Oh this is precious. California’s senator Dianne Feinstein is facing criticism over a video showing her responding to a group of children and teenagers asking her to support the Ocasio-Cortez backed Green New Deal.
The video clip, which was posted on Twitter, shows Feinstein meeting with some kids that are part of the Sunrise Movement. The kids were asking her to support the “Green New Deal”.
Feinstein rebuked the young activists’ request, in the video, one kid says:
“The government is supposed to be for the people, by the people, and all for the people.”
Feinstein responded:
“I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’ve been doing,”
“You come in here and say it has to be my way or the highway. I’ve gotten elected. I just ran. I was elected by almost a million vote plurality and I know what I’m doing. Maybe people should listen a little bit.”
The conversation continues:
“I hear what you’re saying,” “But we’re the people who voted you, you’re supposed to listen to us.”
“How old are you?” Feinstein asks her.
“I’m 16,” the kid responds.
“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” Feinstein says.
LOL I don’t know what’s worse; kids being used for propaganda, or an old political crony more concerned about votes than issues.
But, at least senator Feinstein realizes the “Green New Deal” is an unworkable fantasy, and rightly rejects it.
Feinstein’s office issued a damage-control statement Friday evening, saying:
Apparently, “real and meaningful” doesn’t include the AOC fantasy Green New Deal.
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She can say whatever she wants. She’s not going to run for reelection in 2024 at 91.
Wanna make a bet?
Strom Thurmond
Walter,
No. Like the Politburo, she might never retire.
Gary,
You could be right that she wants to die in office, like Thurmond.
But she had Democrat opposition even in 2018. If she survives and runs for reelection, she’s liable to be defeated.
She did try to walk back her dismissal of the brainwashed kids, so maybe I’m wrong.
What’s this unicorn concept of a Republican winning state-wide office in California?
If DiFi is vulnerable to defeat, it is surely only from a socialist/communist primary opponent.
Not defeated by a Republican, but by a more radical Democrat in the primary/
Under California’s non-partisan blanket “jungle” primary law, all candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party. In the primary, voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of his or her party affiliation. In this system, the top two finishers, regardless of party, advance to the general election in November, even if a candidate receives a majority of the votes cast in the primary election.
In 2018, Feinstein faced off in the general election against another Democrat, Kevin de Leon.
She could survive perhaps with GOP votes yet again in 2024, but more likely a younger, more “Progressive” Democrat would beat her in the primary, possibly with 50%. Feinstein got 42% in the primary to de Leon’s 12%. The next five candidates were Republicans, with three to eight percent each.
As so much else in CA, the system is rigged to guarantee one-party rule.
Oh I see that I misread your earlier comment. Makes sense
She won the general election 54-46%.
She & her Hubby have a great deal with the Chinese—why give that up $$$$$$.
Spelled “treason?”
We all keep falling for this crap…..when we should know better
Sunrise Movement…that put out the video
..edited it….to make Feinstein look even worse
It the left…stop taking anything they say as gospel
https://www.weaselzippers.us/411796-green-new-deal-loons-edited-video-to-make-feinstein-look-bad-with-kids/
“I hear what you’re saying,” “But we’re the people who voted you, you’re supposed to listen to us.”
Lying to your senator, straight in the face. By “supposed to listen” I guess they mean listen and do as we say.
… with smugness + disrespect. Yep.
You have obviously never tried to stand in the way of an American politician & their sense of ownership concerning the seat they first won 40 years earlier. The perks are so good, they all want to die in office.
yeah, she talks to these fired up, evangelical kids and finally realises she has been a petulant child for 9 decades!
I’ve heard she has created a campaign committee so she can raise money.
This will most likely be used to help her pick who runs next as she can
transfer that money.
I can see the kids buying into the GND unicorns and rainbows. They don’t know squat about economics. But what the heck are the parents doing supporting it? They should know better, but they don’t.
I think Sen. Feinstein should have asked the group for a campaign donation just to show the kids how things work. “Gimme your lunch money and I’ll look into it.”
This is the oldest game in the book…and exactly how communists have always done and accomplished their goals..
Divide everyone up in little groups….race, global warming, gay, etc….and turn those groups against each other
…create problems so big that only government can solve them
and when they all decide they want government to step in and fix it….it’s a communist government
chipping away..in little increments…all the time
+1 Divide and conquer is part of the Anarchist playbook and the MSM has been bought to realize that goal.
