The De Blassio-Corbyn Axis

So Jeremy Corbyn is the new leader of the British Labour Party.

In the British Spectator, Nick Cohen castigates Corbyn and the new/old/new Left, or whatever, in general:

A few on the British left are beginning to realise what they have done. Feminists were the first to stir from their slumber. They were outraged this week when Corbyn gave all his top jobs to men. I have every sympathy. But really, what did they expect from a man who never challenged the oppression of women in Iran when he was a guest on the state propaganda channel? You cannot promote equality at home while defending subjugation abroad and it was naive to imagine that Corbyn would try. 

The women’s issue nicely illustrates the damage he can do, even if he never becomes prime minister. When Labour shows by its actions that it doesn’t believe in women’s equality, the pressure on other institutions diminishes. Secularists and liberal Muslims will feel a different kind of prejudice. They will no longer get a hearing for their campaigns against forced marriage and sharia law from a Labour party that counts the Muslim Brotherhood among his allies. 

The position of the Jews is grimmer still. To be blunt, the new leader of the opposition is ‘friends’ with men who want them dead. One Jewish Labour supporter told me, ‘I feel like a gay man in the Tory party just after they’ve passed Section 28.’ Another described his position as ‘incredibly exposed’. He had ‘come to understand in the last few weeks, quite how shallow the attachment of the left is to principles which I thought defined it.’

Blairism is dead as is Bill Clinton's Third Way. It will be remembered that Blair and Clinton came to power only after they brought their parties to the center. Till then, both had been in the grips of left wing politicians, Labour more so, but true of the Dems as well. Anyone my age remembers the string of Dem presidential catastrophes, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis...they were a regular feature of any Gen X childhood. 1992 was my first presidential election, and I loudly declared  that if the race comes down to George Bush or some schmuck liberal, I'm voting for Bush. I even wrote an English 101 essay on it. Got an A.

I voted for Bill Clinton.

What annoys one most about the left is their refusal to give up. Twenty years after Rudy Giuliani cleaned up NYC, uber-leftist Mayor Bill DeBlasio is undermining all of Rudy's 'broken window' and 'quality of life' policies. Remember, it was just 20 years ago that porn shops and peep shows were in time square. The left has been roundly trounced on the gun-control issue, yet here they are pushing gun-control as the solution to crime and school massacres.   Here they are, wanting to raise taxes on everybody.

In his association with Jew haters and terrorists, Corbyn reveals his Stalinesque nihilism. He talks of high taxes, nationalization and nuclear disarmament, as if the 1970's never happened. As bad as the 1970s were in America, they were far worse in Britain with recurring labor shutdowns, power outages and currency crisis. Why can't they learn from this?

Why its almost as if Corbyn misses the winter of discontent.