Haters

Still reading Bill Buckley, Athwart History.

Newsday, July 11, 1964, The Case for Goldwater.

Here again, WFB makes it clear as day his conservative movement stands for repeal of every achievement of the progressive movement since the last decade of the 19th Century and the utter extirpation of communism in every furthest and tiniest corner of the world.

An agenda of unremitting domestic and global class war for capitalism and plutocracy, in other words.

Tough sell, that, with ordinary voters, you would think.

Not to worry.

The "southern strategy" avant la lettre was there from the beginning.

Whites who hate non-whites, men who hate women, fervent Christians who hate those who aren't all gravitate, by invitation subtle or not, to the conservative movement.

And similarly non-whites who hate whites, women who hate men, and those who aren't who hate fervent Christians gravitate to the progressives, often by considerably less subtle invitation.

There to join those who will not be sidetracked or distracted, but aim to defend and advance the progressive effort to win control of the government and through it of the economy for the good of the 99+% who are prospective victims of the plutocracy and the wholly untrammeled capitalism at which they aim.

On the conservative side there are only the greedy rich supported by crackpots, fools, extremists, and haters.

On the progressive side there are fools crackpots, extremists, and haters, too.

But there are also just ordinary, non-rich folks trying to stave off the unremitting rapacity of the plutes and get a better, fairer deal.

[Aside:

Many are they of left and right who nowadays insist the ordinary folk of America do not deserve a better deal, and are unjustly well off even now.

Steadfast friends of ordinary Americans such cosmopolitan leftists are not.

/Aside.]

That was a great thing about the communists and the Trots.

They published a lot of excellent labor history.

Nothing like it to bring out class consciousness.

An invaluable perspective sure to be lost, I fear, or rather dropped utterly by the corporate dominated press.

One last note.

In one of his presidential campaign speeches, FDR, only too aware, spoke of the plutocracy's hatred for him.

And with a grim smile, to the applause of the crowd, he said, "I welcome their hatred."

From the lowliest union organizer to the president of the United States, that is the sentiment with which the ruling class and its servants greet resistance.

From Joe Hill to LBJ, such folks are all, in their eyes, "uppity niggers."