The American Left is beyond parody. Apparently Salon would have us believe that the Paris jihad massacre happened because “the right wing media” criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. Islamic jihad? Warfare against unbelievers? The Islamic State’s stated imperative to murder French civilians? Only greasy Islamophobes take such things seriously: everyone knows Fox News and Ben Carson are the real culprits!
(Anne Sophie Chaisemartin via AP)
“And so the hate speech begins: Let Paris be the end of the right’s violent language toward activists,” by Chauncey DeVega, Salon, November 13, 2015:
In a still developing situation, the city of Paris, France, is under attack by terrorists armed with guns and explosives. Many dozens of people have been killed. A still undetermined number of people have been wounded. The terrorists took dozens of hostages in a concert hall. French police and military forces have been deployed. There is mayhem and blood in the streets of Paris….
In the United States, the right-wing media and movement conservatives have for decades consistently used eliminationist and other violent rhetoric to describe liberals, progressives and other people with whom they disagree. As was seen in the recent attacks on a Charleston-area black church, and other violence by right-wing anti-government militias, such rhetoric does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.
In recent months, the right-wing media has used language such as “terrorism” and “violent,” or that the latter is “targeting police for murder” to describe the Black Lives Matter movement. Such bombastic and ugly screeds–which are wholly unfounded, with no basis in empirical reality–have also been used by right-wing opinion leaders to describe the African-American students who are fighting against racism at Yale and the University of Missouri….
Real terrorists have killed people in the streets of Paris. The right-wing media needs to take note of that fact and moderate their rhetoric and abusive language accordingly.
Given the American right-wing’s casual habit of using violent language to describe their foes, and to gin up fear and anxiety among the movement conservative base, the Fox News’ right-wing echo chamber and its elites should be ashamed given the death and destruction that terrorism actually reaps in practice.
Don McKellar says
I am almost stumbling into the street below after having a glance at this piece of insanity.
How?
What?
What?
WHAT???
RichardL says
We are seeing the death throes of the ideology of idiotism. I doubt that the author will ever write for any national outlet again.
I lived in the 10th and describing it as ‘fashionable’ is wrong. It is not an upmarket neighbourhood. Lots of Mohammedans and foreigners.
JIMJFOX says
The imbecile who wrote this insulting drivel should be certified insane and locked away.
ballotcode says
That would be exclusionist.
/s
CogitoErgoSum says
What the ????????? Sounds like a threat to me. Shut-up and sit down or bad things will happen to you, eh. To hell with you, Chauncey!!!
Aton says
Well, that is the whole idea of the Covenant of Dhimmitude and the Islamic protection Racket.
Unbelievers should: know their place, bow to Muslims, move to the side to allow a Muslim to pass, never be in command of anything, never have a house larger than a Muslim, never own a horse, and always pay the Jizya tax that funds the affluent Muslim lifestyle.
That is what Liberals call “Muslims and Christians living in harmony”.
Aton
Saxon says
Wow, at least wait until the bodies have cooled before you change the narrative. Parasites.
خَليفة says
How does one describe violent, inhuman acts without using violent and inhuman adjectives?
DeVega makes a good case for increased “eliminationist rhetoric”, suggesting that the “right” does not far enough – the violence is in fact horrendous, and as always, the most heinous acts against humanity are performed by the followers of Satan, also known as “devout Muslims”.
There are 3 ways of doing something, 1) the right way, 2) the wrong way and 3) the left way. What is the difference between the wrong way and the left way? Nothing.
terry says
LOL THAT is great commentary. hahhahha
Dan says
Don’t mean to be picky but, regarding 2, isn’t 3 redundant?
خَليفة says
Yes 2 is redundant, but when raising children, sometimes you have to let them feel more important than they really are, knowing that as they get smarter and wiser, they will grow out of that phase.
silvergreycat says
No matter what the Left and the Right say/do the terrorists view both groups as unbelievers/kafirs/infidels… http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm
Wellington says
Yes indeed, the Left has actually managed to put forth rubbish which is, as Robert Spencer has stated, beyond parody. I would add that there is a great deal of hypocrisy going on as well. When one takes a look at what the Left has said about such people as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin et al., and it has at times been really vile stuff, to assert that conservatives are haters, never mind the idiocy of attributing Islamic terrorism to those on the Right, is steeped in a monumental hypocrisy that is truly sickening and worthy of contempt in its own right.
