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I am not any kind of Communist or socialist and yet I have great respect and appreciation for the workers' movements of a century ago, even if they often veered into ideological obscurity or paeans to revolutionary violence—when the smoke cleared these movements helped achieve major tangible improvements in people's lives, from union reps to worker's comp to fair wages etc.

But what the Left has devolved into in the 21st century is a grotesque shameful lobotomized parody that would make Marx's ghost blush.

Most of the blame goes to the theorist class of academia, cosseted cowards all who fling Molotov cocktails while hiding safely on campus, and whose only talent is crafting dogmatic thought-terminating jargon, the most current popular product being the new secular Original Sin, "settler-colonialism", where anyone not "indigenous" (which oddly enough excludes Israel and its 3k-year history) becomes the new kulaks (and/or Nazis) marked for extermination.

And of all the evils, misery and bloodshed in the world the theorist class and their disciples of the campus INFANTada have focused all their rage and hate at the Jewish state, deliberately ignoring the massive upheavals of the first half of the last century, the Jewish genocide, the fact that Israel is half composed of Mizrahis who were expelled from Arab capitals, not to mention all the many peace plans Israel has offered, while the Palestinians in 75 years have yet to acknowledge the right of the Jewish state to exist.

The saddest most grotesque irony here is that by turning the Palestinians into a Cause and fetishizing and commodifying their pain, the Western Left has made sane politics and peaceful co-existence almost impossible, as that would be disappointing for the true believers in the Cause, who demand cleansing apocalyptic bloodshed so they can feel the frisson of righteousness and pretend their hatred is for a "good cause". If the Palestinians had been treated like a normal people involved in an unfortunate land dispute with both sides having valid claims that needed to be worked out, instead of a Cause (aka a global stage for various lost souls, sadists and opportunists to perform moral pageant plays), there would have been 2 states long ago.

The Western Left and its campus Red Guard and the state-subsidized priests of Permanent Revolution posing as professors have become a threat to the country and the world. Their project has devolved into one of total negation, destruction and an endless infantile tantrum against all that is beautiful, successful, sane or a settled norm. There will be no peace until they are defanged.

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San Jose is known for its massive homeless encampments, its sub-par university, great cheap food, losing MLS team, and being largely left out of the tech success of Silicon Valley. Oh and piece of shit progressive Ro Khanna, whose achievement (like AOC) is running to the left of a liberal in a deep blue district, and heading one of the most divisive own-goal producing group in the Democratic Party - the How Can We Lose Purple Districts With Insane Progressive Ideas Caucus.

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Nick Kristof. What a putz. Doesn’t he understand that these ‘protestors’ are evil?

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