Gimme Gimme: A Tour of the Entitlement Mentality
March 18, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Collective Bargaining, entitlement, Force, Labor Unions, liberty, NewsReal Blog, Public Employee Unions, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin protests
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Words have meaning. If they did not, communication would be impossible. Unfortunately, in our political discourse, words are often sapped of their meaning and reduced to empty rhetoric. This handicaps our capacity for thoughtful deliberation. After all, if you can’t find common ground in the dictionary, what chance is there to find it elsewhere?
In the comment section of a recent NRB post regarding public employee unions and the related protests in Wisconsin, one of our readers demonstrated a curious inability to distinguish force from choice. The exchange was instructive of the entitlement mentality propagated by the Left. It is a worldview which includes relativism so extreme that it disputes the definition of words. Consider these excerpts.
pjz29: As a taxpayer with two non-union jobs, I am more than happy to pay good wages to public employees. Just because the “private sector” labor jobs are being reduced to match the 3rd World, it doesn’t mean that we should be bitter against those who [are] still… living comfortably.
NRB: Good for you. Then here’s what you can do. Take some of that hard-earned cash you have left over after the federal, state, and local governments have punished you for having the audacity to work hard in the private sector at multiple jobs to stay off the dole, then contribute as much as you can to parties, candidates, and political action committees which will work to insure other people (not you or your family) continue “living comfortably.” That is your right. It doesn’t have to make sense to me.
All I insist upon is a level playing field, that contributions to such causes be motivated by genuine desire such as yours, and not compelled(…)
Conservatives Must Rise Up and Shout “I’m Wisconsin!”
March 17, 2011 at 9:11 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Collective Bargaining, Democracy for America, Hollywood, Howard Dean, huffington post, Labor Unions, NewsReal Blog, Public Employee Unions, Recall Elections, Scott Walker, Spartacus, unions, Wisconsin protests
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It’s been many years since I watched the 1960 Academy Award winning epic Spartacus, spiritual predecessor to Ridley Scott’s rousing Gladiator. I don’t recall every detail. However, I do remember that much referenced scene toward the end.
Roman soldiers have finally routed a ragtag army of rebel slaves led by Kirk Douglas’ title character. The Romans offer to spare the defeated mob, and return them to their lives of slavery, if they will only give up their leader. As Spartacus rises to offer himself up for his men, one of them leaps to his feet.
I’m Spartacus!
Then another arises. And another. Soon the entire mob is risen, all contending to be the leader their enemy seeks.
A similar moment is called for in aid of besieged Republicans in Wisconsin. As The Huffington Post reports, conservatives are ill-prepared to fight back against the enraged union-fed beast they successfully stung earlier this week.
Who Are Wisconsin’s True “Forces of Evil?”
March 15, 2011 at 10:30 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: American Federation of Teachers, Collective Bargaining, Evil, Labor Unions, Madison Protests, morality, NewsReal Blog, objectivism, Public Employee Unions, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin protests
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Over the weekend, public employee unions held a rally in Madison where the list of speakers included Bill Franks of the American Federation of Teachers. Franks had this to say about rank-and-file Republicans:
… the would-be Republicans, anybody making $30-40,000 who think they can afford to be a Republican is not living in any kind of reality. Real Republicans don’t recognize them. Because the real “haves” are them. And these people who think they can afford these [conservative] principles, they can’t afford them. That’s not in their self interest. That’s what we gotta cure as a pathology.
This is a common claim from the Left, that middle class conservatives are “lackeys” or “wanna be” dupes beholden to super-rich overlords. As a black Tea Party activist, I get double-takes for being both a “have not” and a racial minority. Why are you voting against your interest? I am asked. Don’t you know conservatives are holding you down?
In fact, I know the opposite. It has been the policies of the Left which have retarded opportunities for those with low-incomes.
Blitz! Wisconsin Taxpayers – 1, Truant Democrats – 0
March 10, 2011 at 1:16 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: MoveOn, News, NewsReal Blog, Public Employee Unions, Scott Walker, The Blaze, unions, Wisconsin protests
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
This is not supposed to happen. Republicans are docile, accommodating creatures. They’re supposed to kowtow to their opponent’s sense of “civility.” They’re supposed to let their opponents win. They’re supposed to do anything to avoid being called names. They’re supposed to get elected, then shift to the so-called “middle.”
Republican state senators in Wisconsin didn’t get that memo. Wednesday night, they took bold and decisive action to end weeks of juvenile political theater.
A “Progressive Tea Party?” No, “The Coming Insurrection” Is Here
February 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Johann Hari, Labor Unions, Madison Wisconsin Protests, NewsReal Blog, revolution, Scott Walker, tea party, The coming Insurrection, The Concession Stand, UK Uncut, unions
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The ongoing union protests against Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin have inspired comparisons to the Tea Party movement. Apparently, for some commentators, people at a capitol building holding signs is inherently “populist.” However, beyond the superficial similarity of people protesting, there is nothing these union demonstrations have in common with the Tea Party. Quite the contrary, the unrest in Wisconsin is the antithesis of everything the Tea Party stands for.
The Nation’s Johann Hari acknowledges this. Rather than compare the events in Wisconsin to the Tea Party movement, Hari plainly states the contrast.
Imagine a parallel universe where the Great Crash of 2008 was followed by a Tea Party of a very different kind. Enraged citizens gather in every city, week after week—to demand the government finally regulate the behavior of corporations and the superrich, and force them to start paying taxes. The protesters shut down the shops and offices of the companies that have most aggressively ripped off the country. The swelling movement is made up of everyone from teenagers to pensioners. They surround branches of the banks that caused this crash and force them to close, with banners saying, You Caused This Crisis. Now YOU Pay.
Michael Moore Plays Matchmaker Between Wisconsin Protesters and Egyptian Revolutionaries
February 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Egypt, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Michael Moore, NewsReal Blog, Public Employee Unions, revolution, Scott Walker, The Concession Stand, unions, Wisconsin
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
What’s that old saying? Birds of a feather flock together. If so, we might be inclined to wonder what binds bombastic Hollywood fraud Michael Moore to Egyptian revolutionaries and the public union protesters in Wisconsin.
Moore relayed a message through his website on Sunday from Egyptian union boss Kamal Abbas. The message is addressed to “the workers of Wisconsin” and draws direct parallels between the ongoing Egyptian revolution and the protests against Governor Scott Walker’s leadership in the Badger State.
I am speaking to you from a place very close to Tahrir Square in Cairo…
From this place, I want you to know that we stand with you as you stood with us.
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