Recidivism

 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what constitutes a “revolutionary mind.” Several incidents in the last couple of decades that might have been skimmed over as to their importance in our revolutionary movement for real social change. Others, such as the current administration's “fascistic” dictatorship, the left has squandered. There is no doubt in my mind we’re in trouble as a nation state that, though it’s never been proven, our nation state reflects the ideals of the Age of Reason, as contradictory as they can be, and still are today. Ideas like the expansion of freedom to those who never had it or democratic rule, or representative rule. It’s true that the Age of Reason was cynicism free because it relied on a honor system to support its institutions and attempted to balance the power constructs so no one person or group of persons could put the established order in jeopardy. It was one for all and all for one. 

The problem is, what was morally reprehensible to some, is so embedded in the system, it is like pulling teeth without anesthesia because the law is law and the law is sacrosanct. So, men acted righteous by, say, supporting slavery because it was the law but could not bring themselves through the political apparatus they had fostered, to be morally conscious. Centuries old religious laws, rules, and threats of going to hell never convinced the "bad dudes" any of that was for them.

Recently, the left has been turned on its head with the uncovering of the sexual exploitation by Cesar Chavez. Ironically, this exposure is no different than the whole Epstein fiasco, yet because Chavez was such an integral part of a liberal/left movement, it becomes a lesson of our own hubris. 

This recent example of the lefts lack of moral code at the same time as a lack of overall coherence and definition of accepting differences in the various ideologies surrounding any radical movement. I guess it’s a matter of not knowing when to swallow pride for the greater good. Also, it’s relevant to the way the left, just like the right follows, or allows to lead, leaders who themselves become the movement and can’t be replaced. 

For example, Black Lives Matter became an international movement, accepting millions of dollars of donations, which every movement needs to grow, only to be caught up in a fraud scam where a lot of money went into the pockets of BLM leaders. A similar thing happened with the women’s movement in twenty sixteen when organizers put together the largest political protest and rally up to that time and couldn’t follow up because they broke up on the religious divisions between black Muslim/Jewish (zionist) definitions. If women really want to build a revolutionary movement they're going to have to redefine the relationship between men and women or good and evil. Up to now, violence is a man's thing, although some women leaders have demonstrated they can follow up on the religious/political/cultural written strictures brought down the mountaintops from god to men over the centuries. Men's acceptance of violence as resolution is the wrecking ball of civilizations. Men invented God and women invented equality

It’s clear that none of the leaders in all the political movements in America are moral examples, pure of ideological clarity, including maga, finally a chink in their armor, America first or Israel first, but, the left which has always embedded itself into the age old argument that there is no moral argument, only how a man's money pays to get what the laws demand. Ideas about democracy alone curing whatever ails a nation are absurd because we already know that "the people" have elected tyrants many times, including most of the ones in the twentieth/first century.

Of course, I'm not unequivocal in my criticism of what the left has done to itself, because they have the right ideas, ideas that truly represent oppositional thinking but if no one can keep greed out of their values or not just self-interest but self-absorption, self-centeredness or sexual exploitation, then what's the good that's advanced.

It's funny (in a way) that our own democratically elected modern napoleon, despite his moral, sociopathic shortcomings, is not even halfway into his second term, yet he has brought the world to this potent evolutionary moment. I'd say there's no going back after this, but if I'm wrong, and there is a going back to something similar to what everyone was doing before, then, honestly, I'm even more afraid. Why? Because it means there's no real justice, only recidivism.