The Professional Left vs. the Amateur Right
Guess who is best positioned today to appropriate billions of tax dollars in stimulus slush funds, and to process them into organic, locally made hot air? Even without ACORN there remains a well-trained, hungry army of looters and moochers collectively known as the professional left. No doubt each and every one of them has already been counted and added to the list of “three million jobs saved or created” by this administration. Their job description? To spend as much of your money as possible to strike at America’s foundations, demonize your values, indoctrinate your children, and destroy your way of life.
President Obama is proactively doing just that on a national scale, converting the American economy into a gigantic ball of ideologically sound hot air, while making a nice living for himself and for all those who assist him in that activity. If that does not describe him as the ultimate mover and shaker of the professional left, I don’t know what else does.
The professional left brought him up. They taught Obama everything he knows about politics, economy, culture, history, and international relations. Admittedly, most of his friends and associates in later life were also members of the professional left. Even when they were teaching in academia like Bill Ayers, preaching in church like Jeremiah Wright, or writing poetry books like Frank Marshall Davis, they still did the work of the professional left, since professional boundaries in those areas have long ago been severely and deliberately blurred.
Slowly but surely, the professional left’s complex has diversified and expanded its frontiers to include professional educators, filmmakers, entertainers, lawyers, writers, clergy, journalists, politicians, government workers, and now also members of the president’s cabinet and even the president himself. And given the proverbial revolving door in their membership, they can all move freely from one field to another without ever stepping outside the common hot air bubble, staying in touch with the others trough a common, members-only mailing list. One of such mailing lists, recently discovered and analyzed by the Daily Caller, was used by specialists in various sectors of the professional left to share thoughts on the many ways they can spend your money, shove their ideology down your throat, and bamboozle you into voting Obama into the White House.
To paraphrase Obama’s own words, instead of complaining about the professional left, his administration should be thanking them.
Remember the Fight Club movie where an anti-corporate rebel develops a split personality disorder? He starts a fight club only to realize in the final scene that all this time, he had been fighting himself. The poor man ends up strapped to a chair in a building his other self had rigged with explosives. That didn’t go well.
Now let’s add some historical perspective.
The term “professional left” existed in the early 20th century Russian empire as “professional revolutionaries.” The term described a large group of gainfully employed leftist activists whose full-time job was street agitation and community organizing. They also set up subversive networks, created and distributed propaganda, and sabotaged the existing political and economic system by any other means possible. To be sure, the system they were destroying wasn’t perfect, but the one they created was much, much worse.
After the 1917 takeover, these people carried the title of “professional revolutionaries” on their sleeves, proudly listing it as an entry in their official work record — a document they introduced especially to control the population by keeping track of who did what in the years of “dark capitalist exploitation.”
But when their dysfunctional state-run economy turned out to be a disaster, accusations went flying in all directions, not dissimilar to the verbal shots exchanged today between the opportunistic White House and the dogmatic professional left.
As the tensions among the ruling elites escalated, some professional revolutionaries turned into the executioners of other professional revolutionaries who refused to toe the Party line. First the Bolshevik revolutionaries rounded up all the Menshevik revolutionaries who held but a slightly different view on running the country. Then they came for the Trotskyites, who used to be the most ardent revolutionaries of them all. Trotsky fled, but they got him later in Mexico with an ice axe.
But even as the “enemies” had been liquidated, the economy still remained in shambles. That’s when the victors began to round up and shoot their own. The blame game and paranoia penetrated all levels of the Party, the government, and the society at large, culminating in massive repressions and show trials, almost entirely eliminating the professional revolutionaries as a class by the late 1930s. Unsurprisingly, those who survived were the most cynical and corrupt.
If you think this could only happen in Russia, look at all the other “people’s dictatorships” created and governed by the professional left around the world.
The moral of this history lesson is this: if given power, the professional left becomes a danger to society and themselves. Closing down their shop will not just save the country and the economy — it will also save these “professionals” from their own kind.
What’s the amateur right to do opposite the professional left?
While the iron is hot, put pressure on your representatives to pull the plug on every bit of federal and state funding that goes, directly or indirectly, to the professional left — and make a big deal out of it. Wasteful spending is bad; wasteful spending that feeds the professional left doubles the damage.
