Moonbat Professor Laments the Collapse of the Berlin Wall
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The Academic Elite in the USA and Eurotopia have a genuine love and
affection for brutal, oppressive Communist regimes. Castro and Chavez
are heroes to them. And it should come as little surprise that a
feminist professor takes to the pages of the Guardian to lament the Fall
of the Berlin Wall
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/1989-berlin-wall>.
On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German
unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant
the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the country in
which I was born, grew up, gave birth to my two children, gained my
doctorate and enjoyed a fulfilling job as a lecturer in English
literature at Potsdam University. Of course, unification brought
with it the freedom to travel the world and, for some, more material
wealth, but it also brought social breakdown, widespread
unemployment, blacklisting, a crass materialism and an "elbow
society" as well as a demonisation of the country I lived in and
helped shape. Despite the advantages, for many it was more a
disaster than a celebratory event.
By "for many," she means "me." (Progressive leftists are masters at
projecting their selfish desires on masses of people.) In her case, the
disaster was she was no longer a privileged academic in a country where
the great masses of people waited in lines all day for scarce supplies
of food and consumer goods, and were subject at any time to arrest and
imprisonment by the secret police. Being a progressive leftist academic,
she was okay with that as long as there was socialized health care.
Since the demise of the GDR, many have come to recognise and regret
that the genuine "social achievements" they enjoyed were dismantled:
social and gender equality, full employment and lack of existential
fears, as well as subsidised rents, public transport, culture and
sports facilities.
That doesn't sound a whole lot different than the Obama-Pelosi-Reid
agenda; except for the "full employment" part.
There's no need for me to rebut her, Jonah Goldberg already did so
<http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2QxZmRjOTM0ZGMzYjVjYWRkZTY4OTRiMDY2YWExMDI=>,
and did so well.
As Newsbusters reminds us, the media left were just as pro-communist
back in the day as the academic left
<http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2007/10/22/mrc-presents-worst-notable-quotables-past-20-years>.
"Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but
what about East Germany's eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose
some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered
everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from
housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever
so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall." --- CBS's Bob Simon,
March 16, 1990 Evening News.
By "some people" he means "me." East Germany may have been an oppressed,
impoverished police state... but it had subsidized symphonies. To Bob,
that made it okay.
Our media, our academic institutions, the White House, and both houses
of Congress are now firmly in the control of people who believe the
wrong side won the Cold War.
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