A couple days ago, MRCtv posted a rather disconcerting video[below], featuring Stephen Lerner. Mr. Lerner is a veteran union organizer, former director of the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) banking and finance campaign, and one of the instigators behind the Day(s) of Rage – basically, a professional agitator.
What is it that these people on the Left are so angry about? What present “crisis” has Lerner all indignant?
Well, you know man, it’s the “super rich” – they have all the money and we don’t (as if Lerner is eating pork and beans and shopping at the nearest Salvation Army store). His “solution” to this faux calamity is for the Left to cause a crisis of their own – crash the system.
Here’s Lerner in March of this year:
…So I think we weed out a very simple strategy: how do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich.
And then what? And then what you lying hypocrite? After everything’s broken, America will morph into a thug-ocracy. The “downtrodden masses” you’re riling up with your righteous-sounding rhetoric will be much worse off than they are now. And you’ll be one of the smug, Alinskyite, radical elite – while the rest of us will be eking out a Zhivago-like existence; miserable, oppressed, hopeless.
Since Lerner is presently serving on the SEIU’s International Executive Board, I’m guessing he doesn’t live in a trailer park. Bet old Stevie would lose that I’m-such-a-hip-intellectual arrogance in a hurry if some discontented mob showed up on his doorstep, in whatever affluent D.C. suburb he lives in, to create a crisis and interfere with his ability to be rich.
The other question is why now? After all, their “guy” is in the White House. Why weren’t they this obsessed with class warfare during the Bush years? Isn’t Obama destroying the country fast enough for them?
On the other hand, that whole greedy “fair share”/rich vs. poor propaganda does seem to be a common thread in the Progressive playbook these days. And it appears that Barry and Steve are pretty chummy, because Lerner has reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times.
You don’t think the former community agitator organizer could possibly have been strategizing with Mr. Lerner about how to achieve their mutual goal of bringing down the free market system do you?
Nah.
Throughout the video, Lerner drones on about “what we need to do”; take it to the streets, escalate, violate the rules, create a crisis….
No Steve. What we really need to do is check you into the nearest psych ward!
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Related: Dem. Sen. Harkin (D-Iowa): We Need Some of You to Get Arrested ‘For Doing Things You Shouldn’t be Doing’ ~ What is it with these Progressive demagogues? While much of the country, finally aware of the false “Hope” behind the “Change”, is trying to pull itself back from the Abyss of Failed Civilizations, radical Leftists want to push us right back to the edge by sparking the flames of insurrection.
Harkin, of course, is oh-so-sane; a lawmaker encouraging lawbreaking.
“If the people elect these crazy Tea Party people to come in here and they vote to do these wacko things…” ~ Jan. 2011