In peace time, every man is entitled to his own opinions and must be left to his own devices. Not so during a crisis, which requires a different set of rules. The professional left likes “a good crisis” because it gives them wartime powers without a war. But every stick has two ends. Today’s crisis was brought upon us by the actions of the professional left and it can’t be resolved by the same people who caused it. If it’s a crisis they want, it’s a crisis they’ll get, if of a different nature. Forget the peacetime thinking.
The least the amateur right can do is turn the term “professional left” into an insult and give it the widest circulation. Learn to identify, expose, and isolate the professional left. Ostracize and ridicule them. Disrupt their networks and cut off their finances. Deny them the moral high ground from which they preach and obtain public support.
Don’t compromise, and never forget that their morals are crooked, their honor is stolen, their motives are corrupt, their methods are criminal, and their goal is a disaster.
There is “no such class of people” on the Right because, quite simply, the typical conservative is making their own way, looking out for their own life, liberty, and pursuing their happiness. By definition, they weren’t paying attention until now.
And a lot of old-school, moderate conservatives like myself were very concilatory to the left until the “professional left” finally crossed the threshhold to real power.
Now, the battle is joined.
Agreed…
Yes, I believe the right wingers invited the left in to college professorships for real diversity, a gesture not reciprocated once the left attained control of things.
The essay had me right up until, “In contrast, there’s no such class of people on the right…”
The Professional Right doesn’t feed off taxpayers, but they do exist.
Both sides have their Ninja Cults.
Perhaps you should read the whole thing this time, and work on that comprehension thingy.
The author said that there is a “professional right” but that it was not taxpayer and charity funded, and it’s size and reach is miniscule compared to the “professional left”, whose slimy tentacles insert themselves into every niche of America where opinion is shaped: the mainstream media (which even includes taxpayer funded NPR and PBS), the entertainment industry, the schools, the universities, the unions, the arts, the government bureaucracies, and increasingly, the churches, and more. They’ve been at this in earnest for at least 70 years, and now have massive control over all those arenas.
On the other side, both Fox News and talk radio have been around only since the mid-90′s. Before that, what did conservatives have? Firing Line, the National Review, and??? And all the professional left have been on an overt witchhunt against Fox News, talk radio and the internet, the only three areas that the right has to communicate, organize and get the real reality instead of the alternate one we’ve been spoon-fed these many decades.
And also consider that we have had only the Republican Party to speak for us politically all this time. Half of them are country-clubbers, Progressives-lite who just want to get to the Collective a little slower than the left. Look at who the media picked for us in 2008 – an old man who wants amnesty for illegals, opposed the Bush tax cut, “crossed the aisle” to co-author McCain-Feingold, and was consistently rated as one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate. He was even considered by Kerry as a possible running mate, and Lieberman was on his short list for VP.
If we don’t start fighting back soon and fighting back hard, we are so screwed.
Excellent!
while I agree with your point. I don’t think you are aware of the fight before you.
go to the links below for more insight
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/090403dc_en.html
the left has been at it for generations. they have as the essay states your money to attack you with.
I hope that the left do not prevail, still I don’t think enough people know what has already been done to their rights and how difficult they are to reverse.
Oh, I’m aware. It’s just that if I had to write the whole essay every single time, I’d never get to make a comment on anything.
The rebellion against free society has been going on for a long time. The modern movement goes at least back to Rousseau, the father of so much of the anti-civilization philosophy.
In the short term, the best thing that ever happened to the Radical Left was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ever since then, they’ve been free to advance the exact same agenda, exept covertly. Whenever anyone calls them on it, they can just say “Everyone knows communism failed!”, and ridicule the accuser as being paranoid. I’ve had that exact conversation myself.
Meanwhile, all of the same goals and methods have been absorbed into the new movements, such as radical environmentalism. Like the old saying about the devil having convinced people that he was dead. The names come and go, but the goals are always the same.
There is no professional right because most of us are too busy enjoying our freedoms.Were too busy keeping the professional left afloat because of their perceived “persecution” by us.Meanwhile who pays for all the unemployment,welfare checks?The taxpayer.The military?The taxpayer.Food and aid for other nations?We do of course!
I know quite few lefty programs in my neck of the woods, getting the axe of public monies in the recession because they dont work.Not because they are “lefty”.
I suppose you can frame it in terms of left and right but its probable closer to those who work for a living and those who do not.<—- Opinion not a fact, just saying…
“There is “no such class of people” on the Right because, quite simply, the typical conservative is making their own way, looking out for their own life, liberty, and pursuing their happiness. By definition, they weren’t paying attention until now.”
