Lefties you've got a problem

I'm reading Bloodlands by Yale historian Timothy Snyder which is a superb history of eastern Europe during Stalin and Hitler. Two things jump out from the book: Firstly, while both regimes were equally murderous, the left was much better at hiding its horrors than the Nazis because it had this handy-dandy obscuring creme called the "class struggle". Every cruelty, every depredation, every dead body could be dressed up in this garb: "look he was a Kulak/Capitalist/Breaker". And the intellectual elite of the west who had just come to a saving knowledge of Marx would genuflect and sing Hosannas to the highest high priests of murderous Communism.

The second is that notwithstanding all their rhetoric the Stalinists were vicious racists who persecuted and murdered millions of Poles, Jews, Koreans, Germans, Tartars and others because of their race/nationality, putting Great Russians in charge of everything.

Ultimately when the class and race agendas clashed racial and national solidarity won. Because races and nationalities unlike class, are real. They contain culture and culture is language, religion, family, physiognomy, traditions and memories. And most importantly races and nationalities could command loyalty which is what a vicious, unpopular regime run by a Georgian interloper really needed. And as a consequence the USSR became just another phase of Russian imperialism: Stalinist instead of Romanov. One with a particularly brutal and lunatic Tsar.

This conflict between the leftist class and race agendas is playing itself out in much milder form in the US. Shika Dahlmia describes how the desire for 'racial justice' is foundering on the unwillingness of Asians to be discriminated against any longer. Asians are increasingly the odd men out in the leftist coalition - no longer the oppressed other, they are now haves that in leftist class parlance should pay for their crime of prosperity with higher taxes and reverse discrimination. In that they are following in the path of the Jews. Indeed, some leftists argue that reverse discrimination against Asians is nothing but an updated version of that that WASPS used against Jews as if that were a good thing.

However Jews have been able to largely dodge reverse discrimination by dint of the fact that they are racially white and are disproportionately powerful in collegiate and other elite settings. Ron Unz' magisterial analysis of college racial and ethnic preferences show what most of those who have attended elite colleges already know: Jews are vastly overrepresented relative to their objective credentials. This isn't just due to cronyism, it's also due to the fact that Jews are the greatest patrons of great Universities and have a stronger, more emotional attachment to higher education than any other group. By contrast Asians are often very bright but first generation college goers and easy to identify.

Jews heavily support racial preferences. It would be interesting to see what they would do if collegiate reverse discrimination was once again inflicted on them. And I believe their deft sidestepping of that fate is what has allowed a people who "earn like Episcopalians" to continue to blithely "vote like Puerto Ricans". Asians have learned to their chagrin, that the "Jew Deal" is not available to them and as such they have rebelled against leftist racial orthodoxy. And the high priests of the left are shocked that Asian moms and dads would put their children, indeed their race before ideology. In this they are treading the same path that Stalin did - just without the blood and bodies.

But the problem is - particularly in California - that leftist class ideology isn't worth a lot. The left has invested decades in promoting racial tribalism - including supporting a group with the astoundingly invidious name La Raza "The Race". When you combine this with the decline of white, non-Jewish, non-hispanic whites from whom all left sin has flowed and all recompense collected you begin to realize that the left is running out of acceptable class enemies that aren't racial allies. Hence the need to screw Asians.

And if it's not the Asians and not the Jews and not the Latinos and not the Blacks and if the whites are shrinking into insignificance where do lefties get off? Lefties are like sharks and if they can't keep moving and blaming and taking then they die. So someone must be at fault and someone must pay or the whole bloody neo marxist, paleo lib project that is California comes crashing down.

There's really only one group left - the most powerful group in the state: the state's dominant religious community and the only religion that commands almost universal, unthinking fealty from the powers that be. That of course is Fundamentalist Environmentalism. Most of the coastal rich, particularly the powerful tech nerds and Hollywood types are members of this very rich church. To date they've been allies of the left but as the pie doesn't grow and the evil white oppressor continues to flee to Texas and Colorado, at some point the logic of leftist envy and hatred has to turn on these koastal kumbaya kapitalists.

It will be fun to watch the Elect squeal when the knives get stuck in them. As I've said: lefties, you've got a problem.