Once you come to develop your own sense of class consciousness, it becomes as clear as day that the "left vs. right" obfuscation serves as a primary distraction from the ruling class to keep the workers divided. We had that one fleeting moment after Brian Thompson was put in the dirt where it seemed like most people out there were on a similar page of class understanding, acknowledgement and recognition. The potential for the American working class is absolutely there - we just need proper organization, infrastructure, and leadership. Class consciousness also serves as a gateway into understanding everything you're expertly articulating in this piece. There's a tent out there alright, but it was never intended to include all of us - only those the ruling class deems worth saving. I love your invocation of George Carlin as well because another of his famous quotes also feels relevant here:
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them and they're getting it."
The ruling class is laughing their asses off while they sew perpetual division amongst the workers and watch us tear each other apart. It's a big game to them, and they're going to always keep playing until you pry their cold, dead hands from the levers of power. War was declared right from the start and the depraved and belligerent members of The Bullshit Brigade wont ever relinquish their power out of the goodness of their hearts, or even for the betterment of society and humanity as a whole. The time has come to stop looking left and right because the ruling class manufactured enemies. All we have to do is look up, and we'll always be able to see who the really enemies are.
“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.” - Rosa Luxemburg
I'm from AZ and watched Gallego for years now... He is a snake who, like many others, was only "progressive" when it was considered professionally advantageous. Now as we drift further and further right as a society, when we need "progressive" voices most, he's locking himself in as a full blown right wing democrat, and making all the standard concessions to corporate and business interests. Fuck that guy.
I could tell from some of his House votes he was going to be a problem. I think people were so sick of Sinema they blinded themselves to how bad he was.
And Sinema was and is definitely a huge piece of shit, but I think you're right. Though I saw Gallego speak at a Bernie rally around 2018 and even then he was seeming very comfortable planting himself ideologically well to the right of Bernie and Nina Turner, etc. And the crowd didn't seem to notice or mind, IMO.
"These folks have committed their entire life’s work making sure you don’t discover this simple truth: that their continued existence relies on you never realizing what they really are. Once you start to notice that they aren’t actually enemies, the world begins to make a little more sense."
I'm confused here. The folks who have committed their entire life's work to bullshitting us aren't our enemies?
Once you come to develop your own sense of class consciousness, it becomes as clear as day that the "left vs. right" obfuscation serves as a primary distraction from the ruling class to keep the workers divided. We had that one fleeting moment after Brian Thompson was put in the dirt where it seemed like most people out there were on a similar page of class understanding, acknowledgement and recognition. The potential for the American working class is absolutely there - we just need proper organization, infrastructure, and leadership. Class consciousness also serves as a gateway into understanding everything you're expertly articulating in this piece. There's a tent out there alright, but it was never intended to include all of us - only those the ruling class deems worth saving. I love your invocation of George Carlin as well because another of his famous quotes also feels relevant here:
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them and they're getting it."
The ruling class is laughing their asses off while they sew perpetual division amongst the workers and watch us tear each other apart. It's a big game to them, and they're going to always keep playing until you pry their cold, dead hands from the levers of power. War was declared right from the start and the depraved and belligerent members of The Bullshit Brigade wont ever relinquish their power out of the goodness of their hearts, or even for the betterment of society and humanity as a whole. The time has come to stop looking left and right because the ruling class manufactured enemies. All we have to do is look up, and we'll always be able to see who the really enemies are.
“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.” - Rosa Luxemburg
Thanks for another great read as always Scarlet!
I'm from AZ and watched Gallego for years now... He is a snake who, like many others, was only "progressive" when it was considered professionally advantageous. Now as we drift further and further right as a society, when we need "progressive" voices most, he's locking himself in as a full blown right wing democrat, and making all the standard concessions to corporate and business interests. Fuck that guy.
I could tell from some of his House votes he was going to be a problem. I think people were so sick of Sinema they blinded themselves to how bad he was.
And Sinema was and is definitely a huge piece of shit, but I think you're right. Though I saw Gallego speak at a Bernie rally around 2018 and even then he was seeming very comfortable planting himself ideologically well to the right of Bernie and Nina Turner, etc. And the crowd didn't seem to notice or mind, IMO.
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." Jay Gould.
Make sure to mention often that you aren't suicidal...
"These folks have committed their entire life’s work making sure you don’t discover this simple truth: that their continued existence relies on you never realizing what they really are. Once you start to notice that they aren’t actually enemies, the world begins to make a little more sense."
I'm confused here. The folks who have committed their entire life's work to bullshitting us aren't our enemies?
They aren’t each others enemies
Lmao this is embarrassing