I agree. The typical conservative weren’t/aren’t paying attention until “the left” enters the fray. Which, given the previous administrations out of control spending, warring, and blatant corruption, brings me to conclude that it is the typical conservative’s way or the highway. It is a lesson in futility to debate someone on important issues when one side isn’t willing to admit their mistakes, recognize their own hypocrisy or imagine they’ve even a measly inch to bend in any direction but to the right.
The study of The Professional Left more accurately belongs to researchers specializing in Parasitology.
The eunuch class of ancient China comes to mind.
The author has outdone himself.
This article is insightful and thought provoking, moving and inspiring.
Thank you, Oleg.
I was reading along, thinking “This is article is GREAT!,” without ever looking to see who wrote it. Then I noticed your comment. *forehead slap* I should have known. Oh, well . . .
Okay I am cancelling all my main stream media subscriptions. I am also cutting back on any charity donations, writing a public letter to Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett et al. to put a lid on it, and ignoring the next solicitation from Public TV and Radio. Not that this is a minor step but somehow it seems to pale compared to the magnitude of the infection. ANy more suggestions? I do own an ice axe.
Unfortunately, it is our own fault that things are the way they are in our country, and we are the only ones that can change them… Politicians/liberals only get away with what we allow.
If not for the financial failures in our country recently, we would have kept our heads in the sand and kept on truckin down the same road.
However, when things begin to hit our pocketbook,..NOT our freedoms, OUR MONEY, it is one of the only times we stand up and actually pay attention.
We appear to be more interested in hollywood gossip, not offending our kids, and how big our house is than how our country is run.
What you are describing Oleg, is a racket. If there was a professional right, it would be organized crime. In as much as they run their racket for themselves, families and associates much the same way only without a left wing ideology to pretend that it’s a good deal for everybody.
Huge Ponzi scheme and con job.
nickel,
This is the most important article PJ Media has published since I don’t know when. It must have been during the catastrophe of ’08 when I stopped any support to MSM sources (I’m with you, nickel). We have cable, because therein we find Fox.
You asked for suggestions. Take another minor step and actively support good conservative people and causes. I’ve never been terribly political–being too busy earning a living and raising a family–but since 2008 I’ve been supporting fiscally sane, socially conservative, and politically able candidates all over the country by being in my small way supportive of Mike Huckabee’s HuckPAC organization. If the infection is curable, it’s going to take electing people who know how to use lancet, scalpel, and antibiotics. I have not found another activist organization that can as effectively use my time and money.
I have given to SarahPAC, because the RNC doesn’t jibe with my wants for a return to fiscal sanity and common sense conservative values. You can say that I’m one of those “Mamma Grizzlies” that SarahPAC talks about. I find Mike Huckabee to be only concerned about Mike Huckabee, but that’s just my opinion.
If each of us gives to the conservative candidate or PAC of our choice, we will elect a congress that can stop the O. administration and their “professional Left” from further destroying our great nation. There are millions of us. We just have to come together and fight in every way we can. We can take our country back. November 2010 is just the beginning.
Mom in Wisconsin
This article should be required reading for every freedom loving American. If the wasteful government spending on the professional left were stopped entirely, we would be well on our way to fiscal solvency. We also need to be careful with our charitable contributions to certain non-profits and charities that espouse leftist theories and the administrators are making huge amounts of money.
Finally a commentary about the professional left. This has to be one of the best I’ve read on PJM. Insightful, thought provoking and fact-filled. Absolutely the best.
The left has all the power but if we get a majority in Congress we can figh back. And we use the vehicle the left loves to use: the IRS. Tax the charities, foundations, 527s, organizations, unions and wealthy into oblivion. Sure some right-wing foundations and groups will be hurt but it will level the playing field.
Tax the left at 99%-just what they wanted to tax the Wall Street bankers-and let’s see how they like it. Any foundation like Gates, McArthur, Ford, Heinz, Tides, etc that gives to a political cause is taxed at 99%. Any cause that is political in nature is taxed at 99%. And group, organization-ACORN, 527…anything even remotely political is taxed at 99%.
Then Congress should create a wealth tax on the uber-wealthy which we know are mostly progressives. Hit them in their bank accounts. Make it progressive-read regressive- from 5% on the first $250 million to 45% after $5 billion. Gates and Buffett (and Soros) like taxes so much they should support such a thing.
