Hate Mail

While I don't have time to write the whole argument out this morning, the short form is that the left that performs as an effort to make the old commies of New York City, Chicago and other Northern Mid-Western cities, as well as a few on the West Coast  feel like they were fighting the good fight instead of being self-indulgent, foreign dictator duped numskulls who turned off the majority of even the very people they claimed to champion, is not going to go anywhere or do anything except waste more time.  

That is what a good part of the energy, resources and time spent on nostalgia of the left is based in. The anarchists, the Wobblies, the various Communist and their feudin' and fussin' cousins, the memory of deluded and stupid third-parties and their absurd presidential candidates,  all of those defrauded a lot of naively idealistic people who might have meant well but were a burden to the real left.  

And the nostalgia buffs of the left want us to waste our efforts on that fraudulent mythology, even now.   If you don't learn to avoid the disasters of the past as you are taught to revere and emulate them, you are never going to do what the left exists to do. Anyone who finds that offensive can soak their heads, it's ever so much more offensive to waste any more decades on that kind of self-indulgence when there is a real catastrophe to avoid, real lives at risk.