I’m old. An old-school socialist before the days of ‘virtue-signalling’ and knee-jerk lifestyle politics critique via a social media pile-on. Before the monetarist turn where most people now have forgotten or never knew how monetary economies actually operate. Every day someone misinterprets what I say and brands me either a ‘communist’ or a ‘right-winger’. I know what my values are though. I know standard conservative ‘thought’ is pretty much an empty vessel and lightweight ‘leftists’ are the other face of that coin. Anyone troubled about where they stand was just standing in the wrong place. They didn’t have a ‘conversion’, they just moved to the place they were supposed to be.

So she’s of Armenian heritage and calls herself a Young Turk.

Regarding Obama’s white grandmother, if you live in an urban area and you are not afraid of groups of young Black men (particularly teenagers) then you are in self denial. Sorry, but it’s true.

My roommate in my freshman year was from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A young black grabbed his grandmother’s purse. She hung onto the purse for a while, but fell and broke her hip. This was in the ’60s.

I’m not sure where in NYC this happened. I will assume that it was where my roommate lived, the Upper West Side.

I got mugged in Houston in a heavily Hispanic section near downtown. (back in the day, relatives lived in the area. The accountant that my cousins used for years, by then deceased, lived in the next street over from me.)
I had no cash on me, so they took my eyeglasses. Ironically, I was going to pick up a new pair of eyeglasses in a couple of days, so losing the eyeglasses was no big deal. BTW, the muggers were WHITE.

I believe this is just another manifestation of the left’s propensity toward projection.

Their entire movement is built around categorizing people and pigeonholing them based on those categories. If you’re black, latino, white, homeless, illegal, gay, lesbian, etc etc etc you are identified by that group and it is assumed that you must conform with the opinions, beliefs and behaviors of everyone else in that group. Strangely, I remember when stereotyping people was frowned upon…but times have changed.

They then, because they cannot conceive the possibility that there is any other way to view people, assume that because they judge everyone based on group memberships, everyone else must do so as well.

So, if they assume that everyone will judge all homeless people based on the actions of a few, or all black people based on the actions of a few, or all latinos based on the actions of a few, then it becomes verboten to mention the group membership of anyone in a favored “victim group” because that is tantamount to casting aspersions on the whole group…hence the outrage when “one of their own” breaks ranks and does so. They view criticism of one member of a group to be denigrating the entire group, and that cannot stand.

Lewis, as is usual, covers a LOT of the reasons for why socialism is not-a-good-thing, including the famous allegory introduced by his assertion that “If we must have a tyrant a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.”

Much of the content is relevant to several topics hitting the news these days, because the contrast between socialism and (true) democracy is so pervasive in this election, despite the Democrats’ trying to claim the mantle of the latter rather than admit to wearing the robes of the former.

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