Seamus Padraig
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

You left out something. Namely: much of the New Left itself eventually got co-opted and subverted by the oligarchy. How else to explain the bizarre spectacle of ‘leftwingers’ ranting and raving about there being a Russian under every bed, just like the McCarthyites of old? How else to explain Soros-financed ‘radical’ groups too busy attacking their own fellow citizens to go after the system? Christianity is old news; even the Republican Party has caved on gay marriage. IdPol and SJWism, on the other hand, are the new state religion. Beware …

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