The Forward Declares the Social Far-Left Gornisht

In the off chance any of my readers also get just a teensy weensy bit tired and aggravated with the far-Left’s unremitting babbling about the supreme value of racial diversity over say, stopping the world from melting due to global warming, or think the Bankruptcy Law was horrific, don’t want to lose the next election over gay marriage, or think maybe we shouldn’t award transit strikers who march out of the negotiating table for their “courage” even as the parent union refuses to sanction their lust for civilian pain, I would like to gleefully refer you to two paragraphs in the Forward’s editorial this week. Sometimes it can seem for a moment that the Forward has warmed to the social far-left, and I worry just a little…but then they give ‘em the old bitch slap, just like they always do in the end.

The Democrats, out of power and leaderless for years, return to power chastened and convinced they need to do things differently. Just how differently, no one knows, but the buzzword on everyone’s lips is economic populism. Since the 1970s, they have allowed themselves to be defined as the party of the outsider, the downtrodden, the oppressed and vulnerable minorities. That has allowed the Republicans to present themselves as the voice of the majority, which is a good way to win elections.

The Democrats seem to be aiming now to push their minority-rights agenda toward the background and emphasize their old New Deal-labor platform of economic egalitarianism, promising a better deal for society’s have-nots.

Do you hear that Far-Left? Economics. Health care. Support of public transportation, not just subway strikes. OIL. It’s time to stop the victimology game. It isn’t moral, it isn’t smart, and it isn’t the way to win elections. You are entitled to have your opinions, but I think from now on we will do things my way instead.

Go play color war at your own party. Move on.