GoFundMe and How the Left Came to Despise the Working Class

[Anonymous]

What irony!



Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger must be turning over in their graves.



Bernie Sanders must be having sleepless nights.



The left-wing anthem "Which Side Are You On?" is no longer about whether you're a "union man" or a "thug for J.H. Blair." It's about the size of your stock portfolio or when to go public with your start-up.



The oh-so-progressive GoFundMe crowd-funding site—run by about as pure a group of upscale lefty elitists as you could invent, with its CEO being a former a consultant for the multimillion-dollar drug pushers at McKinsey—has turned against those lowly 16-hour-a-day working-stiffs, the Canadian truckers, for deigning to risk their jobs and livelihood to protest vaccine mandates.



At first, calling the truckers occupiers and accusing them—without the slightest proof—of violent acts, GoFundMe essentially absconded with the US$8 million donated to the truckers through its site and peremptorily decided to distribute the money to charities of its choice (one can only imagine).



Sounds like "misappropriation of funds," at the minimum, and possibly fraud. Don't these people have lawyers? But worse than that, it was one of the more clueless readings of public sentiment in recent years—and there have been many.



Maybe it's because those lefty elitists on their board don't do much shopping on their own, send assistants to the supermarkets for food, and don't see the empty shelves, so they think they can push the truckers around. That's an explanation, anyway, but blowback happened fast enough that GoFundMe quickly rescinded its "charitable" decree and promised to return the money to the donors.



Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for an investigation of GoFundMe (when are we going to start calling him "America's governor"?), as have officials in Georgia.



Good for them, but what interests me here is how it came to be that supposedly left-leaning organizations, indeed basically the entire modern-day American left, came to be so anti-working class.



It could be a "Just So Story" in a style reminiscent of "How the Camel Got His Hump" or "How the Leopard Got His Spots," although far less beguiling and humorous than Rudyard Kipling would have made it. (Kipling, whose stories many of us enjoyed as children, has become a particular target of those fun suckers known as the "woke.")



GoFundMe versus the truckers may prove to be a paradigm case for our time—and it's about class.



To understand it, you have to go back to the man who started it all, Karl Marx, who expected his communist revolution to begin in heavily industrialized Germany.



He was wrong, of course. It began in the much less developed and largely agrarian Russia. In Germany, the working class was not nearly as attracted to his theories as he had hoped. The majority rejected them.



This trend continued as communism did better in poorer countries (China, Cambodia) than it did in the industrialized West, where it was supposed to take hold.



This failure was not lost on a group of intellectuals known as the Frankfurt School, who brought their revised Marxian theories designed to succeed where the working class approach had failed—notably via the so-called march through the institutions (media, entertainment, education)—to the United States at the end of World War II.



This indeed was an intellectuals-first revolution, and it has succeeded almost completely in our university system, where their "critical theory" dominates. They also succeeded, to lesser but still powerful degrees, in turning the media and entertainment, pretty much destroying Hollywood in the process. Why would the Chinese object?



This was clearly a top-down revolution, with elites dictating to hoi polloi what they should think and how to behave. In the way of the world, those elites also became increasingly rich, richer than anyone else in the history of the human race (the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, et al.). They knew best. (Someone should write a book about that.)



In the process, the working class, what Amity Shlaes earlier called "The Forgotten Man," was forgotten.



Which brings us to the truckers. This time—I think, hope, and pray—these elites have gone too far. The yawning gap between them and the people they lord over has become too great. People are sickened, as they should be, by the arrogance.



Thank you, GoFundMe, for blowing it. This is a teaching moment. Let's use it.

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The genie is out of the bottle. It was the worst kept secret in the world. Today's leftists hate the the working class.

[Anonymous]

Media's Alarmist Reporting of Trucker Protest and Trudeau's Intolerant Rhetoric Are Shameful



"Regardless of your view of specific anti-COVID policies, policymaking during the pandemic has set a terrible precedent for the future. The genie of unaccountable government power in the name of science has been let out of the bottle. Will we be able to put it back in?"



During the months of full civic tumults and riots that plagued numerous U.S. cities in 2020, mainly the work or Black Lives Matter or the newly emergent curse of the oxymoronically self-named Antifa, the U.S. press was unwonted genteel in their coverage. Recall these mobs took over the central section of Seattle, set up "guards" to determine who could enter, nightly rolled through the downtown, and terrified residents of their liberated "Chazistan." Businesses were attacked, saw murder and violence, and of course the riots were marked with scorn for and attacks on the police.



