Hubris, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / Americanpartisan.org) It has been said the Left is a loose coalition of fringe elements, often at odds with one another, allied only in the recognition of a utopian end state. Nobody really likes anyone, isolated to their own identity groups with “allies” in common cause, until infighting and fractures fizzle one movement or gives birth to another. Like any movement seeking its own identity, the actors of today try in earnest to recognize what the see as their forebears. The tactic of esprit de corps grants motivation for the future through respect to the past.

The problem is the Left of today bears little resemblance to the Left of before. In America it can hardly be called a ‘worker’s movement’. In an era where skilled labor manufacturing is at an all time low, much of America’s post-industrial economic system has given rise to the service economy. Workers in the service economy are generally too busy to bother themselves with the politics of social revolution. The people screeching ‘fight for $15!’ are generally failed undergrads busy handing out overpriced mocha at the local Starbucks, crying if someone frowns in their direction. Suffice to say, the days of having sold your soul to the company store are over.

Gone is the era in which identity groups can point to genuine oppression, finding solace instead in creating grievance wherever they can find audience. When that doesn’t work, simply create a new identity group. The catch is that you first lose legitimacy through such measures; second, it alienates segments of that “alliance” the Left sought to create. The theme de jour is the sexualization of children, which no one in good faith denies, resulting in the “alliance” sought between Black and Brown identity groups to quietly walk away from the larger Leftist base, only giving it lip service to keep up appearances when its required. The reality is those identity movements were a visible form of populist activism, one that this new incarnation of the communist revolution in America cannot respect nor recognize. Their own base has said the quiet part out loud: their movement is not one they recognize.

Sure, there’s BLM, La Raza, etc. But among those groups, the most active, beyond the usual opportunists looking to stir up trouble, are a lily white cadre of wealthy, spoiled white kids who’re in a bad need of a shower. There is no better epitaph for the cultural decadence (and rot) in America than the mugshots of the AntiFa communists rolled up in Atlanta. The children of millionaires, living a Bourgeoisie existence, never having wanted nor labored for anything, cursing the nation that begat them. Behind this crowd you will find fantasies of taking the rural lands, centrally planning the agriculture of the nation, and of course saving the environment. But those that have produced nothing, telling us farming is a simple endeavor, have a shocking history of failure.

We can easily point to their origin, physically, ideologically and most importantly, tactically. The communist seeks to create a dichotomy of oppressor versus the oppressed. A continuous narrative of the underdog, fighting the good fight, begging the oppressed peoples of the world to join them in that great revolution of social justice.

The problem is their tactics are based on a flawed model. Had any of them actually comprehended their ideological forbear, Che Guevara, they’d understand that the magic land of Portland, Seattle and San Fran is very much a captive audience; cities with cultures dominated by the hangover of the 60s counterculture still dragging on. This is what he would label warfare on favorable ground. The Left of today appears to be tone deaf to Che’s fatal flaw of Bolivia – don’t start problems where you aren’t wanted. What they cannot recognize elsewhere, especially the South, is that those fractures in the Leftist base are very, very real and very, very hostile to outsiders. Your average BLM activist looks at an uppity white kid talking revolution as little more than a mark at best. They may have found this out the hard way when the Mayor of Atlanta described them as terrorists. Despite being described as a leftist, his ideology is reflective of identity. Generally speaking, whatever differences the communists may be seeking to exploit, at least in this case, are moot point. You are a problem, and you will be gone.

Just as I pointed out on Radio Contra. Rich, spoiled white kids from the PNW.

Those same tactics don’t work, you don’t have the captive audience you enjoy in Portlandia.

The real working class in America hates you. https://t.co/CGAnTBNTwC

— NC Scout (@Brushbeater) January 23, 2023

The Leftist push into rural areas is very much the same. While there is outside money buying up tracts of farm land, something is feeding it. The communes springing up within an hour or so of a University town. And with it comes the local influence, seeking to subvert the existing order rather than recognizing it for what it is. As all revolutionary movements do, it must tear down, perhaps even incrementally, the old for the new. Competent builders be damned.

Much like in the folly of Atlanta, they will come to find the same tactics failing. The working class in America sees them as little more than an annoyance for now, giving way to open hostility as their belligerence progresses. Those having their lives disrupted due to the substation attack in Moore County – absolutely committed by Leftist outsiders in a probing attack – will eventually react in kind. The local populace of a place knows who’s who.Then there’s that question of organization…but that will come.

This of course won’t prevent them from giving their revolution the good ol college try. Doped up on Antonio Gramsci, SSRIs and faux nobility of cause, they’re running out of highway in the race to the bottom. The only option they have is to escalate it further. And they will.

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