You Gotta Hear What Happened at the Socialist Convention
Aug 7, 2019
RUSH: Saturday in Atlanta there was a convention. It was the National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America. Now, this is truly a fringe group. This is a fringe Democrat group that’s actually mainstream. This is a group that embodies quite a few young and middle-aged disaffected and completely abnormal people who cannot find a way to fit in. And I think, by the way, that accurately describes quite a large segment of the Democrat base, if you want to get right down to it.
I think it’s a lot of people that just can’t find a way to fit in, and they’re fed up with that, and they know it, and so they’re trying to reorient and redefine things so that what they are and what they believe is what is normal. It’s a lost cause. But these two sound bites are perfectly illustrative of who these people are. There is a segment here. These sound bites come during a segment in the convention, Democratic Socialists of America, on defeating capitalism, and this discussion was prominent in this convention. Here’s the first of the two bites…
WOMAN #1: If we want to defeat capitalism, we are going to need a party that will organize working people to fight for the demands that we want and to win socialism. Thank you so much.
FEMALE MODERATOR: Great. Bring it on. Um —
JACKSON: Um, quick point of privilege! Quick point of personal privilege!
FEMALE MODERATOR: Uhhh, yes?
JACKSON: Ummm, guys… First of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he/him. I just want to say, can we please keep the chatter to a minimum?
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1RUSH: Wait, wait, wait! Stop! This is going by so fast. Take this back to the top now. This guy said, “Guys, guys, uh, uh, hang on! Point of personal privilege. First of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he/him.†He’s identifying himself as a cisgender male. He wants everybody to know that he doesn’t intend to be discriminating against any trannies that are in the crowd. So he’s identifying himself as cisgender, binary. “He/him†as opposed to they/us, as opposed to it/them, or however they do it. Okay. From the top again…
WOMAN: If we want to defeat capitalism, we are going to need a party that will organize working people to fight for the demands that we want and to win socialism. Thank you so much.
FEMALE MODERATOR: Great. Bring it on. Um —
JACKSON: Um, quick point of privilege! Quick point of personal privilege!
FEMALE MODERATOR: Uhhh, yes?
JACKSON: Ummm, guys… First of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he/him. I just want to say, can we please the chatter to a minimum? I’m one of the people who’s very, very prone to sensory overload. There’s a lot of whispering and chatter going on. It’s making it very difficult for me to focus. Please, can we just…? I know it’s… We’re all fresh and ready to go, but can we please just keep the chatter to a minimum? It’s affecting my ability to focus. Thank you.
FEMALE MODERATOR: Thank you, Comrade. Okay. Is there a speaker against name, chapter, pronouns?
MAN: Point of privilege! Point of personal privilege!
FEMALE MODERATOR: Yes?
MAN: Please do not use gendered language to c… (sputtering) to address everyone! (Gasp!)
FEMALE MODERATOR: Okay.
RUSH: You should see the look on the moderator’s face. The moderator’s face is clueless. The moderator has lost control. The moderator thinks that everybody loves her. The moderator thinks she’s in total control. The moderator’s having the time of her life! She matters. Her life matters! She’s at the National Socialist convention, and here are two people — after a wonderful presentation — complaining to her. One is complaining about whispering and charter, and he’s being sensory overloaded. He can’t he can’t focus, and it’s her fault. He identified himself as “he/him.â€
That ticked off somebody else in the crowd, the second guy who said (impression), “Hey, point of personal privilege! Please don’t use gendered language to address everyone, all right? We know. We can tell by looking at you what you are! We don’t need to hear it.†So they can’t even keep order in his own convention. This guy did not want to hear, “Hi, James Jackson, Sacramento, he/him.†(laughing) “I don’t want to hear the gendered stuff, all right? I can tell by looking at you what you are and what you’re not. (pause) I think.†Then the second sound bite from the National Convention of Democratic Socialists of America, a guy stood up to outline the rules of the convention…
MAN: First of all, in this room, I see that no one’s clapping for me. It could be because I’m not engaging, but it also is because everyone’s doing this (jazz hands), and that’s really important. Because those loud bursts of noise even though this is a noisy space when we can do something like reducing that, that’s really important. We’re not trying to be jerks, but there are, uhhh, right-wing infiltrators who are trying to get in here. Don’t really talk to anybody who doesn’t have a credential! Don’t talk to cops! Don’t talk to MAGA ass(bleep)s.
CROWD: (hooting)
MAN: We’re almost there. There’s also, on Piedmont 8, a completely quiet room. One thing to note there. Please don’t go into that space with anything that’s like an aggressive scent, for instance, right? Trying to be chill, right? Take a deep breath (inhales/exhales) and feel better before you say anything.
RUSH: Folks, there’s nothing I can add here. I may be able to clarify, point things out, but… when I hear this, can I tell you my honest reaction is? I feel so sorry. I really do. I feel so sorry for these people, and I wonder: What the hell has happened to them? They’re just being robbed! These people are being robbed of a normal life in the greatest country on earth by all of these really extreme, crazy influences. You know, they’re seeking some kind of relevance and meaning, and they are finding it — or trying to find it — in some of the oddest places.
I’m sure this guy probably thinks that he was a hero by warning people not to make noise, and warning people (summarized), “There are right-wing infiltrators trying to get in here! Don’t talk to anybody who doesn’t have a credential! Don’t talk to the cops. Don’t talk to any of these MAGA [butt]holes. We’re almost there. And then on Piedmont 8, there’s another ballroom, completely quiet room. But one thing to note, please don’t go in there with anything like an aggressive scent,†which could be anything from somebody expelling gas to putting on too much perfume.
Look at all of the restrictions these people want to put on each other. Look at all of the shaming they want to do on each other, and look at what kind of behavior it is that draws plaudits. Oh, and how about in the first bite? Yeah, I didn’t miss it, the moderator saying, “Thank you, Comrade.†Are we serious here? “Thank you, Comrade� For those of you who don’t, that’s how the old Soviet Union communists addressed each other. They were comrades.
So here at the National Socialist convention, somebody speaks and complains about the noises as being distracting, preventing some poor guy from focusing. “Thank you, Comrade! Thank you. Thank you, Comrade.†And then this other guy stood up and said he was sick and tired of the “gendered language to address everybody.†But this is who these people are, and you talk about how do you help them? You want to grab their shoulders and shake ’em and say, “What happened to you? What is it that has caused you…?†Well, I can answer my own question. (interruption)
“Where do they work where there’s no sensory overload?†I don’t know that they do work. I mean, there’s really a disconnect here. And a lot of people think that, “Well, if we just find a way to reach these people and convert them.†I don’t know that we know how, folks. I wouldn’t know. If I walked in there — and if I were anonymous, if I was invisible and walked in there — and had the objective of trying to get these people to check back into reality, what would you do?
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