George Rebane

Communists and most of today’s union members are persuaded by arguments that the pie is fixed, they are its bakers, and the rich have become so only by taking more than their ‘fair share’. Not only that, but if we can claw back what the rich have unjustly taken, then there will be enough for all and we can truly create a happy land forevermore.  With these beliefs firmly in place, all kinds of miseries have been launched, and more are ready to launch again.

And since the rich mostly get that way by applying themselves to producing their ill-gotten wealth through something called free-market capitalism, well then, there’s our solution – just change the system to banish free-market capitalism as the process through which wealth is created and distributed.  What could be simpler?  Unfortunately, only the minds of those who so believe.

No one notices that revolutions which eat the rich are one course meals – there is never any dessert.  As an electorate we are now both ignorant and stupid enough so that our progressive elitists, especially such union elitists as Andy Stern and AFL-CIO’s Trumka, are again calling for violent revolutions not only here in America, but also of the ‘workers of the world unite’ kind.  It’s déjà vu all over again – these were the identical debates that raged exactly a century ago as the progressive age was gearing up to put in practice the social(ist) thought of Marx and Engels.

(“Well funded right wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights Dr King gave his life for.”  shouted Richard Trumka to the crowd on this 18 March 2011, in observance of Martin Luther King’s assassination on 4 April 1968 in Memphis.  He judged his audience to be composed mostly of non-institutionalized idiots.  As a matter of passing interest, King had come to Memphis to lead a march in support of two injured black non-union workers who had been sent home to recuperate without pay while union members received full benefit under similar circumstances.)

And today the masses have been exquisitely prepared for this hoped for change through two generations of unionized public education; education that skillfully removed the intellectual tools from its spawn which would enable them to ask and answer the crucial ‘what if?’ questions.  Every day there are fewer people who can correctly conceive of a world after the wealth has been redistributed.

Questions concerning “workers’ rights” once more give rise to aborted dialogues that leave the assigned aggrieved shouting ‘More!!’ – that is today’s exercise of social justice.  Meanwhile, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) reports that organizations such as the corrupt and corrupting ACORN are alive and well under new names (same tax ID numbers), and actively supported by the White House.  The administration’s Dept of Justice has quietly removed the Old Glory banner from its website, and substituted a black band bearing a slogan from the writings of a 1930s communist.  (American Spectator story here)

But then, you are not supposed to pay any attention to these little insignificant baby steps that those of a more ‘balanced view’ can easily pooh-pooh.  Instead, you might keep your eye on the fate and future of workers’ rights aka forced unionizing.