Agreed! If these Gates, Buffet, and especially Soros jokers genuinely wanted to help society they could have begun by paying a tax rate similar to a working person instead of tucking so many billions into charities to protect their fortunes from being taxed.
I don’t watch Glen Beck, but the fact that he hates Soros means a lot to me. Soros made his money by screwing over working folks and has been convicted of illegal insider trading. He funds a student fellowship that excludes students with American parents (especially pisses me off) and he was a Nazi collaborator as a teenager (born Jewish but later to lie about this to gain favor with Nazis). Gates and Buffet are probably just greedy, but Soros is pure evil. I agree with him that the war on drugs is a total failure, but in my opinion any cause he backs is damned by virtue of his endorsement.
Share your own right minded thinking with your friends and neighbors. Recently I told my neighbors that we had cancelled our local paper to help bankrupt the main-stream media’s propaganda machine. Then only fund charities that support your point of view. We give to the Heritage Foundation and the Alliance Defense Fund. Both support conservative principles.
Very, very, VERY well said. An excellent article about a subject that needs to be hammered on relentlessly until all of us on the Amateur Right get with the program.
Wonderful analysis Oleg, thank you. I agree with the comments above that as far as the right – or I should say the center – goes, we just haven’t been paying attention, but now the battle is joined and I see a continuing, growing and powerful movement to crush the ‘professional left’ – not just now in the election season, but going forward there needs to be an active, concerted effort to purge society of the far left.
I have recently started a small company, RightThemes.com. I am a web designer, WordPress specialist and artist, and you can be assured that my peer group trends to the left. But I see a real need to provide services dedicated to lifting conservative brands, activists, blogs and the like, to a higher standard.
To truly defeat socialism in this country, it will take a concerted and long term effort to address leftism in all of the sectors you mentioned: education, media, entertainment, journalism, arts, blogosphere, etc. The fact that the socialist caucus in the House of Reps includes 70 admitted members (not to mention shadow members too cowardly to reveal their affiliations) should be cause alarm – this would never fly several decades ago during the Cold War.
We let our guard down after the fall of the Soviet Union but the opposition did not; they have only grown in this country. And Oleg, I am particularly interested in your unique point of view; as a Ukrainian you offer a salient voice on these matters and we would all be wise to heed your advice. Thank you.
Superb article. You’ve written some supremely excellent stuff here at PJM.
I hope you’ll follow #4 here, and send a copy of this to the Gates, Buffetts, etc., etc.
Professional Left, yes, will use that term repeatedly at any opportunity.
To repeat your last paragraphs here.
“The least the amateur right can do is turn the term “professional left” into an insult and give it the widest circulation. Learn to identify, expose, and isolate the professional left. Ostracize and ridicule them. Disrupt their networks and cut off their finances. Deny them the moral high ground from which they preach and obtain public support.
“Don’t compromise, and never forget that their morals are crooked, their honor is stolen, their motives are corrupt, their methods are criminal, and their goal is a disaster.”
More like the professional two left feet inserted perpetually in mouth against the amateur right-hand banjo band learnin’ their tune (but, we iz a learnin’, Hos).
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boffo!! A direct hit! You’ve pretty much covered the waterfront in a single essay. I would add, however, that David Horowitz of frontpagemag.org has done yeoman’s service in doing much of the foundational footwork in connecting the dots linking these individuals and organizations at his “Discover The Networks” site–always a good reference source. Of course you and he have much in common–Horowitz himself a refugee from the fever swamps of the red-diaper baby Communist left and you from the geographical belly of the beast itself (with allowances that the Ukraine is, of course, a special case). In this case familiarity seemingly really DOES breed contempt. And, as history shows, deservedly so.
Yes, Oleg, don’t forget us conservative bloggers. We toil and labor (mostly in our PJ’s) to spread the conservative word. We may be small in number, but we make up for it with our enthusiasm.
Oleg Atbashian,
One of the best and most informative articles I’ve read in recent memory. And the conclusion offered the proper solutions.
I have suspected as much about a “professional left” for quite some time, but didn’t have your knowledge of the inside scoop.
The word will be out today to suggest as many people as possible read this.
