Grievance politics

The life of a worker in the Soviet Union in 1935 was just a "bottomless fatalistic sorrow." A Russian author who should know said this. He also reminds us (in his 1946 memoir) that to "justify present injustice by referring to times past ills is a low demagogic trick."

Wrong-headed, powerful, liberal politicians want Americans today to feel that their health care system, their economic situation, their environmental security, their - you name any phantom crisis - is a bottomless fatalistic sorrow unless rescued by governmental (demagogic ) action. Of course, to them, the ills and injustices of stolen freedoms warrant present actions that further injustice, repression and dependence. We’re a long way baby here in America from even approximating the horror of the Soviet Union but we’ve a long way to go to prevent further slippage into socialism, Fascism and an elite, ruling, political nomenclatura.