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The Mask Slips a Bit More
It seems that each day provides a bit more into the thinking (if you can call it that) of the Left. In Wednesday’s Washington Post (“Democracy Dies in the Darkness”) there was an op-ed written by an associate professor at Marquette University titled “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”
The article states that a “better primary system would empower elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters” and that having “intermediate representatives” who are elected and “understand the priorities of their constituents” would be far better than the system we now have.
Let’s see now; what might those “priorities” be? Ah, got it! Tighter gun control! More illegal immigration! Government-run health care! We just needed folks to tell us what our priorities should be.
It’s a sign of our times that an article such as this could even be published. Not an encouraging thing.
Published in General
When I saw this headline on Reddit yesterday, I kept scrolling because I thought it was from the Babylon Bee or the Onion. Just unbelievable, and the woman who wrote it has an Iranian name.
My recollection is that Marx believed that society progressed through many stages, having to go through capitalism, for example, before progressing on to socialism, then communism, and eventually into an idyllic anarchism. Lenin believed that this progression can be jumped from Russia’s feudalism into communism by a dictatorship of an elite cadre.
It seems that communists are so dominant in our society now that they just start spouting out communist theories as though no one understands that it’s been tried before and no one will notice.
Communists are flat out evil. I wish we could convince people of that again.
In my senior year of college (81-82) we were lectured one day by an Iranian woman engineering grad student about how we had no freedom in the US. Her Jordache jeans would have been enough to get her whipped back home. Self awareness is not a common leftist trait.
I just saw this article: “Nearly two-thirds of Ivy League donations go to Warren, Sanders”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/nearly-two-thirds-of-ivy-league-donations-go-to-warren-sanders/
“Over the past four years, Ivy League employees have donated just over $1.7 million to presidential candidates, with Harvard University contributing the most at $521,000. … During that time, President Donald Trump, a Republican, collected only $11,748, or 0.7 percent of all Ivy League contributions. Trump graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (an Ivy League School) in 1968.”
And it looks like they even hate Bill Weld 10 times more than President Trump. Most of Trump’s contributions are from Columbia and Penn, the cities or states where he’s lived.
I wonder what this deep-thinker’s position is on the current object of outrage, the Electoral College.
They remind me of Che Guavera from Evita:
[Che:]
How annoying that they have to fight elections for their cause
The inconvenience, having to get a majority
If normal methods of persuasion fail to win them applause
There are other ways of establishing authority . . . .