This article is very much on target. But the author seemed to imply that somehow us conservatives are the better people for being amateurish. The comment by Anne is also on target here. Where the heck have we all been these past 30+ years? The fact that indeed we are still bloody amateurs in the battle for America scares the hell out of me. Instead of feeling a sense of smug superiority for being inept, self-absorbed, and disorganized, perhaps we should be focused on learning a few lessons from the insidious Left.
I think we were complacent after Reagan – we witnessed with our eyes the fall of communism and figured that was the end of the story. We had an extremely prosperous and peaceful decade after that, and of course our focus was elsewhere; then 9/11 and the world changed.
But we didn’t realize the internal threat from the socialist left until 2008. I mean they really were superb at the sneak attack, and they have been patient and have been building toward this time for decades. If you read through some of the literature on the Socialist Party of America’s website, they admit that since the time of LBJ, they have worked within the progressive wing of the Democrat party to achieve their goals, realizing that American’s would never vote for socialists, but in the name of liberalism, would incrementally accept all of the tenets of Marxism.
This is in THEIR OWN literature, its not conspiracy theory. We should be so thankful for the internet, the free exchange of information at our finger tips, and all of the work of the amateur bloggers, the Glen Becks of the world, etc, because now that we are aware of it, we can fight them. And I believe that now thta the ‘battle is joined’, we have a real shot to turn things around – as after all, we do have the majority of America behind us.
Humorous cartoon that fits this topic at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/grass-vs-astro/
Oleg Atbashian
Makes the following statement:
“But in real life, no intellectually honest person can talk about a “professional right” with a straight face. If such a term existed, it would most likely refer to those who earn a living in the private sector, own businesses, and are indeed professionals.”
-Let’s just start with “Dick” Armey.(-He says with a straight face)
Didn’t quite get what Mr Atbashian meant by professional left I see. Wouldn’t have made that comparison if you had.
…that is a trick of the professional left (well this one is an amateur), to try to make a moral equivalent to their crimes.
an illustration of the left in action. most sad.
This really does fit in with Pelosi and her comments yesterday about investigating who is financing the backlash against the Mosque near Ground Zero, of course no mention as to who is financing it is even considered. Just part of the Lefts attempt to threaten and demonize the Right.
Let us hope our professional right is reading this, VDH-Linbaugh, and follow up. Pete Longstreet remarked upon seeing Gen. Lee in his new beard.
“I see Lee is growing his war face, he will fight them now”. It is time to grow a war face and fight them now.
Oleg, with this single piece you have stepped up into the same league as VDH. And that is about the highest praise I can give.
Nice break down of the professional left’s many tricks, especially Trick #1, “Don’t talk about the professional left.” That one had me laughing, or as they say in the ground zero mosque finance committee, “hate speech”
Professional left? That’s nothing new. Lenin conquered Russia through his use of top-down ‘professional revolutionaries’, and his ability to not waste a good crisis like WWI. He used bank robberies and useful-idiot donors to finance them. Now we have non-profit NGOs to do that job – along with even more useful idiots.
Since the 60s, it appears that hordes of domestic ‘activists’ have served exactly as professional revolutionaries against the American democracy. Obama’s old homies at ACORN will serve as one example.
One of the tasks for the upcoming congress should be to find out how, through what channels, these people are getting taxpayer dollars. I guarantee it’s happening. Whether it’s via academia or Acorn style organizations, they are getting the money somehow. It can’t all be coming from Soros etc.
How much of the “Stimulus” money ended up in their hands and how did it get there? That, Mr. Issa, is a question for your committee!
I prefer the term “Loonybiscuit Left” myself.
The profesional left has made eunachs of the Democratic party.. There are no Democrats left..
This piece makes many excellent points. One that deserves to be reiterated is that many large foundations are deeply involved with the business of supporting the professional left, and so not only do they make grants to supposedly non-partisan organizations which work exclusively to advance leftist causes, but they give out “leadership” awards to activists who are involved with those causes. There is quite a network out there for left-wing activists who want to turn activism into their profession. One case in point is the Ford Foundation’s “Leadership for a changing world” program; I’ve provided a link to the website for that program below.
http://www.leadershipforchange.org/
The playing field may not be fair for conservatives in the MSM, academia, charitable trusts, etc. But in the marketplace of ideas, I have a good idea where the advantage is.