It really isn’t nothing new. Both the Brits and the French used the same tactic to prevent the indigenous people in their colonies from organizing to rise up against them.
Do you have a hypothesis on WHO or WHAT bought the MSM?
I know it is 15 billionaires who own the MSM,
but where does this attempt to divide and conquer come from?
Former world’s richest man Carlos Slim, prominent opponent of Trump, is the largest shareholder of the NYT’s parent company. Present world’s richest man (soon to lose half his $170 billion dollars in divorce) Jeff Bezos owns the WaPo.
Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the LA Times and San Diego Union-Tribune for $500 million last year.
CNN’s parent company, AT&T, is 56% owned by institutions, which groups also own 86% of NBC’s parent company Comcast. ABC is owned by Disney and CBS by CBS Corporation.
Superb observation.
Today’s Bolsheviks are clad in green. They use weepy children begging for the world not to end as their swords and guns. They will starve the disobedient populations with veganism, instead of collectivist farms. The Bolsheviks of today drive Tesla’s … they no longer ride horses. But they WILL seize your means of transport and production none the less
A lack of protein in the diet, aka a vegan diet, is said to make people much more susceptible to brainwashing by cults.
Too many greens…lol
At last some sense from a Democrat. Pity it is only just a smidgin, but it is a start.
Feinstein’s soon to be fellow octagenarian San Franciscan Pelosi also disparaged the raving lunatic delusion. Both fear that Democrats embracing the crackpot scheme will doom the party so bent on total domination.
Ages of leading Democrats:
Pelosi 78
Clyburn 78
Biden 76 (spring chicken)
Sanders 77
Feinstein 85
Ginsburg 85
Breyer 80
Party of youthful idealism, not! Party of old pols, yeah!
Octo-.
And every one of those, get ready for the euphemisms, supported the next generation by promoting planned parenthood.
More to point they supported the brainwashing of our youth with a leftist curriculum in the Public School systems and creates safe zones complete with speech restrictions on the campus of our institutions of higher learning. The very place where all ideas use to be open to examination.
Dumb them down and fill their head with fears of hobgoblins and monsters in the closet. Then lead them to believe that the central government can repair the evil of the individual who is the root cause of said evil.
Dr. Franken(fein)stein I think we’ve created a Monster.
“Dumb them down and fill their head with fears”
Should be fill their “heads”. Sorry, pet peeve.
It’s a collective head since they all think alike.
There is no win-win solution for the Democrats. CAGW is a political monster.
CAGW worked politically for the Democrats as long as it was only talk.
The new young Democrats are clueless concerning just about everything. They got elected by appealing to emotion, supported by CAGW fake news. They are believers. They are going to support crack pot schemes to change every thing.
There is no solution to CAGW to get to let say even a 50% reduction in US CO2 emissions in 10 years, that is not Stalin like measures, with end of the economy, drastic drop in living standard, consequences.
The US public is not going to support a double/tripling of the cost of electricity, for no climate change gain, and with a net loss of jobs.
Indeed. The geriatric left created the very monster that is going to eat them.
They’re the ones responsible for brainwashing kids to believe this nonsense, and now the kids are turning on them.
But the, the left always end up eating their own.
The point of Leftist Politics is to ride the tiger until either it dies from all the abuse, or you do from old age.
Stalin is the example they hope to follow. Pol Pot and especially Robespierre are their warnings of what will happen if they lose their seat for even a moment.
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The Democrat party has 3 wings: Hip (Cortez, Beto), Hippy (Sanders) and Hip Replacement (Feinstein).
Probably why their ideas fly so well.
I have a couple of college texts,, Chiras, 1985, “Environmental Science” and Miller, 1994 “Living in the Environment.” Not sure to what extent these were used (none by me, Miller has lots of editions), but what these students were saying looks like robotics from teachers that might have been influenced by them. Miller admitted to becoming an advocate as indicated from these statements— “Learning to detect ecopornography and psychological manipulation (beginning in elementary school) by analyzing TV and print ads is a superb way to teach critical thinking.” Elsewhere was “Addiction to fossil fuels.” Chiras, discusses the need for change in the US government.
I have posted some of this before and have numerous pages marked which seem relevant and need to be analyzed relative to these activist children’s statements. As often noted in WUWT a number of “scientific organizations” like AAAS, have bought into this, pushing “communication science.” They seem to have little understanding of their losing credibility, who will judge the judges (scientists), and how harsh will it be?
