The Ammoral Depravity Of The Play-Left And The Trumpian Right Are Both Trying To Achieve The Same End, Four More Trump Years

The past several weeks I've been concentrating on the insanity of the allegedly leftist play-left, their perpetual scheme of winning by enabling Republican-fascists, something which they've done in election after election for decades and decades which has unsurprisingly produced increasingly bad Republican-fascism.  This elections cycle has, they having helped produce Trump last time, exposed how dangerously degenerate their grasp of reality and morality are.*  The reality they deny is what that tactic has produced by way of increasingly depraved fascism and their role in producing it and the fact that it has never worked the way they claimed it would, not once.  The morality is perhaps something that they don't really are about.  I have pointed out here, before that both the Stalinist and Maoist "lefts" were huge fans of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist governments even as it was correctly reported in the Western media that those governments were engaged in mass murders that stand with those of the Nazis in numbers and cruel immorality.  I pointed out a few years ago that a respected journalist of that left in The Nation a few years back pined for the heyday (or such heydays  as are had on the play-left) of the Maoist Progressive Labor party.**

Which I bring up because the next generation of such play-lefties are continuing to be a bunch of amoral idiots and because that amorality is something they share with the Fascist Trumpian-Murdochian right as can be seen in both the ditheringly irresponsible handling of the Covid-19 crisis from the first news of its beginning to now.  I will give this much to the Communist dictators in China, their period of dithering irresponsibility, in which they treated it more as a public relations problem than a catastrophic epidemic, was much shorter than that in the United States, Britain and some other Western countries ruled by the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his like in the media.  Our governments, alleged democracies, still deputed as such, are beginning to float a PR campaign of staggering amorality and immorality downplaying those the, now, pandemic will kill as expendable old people - which includes many of the figures of that fascist-ruling right but they figure they're OK - and other unimportant people with unimportant lives.  FOX and other Murdoch properties and people are pushing that along with his Wall Street Journal editorial board.  The things that feed the empty mind of Trump and his duped followers.  

I guess that so many of the Trump-FOX audience are exactly that part of the population who are now deemed to be at the highest risk, old people, especially those who have health problems are exactly the ones whose deaths they pooh-pooh as unimportant and not worth taking the drastic measures that Asian countries and Italy took to somewhat blunt the impact of the pandemic isn't something FOX and Murdoch and Trump worry about.   Or maybe, that audience having proved so gullible and malleable, already, they figure they can use them before pushing their bodies into the mass grave that they have suckered those people into digging for themselves.  

Bringing this piece full circle, the Bernie-dead-ender play-left is slamming Democrats for just about everything they can think of, spreading rumors of dark conspiracies of how the inevitable victory of Bernie Sanders in a party he has never really been a party of, after having run one failed campaign for the Democratic nomination, already, was thwarted by a conspiracy to cheat him out of a victory no rational person would have believed he would achieve by democratic means.  They do so after they helped bring about the Reagan years, the Bush II years, and now Trump.  They do so seeing what that has produced and will continue to produce in his stacking the courts with fascists who can be expected to dominate that branch for decades to come.  I wish I could go back in time and punch every fucking idiot lefty of both genders who said warnings about that consequences of Republican presidencies was a "scare tactic" of the Democratic Party and they weren't falling for it.  

I think that one thing we have to do is throw the play left onto the scrap heap of history, not only the major figures but the media that they used to lie us into the place we are now.  In These Times, The Nation, Democracy Now!(yeah, right) Pacifica, The Young Turks, Majority Report, Michael Moore, etc. anyone who encouraged the Bernie dead-enders any media outlet that did should be scrapped.  The entire baggage of that fraudulent Marxist, quasi-Marxist and Marxist-duped history, complete with its popular figures in pop-culture, should be seen as what they were and are.  

I think it's clear that any real American left will not be that left, I think Elizabeth Warren's policies may well mark the real left side of what we can honestly expect to be able to get the power to enact, certainly now.  Given the enthusiasms of the play-left the left of the Che tee shirts and mugs, those who nostalgically pine for the days when Progressive Labor was a thing, though a very small, very stupid thing, I don't think we should expect that even their best sounding ideas would work to produce egalitarian democracy and economic and social justice.  I have come to the conclusion that it was always a stupid thing to trust anyone who supported some of the most brutal figures of failed leftist politics, of some of the most brutal dictators in human history who managed to take control of countries by anti-democratic methods.   Revolutions are, by their nature, anti-democratic.  Their results in easily more than nine times out of ten are as bad if not worse than what they replace.   And that's when they succeed.  There is no guarantee that they will succeed. 

The play-left are spoiled brats who insist on having it all their way when that's not how politics in the United States has or will ever work.  Given their enthusiasms and history, it's nothing any rational person would suspect would produce the results they claim they would.  There is every reason to believe they are unsustainable in reality.  It never seems to occur to the Marxists among them that the dialectic, one of their god substitutes, might not swing to the left on a permanent basis, that their "revolution" could end up with it stuck at "right" for centuries.  Look how long their imaginary force kept the Pharaohs in place.  There is no dialectic, that they could believe there is one only shows what a bunch of superstitious idiots they are.   I often find atheists fall for such gods, they just don't realize that's what they have made.  Golden moon-calves.   


* I do attribute a lot of that to the influence of Marxists and to the extent that Marx and Engels are responsible for producing it, Marxism.  The moral character of Marxism as a brutal amoral system became obvious in the early years after the Russian Revolution and that was before it turned into an anti-moral, anti-humane system starting even during the Lenin years and increasingly as it turned into Stalinism.   Among the clearer truths about the history of the American left is that the Marxists here were not greatly bothered by the brutal oppression and genocidal characteristics of Lenin, Stalin etc. even as they certainly knew about it and lied about it to those lower in their own organizations and to the general public.  

** As I pointed out then:

The Progressive Labor Party was a Maoist party.  I don't know if you were alive at the time but the years mentioned in my morning post, beginning in 1966 to 1969 the foremost activity in China was Mao's Cultural Revolution.  While I'm very doubtful that it's possible for someone to look at the various claims about how many people were murdered BY THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS as the SDS and PL were shadow boxing at each other with any great confidence, anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of Chinese people and members of minorities in China were being murdered just as surely as those under the Nazis and the Japanese invaders were in the 1940s.   And that was just the people murdered under Mao in those years. Anyone who could be a Maoist then is as guilty of supporting mass murder as the Nazis here were in the 40s.   No left that could possibly have done anything positive, including ending the American war in Vietnam would have had anything to do with them.   Anyone who claims, as indeed, Katha Pollitt did in 2008 that the PL was a force for good is nuts.   

and in a later addition:

I looked it up, the PL officially SUPPORTED THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION during those years.  That would be equivalent to supporting the Nazis as the extermination camps and the Einsatzgruppen were killing people. twenty five or so years earlier.   I won't pretend that's not the case merely because the victims weren't Europeans.