You must first see the matrix before you have any chance of defeating it.
But are you willing to see it, populist leftists, labor leftists, fairleftists? There’s a test for you below. Some of you will be found unwilling, and you’ll be of (at the very best) limited use to the true left.
The U.S. Power Matrix© is the mainstream media, giant corporations and the wealthy, and their Wall Street Party with its Republican and Democratic wings. The Republican wing plays the religious right chumps into voting for Wall Street Republicans or staying home. The Democrats play populist & labor leftists into ‘no alternative’ voting for Wall Street Democrats or staying home. The Wall Street Party also brings ‘inside’ and compensates the elites of the two biggest minority groups, for playing their constituencies into voting for the Wall Street Democrats or staying home. The mainstream media hysterically enforces political correctness, trivial pursuits and if necessary TINA fatalism. The giant corporations fund the political system, own the media, and even make it tough for anyone to get a middle-class job who doesn’t parrot DemoRepublism or TINA fatalism.
This is full-spectrum dominance, it is a fucking Beast. But it is also exactly what the authentic left must face and fight in any real mass movement for a humane, peaceful, social democratic society and world, or even to successfully resist our world’s forced march in the opposite direction.
A first preliminary victory is simply to know the U.S. Power Matrix© and get others to recognize it too.
A second prelim win is to understand the implications the power matrix for resistance strategies, and for understanding the fake ‘resistance’ that is in fact a support movement for a subset of the power matrix.
And that leads to the immigration test.
Okay, here’s the immigration test, inspired by this little piece of d3n4l1’s latest:
How about something like Immigration. I actually have a feeling that most of us really aren’t sure what to do about our greatest humanitarian issue in the US. It’s an extremely complex issue, and I just haven’t gotten my mind around any truly likeable solution.
No, immigration is not an extremely complex issue, that’s a typical ‘good liberal’ avoidance strategy for taking a position on an issue where the politically incorrect but left position is obvious. Here ya go: the income levels of the working poor are going down, in part because they compete unsuccessfully with very large numbers of immigrants for semi-skilled and non-skill jobs. Greatly reducing legal and illegal immigration will help our working poor brothers and sisters, and some of us a little better of than them too.
As, of course, Cesar Chavez recognized long ago. But those were different days, when private-sector unions were politically powerful in their own right and an important part of a real Democratic Party. Yes, private-sector unions were once at least powerful enough to restrict immigration competition against their members and potential members.
So immigration is not tough to figure out, it’s just tough to openly state the leftist position. We all know it is politically taboo within the larger ‘Democratic Party’ (wing of the Wall Street Party) that most of us still kind of need to ‘officially’ belong to. Especially when we are not anonymous (like me?) on the web.
So, are you with the authentic left or against us? Do you stand with your working poor fellow citizens (but with humanity toward illegal immigrants as well)? I’ll understand if you’re a ‘fraidy cat, and we can still hang out together here and have a few laughs watching our values and country go down the toilet bowl.
You must first see the matrix before you have any chance of defeating it.