It would also be helpful if information is made available about college curricula in the last couple of decades that might have been inciting these children through their activist educators (beginning in elementary school?).
From 2001 to mid-2013, I taught Environmental Science and Geology classes (part-time) at a local, metropolitan Junior College system. I recall using more than one edition of Miller, I would have to check my bookshelves for Chiras. At the first campus I taught at (2001 – 2005) and the second (2006 – 2008), as Environmental Science was still developing (as a hybrid subject somewhat different from Ecology), the Science Department sort of took a “hands-off” approach towards how faithful we had to be to the textbooks. As we were a few miles outside of our respective “big city”, there was still some tolerance for independent views. We were “to use our own judgment.”
As long as I could, I steadfastly attempted to present both sides of contentious environmental issues, generously employing logic and Conservative/Libertarian views (without calling them as such). Some kids got it, some didn’t. But nothing good lasts forever. I was eventually squeezed-out by a system that too-often uses adjuncts with no intention of ever hiring them full-time. I often wonder if my “rightward tilt” contributed to my exit? Just a “life lesson” on the downsides of loyalty in academia.
Interesting how those who scream the loudest for “tolerance” are least tolerant and impose rabid grueling punishment on those who oppose them. Academia is not our friend. It’s the golden rule, he with the gold rules. A Goliath of sorts that perpetually rules through fear.
Those kids show how little recent generations know about how complex, expensive and risky it is to maintain the structural integrity of the societies that they depend upon.
The cartoon of a dash towards Venezuelan type disaster is very apt.
Yes, I have not always been a fan of Josh’s cartoons, but this one hits the nail on the head, in a rather frightening way.
The only thing I don’t think is accurate about the cartoon is that AOC will lead everyone to oblivion, but she will end up in a gated community without a care in the world. She will be delving out crumbs to the minions while taking a healthy cut for herself because she is so important.
Bingo!
Venezuela’s president Maduro is one if the few citizens obviously gaining weight…
Just saying.
Please cease and desist with the Venezuelan example. The problem there is historical systemic corruption. It would be just as dysfunctional under a capitalist regime. Please look to more appropriate mixed models like Sweden or Germany.
Regardless of how “systemic” the corruption maybe, you’d have to be an idiot not to notice the marked decline in standard of living between before they discarded capitalism with after they embraced socialism/communism. Even a “dysfunctional under a capitalist regime” provides the people with goods and services such that they can live a half-way decent life, which can’t be said of how those in Venezuela are living today.
Please cease and desist with your socialist apologetics. 🙂
Or at least come up with some new ones.
“It’s not socialism’s fault, it’s [something else]!” is so stale I can smell the mold.
She has he own green new deal for climate change legislation, which could be even worse. We just don’t know. At least the democrats are somewhat split on backing this debacle/cluster F**K.
Put them all into a bootcamp over winter. No electronic devices, no electricity, outside privy, wood heat, digging frozen veggies out of the root cellar for their veggie burgers. Candles for lighting. No radio, no TV, no batteries, just books and conversation. A couple of weeks and they’ll be cured. Woodsmoke cured.
Actually, I had something more like a sandbox in mind . . .
Check out the full video here:
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/22/sen-feinstein-tells-green-new-deal-proponents-including-kids-doesnt-respond-pressure-tactics/
which gives a more honest portrayal of Feinstein’s meeting.
Yes, we’re only getting snippets. Anyway, I hope that I can think that quickly if I live to her (Feinstein’s) age.
The poor kids are so misinformed by the climate priests and prophets, and if the country falls under the spell of AOC, then their transformation (short life) will be to dust.
I would like to know more about who is promoting this group and more importantly what they have planned for these UIs.
Uh…thought it was pretty clear Mann & minions (which at one time included a number of state’s Attorney Generals) wanted to use RICO to throw skeptics in jail.
By the way, what ever happened to that thieving/stealing George Mason Professor Shukla (and all his family members )?
It is obvious from the video that the teacher, with her interjections, has the students merely parroting her opinions rather than the children putting forward considered, rational, practical ideas for how a modern, balanced society can function.
How many of their parents are allowing these children to run their family homes, such as organise the distribution of labour, manage the finances, grow the food, etc?
A more direct link to the full video on UTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd3H1boPIIE
It’s not a “Green New Deal.” It’s the old Red deal. “Give us all your stuff, and everyone will be happy!”
I prefer to call it what it really is – the “Green Screw Deal.”