If you think there is an untapped demand for liberal thought and ideas, look no further than defunct Air America. Their five listeners could not support the business enterprise beyond the inaugural rollout, so they were compelled to buy airtime by the hour, just like the weekend hucksters do selling enlargement this and get-rich that. Management even resorted to looting a Boys and Girls Club for operating cash.
And they think the folks are buying what they produce?
A “must read”: “Darkness at Noon” a novel by Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.
Nothing has changed
I have often wondered how much of the $50 million Annenberg Challenge grant money wound up in Obama’s pocket.
I’ve also wondered why Obama’s GPA records from Columbia and Harvard are sealed. Why he never published anything while on the Harvard Law Review… Something is fishy here and the left is determined to hide the facts from the American voters.
I’m suspecting America’s first Affirmative Action President skated through with minimal grades and zero actual attendance.
The worst part of this is that the professional left has complete control of the Democratic party. The Democrats are funding these people everywhere they pop up. Look at the billions being spent on government research grants at universities. In fact, just follow the money that the government spends on any useless project and see where it goes. Thanks for the article. Conservatives are finally getting to know the face of the real collectivist enemy.
The professional left sounds a lot like revolutionary. How has that worked out the last few times socialist revolutionaries had political power.
To be sure, the system they were destroying wasn’t perfect, but the one they created was much, much worse.
a very good essay Oleg.
keep fighting
regards
Oleg – your brilliant article made my day. Home run.
Anne- Our money IS our freedom.
“The least the amateur right can do is turn the term “professional left” into an insult and give it the widest circulation. Learn to identify, expose, and isolate the professional left. Ostracize and ridicule them. Disrupt their networks and cut off their finances. Deny them the moral high ground from which they preach and obtain public support”.
We now have the most prefect ammunition for the upcoming elections and beyond. Rule for doing so: identify them, isolate them, freeze the money flow.
Oleg-great article!
Whats that ole saying…follow the money?
Professional left? … it’s the leadership body of the secular Ummah.
Professional Leftist is a great slam and I will use it,however I still prefer to call them Big Government Pinheads or perhaps Power Crazed Morons.
I really LMAOd on this one. Dick Armey was on the Daily SHow the other night, trying to explain how a multi-decade creature of the establishment like himself, ends up leading an outsider’s movement. Luckily for him, he was on a comedy show, so his absurd answer was in context. The tea party may have begun as an indpendent movement, but you all [and by you, I mean the people who really run Pajamas Media, the Republican party] took it over just as soon as you could, using the same tactics you decry in this article. The people that follow are rightly considered fools. There’s no other way to explain it.
Well, there IS another explanation.
And that would be… your are a far left retard. “Nough said.
Occams Razor.
you should never go FULL RETARD ..Sean Penn went full retard and never recovered.
yes we all know the drill ..try to make some moral equivalence with conservatives. that is not a debate …to debate you would be pointless
see link Arguing with apes
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/080121jb_en.html
Would that the progressives/lieberal/left plied their evil trade on ‘charitable” contributions. No , as “ACORN has shown… they bleed us tax payers for their funds.
Then they corrupt democracy for the vote to let those liberal maggots continue their crime. 42 million on foodstamps… 62 million vote Obama… 58 million pay for it.
That IS the problem.
The solution… only those who pay get to call the tune. You get a government handout.. no voting for you that year. That includes such subterfuge as “earned income” welfare.
This is probably the best article I have ever read on PJmedia. Well played, Oleg.
Anybody ready yet to draw up some amenable lines, divide the country and get rid of these people?
“the professional left and the Democrat leaders …”
Both are the same thing in today’s world. White House is, from top to bottom, the quintessential professional Left, and so is the Democratic leadership in Congress. Most importantly, though, the author seems to have not grasped the real nature of the Gibbs criticism of “professional Left”—it wasn’t a ‘slip of tongue’. If you listen to the tape, you can see that it was, indeed, a deliberate plant (almost out of the blue). It is Obama and Congressional Democratic leadership’s totally phony way of distancing themselves from being associated with the professional left—with Nov in mind. It is laughable, but more importantly, it is sinister of highest order—it is an equivalent to Hitler coming out and decrying ‘the professional rank-and-file Nazis” while pretending to be wanting to win an election that he doesn’t quite intend to hold. It is a subterfuge within a subterfuge.
And of course, in the art of professional lying, the entire Right is bunch of amateurs. Even more tragically, they are out of their depth in terms of the wit required to discern the labyrinthine mega lie that is the Left. Most naive bunch of individuals I have seen on this planet. (with a few exceptions, of course).