terry says
Wile I detest such pseudo-intellectualism as exhibited in the above article, and the countless diatribes like it; I must honestly acknowledge that the fools of spouted hatreds haunt all sides. I detest such doings, regardless of who, and for what cause or reasons the hatreds are spouted. Often I must, as a Christian, collect my self and desist, and seek forgiveness for having such hatreds in my heart, and for the hatreds pour forth from my mouth and in my words. I must stand and fight, but I do not have to relish and enjoy the fighting with hatred. With merely Truth, fortitude, willingness, and persistence I must fight, where I live and stand. For me, because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, my family, and my nation, I do my best to do- where I stand! Peace, Love, & much Understanding…
Singh the Sikh says
Head in the clouds Liberalists constructing fanciful narrative to fit some sexy theory, ignoring the realities unfolding in front of them on a daily basis.
We all knew it was only a matter of time before this atrocity took place. ANd we all know that is is going to happen again.
The western world has two choices – remain a soft and easy target or fight back hard, starting at home by eradicating the cancer in your midst.
Westman says
The sniveling weaklings at Salon have spoken! The militant Muslims hang upon their every word.
The editors will demonstrate the truth of their peaceful words by walking down the nightime streets in the no-go zones of England, France, and Germany and writing up the peace they encountered.
ballotcode says
It is funny, the author is condemning rhetoric and not condemning the [violent terrorists’] motivation for violence, Mohamedism.
somehistory says
How do people that refuse to think, get a position of responsibility that involves the use of words?
One cannot describe terrorism and terrorists and murderers and homicides without using words that convey violence because these are violent actions and/or people. And whether or not FOX and others say the truth about the groups that are committing the murder and/or mayhem, the groups committing the crimes will continue to commit them.
So thankful not to be trusting my knowledge of what is happening in the world to this *writer.* Such drivel.
Beagle says
Wow, that’s a very long non sequitur. I think I’d have to sustain a serious head injury to follow that ‘argument’. I hate to accidentally dignify such and unhinged screed with the term argument.
But this does perfectly highlight the unreality the Left has entered when it comes to Islam and jihad. No information of any kind is permitted to change their preconceived worldview in which nefarious Republicans are behind everything bad in the world. It would be funny if not so dangerous. These people are allowed to vote, drive, operate machinery, and hold some important jobs in the real world.
Of course the more conservative individuals tend to highlight the threat posed by IS. And many favor more robust action to destroy it. But somehow, in Bizarro World, they are also responsible for it. Because Black Lives Matter. Or something. Ouch, my head hurts.
quotha raven says
Beagle – take two aspirin and lose your reading glasses…
Cheers!
quotha r
Mo says
I saw that. I could only stomach a few lines of it.
I’ve got to hand it to the liberals. I thought they’d at least wait until morning before blaming the Right!
wildjew says
“This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries….”
https://www.facebook.com/Nofilterpatriots/photos/a.1512486365732453.1073741829.1492086737772416/1518615218452901/?type=3&theater
Flyingsword says
Beyond disgusting!
Baucent says
“consistently used eliminationist and other violent rhetoric to describe liberals, progressives and other people with whom they disagree”.
Sorry, I was under the impression that was exactly the tactics the liberal left used against those they disagree with. You need to look in the mirror.
Jayke says
This is called Psychological Projection:
Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions. Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings.
Since it is subconsciously employed these people don’t even realize that they are self deluded.
Dana Robertson says
Again, libtard nutjobs demonstrate how much they truly hate the 1st Amendment.
quotha raven says
Chauncey WHO? The arrogance is beyond belief. Guess he is the self-appointed judge of what’s on and what’s not, according to the U S Constitution? Cheers! qr
TH says
What ridiculous stupidity!. ISLAM WAS KILLING AND CREATING MAYHEM MANY CENTURIES BEFORE THERE EVER WAS ANYTHING CALLED LEFT OR RIGHT. It has been almost 1400 years at it. It didn’t have to wait for the American right to provoke them. More than 1100 years before the United States was even conceived Islam was killling wholesale from India right across the MIddle East, Noth Africa and into Spain and France.