AGW is not Science February 23, 2019 at 7:22 am
I prefer to call it what it really is – the “Green Screw Deal.”
How’bout this:
☭reen Raw Deal
The more amusing part is trying to sell democratic socialism as a good thing, it is a reorganization of principles of socialism but is just as morally and ethically corrupt. The only place for socialism is as a safety net under capitalism. Democratic socialism goes way beyond that as is self evident by the fact it has a name that includes the word socialism but not capitalism.
Socialism is a tumor in the body of capitalism. It could be a benign one in theory, but in past and present reality it and its inevitable bureaucracy never stop growing, until the flow of OPM slows to a trickle and the economy all but shuts down.
But its siren song is irresistible to many young idealistic minds, who conflate self-interest with greed and who want to use the power of the State to “do good”. It seems only the perspective granted by age will dispel the delusion and show them the folly of using the Ring to fight Sauron.
As ever with leftists, it’s not green, not new, and it’s certainly not a deal, except to the kleptocrats
“When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already…you will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” -AH
I won’t hop on the bandwagon on this one. These kids deserved a dose of reality as they don’t seem to be getting it from the sorry excuses for parents & teachers that are in their lives.
Remember people, the obtuse propaganda spouted by the ‘educator’ in the clip is what passes for education today and your tax dollars continue to fund it all.
Sad to see such BRAINWASHED CHILDREN being backed up by dumb adults …….. California at its worst !!!
Politico (“The Trouble with the `Green New Deal'”) shows the Obama “Stimulus Act” of 2009, was the prototype of the GND. Current Dems likely pushing a variant deal themselves into a swamp that badly needs draining.
The high speed train to nowhere couldn’t even leave the station. I hope that most people are smart enough to reject it out of hand.
For high speed rail look to China and Japan. CA is turning into a backwater.
Yeah, it works in some places (think high population density like, China and Japan) but it’s a backward solution in general to a modern transportation problem.
The GND is so silly and AOC is so ignorant don’t be surprised she wants to replace the Air Force with a High Speed Rail Force.
Conflating the GND with modern transport is plain silly. Maglev will not run on green fidget power.
The GND final solution to all modern problems is population reduction whether they know it, say it, or not.
“How old are you?” Feinstein asks her.
“I’m 16,” the kid responds.
“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” Feinstein says. – Article
Haha! Ha! Hahahaha!
It’s true, you know. These kids from The Block had to face reality, and Reality bites the Big One. Reality is a very harsh mistress.
I’m going to remember this: Reality Struck Back. Granny Nanny doesn’t want the GND, DiFi doesn’t want it, and Weather may become Weather again instead of Climate.
There is hope, after all.
Yes, except their is a move afoot to lower the voting age to 16.
Why not to four? Or zero? Two kids, four votes, I’d love that. Though I guess I wanted to check the teacher’s background if my child is gonna vote.
In fact, I think voting age should match education. Once you are out of the uni for real work, then you can vote.
Voting rights should be directly proportional to your rate of taxation.
“Voting rights should be directly proportional to your rate of taxation.”
Gain control. Control the money. Rule for ever.
Vote for corporations? (based on their tax rate)
Mike; except that the rich usually don’t pay any taxes. That’s a Gotcha. LOL.
If you cut your tax rate, then your vote goes down. Self correcting problem.
If the rich don’t pay taxes, why do the top 10% of income earners pay about 80% of all income taxes?
That is actually what the left wants, the act of being born makes you entitled to a portion of the worlds wealth. That is what is under the idea of a living wage job in the Green New Deal.
They don’t even want a vote concept.
That has already happened, but with a twist! Your social security makes you legally responsible for the country’s debt; you are obligated to participate through taxation! You didn’t think government was ever a wealth-creating construct, did you?? Of course not!!.. That’s where YOU come in!!
RockyRoad you made me laugh when you said: “Your social security makes you legally responsible for the country’s debt.”
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You have it backwards. The Social Security Trust Fund invested in US Treasures. The SSA OWNS the country’s debt.
For Congress and the President and VP, the 26th Amendment sets the voting age at 18.
Good luck changing that.
The states theoretically can lower it for state and local elections, but then it becomes a ballot logistical nightmare with differing ballots having to made for those under 18 to exclude federal elections.
And raise the minimum wage to $100/hour
It is good to be old.
