Lenin was not a worker; nor were his Bolsheviks (whose very name “majority” party, was itself a lie): they were intellectuals, far more educated, far more able to earn good livings, than most Russians.
Most of those wanting to speak for blacks in this country are rich white people, and those who are black do not live in ghettos, and most of them become rich in the process of “sympathizing” with the poor. Where did Jesse Jackson, Jr. go to school?
Most of the architects of the “War on Poverty”, then and now, are rich. Obama is rich. Harry Reid is rich. Ted Kennedy was rich. Sargent Shriver was rich.
Fidel Castro’s family was relatively rich, and his father was more or less a moral equal of Batista in his cynicism and lust for ill gotten wealth. I read some time ago that he had someone killed he owed money to, and who was asking for his money back.
Everywhere you look, you find almost no examples of people speaking for THEIR OWN group. You see people speaking for other groups, for other tribes.
This point is subtle, and I’m not quite sure I am even yet able to make it quite correctly, but I am going to try: these people pursued “universal” principles precisely because they lacked any actual affection for any actual living people.
The defining trait of the narcissist is to mistake ones own emotions for those of others, to confuse what one wants for oneself, with what others actually need.
It is quite possible to pursue ones own psychological liberation through work conducted purely upon abstractions. To be clear, this is not a “liberation”, but rather a way of enduring, of avoiding deep-seated terrors and inner demons, and conflicts. You become “moral” in the act of welding your sense of self with an abstraction, one unanchored by any possible outside referents, any outside being, any outside real, true, living reality.
Thus, death-dealing becomes a moral act, if tied to the correct inner lies. Torture becomes liberation, if framed in a way which protects the fragile ego from the emotional reality of horror.
And I see this process promulgated throughout the minds–not hearts–of those who want to define for us our culture, who want to tell us what is right and what is wrong, but who in so doing NEVER ask themselves if what they are pursuing is actually, in aggregate, helping or hurting those they claim to care about.
Jesse Jackon–unlike Martin Luther King, Jr.–has never ached for black Americans. He has never truly internalized and felt the pain and suffering they feel; or at least not for many, many years.
Obama cares nothing for the hell-holes in Philadelphia, the boys crying out for their fathers, the girls seeking love in all the wrong places, having babies because they are too undeveloped to know that babies don’t give love, but demand it. He doesn’t care about all the petty viciousness that attends poverty, attends wanting more but not knowing how to get it.
This is the truth. This is why leftists NEVER pursue policies which actually work to end poverty, to end racism, to end the hopelessness that inheres in large segments of our population, that inheres in the heart of the richest nation on Earth and in history. They quite literally conflate their stated intentions with their own inner realities. They believe that because they claim to care, that they actually care. They believe that because they take actions to end abuses, that they actually sincerely want those actions to succeed.
This is not Liberalism. This is savagery. This is bestiality, cloaked thinly by false rhetoric. This is emotional deformity, given a high platform.
Can we not see Obama as a high priest in a demonic cult, tossing the weakest among us into the flames?
History is clear that yes, we can. This is a horrible truth, but truth it is.
What we need is a resurrection of tribalism, where people at least belong SOMEWHERE, where they feel sincere, true affections, for actual, living, breathing, suffering and celebrating human beings.
This is the root of Fascism, of course–which is a refuge for the utterly lost–but pursued with wisdom and a genuine Liberal intent, it is in my view the ONLY path to a desirable future, and world worth living in.