Jaladhi says
The left idiots have either short memory or have not read any Islamic history. Worse yret they don’t remember 9/11 of 14 years back – but then for them it was America’s fault. Poor Musims feel so alienated and victimized by us.
There is no end to the left’s delusional thinking!!
Sheik Y'Booty says
The left’s working class voter base are at last beginning to see that the left doesn’t really represent them at all.
The more of these silly and desperate editorials the better, because they will trigger an enmasse exodus of the left’s voting base.
It’s good news. Let them make all the outrageously stupid claims they like, for all to see.
varn says
I’m curious how far the irreligious will extend their welcome mat to their future overlords.
Time will tell as they continue to pound their historical protectors – Christians – into a weakened state. Idiots. Ingrates.
Jeremiah says
We need to close down the Left Wing press pending investigations for treason.
citycat says
“They’re not all collectively guilty”
on BBC News.
How bad does it have to get!
It is quite obvious that they are, they send dosh back to their original country, they proclaim sharia on the streets.
They consciously circle a town centre by gradually buying houses in a circle around the centre, and so on, they smuggle muslims into those houses.
It is a long organised list.
It is in the Koran, to kill or convert all infidels, or take jiyza off the Christians, although they have killed and raped many Christians of late.
It is Islam, nothing else, there are no separatists, they are all one,
otherwise a Muslim would leave Islam if a Muslim could.
Understand that Islam will not ever stop trying to conquer Earth, it is written in the Koran
This is a major mode of survival of Islam, to conquer Earth, what else has it got apart from misogyny.
That is the Muslims religion, it is written in the Koran.
GB says
After 9-11 I thought that might finally mark the end of liberal lunacy, but it seems that things have gotten doubly worse and even more politically correct since then.
At least it seems many Europeans are finally waking up with the rise of Geert Wilders and others. And now we are at least seeing protests against the invasion of their lands.
My guess is that before it’s over it will probably still take the 101st Airborne Division to once again liberate France and Germany though.
Ernie says
Please , don’t forget the Netherlands !
Kepha says
I dunno, because a part of me is at the point I’m about to describe, and I write while crying inside.
Had I a ton of money, there are some bodies resting in overly tidy cemeteries in Europe that I’d like to dig up and bring home to rest with their families, then leave a note reading “We’re so sorry; so please fix yer own bloody mess” in the plots.
Europe’s intelligentsia has never forgiven the USA for having made it impossible for them to live and work under the enlightened, progressive direction of Stalin. They spit at us and think us stupid because some of us go to church on Sunday and read the Bible seriously. I’m way too old to be of much use should another armed conflict break out, but I’m seriously asking myself if it would really be worth it to invest the lives of my sons, nephews, students, and other young men in saving Europe from itself one more time.
Were it up to me, if Europe were overrun by the Left’s beloved Muslim masses, American refugee policy would be to interrogate everyone thoroughly in holding camps on our shores, screen in Christians (even if they’re transplanted Africans) and observant Jews, then make the brilliant cultural leaders and sexual perverts (oops, pioneers) swim home in the middle of winter after dropping them outside a hundred-mile limit. We made the mistake of taking in all those brilliant Weimar cultural icons back in the late ’30’s, and all I can say is “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice; shame on me; fool me thrice, a thousand times shame on me.”
Yes, Europe was once great, but I sometimes think that whatever that was may very well be living on in the white and partially-white populations of the New World and the Antipodes. And in my heart I pray that I am very, very wrong.
RonaldB says
Well, I can empathize where you’re coming from, Kepha, although it does leave anti-Islamic atheists like myself (and Wellington) out in the literal cold.
I myself prefer a different criteria. The immigration policy of a country, particularly the US, should reflect its own interests. It is not the business of the US government to formulate policies for saving particular peoples. Thus, no immigrant should be admitted who will not benefit the US. There are ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not recognize the state of Israel, and who get along fine with the Palestinian administration. There are also Christians, such as the Jehovah’s witnesses, who do not recognize a devotion to a country, and who refuse to say the Pledge. I’m not saying to harass the people already citizens, but I do object to a mass admission of people based on a broad category of devotion.
I prefer admitting people solely on whether they will benefit the country in a tangible way…and that would probably exclude low-IQ Africans who have converted to Christianity. I understand the so-called Black Jews are causing problems in Israel, for just the reason that they are not suitable for a technologically-sophisticated society.
