Do Rank-and-File Leftists Realize They’re Being Scammed by Their Ruling Class?
The dirty little secret about the wealth distribution of the leftist ruling class is that they only redistribute the wealth—to themselves.
Have you ever considered why leftist ruling-class leaders are extraordinarily rich while they also preach wealth redistribution? And why is it that leftists never bring this up?
Look at the evidence down through history and around the world, and you will see the same pattern repeated with every leftist regime. Let’s begin with the now-defunct USSR, which was supposed to be a utopic “worker’s paradise”; what manifested were crammed apartment blocks and queues for bread and toilet paper, while the “select few” of the nomenklatura lived in luxury. It’s been reported that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last USSR leader, had a net worth of $5 million.
Then there is the leftist leader about whom the national socialist media can’t stop talking, whose final objective of a “Classless German Society” was undermined when it was revealed he “Loved Money and Died Rich”. And speaking of dictators adored by leftists, let’s not forget the far-left’s idol Fidel Castro, who made the usual promises and had a net worth of $900 million. Then there’s the leftist regime of North Korea; while the common people starved, Kim Jong-il lived it up and was amassed $4 billion. His son Kim Jong Un took over as supreme leader in 2011 and was reported to be worth $5 billion a few years ago, with one report having $1 trillion in assets these days.
Don’t forget that according to leftist doctrine, the government under the ever-perfect utopia of communism is supposed to “wither away” after a few years. Such as in communist red China, home of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the regime oppressive to Hong Kong. Where “600 million Chinese are still living on about $5 a day” and as Forbes reports, China’s “rich lists” are saturated with Communist Party members and a “record number” of billionaires; what would Marx or Mao say about that?
So much for the state withering away.
Then of course, back in the states, we have the national socialist “Democratic” party and their unwavering dedication to socialist…er...social justice, and the redistribution of wealth to their bank accounts. The absurdly contradictory nature of the leftist landscape is perfectly illustrated in a story about former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg; his campaign office in Flint, MI had a sign that read “EAT THE RICH” taped to a window. Bloomberg had a reported net worth of $61.8 billion in 2019, while the socialist politicians in his party are comfortably in the multi-millionaire class (Bernie Sanders among others).
A decade ago, Forbes magazine asked the question: How Did The Democrats Become The Party Of The Rich? and since then, the situation has only become more fraudulent for the ruling class with the Top 50 Richest Democrats. And how is it that even leftists of modest means become enriched by “serving” as our ever-faithful rulers in the controller class, dictating how we are to run our lives?
Before leftists respond with the irrelevant factoid that many on the pro-freedom right are rich, we would note that we don’t call for wealth redistribution, so the far-left bears the burden of the hypocrisy alone. It’s one thing to achieve and become wealthy out of merit, it’s quite another to then call for the destruction of others. That is the big difference that distinguishes the two sides.
So, how could this be the case with the doctrine of:
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Yet, this was first expressed three centuries before Marx and 500 years ago, in Thomas More’s 1516 book, Utopia (old English text can be found here).
In modern English though:
I hold well with Plato, and do nothing marvel that he would make no laws for them that refused those laws, whereby all men should have and enjoy equal portions of wealth and commodities.
More was referring to the concepts of an Ideal State from Plato in ancient Greece, showing that these ideas have been around for centuries, and that “wealth equality” has always been a ruling class scam to enrich themselves—Plato hailed from one of the wealthiest Athenian families of the day.
Ruling class leftists become exceedingly wealthy because they exploit their positions of governmental control to enrich themselves. They will buy votes with other people’s money taken at gunpoint, but they never, ever consider handing out the money they’ve obtained from their positions of power.
Glenn Beck explained this in a chalkboard video a few weeks ago. He first noted that rank-and-file leftists (Marxists) are nothing more than “Useful Innocents,” moving on to talk about a very interesting poll — the attitudes of the “elite” and “super elite” in this country, people who are almost entirely left, have a certain set of beliefs that are markedly different from the average person, and the idea that they would like to restrict your rights and tell you what you can eat and how much you can travel amongst other authoritarian diktats is not fiction.
The Democrats used to be the party of the blue-collar workers and the middle class — the proletariat, in the parlance of Marx. Now, the “Democratic” party’s socialist national agenda is destroying the middle class and enriching its upper crust. They are actively working to wreck the middle class with downward wage pressure via the illegal invasion over the open border; endangering everyone who can’t afford private security teams with the criminals that are coming in over the same open border; eviscerating savings with inflation from money printing so the leftist ruling class can buy votes.
All of this should make one thing clear, even though it won’t be a shock to anyone: Ruling class leftists are a complete fraud.
This is on top of all their other issues, but everywhere you look, they are busily scamming society. Sure, they want to control and run our lives, but it’s worse than that. Their actions are based on cynical false premises.
They feign concern over guns, but that’s only because they don’t want anyone to have the ability to resist them. They’re perfectly happy with guns around them when needed for their protection.
