Posted on 02/11/2020 11:05:30 AM PST by karpov
George Orwell noted the nervousness of people on the left when confronted by those even further to the left. This nervousness stems from leftists’ fear that they will be taken for impure in their own leftism, that their thought and actions don’t go far enough, that they are, finally, not really on the bus. In America during the 1930s, Communists mocked liberals for their weakness, and liberals worried about not measuring up. Hence the phenomenon of the “fellow traveler,” someone who sympathized with the Communist Party but couldn’t bring himself to join it.
Orwell’s observation remains in play. In the mid-1960s, Stokely Carmichael and other young black militants pushed the American civil-rights movement leftward, and away from its goal of integration. Liberals, unable to face down this left-wing pull toward Black Power, knuckled under. A gloriously successful campaign for equal rights based on conscience and dignity devolved into an angry, incoherent movement based on guilt and victimhood. The last thing allowed was the concession of progress of any sort in racial matters. Impressive civil-rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and A. Philip Randolph were replaced by such dubious figures as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The movement never recovered.
The same phenomenon appeared in American universities. In faculty meetings everywhere, small groups of the most radical professors were able to get their way through political pressure. Liberals, generally in the majority, were worried (if not terrified) of seeming to be on the wrong side. When they didn’t give in completely, they sought compromises that invariably favored the radicals. Standards and intellectual authority in universities have given way to political correctness and identity politics.
... Among today’s Democrats, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
The Democrats gave in to a reprobate mindset to do satan's bidding.
Their voters ARE radicals.
Their candidate rabble is a symptom, not a cause.
The real Marxists are finding out. The Bourgeois Socialists can run but they can’t hide. Run DNC. There are many, many jimmie hodgkinsons out there who will come to hunt YOU down. They, like Marx, hate Bourgeois Socialists.
I’d like to read it, but not going to subscribe to read it.
The problem that the Democrats are facing now is they really don’t have any ideas at all
Not positive and forward thinking ones at least
Ah, yes,. “Festival” from an episode of the original Star Trek series.
I’ve been pay-walled!
IMO, paywalled articles shouldn’t be posted here.
The transformation of the Democratic party to socialism has been decades in the making. FDR started the process, it accelerated with George McGovern and hit high gear with Obama. The old guard tried to keeps the radicals reined in but failed and now they run the party. There will be an attempt made to again take out Bernie Sanders in backroom deals at the convention as in 2016. However Bernie may have too many delegates and his followers could repeat the events at the Democratic convention in 1968 if they believed he was again cheated out of the nomination
Why? Some people might want to pay for it. Also, the articles tend to show up all over the place in a few days. Also, there are ways around paywalls, but results vary.
Let people make their own choices.
Here are some ways - https://www.fragiledeal.com/t/getting-around-news-paywalls-all-sites-wsj-forbes/250
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