I’m afraid the masses of people who are caught in Europe, and who are not Muslims, will either have to live with the consequences of not taking the threat of Islam seriously, or will have to organize a movement to take Europe back through armed force, like the Serbs did before NATO bombed them into submission.
maggi says
The Salon wants us to behave like good dhimmis!
KnowThyEnemy says
“….. such rhetoric does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.”
Chauncey, the violent rhetoric in the Islamic texts too “does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.”
Hence, the blame lies nowhere else but with the Islamic texts themselves!
Olorin says
Yeah, I’m sure that as those innocent young concert-goers saw their friends fall down in fountains of blood and felt pain, fear, and encroaching death, what they were thinking was, “Nobody should say bad things about these people, because that’s what made them do this.” Or, “Wow, this is so much better than ‘far right’ discourse!”
Salon, like The Guardian, is pumping their MSM masters’ notion of Magic Language. This is similar to Magic Dirt–the thing that will solve all problems if the problem is exposed to it.
Magic Language for the left says that if everyone–and everyone! not just they!–believes all the right things and thinks all the right things and says all the right things in just the right words all the time without any dissent or difference or failure…
…then jihadist Muslims will simply disappear from the earth and all will be Happytopia.
This is primitive magic thinking at its most savage because it is utterly willing to ignore and encourage more bloodbaths, to punish the polity for not yet having achieved the left’s Magic Language purity.
Jaladhi says
These clowns of Salon have been living a good life here in USA. They should actually move to Pakistan, Somalia or Yemen or any Islamic paradise they worship so much and stop lecturing us after every heinous terror attack on us. These idiots talk with holier than thou attitude shouldn’t live here since west is the worst place on earth. What hypocrisy!!
Jaladhi says
This is absolutely disgusting article conflating Muslim terrorism with black lives matter group and trying to give both terrorism moral equivalency. How stupid!
John Collignon says
Obama and the leftwing are bordering on treason and Congress’ Ted Yoho from Florida has THE REMEDY IMPEACHMENT !!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Whaddya mean bordering? Prez Barack Hussein crossed that line when he legislated from the Oval Office that the highly successful welfare work act passed by Congress to no longer require welfare recipients to work. I guess Obama figured that’s why we have 25 million illegal aliens, and the welfare recipients working was cutting into their take. That was when the line was crossed into dictatorship for the first time in our history.
Shane says
Ted Cruz can lead the USA to victory against ISIS, we know Shillary will do nothing to stop them. God bless Paris and may they get their revenge on ISIS soon!
Charli Main says
The correct way to deal with these Muslim invaders attacking your country and destroying your society, is to invite them around for a cup of tea and a slice of momma´s apple pie. That should make them see the errors of their ways and go home. Why, they may feel so ashamed, that they might even leave Islam.
Please don´t suggest any other method of dealing with Muslims, unless you want to be branded a bigoted, racist, fascist Islamophobe.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Or stabbed to death in the parking lot. Don’t forget that part. It’s in everybody’s mind, whether consciously or subconsciously.
Dr. Divinity says
Charlie…..the crust in mom’s Apple pie must be made using lard…that should soften them up considerably.
Les says
The wicked are very good at falsely accusing and prosecuting the righteous. Gal 4:29
Those things may seem well with those who sin, calamity and destruction will eventually come. Eccl 8:12-13
We are not obligated to show kindness to the unworthy. 1 Kings 18:22-29
Jeremiah says
I agree. Talk is cheap. Time now for action. Why are the mosques still open?
Roger says
1st Amendment. And don’t even go there about perverting our Constitution.
Closing mosques ain’t gonna happen. All this talk about mass deportations, killing every muslim, banning islam etc is ludicrous. You would need to set up a totalitarian dictatorship to enact this and i would be the first one out on the streets to help fight totalitarianism whatever it’s form.
What we need are simple plans, Constitutional, calm and collective plans. Not a bunch of yahoos spouting off nonsense and calls for genocide and fascism.
Does RS call for islam to be banned, the deportation of all muslims? Genocide? Internment camps? Nope. Go on stormfront with your fascist rhetoric.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Does RS call for islam to be banned, the deportation of all muslims? Genocide? Internment camps? Nope.