“the professional left and the Democrat leaders …”
Both are the same thing in today’s world. White House is, from top to bottom, the quintessential professional Left, and so is the Democratic leadership in Congress. Most importantly, though, the author seems to have not grasped the real nature of the Gibbs criticism of “professional Left”—it wasn’t a ‘slip of tongue’. If you listen to the tape, you can see that it was, indeed, a deliberate plant (almost out of the blue). It is Obama and Congressional Democratic leadership’s totally phony way of distancing themselves from being associated with the professional left—with Nov in mind. It is laughable, but more importantly, it is sinister of highest order—it is an equivalent to Hitler coming out and decrying ‘the professional rank-and-file Nazis” while pretending to be wanting to win an election that he doesn’t quite intend to hold. It is a subterfuge within a subterfuge.
And of course, in the art of professional lying, the entire Right is bunch of amateurs. Even more tragically, they are out of their depth in terms of the wit required to discern the labyrinthine mega lie that is the Left. Most naive bunch of individuals I have seen on this planet. (with a few exceptions, of course).
Obama’s Bin Lyin’ and America’s Dyin’
Talking of the ‘Professional Left’its leader Obama (Soetero??)one cant even be straight with the American people when he takes a swim. The truthfully challenged one strikes again.
“According to the White House website, Obama swam off Alligator Point, which is not in the Gulf, but rather in Saint Andrews Bay.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/15/obama-swims-in-gulf-or-maybe-not/
Now if he cant even be TRUTHFUL about such a simple thing how can you trust ANYTHING Mr “57 State” “Austrians speak Austrian” “police are stupid’ ‘I have always been a Christian’ says.
Obama’s Bin Lyin’ and America’s Dyin’
Brilliant article! The professional left is tightly organized and in control of almost all cultural organizations: universities, the entire K-12 public education system, mass media, arts, foundations, and politically-correct big businesses. By controlling these institutions, the professional left distorts language and culture so people lose the connection to reality. Culture is prior to politics. People are attracted to Truth and flock to it once they have a choice. We already have many Truth-based alternative institutions that are growing stronger and more visible: home school networks, new media, faith communities, Christian music. It’s all about perseverance.
This is excellent! Thank you… we should all forward to our contacts and help educate the “professional right” — we’re up against it but knowledge is power! Thanks Oleg!
A wonderful description.Their biological classification would have to be a separate class of parasites. Similar to termites . They operate in concealment. They tunnel, burrow and destroy their own environment and they produce only one thing….. more termites.
It just occurred to me, maybe the Tea Party types should adopt some of those old New Left expressions? I mean, maybe the Tea party should use political slogans that have worked? Like, “never trust anyone over thirty!” (Especially if they’re over thirty and in academia or other indoctrination institutions. ) Or, how about “Revolution for the hell of it” ? Wouldn’t that be ironic, Abbie Hoffman’s street theatre words coming back to haunt the revolutionaries now in power? Or how about another updated version, say,” No to neocolonialism, close the borders now!”? Or “No synagogue in Mecca, no peace” ? Or, better yet, how about the catchy phrase, “Every bigot’s beautiful in there own way”? Or the shorter version, “Bigot is beautiful”? After all, it did work for “Black is beautiful!” Thats it, Bigot Power! After all, it takes a bigot to know a bigot. Or “Give peace a chance, no Mosque!” “Off the pig,” the favorite of the Black Panthers, could be “Off the Jihadi” The combinations and permutations are endless, that’s what’s so great about democracy.
For all his money, Rush Limbaugh has said on more than one occasion, that if he sprouted “the Left’s Views” and did his shows as supporting them, he would be MUCH BELOVED by the Media, and making even more money.
But that would not be honest, or fun.
Seems that there may well be, many people that “follow the money” and found that being a “professional Marxist or Socialist” DOES pay better, and gets you invited to cool A-List parties and events.
This article is a nice framework, but it would be good if there were follow up articles detailing specific organizations and specific individuals of the professional left.
Me, I would start with that odious abortion mill, Planned Parenthood.
Sandra said: For all his money, Rush Limbaugh has said on more than one occasion, that if he sprouted “the Left’s Views” and did his shows as supporting them, he would be MUCH BELOVED by the Media, and making even more money.
