“Non-workers of the world unite!”
That is the rallying cry of an entire generation that has been uprooted from American identity and led into the ideological wilderness of socialism.
It’s a dead end. We can only hope it’s not literally.
The radicalized Democratic Party has ceased pitching middle class Americans on how it can foster a better life for them and their children.
Instead, we have a coalition of disaffected, overeducated, underpaid intellectuals with massive amounts of debt uniting with shameless grifters, welfare abusers, and foreigners in an open war against everything America stands for.
Why did intellectuals turn so hard against the American Dream?
It starts with the education system.
As election analyst Nate Silver recently pointed out: “Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What’s the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.”
“In today’s newsletter, I argue this is the sweet spot for the DSA,” he adds. “DSA members are *very* college-educated (80% BA+) but *not* particularly well-off (45% HHI incomes below $60K). Their class status is ambiguous. But they tend to be very liberal on culture as well as economics.”
“The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich,” added MSNOW host Chris Hayes.
And the DSA and socialism are truly on the rise. This is not a “right-wing fever dream.”
A recent Fox News poll shows that most Democrats look favorably on the DSA and socialism: 59% and 52%, respectively.
So, what do we make of this? It’s a reflection of an American education system that has armed people with a weaponized radical ideology instead of marketable job skills.
From African-American Studies to Feminist Literature to Queer Studies to Underwater Basketweaving and everything in between, recent graduates of such “liberal arts” and “humanities” programs are getting broadsided by the reality that nobody needs them in a market that is already inundated with Woke pablum.
Their views are interchangeable in the Cultural Blob that Pseudoacademia has wrought.
How bad is our “education” system? Setting aside the shopworn points about the skyrocketing costs versus the miserable outcomes, the “socialist science” fields do not even produce replicable science.
No, seriously. That is why this isn’t “science” but propaganda. It is “group think,” or science by “consensus,” to borrow a phrase from Thomas Kuhn.
The broken education system instead of preparing students for real life has indoctrinated them with a cynical version of a socialist ideology that had once appeared to be obsolete.
After all, the Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Union collapsed. China undertook “reforms.”
Francis Fukuyama had even declared an “end to history” as liberal democracy had appeared to have triumphed over authoritarian socialism nearly four decades ago. Samuel Huntington trumpeted the ascendant “Third Wave of Democracy” that had come in its wake.
That was all a mirage. It increasingly looks like the communists had counted on this pleasant delusion. It was a smart bet.
How did the country get to a place where “socialists” like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders and even the now-exited Nazi-tattooed Senate candidate Graham Platner can capture the hearts and minds of the Democratic Party’s radical base?
How do we have socialist mayors across the country—from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York— taking over the epicenters of American capitalism, only to predictably lead them into the economic doldrums?
It’s because they didn’t call their ideology “socialism.” They didn’t call it “communism.” They did not label their ideology, except in opposition to everything America stands for.
The left changed its red banner to multi-colored ones; the rainbow flag of LGBTQIA, the black and raised-fist flag DEI, the green flag of the climate crisis.
They broke up communism into various parts that would ultimately hasten its ideological victory. And the nexus that holds it all together is cultural warfare that would culminate in “hegemony.”
That is Critical Theory: The left does not offer a viable alternative to “capitalism” that has a demonstrated record of success (quite the contrary: socialism begets poverty and misery and oppression and inequality and even mass murder).
The left does not substantively offer anything hopeful for the future, but rather a repudiation of “the system” along racial or ethnic or religious grounds. Everything that made America successful is either due to expropriation from the “oppressed” minority class and is a result of “white supremacy.”
This is the cultural stealth mode for a radical agenda that does not seek to build up the country, but rather to tear it down to its foundations in order to be rebuilt into the narcissists’ utopia of a globalist system dominated by an unelected class of elites.
Instead of “philosopher kings,” however, what we are seeing with this takeover are “grifter kings.”
The radical left has carved America up into corrupt fiefdoms, from Medicaid-fraud epicenter California to Somali fraud in Minnesota. It is all quite predictable and the reason we have federalism, separation of powers, and the rule of law.
Human nature shows that people take the path of least resistance and people are tempted to abuse power to their own personal benefit. This is tantamount to the “Iron Law of Oligarchy” discussed by the socialist intellectual Robert Michels.
Thus, we have a caste of intellectuals who are inculcated with “piecemeal socialism.”
America, we might be in trouble.
They’re midwits, not intellectuals. Standards were lowered to get more kids into college and the midwits who aren’t actually smart enough to get good jobs keep going to school where they’re told how smart their idiocy is - and they believe it because their parents always helicoptered around them saying the same thing. But they’re still average to low IQ and easily led and easily manipulated. The useful idiots.
No - I meant midwits. See el gato malo on midwits... it's a perfect term!