Posted on 09/04/2016 12:58:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
How’s about some commie ketchup on that burger? It’s extra red. A little Marxist mustard for your dog? What about a pinch of socialist sauerkraut on that bubbling bratwurst?
Didn’t you know? That’s why you get the day off on Monday. That’s what your Labor Day barbecue commemorates: socialism. Delicious, juicy, smoky socialism with a side of potato salad (German, of course) and a game of Cornhole (everyone’s a winner!) – frills made affordable to Americans, American businesses and big government waste-fraud-and-abuse mills by, well, capitalism.
I know, I’m a killjoy, and, call me a hypocrite, but I’m grilling out Monday anyway. Still, fellas, while you’re sweating over that sizzling Weber this three-day weekend, just be sure to tip a stein to old Karl, Vladimir and Josef. Without those genocidal schmendricks, you’d be stuck in your cubical Monday, just like every other day, playing Candy Crush and checking fantasy football.
Just yankin’ your chain. I’m sure you’re a hard worker, and, I mean, isn’t that really what Labor Day is all about? Hard work?
Actually, no. Not at all. Hard work has nothing to do with it. Labor Day is about “labor,” and “labor,” since the 19th century at least, has been, and yet remains, one of the primary “progressive” euphemisms exploited by leftists (aka, Democrats) to further the redistributionist goals of the global socialist movement.
Ah, Labor Day: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!” “Workers of the world unite!”
And don’t forget to “look for the union label.”
No, I’m not being paranoid. The history of Labor Day is fascinating. And it really is rooted, 100 percent, in socialism.
In 1882 a couple of socialist cats named Matthew Maguire and Peter McGuire, both members of the Socialist Labor Party, proposed an official workers’ holiday in New York to be called “Labor Day.” Both men were also active in their respective labor unions, with Maguire belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Peter McGuire general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and co-founder of the American Federation of Labor. (Busy little pinkos, weren’t they?)
While historians differ over which man was principally responsible, our Marxist friends nonetheless had success, and on Sept. 5 of that very year, 1882, the United States saw its first official socialist Labor Day celebrated in New York City.
As the popularity of New York’s Labor Day gained momentum in urban centers across the U.S., President Grover Cleveland (yes, a Democrat) signed legislation in June of 1894 declaring Labor Day a national holiday to be held, like New York’s own, the first Monday of every September.
He was not re-elected.
Whereas the rest of the socialist world celebrates Labor Day on May 1 (May Day), America has always marched to the beat of a different drummer. And so we, a nation made both the greatest and wealthiest in all of history through the free-market principles of capitalism – heretofore reasonably regulated, but, alas, regulated to death under our current administration – give our little nod to Karl Marx on the last day of summer (appropriate, I think, as wherever there is socialism, the fall is not far behind).
Belong to a labor union? Bully for you. As Marxist.com, a popular pro-socialism website, observes: “Labor Day, also has a militant tradition and an origin within the U.S. labor movement itself. … The September holiday was conceived of and celebrated by socialists and militants within the labor movement, and we should remember and reclaim this history.”
And so, as we enjoy friends, family, food and fun this extended Labor Day weekend, let’s heed the advice of Marxist.com and remember that this particular holiday – this “workers’ paradise” for a day – was “conceived of and celebrated by socialists and militants within the labor movement.”
A socialist movement, mind you, that thrives from within the freest nation on earth (for now at least) – a nation made great, in large part, by the very capitalism unions, and the Democrats they fund, so hate, and desperately seek to destroy.
So I should accept your opinion rather than my own lyin' eyes ?
So we rig it for the poor? This is exactly what our Democrats have done, and the rich and evil weren’t entirely stupid, they found a way to milk that too!
Your eyes are lying because you will only let them look through a keyhole at one little sliver of a broad vista.
Just so you can see what this “rash putting” is up to.
And frankly if only one side of this Hegelian dialectic (aren’t you fond of that) were possible, at least rigging it for the rich you know what you are getting. Rigging it for the poor, you are SUCKERED, these pseudo-benign overseers sapping your resources where you CAN’T see it rather than where you CAN.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” — C. S. Lewis
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
We should make German Potato Salad it's own thread !!
so tasty
We might have to suggest this on the weekly cooking thread!! :)
Dang, now I want to eat some potato salad. ..
Not only did I say no such thing, I also don't believe the system should be rigged to favor anyone, especially the rich and the Governing Nobility who are employed by various levels of government who now thrive in such numbers that they're more or less the government voting for it's own best interest of retaining their power every election rather than for the best interests of the nation.
Oh now you are so high minded.
Why are you denying what you initially denied, which is that socialism drove business out of the USA? Cronies rode on TOP of socialism to milk the situation; that doesn’t mean that the socialism wasn’t there and offering itself in a very whorish fashion to ride!
No, you are the one who are excusing the Hegelian dialectic. I point out that two evils added become a double evil, not a righteous neutral middle.
And oh, why do you qualify with an “especially”? I just showed you how your preferred evil is MORE insidious.
And can’t you understand that these socialists pretending to be your friends, and the foes of what you think is the worst evil, got their fuel from the cronies?
I mean, I wish I could believe that you have suddenly become neutral, or that somehow you were neutral all along but only ill spoken about it.
However your “especially” betrays a bias that isn’t even reasoned.
It is common for two opposite evils to play UPON one another, rather than AGAINST one another. Still, the one that tends to the higher prosperity profile is the one that can be more easily ameliorated by Christian practice. The Rockefellers can give sacrificially because they have a lot to give. Now ask that out of “pure socialists.” You can’t get blood out of turnips.
And especially out of turnips that are absorption fiends...
Believe it, the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Both to the greedy and to the obsessive redistributionism fiend.
No, not vaguely at all.
And as a matter of fact, the obsessive redistributionism fiend is another species of greedy, one that is particularly pestilential in looking generous but he is doing it with Other People’s Money.
I don’t really expect to convince YOU. However, I do hope to convince the naive who might be influenced by you.
Prefer the smallest identifiable minority if you like, but that's exactly what rich folks are, the smallest minority in the nation. If you feel that they're entitled, so be it, you prefer the Nobles rule rather than the average folks.
Now that we have your preference for the Nobles and their pets who they allow into Harvard and the rest of their training grounds to the great unwashed masses out in the open, I think we're done here.
That is an excellent point, although the actual idea there was an allegiance to the “nation as a whole.”
You are the one who is grasping at the straw by using the term!
I believe the diligent rich man is entitled to the fruits of his labors. And consider how many jobs he generates, huh?
And your last line is such a supreme non sequitur and a complete proof that YOU are hugging the Hegelian dialectic.
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