I listen to Rush almost daily and I’ve never heard him say he’d be loved by the media if he had leftist views or that he’d be making more money. If Rush had been like “Air America” with leftist views he’d be broke and gone long ago. Being loved by the media doesn’t make a talk show host rich. Telling the truth does.
Personally, I don’t think ‘Professional’ is the right word to use. I have always thought of Looney Left as being the most fitting description. As they are always on the road to some doomed ideology, it can only be looney.
Just like the very big, professional warrior Goliath, who was leading the way; until little, unprofessional David put an end to the nonsense.
This is a good start, sunlight begins the sterilization process. Blogs are a great new weapon that can magnify and focus that sunlight. Like JohnBoy said, we need to stay on top of this and expand it to local areas where we can make a difference. Where is the professional left in my town, my county, and my state? Find it and destroy it.
Gould’s Ghost – Drawing comparisons of the Tea Party folk to the DNC.. wow you sure are reaching. Then again you’re obviously a knee-jerk reacting Democrat. Fair enough.
I’m an Independent voter. I’ve not once claimed a political affiliation with the 17 years I’ve been fortunate to vote. How anyone can go 100% with either party line is beyond me.
You wouldn’t think of me as an Independent for liberals ALWAYS assume I’m ‘on their side’. Perhaps it’s the beard, rope sandals and bicycling/unicycling. Democrats are very visual creatures and assume affiliation far too often.
Greenpeace, PETA and other moronic organizations again ALWAYS attempt to talk me up.. specifically at Metro’s L’Enfant Plaza Station. I’ve got a beard, am fit. I bicycle, unicycle most places. Yet that’s where our ‘similarities’ cease. I don’t believe the Dems/Libs have absorbed the saying, ‘Don’t judge a book..’.
I was at the September ’09 DC gathering. I wasn’t contacted by ‘Dick Armey’ or any other t urd claiming to ‘control’ or ‘be in charge’ of the Tea Party events.
At the ’09 event were Asian, Black and White speakers. An anti-Obama rap group and a myriad of other speakers who spoke with factual clarity instead of the screaming, preaching most often incorporated by your party.
Furthermore, the people on the crowded Metro trains (which had to outnumber the regular riders 9-1.. just an estimate) on the way to D.C. came of their own volition. From all over the country. And no, it wasn’t only purple, silver heads.
You just proved Oleg’s point in this article regarding ‘ the Left and Right’. Though I wouldn’t placate you to ‘Professional’ status. Just another of the minion who’d picked the wrong career and blame everyone else for your plight. Hey, last I heard Greenpeace is in need of folks..
The problem is one of word definitions, our liberals aren’t like your liberals.
In a lot of places, the status quo is one of limited rights, or even outright oppression. Liberals in such a place work to increase freedom through promoting progressive change. Conservatives in such a place would be working to preserve things the way they already are, that is, to restrict freedom.
But what about a place where the default condition was freedom, guaranteed by immutable law? Any change would have to be very carefully considered lest it result in a reduction of rights and freedoms. In such a place, liberals and conservatives find their classic roles reversed. The conservatives uphold freedom, while the liberals work to reduce it or outright abolish it.
The Professional Left strikes again. See http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Liberty+lovers+meet+their+match/3416082/story.html
Meetings on private property about freedom, are banned by Ontario Bureaucrats.
The same happens in every revolution (french terror, anyone?) and even with Nazis. Eventual self-consumption seems to be generic. Particularly if you are in a hurry to build new glorious society.
Yes, aside from Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the Heritage Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Koch Brothers, the Cato Institute, the George Marshall Foundation (recently exposed as funding all sorts of junk science in the service of corporate interests), the Heartland Institute, The Hoover Institution, the Coors Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Manhattan Institute, FreedomWorks (funding and organizing the astroturf Tea Party movement), the Scaife Foundation, etc, etc…conservatives are just a bunch of poorly-funded amateurs.
The “LEFT” here in the US sounds a lot like the Lefts in other countries, both past and present. Kymer Rouge? Stalinists? Viet Cong? Obama “Czars”? Nazis? Marxists? Many others that have or had but One goal in mind. ENSLAVE the people and set themselves up on a throne and call themselves Party Leaders.
You can definitely see your expertise within the paintings you write. The world hopes for more passionate writers such as you who are not afraid to mention how they believe. At all times follow your heart.