Doug you are too cheap…$150 an hour gives the people the raise they need to feed a family of 4 😉
My fondest hope is that the confluence of climate metrics/trends coming together right now does indeed accurately predict that Earth will be experiencing the equivalent of another Little Ice Age (LIA) over the next 100 or so years. That will be the stake in the heart of AGW and CAGW and the associated alarmists, including CO2-fighting GND (and equivalent) proponents.
During the LIA, global temperatures were 0.3 – 0.8 C lower than the 1950-1980 reference average, depending on which scientific study is consulted (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age )
Such a dip for the New Little Ice Age (NLIA) would conveniently offset most, if not all, of the 0.6 – 0.8 C rise in global temperature seen over the last 100 years.
And it would prove, for all to see, that atmospheric CO2 level are not the primary cause of global warming.
The only downside if that this scenario happens is that climate scientists will loose any of credibility that they still have. I can live with that, since AS A GROUP they have followed the AGW meme without looking into the hard science that makes that meme very questionable.
My greatest fear is that the public loss of credibility of the “science” supporting AGW is extended to cover all the sciences. That would be unwarranted were it not for the fact that few scientific organizations pushed back publicly and strongly against the claim that “97% of scientists” agree with AGW being a real problem for humanity.
It may be a stake in the heart of AGW and CAGW, but not Climate Change. They will switch their fear mongering from rising oceans flooding NYC to advancing glaciers covering NYC — and keep asking for more of your tax dollars.
Probably . . . but do you think they will go so far as to say “Ooops, we really need more CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere”?
They’ll probably switch back to saying we must cut back on all the air-pollution that is increasing the albedo of the earth — anything to slow-down industry. There will always be Luddites in the world.
Yep, I NEVER thought I hear Feinstein say something I liked.
“Reality is a very harsh mistress.”
Don’t expect reality in CA. Reality is an invention of the far right to confuse people.
I heard last year that 400,000 Californians were excused from jury duty because they were not U.S. citizens. Jury duty selection comes from voter registration.
Not true in Massachusetts – or at least I was asked to serve on a jury before I registered and was legally allowed to vote.
In many states, jury pools are drawn from the driver’s license registry. MASS may be one of those.
… and then the child’s handler speaks up and says … but I did!! The handler will need to fine tune the kids response to the assertion that they were too young to vote … with a response like; “well I DID vote, twice, for my dead grandparents … they would have wanted me to vote against you”
There should be a hard look taken at the education system that allowed these kids to have become so badly brainwashed.
Yes. I think we already know about “New Math” and Howard Zinn’s, “A People’s America” the question is how did it get instilled into the system?
The hope is that no matter what, kids and people in general, have the instinct to compete. They want to keep score and they will.
Why? Everyone who’s studied the history of schooling knows that the Prussian-style ‘education system’ was designed to create indoctrinated drones.
If you haven’t figured that already, no amount of studies will help.
And no amount of reform will save a system that’s designed to brainwash kids. It all has to go.
If I was a senior democrat official.
After watching ocasional cortex and others totally destroy respect for democrat platforms; I’d be downright testy too when faced with misinformed children brain washed by activist teachers.
Yeah, Feinstein could have been much more pleasant than she was. She also could have educated the children by expressing the critical issues regarding actual impacts and costs.
Instead, Feinstein operated in a classic snapping turtle social response.
Democrats are being eaten alive by the monster that they created.
If you can’t win the rational debate resort to emotional blackmail.
When high school and grammar school kids have grown up being told the world is coming to an end because of ‘global warming’ they are bound to believe it unless they have some other adult guidance from someone they trust. Feinstein’s “I’ve been doing this for 30 years” isn’t convincing to anyone not even the kids. She is partially responsible for brainwashing these children and, albeit rudely dismissive of the kids, she did tell them to reject the most dramatic and inane extremes of the ‘global warming’ political fantasy.
Using children to further a narrative that they don’t fully understand is criminal. This is happening all over the world and I’m surprised no one has stood up to this tactic for what it is …. child manipulation and endangerment.
What next. Breaking their little hearts is child abuse?
The adult woman leading them in this stunt is the child abuser.
I said something like this before.
The US has a hangnail.
Absence Of Cognizance and Bernie’s solution? Cut off the hand.
Pelosi and Schumer’s solution? Cut off the finger.
The latter sounds more reasonable by comparison but it is still nonsense. And dangerous.
And the manicure Trump is providing is unnatural?
I like you analogy of a hangnail.
Those kids are monsters. Zero respect. 100% obnoxious.
