Spotted on College Avenue, just a couple blocks from the University of California:
It’s always important to remember a key fact that is rarely discussed in polite company:
The Democratic Party is composed of two factions: Extreme leftists, like the ones who made this graffiti in Berkeley, who hate capitalism, hate America, and want to usher in a socialist revolution; and middle-of-the-road blue-collar Americans who only want the best for themselves but who have been tricked into making an alliance with radicals whose very goal is to destroy the fabric of middle-class society.
The great struggle of the last few decades is between, on one hand, radical strategists who strive to hide their true intent so they can deceive average Americans into facilitating the revolution; and on the other hand, conservative/libertarian strategists who realize that in order to overwhelmingly win every election all they need to do is expose the extremism and clever masquerade of the progressive “vanguard” leading flyover country voters astray.
And with that, we return to your regular programming.
Reality is that Socialism kills, and the evidence is that it killed over 100 million in the last century. National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Maoist Socialism, it makes no difference to the man killed.
This century it will kill more.
Euro-Socialism will be very very lucky if it ends with less than 20 million dead.
Reading about the already extant “death panels” dominating the British socialized health care system, I’d say we are already making rapid progress toward that 20 million.
The wages of socialism is death.
Any way you can sneak back to that sidewalk with chalk in hand to alter that to…
Capitalism Kills Poverty. Socialism Kills People
??
I agree that the blue collar worker has been duped, but there is also the recipient/parasite class that has been enslaved. They have been enslaved by the extremist slaveholder class to which you refer. Essentially, both groups have been seduced by the extremist manipulators with a multi-pronged attack.
And free money is the date rape drug.
Stellar metaphor.
As for re-chalking: I limit myself to documentation of reality, and haven’t yet progressed to participation in it.
But I love your suggestion and wish I had the gender-neutral gonads to act on it.
Use the stealth of night to do the alteration. It’s what I’ve used to to post my Coward signs around town. http://disruptthenarrative.com/2012/10/29/print-it-out-post-it-up-everywhere/
Who needs the confrontation?
If anyone is interested the Tab format is best. Not meaning to self promote, but we all have our little missions.
You can add that Capitalism also kills:
bacteria (proctor and gamble)
viruses (novartis)
crop pests (dow)
cancer (siemens)
depression (several makers of drugs for this)
erectile dysfunction (ditto)
hunger (archer daniels midland etc…)
fatigue (ford motor, caterpillar etc…)
flooding (bechtel corp)
debilitating cold (energy producers)
etc….
You expressed my first thought in your comment.
If by “blue collar workers” you include Union workers, don’t forget there there has been a long and historical alliance between the labor movement and the far Left in America, as well as worldwide. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone in this instance.
Hey Zombie, while looking at this photo I happened to notice the yellow square, I have a number of these things on our street. I’m wondering if these yellow squares were related to another government regulation? These people who hate capitalism also love large amounts of regulations, which ultimately lead to the death of the middle class, imho!
The yellow square itself is fairly innocuous: it’s just one of those rubber grip-’em mats so people don’t slip on the sloped sidewalk when it rains.
What is as a result of govt regulation is the sloped curb itself, which was installed to comply with the ADA — the American with Disabilities Act. Berkeley decided to go the whole hog and make every single corner in the whole city ADA-compliant, so that wheelchairs could roll up them. Few cities went that far.
Actually, I don’t mind the sloped curbs in Berkeley — they don’t interfere in any way with pedestrians or cars. But other aspects of the ADA have indeed been onerous and financially burdensome, and ugly: Every business and pubic building has to install ramps and elevators, and in an area with a lot of old architecture, the ramps and elevators have completely destroyed the aesthetic.
Hey I’m one of those that use a walker to get around – what alternative do you propose – I live in socal – most places I go to are NOT handicap friendly, i.e. HEAVY door entrances etc.
– Bears collapsed this season.
That is one of the reasons this election is so important. If we can smash the Democrats this election, then the Obama wing of the Democratic party is done, at least for a long time. They rightly saw 2008 as a year when the Democrat could not lose, a chance to insert a radical into power and ram through 40 years of pent up liberal agenda. If we can get rid of Obamacare, healthcare will become the new third rail of American politics, nobody will try and take it over again for decades. Since socialized healthcare is goal number 1 for these people, they will have been defeated, for a long time. The Democratic party will be forced to tack to the center and the daily-kos crowd left out in the cold where they belong. My generation (millenials) poured all their idealism into this one man, all the progressive energy and idealism of an entire generation. I witnessed it in the news and the screaming chanting mobs on my college campus in 2008. I’m not seeing it this year. It is imperative that he be defeated and humiliated, that my generation have the left-wing idealism beaten from them by the cold wall of reality before it can metastasize like it did for the radicals of the 60s. If my generation can be made to wake up and realize that their vote in 2008 is the reason they have no job, then maybe the country has a chance. Failing that I’ll take them being beaten into submission and staying home. Either way, if we break Obama, we break the progressive lock on my generation, they’ve poured all their passion into him.
FWIW although I’m in my early 20s, I’m not really a member of my own generation, for example I’m the only person my age I know who still refuses to get on Facebook.I understand them though, and breaking Obama will go a long way towards breaking the spell. A few are already starting to wake up.
Thanks for the encouraging message, TPM.
Unlike our federal government that refused to fully defeat the enemy after the first 9/11, shrinking to the message that islam is a religion of peace, your clarion call is to cut off the enemy’s head, figuratively speaking, of course.
Stand strong and stay firm. Or as Allen West would say, stay steadfast and loyal.
There’s actually a third faction of Democrats: wealthy elitists, such as Hollywood liberals, George Soros types, media “journalists” & academics.
The problem is while many voters who identify themselves as Democrats and who are middle of the road people, the party they identify with is the party of Henry Wallace Democrats.
In reality, that vast majority of blue collar workers have already left the donkey party. Only a rump of less than 10% of that demographic who are members of strong unions (and not even all of them) are loyal. Go ask a coal miner. But be prepared for some profanity.
I think the Sandy mess illustrates the divide: if you’re one of the union members who think it’s a good thing that nonunion line crews were turned away, you’re an Obama supporter. If you’re one of the other 90% who thinks that they need to fix the power lines, and worry about union politics later, you’re with Romney.