History of the Left: People were killed for being on the Left. They were jailed for being on the Left, for making real and material and mortal sacrifices for a cause.

Why do left elites/partisan hacks push identity politics? @NormFinkelstein cites 3 primary motives:

1) Attracting new Democratic party voters to replace their former working class base.

2) To stop a class mobilization from below—like one the Bernie Sanders campaign had… pic.twitter.com/0zzfLl8ZtI

— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) April 22, 2023

Mario Cuomo's 1984 Keynote address.  It attacked the Republican Party as the party of the rich, while affirming the Democratic Party as the party of the working class. 

To fill the void in the Democratic Party, they created a juggernaut to stop a class struggle mobilization from below like Bernie Sanders.

Woke politics to give a veneer of being progressive and cutting edge without making any sacrifices.

History of Left: People were killed for being on the Left.  They were jailed for being on the Left, for making real and material and mortal sacrifices for a cause.  What does it mean now? 

Judith Butler, 2020.  Says she's doing something real historic, right up there with the Paris Commune, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War.  What does she do? She announces that her new pronouns are they/them.  O, that's a real act of martyrdom.  That's Christ being nailed to the cross.  It's so laughable what passes now for radical politics.  Radical politics is raking in tons and tons and tons and tons of cash.  

Ibram X gets $10 million dollars from Jack Dorsey.  

Barrack Obama gets $100 million dollars from Jeff Bezos.  

Van Jones gets $100 million dollars from Jeff Bezos.  

Black Lives Matter so-called leadership--they collected $90 million dollars tohe year of the George Floyd demonstration, i.e., the Summer of Love, 2020.  None of the activists saw one dime of it.  But Patrisse-KhanCullorso, one of the so-called leaders, she goes out and purchases 4 homes.  Another leader, Tamika Mallory, did a commercials for Cadillac.  

This is a bonanza!  This is a bonanza!  This is not sacrifice.  This is not what the Left used to stand for.  It's just making money.  Grifters!  There are grifters making money off of the cause on one hand, and then there are all these fake radical people pretending they are so cutting edge and so woke because they changed their pronouns or they drool over trans people.