The kids were a mob. Anything DF said, their answer was the same, if you don’t vote for the GND we’re all gonna die in 12 years.
My response would have been this:
1. Do you like your cell phones? Well under the GND they would be illegal because they use wasteful evel energy to build.
2. Do you like your shoes, underwear, shirts, and cosmetic supplies? They would be gone from the GND because they are made from petroleum.
3. Do you like to have a house and a roof over your head? Under the GND if you need any energy other than manual labor it would not be able to be built. Your new abode would be a thatched roof pole structure.
4. Like to drive on roads? Your car would be too expensive, and the roads themselves would be made of dirt since asphalt is made from petroleum, concrete used petroleum based heat to produce, trucks and equipment used to mine and transport the raw and finished material use diesel fuel also a petroleum product.
Basically you would have to live like the Amish, no electricity, no phones, no TV, no DVD, no medications, using horses and bicycles for transportation, no AC, and heat your thatch house with wood. Good luck with that.
Do you like milk, ice cream and cheeseburgers?
Their parents might all be vegans, but at least milk has probably been in their diet.
They might however like the idea of government handouts to those unwilling to work so as to free up time to engage in activism.
That’s good.
I wonder if even the 16 year-old knows what’s in the Green Raw Deal.
Or she could have offered them a bowl of Tide pods and to take a selfie with them.
No bicycles, no metal wood stoves. Stone hearths consume much more wood per winter.
SR
Can’t we make bicycles from hemp?
With ‘hemp’ there is no need for a bicycle, ‘flying’ is the best way to travel!
You’re thinking of marijuana, unless there are magic flying hemp carpets, which seems as plausible as the world ending in 12 years.
I’m sure the professor could make a bicycle out of Bamboo and some vines. Just as long as he didn’t get Gilligan to handle the most important aspects of the task.
No phone, no lights, no motor car, Not a single luxury, Like Robinson Crusoe, It’s primitive as can be.
To glimpse the promised land, perhaps a reading of “Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is in order?
I read that as a college student 40 years ago, typically just before retiring for the night. The depictions were so unsettling that the only way to get some sleep was to read a page or two of the Bible afterwards!
The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition is just out with Forward by Jordan B Peterson.
It is a work so worthy of reading yet remains somewhat obscure. So many have no idea of the toll on humanity that the birth of the USSR required. Nothing can clear your mind of this reality once you have read the Gulag. As the society collapsed and then “reformed” in such a grotesque manifestation of human exploitation it boggles the mind that anyone still holds out that Communism IN ANY FORM is somehow compatible with respectable human existence. Government by thugs, for the thugs and thuggery, await anyone who believes that central control will solve human problems. Always, in the end, the government runs out of money, gives up, abdicates any responsibility, and kills people.
On the outer B
I had dinner tonight with a lady whose grandmother was captured in the Ukraine and held in a German concentration camp. When she returned to Ukraine after escaping, she had to go into hiding because it was assumed that she had “collaborated’ even though she was 14. She managed to buy a fake passport and moved far into Russia. There she married someone she met in the concentration camp, keeping her previous life secret.
Their daughter became a rocket scientist. If it had been known that her mother had been held in a WWII concentration camp for a while, the daughter would never have been able to enter university. She would have had to be a floor sweeper or similar because the assumed sins are projected onto the following generation.
The insanity of a civilisation in which everyone is “equal” yet builds gulags is incomprehensible to the young of today. They simply cannot comprehend what totalitarian governments do to their own citizens.
Being so bright, this rocket engineer was proposed for Party membership multiple times, which is the way to advance up the system for engineers. But, if that had happened, she would have been thoroughly vetted, which would have traced her own mother’s history back to that time spent in the German concentration camp as a child, which would have ruled her out, caused her to lose her job and condemned the family to perpetual suspicion and impoverishment at the bottom of society.
When youthful enthusiasm supports totalitarian solutions, they cannot imagine what inventions political operatives can dream up to oppress and control, and how manifestly evil are the results eventually appear.
She avoided appoint to the Party by the simple mechanism of saying, “I believe in God and go to church.” No theist was allowed to be a member of the party in the USSR. Problem solved – automatic disqualification. Though limited, she continued her career as a teacher of aircraft instrument design. Her mother’s background never came to light during her lifetime. She is now retired in Canada.
I admire youthful exuberance. It is inspiring. But don’t give them the keys to the truck just yet.