As open support for Hamas and gleeful defiance of the authorities whom the students know are both impotent and sympathetic sweeps across our nation’s campuses, it comes as no great surprise that a flyer has been circulating at the University of Michigan that proclaims: “Freedom for Palestine Means Death to America.” Well, at least we now know where we stand and where all this is tending. But this has been coming for a long, long time.
Aviva Klompas, the former chief speechwriter for the Israeli Mission to the UN, on Monday, posted a partial photo of the flyer on X. It also says: “Ultimately, our main task as revolutionaries in the United States remains to be the unmaking of the American empire.”
It is remarkable how easy it is for these newly-minted Minecraft-playing study hall Bolsheviks to ape the choked syntax of their Marxist ideological mentors, but in any case, the import of what is being said is clear: these clowns aren’t just calling for the destruction of Israel and a new genocide of the Jews but for the demise of the very land in which their mom’s basement is located. To put it delicately, these leftist geniuses haven’t exactly thought this through.
The pro-terror mob at @UMich is distributing flyers that read "Freedom for Palestine means Death to America"
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 22, 2024
When people tell you who they are, BELIEVE THEM pic.twitter.com/ntbm4gYR2F
Anyway, the groundwork for all this was laid decades ago. In the 1960s, leftists began what Communist activist Rudi Dutschke indelibly dubbed “the Long March Through the Institutions.” In China, Communist top dog Mao Zedong began the Long March in 1934 to evade nationalist forces; the term, however, came to be associated with his slow, steady, patient rise to power, culminating in the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949.
The Long March Through the Institutions was the same kind of slow, steady takeover, as Communists, leftists, and their allies gradually gained control of America’s colleges and universities, its primary and secondary educational systems, its popular culture, and above all, its ever-growing federal bureaucracy.
Now imagine growing up in this atmosphere. The left’s stranglehold on American culture has led to a situation in which those who oppose this multifarious and all-encompassing establishment are universally derided and ridiculed virtually everywhere one turns — in what are supposed to be objective and impartial news broadcasts; in lessons about the nation’s history, present condition, and future prospects at every level of the educational system; in movies, popular music, and more. All of the late-night comedians who host talk shows are part of this camp, and although they hobnob with the political elites, they still posture as if they were plucky outsiders going up against a stultified and stultifying entrenched orthodoxy. Amid all this, most college students who might be tempted to think clearly don’t stand a chance.
At this point, the anti-establishment rebels of the 1960s have become the establishment all over the world, and are working hard now to consolidate their power and crush all dissent. The University of Michigan’s coddled tent anarchists, and their counterparts at Columbia, Yale, and elsewhere, would be shocked to hear it, but there is nothing courageous or daring about the stand they’re taking. They are the quintessential establishmentarians.
Although they have been rising to power in all fields for decades, only in recent years (most notably as part of the fallout from the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016) has the true extent of their hegemony and the sweep of their future plans become widely known. The 2024 election will take place amid greater general awareness of the motives, goals, and general endeavors of this group than any other election in American history. That is one reason why so very, very much is at stake.
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Meanwhile, the left’s takeover of the universities is hardly news; it has been known for decades. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms was widely rumored way back in the 1970s to have said that instead of building a zoo, just build a fence around the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and charge admission. He denied having said it, but the charge lingered for years, and had real substance to it, as Helms was referring to the leftist subculture that dominated that university as well as universities all over the country even as long as five decades ago.
By now, the Marxist takeover of the universities has been a done deal for years, all dissent has been crushed, and the indoctrination is in full swing. We see the fruits of it today at the University of Michigan, Columbia, Yale, and all over the country. But make no mistake: this will neither die down nor stay on university campuses. What we’re seeing now is just the beginning.
