By Rachel Alexander
Monday, February 10, 2014
The Occupy Wall Street movement has not only
disintegrated, but is now imploding. Left-wing news sites are gloating about
the demise of their own. BuzzFeed ran a story last week on the hijacking of the
primary Occupy Wall Street Twitter account by a transsexual who is now claiming
to be the founding organizer of the movement.
Justine Tunney has caused quite an uproar within what
remains of the dying Occupy movement for a couple of reasons. First, Occupy
prided itself as being a “horizontal,” leaderless movement, not a top-down
organization directed by a leader like Tunney. The anonymous masses displaying
their Guy Fawkes masks want the illusion that Occupy was spontaneously started
by the working class (“the 99 percent”), idealistically how a Marxist utopian
communist revolution should emerge; they don’t want to admit it was a movement
directed by any bourgeois leader. Secondly, Tunney is now a software engineer
at Google, embodying big business and the corporate world, practically the
antithesis of the Occupy movement which despises corporate America. In
December, Occupiers attempted to block buses from large tech companies like
Google and Apple from picking up their workers.
Tunney is not interested in working with the mainstream
left. Blowing off the Democrat Party - the closest connection the Occupy
movement ever had to power - makes it pretty unlikely Occupy will ever
accomplish much. Tunney bragged last week about the negative relationship the
clueless anarchist amateurs who started Occupy have with Democrats, “That's why
Liberal Elite™ has always fought so hard to destroy Occupy. It's why they
spread lies about us. Because we're #winning.”
At the same time Occupy has been imploding, the angry
extreme left has resorted to using the Twitter hashtag #RWNJ, which stands for
Right Wing Nut Jobs. What is revealing about this is it acknowledges that the
left has given up on trying to work with the right wing; instead, they would
rather block them and bash them. Resorting to angry tactics like that says a
lot about their inability to debate and work through issues. A typical tweet
from that channel: “It is always so much easier to block #RWNJ trolls than
trying to reason with them.”
This attitude is emblematic of where the far left is
today. They would rather cut off debate entirely than actually debate the
right. No longer are they are interested in the civilized kind of political
debates this country was founded on and has relied upon for years, epitomized
by the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The left would rather silence the right
to win.
Their language is full of hate towards the right, which
is hypocritical considering they claim to be against hate with their No Hate
gay campaign. One tweeted, “If you want to see an illogical and crazy these
#Kochsucker, check out this #RWNJ = @CapitaLiszt #psycothic #loser #liar
#nutjob #suckup.” Much of the language is so foul it cannot be repeated here.
Even more amusing, the far left cannot stop bragging
about themselves while avoiding genuine debate with the right. One lefty
tweeted, “You know why I pick on #RWNJs? Because I feel I have a gift I must
share with the world!” One prolific contributor to the channel has a grandiose
username of “princessomuch.” Another has a blank website entitled
liberalbadass.com. His ostensibly credentialed background is enjoying wine and
supporting lefty causes. One can’t help but wonder what is wrong with these
people to brag this much about nothing.
Many of those who contribute to #RWNJ have profiles that
say “I am awesome” and are all about explaining how they - in all their
importance - have come to their viewpoints. The vast majority haven't
accomplished much in their life, but boy do they brag about their opinions. Who
is reading these thousands of narcissistic profiles, tweets and blog posts?
There are so many now like this, it is mind-boggling.
The anger combined with the constant bragging makes one
wonder what is wrong with them. Are they taking out personal issues in the
political realm in order to mask them as simply anger over partisan politics?
What is clear is that they’ve lost the intellectual debate. Refusing to debate
issues anymore is a sign the left admits they no longer have any arguments left
to refute the right; they’ve let emotionalism take over.
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