{"id":5904,"date":"2026-09-08T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:08:39","slug":"a-dose-of-reality-for-you-dsa-kiddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5904","title":{"rendered":"A Dose of Reality for You DSA Kiddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One of the things I like to do is understand the minds of our lefty friends. If you have studied The Science, you know that socialism doesn\u2019t work, the administrative state doesn\u2019t work. And last week, with the Clancy decision, we learned that feminism doesn\u2019t work. Correction: we actually learned that back in the 19th century, when the life of the First Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft smashed up in a trainwreck until rescued by William Godwin, A Man.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5901\">Making the World Great One Nation at a Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it was fun to read Michael Barone writing about the biography of Stalin by Stephen Kotkin. There\u2019s a quote from Grigory Zinoviev, one of the top leaders in the Bolshevik Revolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe go forward to the complete elimination of money,\u201d Grigory Zinoviev explained to German socialists in 1920. \u201cWe pay wages in commodities. We introduce trolleys without fares. We have free public schools, free, if temporarily poor, meals, rent-free apartments, free lighting. \u201cWe are realizing all this,\u201d he went on, \u201cvery slowly, under the most difficult conditions. We have to fight ceaselessly, but we have a way out, a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bless his heart. It worked so well that Lenin had to restore capitalism with his New Economic Policy in 1921.<\/p>\n<p>And now we have DSA Wonder Zohran Mamdani, who ran for mayor of NYC on the following issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free and fast city buses<\/li>\n<li>Rent freeze<\/li>\n<li>Free universal child care<\/li>\n<li>Public groceries<\/li>\n<li>Taxing the wealthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How\u2019s that going, Zohrie baby?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reading and blogging a PDF of a book on our modern world by Bj\u00f6rn Merker, <em>Perishing Promise<\/em>, about how the cultural model of late Victorian England got demolished by the Marxist left. One of his notions is that Marx became a socialist because he didn\u2019t like having to work for a living after Daddy died and his widowed mother stopped his allowance. Hey, Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani: this you?<\/p>\n<p>Is that the real meaning of the left? Privileged rich kids that resent having to get a joh?<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I wonder about is Gramsci\u2019s famous Long March Through the Institutions. There\u2019s a take on this on X right now. My take is that the lefty march through the institutions of the last century has turned out to be a fabulous way to demolish those institutions. I\u2019d say that everything from universities to criminal justice, Lindsay Clancy, has been demolished by our lefty friends.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason is pretty simple. Human institutions are not meant to be vehicles of lefty politics. They are best understood as imperfect ways of negotiating the needs and hopes and failures &#8212; and above all, conflicts &#8212; of humans, short of the dead-end political domination of Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Islamist Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5903\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8ee15d3a7ecd732ee8963f3fac907ee8.jpg\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8ee15d3a7ecd732ee8963f3fac907ee8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8ee15d3a7ecd732ee8963f3fac907ee8-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\nSo if you march through the institutions and politicize everything, you wreck everything. And the end result, dear lefty friends, is Trump. I bet that never occurred to you, back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>In his <em>Perishing Promise<\/em>, Bj\u00f6rn Merker calls our lefty friends \u201cpartisans of overthrow.\u201d He means that, for the left, the revolution that started with the French Revolution is \u201cunfinished.\u201d If only we do the revolution right this time, Antifa, then the world will fundamentally transform into a perfect world of peace and justice.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5898\">Chief Justice Roberts applied the Frankfurter fix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could we modify that phrase a little? To me, our lefty friends are not \u201cpartisans of overthrow\u201d but \u201cfantasists of overthrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dear lefty friends. If you think, after the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Nazi Revolution, the Mao Revolution, and all the minor league contributions from Castro and Chavez and Uncle Tom Lefty, that \u201crevolution\u201d or \u201coverthrow\u201d or \u201cmarch through the institutions\u201d can ever end in anything other than bloody Armageddon, then it\u2019s time for you to seek serious mental health assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rn Merker makes a fundamental point in <em>Perishing Promise<\/em>. In the Victorian era in Britain, from 1819 to 1901, population doubled and real per-capita income tripled. Merker comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, to undergo the greatest change in methods of production since the introduction of agriculture, and to do so in the span of less than a century (roughly from 1790 to 1840), is bound to entail considerable social disruption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t lead to political disruption. How come, you expert activists and Gramscian marchers? How come you chaps didn\u2019t accept the history \u2013 that explains what happened &#8212; or The Science &#8212; that explains\u00a0why? Oh, we know why. It\u2019s because<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Trump-world is a hell-world of oppression and injustice and suffering. Hey, even Elon Musk wants to feel less suffering.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He said he spent years in a state of continuous emergency where every waking hour was consumed by the feeling that everything was about to collapse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess there are two ways of dealing with suffering. You can wave the magic wand of free stuff and spill the blood of millions. Or you can switch into what Grimes called Elon\u2019s \u201cdemon mode\u201d and solve the problem that is driving you crazy.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong><em>Christopher Chantrill<\/em> <em>@chrischantrill<\/em><em> blogs at <\/em>The Commoner Manifesto <em>and runs the go-to site on US government finances, <\/em><em>usgovernmentspending.com<\/em><em>. Also get his<\/em> American Manifesto<em> and his<\/em> Road to the Middle Class.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5895\">WARNING! Democratic Socialism is communism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span><strong>Image: Public Domain<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I like to do is understand the minds of our lefty friends. If you have studied The Science, you know that socialism doesn\u2019t work, the administrative state doesn\u2019t work. And last week, with the Clancy decision, we learned that feminism doesn\u2019t work. 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