Plutocrat Progressives Cancel Working Class Progressives

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Mar 21

RE: HuffPost shuts down Canadian operations.

The question raised by the Huffington Post shutting down its Canadian operation is how long it will take the labor unions and working-class left to figure out that the plutocratic left are plutocrats first, and progressives second.

HuffPost’s Canadian employees had filed to form a union, and the union was informed five minutes before its first meeting with the big cheese of HuffPost’s owner that everybody was being laid off and the operation they worked for closed.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is fighting unionization of some of its U.S. distribution centers.  Bezos’ fortune approximately doubled from $70 Billion to $140 Billion during the pandemic, and you’d think a guy flush with that kind of wealth could afford to be a little more generous to his employees.  But no.

Silicon Valley progressives became plutocrats unhindered by the progressive left partly on the strength of their technology being cool platforms for the advancement of progressivism.  But now they’re plutocrats, and you don’t touch their money.  You can oppress and despise the old middle and working classes all you like.  You can spend their tax dollars on all the nihilist things you want that destroy their values.  You can even pretend to take tax dollars from us because our accountants know how to avoid paying too much.  Thus the Plutocratic Progressive thinks.

So, just like Animal Farms when the pigs began to look just like the humans they replaced, Silicon Valley progressives became plutocrats, and now they’re plutocrats first and that progressive stuff is for the other people.  Plutocratic progressives are not subject to the ramifications of their ideology.

That means what when ardent progressive workies ask for a raise and better working conditions, their plutocratic progressive masters say that progressivism only goes so far with us; not with our money, and, oh, by the way, you're cancelled.

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