June 26, 2020
The Left Craps Out
By J.R. Dunn
There are plenty of leftists swaggering these days. Cities have blazed, municipal and state governments have been humiliated, police forces are cowering, mighty corporations are trampling each other to apologize for things they had absolutely nothing to do with.
At first glance, this appears to be the left’s moment in the sun, something they’ve looked forward to for many years, if not generations. Throughout the 20th century, the left’s problem with the United States was the lack of a proletariat to lead against the oppressors. The American working class was the farthest thing in the world from an “oppressed†– they lived better than all but the ruling classes in most societies. What did they have to revolt against? Thanks to this, a revolutionary situation simply refused to develop. No thesis, no antithesis, and certainly no synthesis. The Left’s recent history was a forlorn search for an American proletariat it could place itself at the head of. First it was labor unions, then the blacks, and lately college students. American blacks, who had in fact suffered true oppression, were the most dependable.
By 2020, it must have seemed to many that the moment had arrived. Institutions had been suitably debased. The country was suffering from a universal pandemic along with an economic crisis brought about an incompetent near-hysterical response from bogus “experts†in fields ranging from epidemiology to economics.
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