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I Wasn’t Around Berlin

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…in 1939.

[Update a while later]

Poor Hitler. He’s learned that #OWS is a laughingstock.

[Late morning update]

Follow the red flag:

Almost every organization present at OWS is explicitly communist or socialist. Almost every piece of literature being handed out is explicitly communist or socialist. I don’t mean half, and I don’t mean the overwhelming majority — I mean almost all of it. Yes, there are the usual union goons trying to figure out how to get OWS to do the bidding of the AFL-CIO and the Democratic party, and the usual smattering of New Age goo (the “Free Empathy” table) and po-mo Left wackiness (animal-rights nuts), the inevitable Let’s-Eradicate-Israel crowd (“Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!”). But, that being said, almost every organized enterprise and piece of printed material I have encountered has been socialist or communist. It’s been a long time since I saw anybody peddling books by Lenin. It’s been a long time since anybody told me the Ukrainians had it coming.

When the protesters were rallying to march to Times Square, out went the call: “Follow the red flag!” Which is what they did, literally and, I fear, figuratively.

Interesting, then, that Barack Obama has decided to lend some presidential legitimacy to the proceedings. OWS isn’t a socialist revolution — I’d be surprised if it ever escalated past the vandalism stage — but it imagines itself to be, and Barack Obama suggests that he is in sympathy with it. This reminds me of something . . . a particular image…

The Tea Party was a revolt of the producers. #OWS is the usual collectivist leach class.

[Update a couple minutes later]

They’re for “economic justice.”

6 thoughts on “I Wasn’t Around Berlin”

  1. What’s funny is the Left is “occupying” places they already control like NY, LA, Miami, Portland, etc. That’s like me occupying my backyard this weekend for some BBQing, save the latter actually producing something of (non-comedic) value.

  2. Agreed. Occupy Dallas turned out to be a pathetic joke. Ditto Occupy Fort Worth. To my knowledge there was no Occupy protest in our Dallas-area State-U college town, nor in Denton to the north (home of the University of North Texas). In fact, the only thing about which the kids around here seem excited is the upcoming Rangers-Cardinals World Series, which starts Wednesday.

    Just more evidence that NY, SF, etc. are no longer part of the national polity.

    Politics and debate are meaningful only in the contect of a shared worldview and values structure. When the citizens of a nation no longer share the same values and fundamental worldview, the nation can no longer be said to exist. Once a society becomes divided into impenetrable ideological blocs, politics become a pointless exercise. There is literally nothing left to debate. From that point on, violence — threatened or realized — becomes the primary method of determining who holds power.

  4. Didn’t see B Lewis, but had a great time at Occupy Dallas on Saturday. Got there mid-afternoon, so too late for the march on Gold man Sachs, but did get to flash my sign (“Naked CDS, Naked Short, Naked Greed) for honks. Even got a “Go Home!” from some guy in a PoS van.

    Was interviewed by some Texas Women’s University journalists in training, and one of the organizers asked my to explain my diagrams that I had drawn on the sidewalk for the TWU folks. While ignorant, he certainly wasn’t stupid, and was jumping in with answers the more we got into the details and he started piecing things together. FWIW, the diagrams were of MBS transactions, CDS transactions, LBO transactions, and some other stuff. Even cleaned off the sidewalk when I was done. I left about the time the Ch. 11 news team arrived. I know who they work for, and in my journalists have had ample time to do their jobs but can’t be bothered. I’m not going to make it any easier for them, or provide fodder for the story they want to tell.

    Good times. I may have to pop down again this next weekend and do it again.

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