Ruling class leftists are always feigning concern for global cooling, global warming, climate change, or whatever is the buzzword this week. But they still buy beach houses with the supposed rise in the oceans, and they still fly around to conferences when they could easily help “save the planet” by conducting their business over Zoom. And they supposedly want to redistribute the wealth, but they are only taking it for themselves.
So, how do we convince rank-and-file leftists of these facts?
How do we make them understand that ruling-class leftists are only out for themselves? If the latter are liars in one area, then maybe they are liars in all areas, and should not be trusted. Because the “useful innocents” need to know that virtue signals are based on false pretenses and the promised wealth redistribution is never going to happen.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
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“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - Joe, Hunter, James, Frank - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (DOCUMENTED LYING GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (ALSO OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, (GAMER LAWYER) CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON. TOSS INTO THE DUNG HEAP (GAMER LAWYER ) ERIC SALWELL, A CHINESE HO AND SPY CHASER AND DEFUCT FORMER GOV OF NEW YORK, PREDATORY (GAMER LAWYER) ANDREW CUOMO, A DOCUMENTED COVID LIAR.
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The IRS is putting David Horowitz’s Freedom Center out of business
Nobody likes the IRS, but Americans always assumed that the IRS was an equal opportunity government pest, bedeviling people across the political spectrum. The belief in the agency’s non-partisan status vanished in 2013 when we learned that the IRS had deliberately withheld tax-exempt status from Tea Party organizations, severely hampering their ability to share information during the 2012 presidential election. Now, David Horowitz contends that the IRS is trying to destroy his long tax-exempt Freedom Center, which, among many things, publishes Frontpage Magazine.
David Horowitz is an interesting person. He was raised in the Belly of the Beast, a “red-diaper baby” who was viewed as the great red hope for bringing communism to America. However, after working closely with the Black Panthers, Horowitz concluded that his former beliefs were completely wrong and that America’s founding principles were the best way to bring about maximum happiness and prosperity to the greatest number of people.
In 1988, along with Peter Collier, another former leftist radical, Horowitz founded the Freedom Center, which has been dedicated to exposing leftism in American institutions. As Horowitz writes (and all quotations in this post are to Horowitz’s),
Guided by our understanding of the Left, we were the first conservative institution to alert Americans that their universities and school systems had been captured by radical idealogues who had no respect for American achievements and communities and were transforming these educational institutions into indoctrination and recruitment centers for an anti-American left.
We were the first conservative institution to organize Islamo-fascism teach-ins, to champion the rights of Muslim women, and to warn others about the unholy alliance between the Islamic terrorists and the American left. We managed to give speeches on these threats on 400 campuses and to expose Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as a creation of the Hamas Nazis whose goal is to aid the terrorist enemies of the West and to bring about a second Holocaust of the Jews.
The Freedom Center sounded the warning tocsin long before others were aware that there was a problem. The organization writes books, maintains databases, and publishes one of my favorite outlets, FrontPage Magazine, all of which are aimed at making Americans aware of leftism in America’s institutions—including the peccadillos, foibles, and illegal acts of politicians advancing Marxism in America.
During the 2016 election, the Freedom Center used its outlets to report on a major news story; namely, Hillary Clinton’s self-admitted national security violations. According to Horowitz, for the IRS, this reporting was the “gotcha!” moment. By opining about Hillary’s criminal activities when she was a presidential candidate, the Freedom Center had gone from being an information outlet to being a partisan political outlet…which meant it was no longer tax-exempt. Writes Horowitz,
In 2019, the IRS informed us that they were conducting an investigation of the Freedom Center to see whether we were a legitimate “non-profit” deserving of the tax-deduction subsidies we had been granted 31 years before. Five years later, the I.R.S. dropped the other shoe, informing us that they had reached a “determination” that we were not a non-profit, and if we did not respond within 30 days, and persuade them they were mistaken, our tax-exemption would be revoked.
The key rule we were alleged to have violated was to have participated in a political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. In our 35 years, we have never endorsed a political candidate, nor did the IRS claim we had. Our thought crime emanated from our mission to defend free societies under attack from forces without and within.
But these facts did not deter the IRS. From the viewpoint of the government behemoth, we were guilty because we expressed the journalistic opinion in our online news site, Frontpagemag.com, that Hillary Clinton had violated U.S. espionage laws and obstructed justice by destroying 30,000 emails subpoenaed by the United States Congress, putting classified data on an unsecured home server which could be read by our enemies, and had gotten away with it with the aid of a corrupt attorney general.
Of course, it’s possible that Horowitz’s statement errs and that, as a matter of law, the IRS is right—but history suggests that the IRS has become politicized and that we should take seriously the effort to end the Freedom Center’s tax-exempt status. The Freedom Center is currently seeking donations, saying that it’s already lost several donors simply because of the investigation.
Image of the IRS building in D.C. made using a public domain photo.
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