Residents of Seattle were, effectively, kept hostage in their own city, this in 21st-century democratic U.S.A.



The mayor of utopian Seattle, during an outbreak of pure lawlessness, put the capstone on the folly by describing it as the beginning of "a summer of love." A statement—let me coin a word—of such "dim-wititude" that it should be inscribed on granite and put outside the municipal offices under a bust of the mayor. Elsewhere in so many other cities there were nightly rampages, attempts to burn down police buildings, "occupations," vast destruction of property, and mass looting. The works.



Still the news media were, shall we say, comforting, or fully complacent, downplaying what was in front of their eyes. Everyone who followed the riots will recall the epic moment when a reporter—standing in front of a three-storey building that was one huge torch, flames leaping up into the night sky—gave the immortal judgement, on camera, live: "Fiery, but mostly peaceful." He was employed by, of course—how could he not be—CNN.



There was six months of this, and the entire time the reporting of the riots and the looting was in the main cowardly, almost overtly supportive, and totally inadequate.



Here in Canada, we have had (as I am writing) six days of protest, in one city, and the dynamic is almost perfectly opposite. The protest has been actually not "mainly" but overwhelmingly peaceful, and the political and major press response, wildly alarmist and ominous.



Ottawa shops remain with their windows intact, no assaults on police stations or police being bombarded with sticks and stones, no "armed patrols" by the truckers telling people where they could go or not go, and a splendid number of rather endearing incidents that have failed to make it to national or local press.

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Antifa and BLM have no use for the working class other than to divide them. They were violent, destroyed private and public businesess. The anarchy went on for months. It had the support of Justin Trudeau. It had the support of the powerful leftist establishment.



Contrast that with protests in Otaawa. Unlike the BLM/Antifa riots across North America the majority of protesters actually have 9-5 jobs. Their financial supporters are small business owners, carpenters, accounting techs, and bus drivers. George Soros did not donate a dime. There was no destruction of private property. Justin Trudeau not only did not take a knee with them like he did with BLM, he refused to meet them, slandered them and left town so his delicate nostrils did not have to breathe the stench of sweat from people who toil for a living. He did hit them with third world dictator persecution, so the fringe minority did catch his attention.



Today's left is unrecognizable to the CCF. They are the elites and the middle class are the target of their revolution.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it can be seriously denied that the powerful seek to impose rules on average families that they themselves will disregard..



Masking, carbon taxes, private gatherings, and on and on.

[Anonymous]

Socialism does not exist anymore. It has been replaced by progressivism. My former party, the NDP is not a social democratic party. They are neither socialist nor democratic. Tommy Douglas must be rolling in his grave. The party he built for the common person is the party of rich globalists and urban elities who are at war with the average working Canadian.

[cc]

Socialism does not exist anymore. It has been replaced by progressivism. My former party, the NDP is not a social democratic party. They are neither socialist nor democratic. Tommy Douglas must be rolling in his grave. The party he built for the common person is the party of rich globalists and urban elities who are at war with the average working Canadian.

True in full. And there are no  Tommy Douglas's today



Tommy created the initial pattern for Canadian Health care for Paul Martin Sr (a Liberal) to refine and get passed in Ottawa

In those days, Parties actually talked to each other,  listened and tried to work together for citizens

[Anonymous]

Great op Seoul brother.



Ceec and old Jock's posts were right on the money.

[Anonymous]

Nobody can deny that there are some people today with wealth never seen before. They are also very liberal, very powerful and like to dictate how the proletariat should live. They are also hypotwats.

[Anonymous]

Nobody can deny that there are some people today with wealth never seen before. They are also very liberal, very powerful and like to dictate how the proletariat should live. They are also hypotwats.

They pretend to speak for the working class too. What a frickin joke. Just as much as prog academics who have never worked a day in their lives who say they speak for the average working man or woman. Today's left is pure bullshit.

[cw_]

The wealthy are not a political party.  They own them though.  And as long as people fight each other instead of these money/power/military owners, they will continue to do so.

[Anonymous]

The wealthy are not a political party.  They own them though.  And as long as people fight each other instead of these money/power/military owners, they will continue to do so.

Hence they push CRT.

[Anonymous]

The super rich are all power mad progrogressives with workers in their crosshairs.