It must feel good to say such a reasonable thing. But in the long term separation is the only way. Also, it’s the only thing that would pressure Moslems to leave Islam and join civilization. The current state is not sustainable; Jeremiah has a valid point. But you’re also right, we are not supposed to talk about such things cuz we’re not allowed to do so. If Spencer were to, he would be ruined and forgotten in a matter of only a few days. My guess is that his point is that it’s not his role to propose a solution, his job is to document the problem. And that’s correct.
Tell us, what *is* the way out of this?
Roger says
Declaring war on the house of saud and freezing their assets in the west would be a great starting point.
duh_swami says
The writer is insane. Not worth further comment.
Bill says
They are. Liberalism is a mental disorder
Robert says
What’s insane is that a nothing like you,could imagine that you are qualified to asses another’s mental state.
Thomas says
We are finished. Game over. Where is the call for war to kill these people? All we here is we stand in solidarity. What a joke the west has become. These attacks will multiply now that we have imported millions of Islamist. And the people still don’t get it. Even the traitor pope was saying ” this has nothing to do with religion”. Islam will not stop until it has the entire world.
dan says
I am waiting for the backlash on white indigenous Brits after the backlash on muslims by the indigenous mobs violent attacks on mosques by throwing bacon butties.OH THE IRONY.
Rosco P. Coltrain says
This editorial proves what pathetic fuks these Salon bastards truly are.
Jack Holan says
What was the excuse 100 years ago During the Jefferson Administration and Commodore Decatur?Salon? 200 years ago? 300years ago? Was there ‘Right Wing talk to hurt their feelings during those times too?
There can be only one explanation for the type of thinking rattling in your ‘brains’ and its not from source documents, books, or research but maybe quantum use of drugs each day and hatred for Mommy and Daddy.
Dalriada says
Not just beyond parody, they’re only talking to themselves, they don’t realise what a tiny minority they represent. Mr and Mrs Average have nothing to do with this garbage !
Allan Mandrowski says
To be fair, the most liked comments on that article call Salon out for its bullshit. And one must believe these are sane comments posted by probably “left” wing people. So not all hope is lost.
But, true, Salon is disgusting in its headlines and general agenda.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The rhetoric of the million Charlie Hebdo protestors in the streets of Paris last January was toned down to not incite the easily agitated Moslems by not daring to show a drawing of the Holy Prophet Mohammed in that stupid self-congratulatory We are Charlie placards they all held.
What good did that restraint do? I wonder if the Salon writer worked that question into his “analysis” of what happened last night.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Fox News and Ben Carson are the real culprits!
Don’t be so kind. Fox RINO has been covering for Islam from its inception, even long before Prince Alaweed became part owner. Coverage of Moslems on Fox RINO only dares to creep an inch or two closer to the truth than the rest of the news entertainment industry. If I here radical Islamist or violent extremist one more time my brain will explode.
But on Dr Ben you may have a point. I notice that he did not back down on his accurate and correct statement that an observant Moslem should not be president. There’s some hope in that, at least.
Paula says
This (nonsense from Salon.com) is just jaw dropping. Wow.
Bob Heinz says
The Right Wing has absolutely nothing to do with this.. Actually Salon what really needs to happen is our President needs to seriously moderate his support for ISIS and the importation of Syrian refugees and other potential terrorists.
Kepha says
Shut the 奸你老娘up,Salon. Maybe Mazo would be kind enough to translate the Chinese, for I won’t. There’s a reason I wrote it in that language. It’ll give grist to the mills of those here who think that all of us Christians are @#46@*&#$^*&^@$ hypocrites.
If the far right’s rhetoric is heating up, then God bless the far right. Our understanding, pseudo-humanist Left probably knows at this point that they’ll fare as well in an Islamicized West as their Tudeh friends did in re-Islamicized Iran, but they somehow think we all ought to surrender anyway. Sure, I’m not about to blame every Muslim willy-nilly, but I also reserve the right to be suspicious of anyone whose theology blesses theft, murder, rape, and enslavement of those of us who don’t buy into it.
France, go ahead and vote for Le Pen’s party. It might just convince a few of us to once again remember Lafayette.
CROSSGUARD3 says
Leftists consider language they don’t like to be “violence” while they consider violence they like to be free speech “expression”.
