visited New Orleans and talked to Wade Rathke, a few months before the ACORN tree came crashing down. I met Frances Fox Piven in New York and interviewed her about a range of things at her home. (I’ve never met a socialist with a doorman before.) I wrote about the radical Jack Gerson, an SDS alum now influential in the Oakland, CA teachers union.
Which led me to Fred Klonsky. Klonsky, along with his brother Mike, were leaders of Students for a Democratic Society. Fred now is living comfortably as a public school teacher and union leader in the upscale Park Ridge community in suburban Chicago. Mike was reportedly lauded by Mao Zedong for his work spreading communism throughout the United States.
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Ah well, there you get it wrong. He always was.
I hated these rat batards in the sixties and I hate them more now!
Always listen to leftists/commies/democRATS/progressives. Whatever they accuse conservatives of is what they are actually doing or have done.
Remember the Red threat in the 50s? Those kids grew up to become “we are the communists” we’ve been waiting for.
I recommend the book “Intellectuals” by Paul Johnson. Most are reknowned authors, but there are articles on Karl Marx, Sarte and Chomsky that are worth reading.
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