Quint: You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin’ money all your life.
Hooper: Hey, I don’t need this… I don’t need this working-class hero crap!
Remember the Farm & Labor Party? It was the predecessor to Progressive Dane — a political party to the Left of even Dane County WI Democrats. Like all such pretend protectors of the proletariat, Farm & Labor had no farmers nor any real laborers. Just over-educated humanities majors working for government and NGO social service contractors.
The socialists are still at it. Their latest working-class poseur is one Zohran Kwame Mamdani. (Yeah, me neither.) He’s running for mayor of New York. (But isn’t everyone?) Like Bernie Sanders, the young Muslim (age 34) pays dues to the Democratic Socialists of America.
A.O.C. approves: “Assembly member Mamdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers that is strongest to lead the pack.”
He’s a pretend worker
The fancifully named Working Families Party is on board. Party president Maurice Mitchell, his website boasts, is a “social movement strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a community organizer for racial, social, and economic justice.” In other words, he never baled hay or poured concrete.
“Zohran Mamdani is surging at just the right time,” cheers John Nichols of The Nation and The Capital Times. (No callouses on those fingers.)
Mamdani himself (we’re guessing the pronouns) is an “activist and politician.” Like Barack Obama, a community organizer. This guy is no worker — he’s a piece of work!
Government groceries!
Remember Jimmy Carter’s government cheese? Mamdani’s agenda: Free bus rides, free pre-kindergarten child care, more government rent control (instead of more housing construction), a $30 minimum wage, and government-owned grocery stores! (Be prepared for empty shelves.) All funded by a $10 billion city tax hike on businesses and the “super-rich.” The anti-abundance agenda! Like any good hard-Leftist, the candidate supports boycotting, divesting from, and sanctioning Israel. After the blow back on Defund the Police, Mr. M. chooses his words carefully. Now says only, “There is an over-reliance on police.”
How do you suppose that agenda goes over with the dock workers?
So-called “worker parties” practice the playbook Lenin applied to Marxism. Only the most politically conscious have the smarts to lead working class drones in the struggle to overthrow capitalism. As for farmers, Old McDonald had a farm but now it’s been consolidated into high-tech, capital-intensive businesses that play the futures market.
Funny thing about the working class — they’re voting Republican! In his three elections, Donald Trump won 66%, 67%, and 66% of the vote among whites without a college degree.
Today, the white working class comprises the electoral base of the Republican Party, consistently providing solid majorities for GOP candidates up and down the ballot. — The Center for Politics
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Soft, city hands in the faculty lounge at Columbia University may applaud the socialist’s candidacy, but real workers everywhere are giving these pretentious working-class heroes the Bronx cheer.
5 responses to “We don’t need this working-class hero crap”
I remember the Bob Kasten School of Driving party.
It had ZERO driving instructors!
In my best Robert Plant… Anybody remember humor?
I don’t mind charity. However I like to decide how much and who I contribute too. I don’t need the left doing it for me! This guy is just going to cost me more taxes!
Socialist, Marxist, Leninist, Communist. What’s in a name?
Hoo boy… count down to Democrats figuring out the connection between L.A. burning (does it do anything else?) and the mid terms.
That’ll be time to clap the political pistol in their mouth and call in the decorators.
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