Angemon says
Chauncey DeVega, who recently referred to critics as “right-wing sewer dwellers” is decrying their language and whining about how “hateful” they are. She writes, probably without managing to keep a straight face:
Here’s a small sample of what the people she calls “right-wing sewer dwellers” face routinely from leftist media:
http://clashdaily.com/2015/09/leftist-name-calling-hey-conservatives-wear-it-as-a-badge-of-honor/
But, of course, the “right-wing media”, microscopic as it may be, is the source of all that’s wring in America and the world.
She also writes:
Chauncey DeVega, like the bulk of those in the Left, is a self-serving jackass who lacks any sort of empathy and decency, as she shows by (figuratively) standing in the still warm bodies of those killed in Paris and pelting her detractors with body parts of said bodies while shouting “this is what you stand for”. It’s worth pointing out that the so-called “right-wing sewer dwellers” accurately described the motivation of the murderers while her buddies on the Left would have us believe that it’s all about “poverty” and “ignorance” and “right-wing rhetoric”. Will she amend her article to point out the motivation of the murderers? I wouldn’t bet on it.
Milton Partain says
What a warped mind it takes to write for Salon . Black Lives Matter thugs have been recorded YELLING death to the police . The murderers in Paris WERE MUSLIMS , no doubt in that . To be a Liberal requires losing all rational thought and blaming anyone who doesn’t share their mindset for the problems created by Progressive ideas . Islam is evil and will never assimilate with sane human beings .
Oliver says
i am a bit confused. WHAT THE HELL DOES WHAT ONE PERSON- AND ONE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW IF HE WAS A RIGHT WINGER (in the Carolina’s -southern US) ( remember Tucson–turned out the gunman had no real political philosophy, and what little he had was socialist) have to do with the Islamic creeps who killed over 100 people in Paris.
And the death total. last night, at about 10 PM (eastern time) yahoo news and MSN news each said over 120 dead; there were breakdowns and my addition it came to 167. 100 at the concert; 35 at the soccer match (since down to 3-last I saw)(-32 came back to life); 18 at a restaurant (last I saw, 14- only 4 came back to life there) and scattered few elsewhere; and waiting for more reports. Now down to 129.
I get the impression- games are being played, by the liberal media and the politicians. To avoid ‘ a backlash” against the “innocent” Muslims.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Dang – I actually predicted this response of theirs, last week. I must be a “prophit!”
Voytek Gagalka says
“…with no basis in empirical reality…”
This dude, a certain Chauncey DeVega, does not know what the meaning of words are! “Empirical evidence” is sense experience, i.e. acquired by means of the senses. Unless that SOB was sleeping under his Persian carpet for the past decades, there is PLENTY of sensory evidence to prove described and mentioned by him instances which he then dismisses as allegedly lacking “empirical” evidence. In either case, who he is to hold such position at “Salon” if he doesn’t know even what he’s talking about?
JR says
What!!! the entire world is polarized into self segregated groups of leftist led, hate fueled animosity trading their votes for tax funded loot and political favoritism, with the loudest, most uncivilized and intolerant packs of savages grabbing the lion’s share of taxpayer funded loot and government enforced favoritism. And then liberals are shocked! shocked! when those they have stereotyped as “victims” and taught that their every adversity is caused solely by people liberals have demonized as “oppressors,” persuades this tax funded savagery, sloth and greed to perpetrate violence against the demonized.
Of course the leftist political promise that sucking taxes for a living will effortlessly “equalize” sloth with those who work for one, will inevitably fail…because the confiscated loot isn’t “redistributed” to anyone but politicians, who keep most of it, pauperizing populations and perpetuating into violent chaos the very same problem they are promising to resolve. For confirmation see Nazi Germany, Red China and the former USSR for the devastating results of leftist greed in using the typical leftist “oppressor/oppressed” stereotypes of class and race to entitle themselves to other people’s money.
And here liberals are, less than a hundred years later, right back at their stereotype driven theft redefined this time around as “social justice.” There is no set of oppressor/oppressed stereotypes in the world that conniving, lazy, greedy leftists wouldn’t use to effortlessly install themselves on other people’s paychecks. Well maybe leftists would use the stereotypes of shoe size nines oppressing shoe size eight victims, but even those would fool most American “educators” (and Salon) into marching against shoe size disparity and demanding other people’s money to resolve it.