A Freebie from Freemont

On my recent CCTV appearance, which I shall have up on the blog and Youtube in the upcoming days, I was unable to go toe to toe with Todd Feinburg (a local conservative talk show host for WRKO) with the idea that conservatives are copping out just as much as liberals when they call Obama a socialist.  I could not get my point out because I co-host the show with a fellow vulgarian, Roger Nicolson, who unfortunately remains uninterested in the same type of political arguments that I am. As such, I am in the process of starting my own show on Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT) where I believe it will be easier for me to get my ideas out into the world. I will keep all of you posted on when the new show will air. At the moment, I am in negotiations with the access television team about the content and nature of the program.

Until then, let me make it clear on my blog that I believe the reactionary use of the word socialist on behalf of the right is as equally unproductive as the use of the word racist by those on the left. And for any of you reactionary assholes on either side of this fucking argument, here is why:

1.)   Both words today are commonly used as generalizations: there is no clear way to define a racist just as there is no clear way to define a socialist. Am I a socialist just because I favor the creation of a third political party in America that incorporates the socialist concept of equalizing the political voice of those in the lower classes of society with those of the upper? Am I a racist just because I feel that the word nigger can be used effectively in satire and that using the word is actually a good way of opening up the discussion about race? I have a feeling I know how both sides would respond to both of these questions.

2.)   Both words today can be used as a smear tactic: in this day in age of government bailouts and the United States’ increasing deficit, the word socialist has been used as a smear tactic against the liberals of the world in the same way that racist is used as a smear upon those of the right. I see no difference between the fear-mongering tactic of trying to label someone as a socialist (which creates fear and confusion among those who wish to avoid such a categorization) and the same method of disparaging someone as a racist. Either way, one is working to use fear as a way of preventing an honest political discussion.

3.)   Both words today are used as blasphemy through a larger historical context of the United States America: the significance of categorizing someone as a racist or socialist is based upon a deep and long history. Let’s just acknowledge here the fact that a group of individuals who have since been categorized as close-minded, nativists known as the Klu Klux Klan formed in the southern United States years ago to strike fear in the hearts of white, Anglo Americans by making them suspicious of a dangerous minority group—a group they saw as threatening the power structure of the country. This same phenomenon has occurred throughout history and surfaced in the1920’s and 50’s during the Great Red Scare, where a minority group of harmless Americans (deemed as ‘Socialists’) were made to appear as a threat to wellbeing of the United States of America. It would seem to me that liberals today are more interested in using the word racist as part of a ‘reverse witch-hunt’ to dismantle the integrity of the right rather than they are in seeking to challenge the racist and classist mechanisms that still exist within the systemic power structure of the United States. While they are doing this, the right is committing the same fallacy by recreating a modern-day Red Scare, in which anyone favoring government regulation over a laissez-faire free market is seen as a socialist.

What I am simply saying is that words can frame an ideal, but ultimately it is action that changes the status quo. And weakness lies in the time wasted in an argument over semantics when mass movement is needed. As a radical, you only lose if there is an unwillingness to move forward. Clearly, both liberals and conservatives seem quite content with this current standstill.

As for me—I’m always in motion, Friends of Freemont. I’m about to get my own fucking TV show.

Power to the mother fucking people of the Free Movement,

Freemont Barrington    

If you’ve read the blog lately, you know that a lot of what I have been posting has been the political philosophy of my leftist idealism. This philosophy is based upon the notion that the top 3% wealthiest people of this country have hijacked the political power and influence of the people and that it will require a social revolution in order to restore a proper social balance. My politics are based upon this underlying notion. And the job of a leftist radical is to keep the government in check by putting outside pressure on the established system in order to create change. This mission is ongoing regardless of what party or what president is in office.

So, when I speak of a particular political figure, be it in vain or in agreement with, I do it only in the name of advancing the revolution. Part of being a radical is also being a pragmatist and not to copping out by giving yourself up to the populist movements of society. That is the reason why I have a deep distrust both for the conservative panderers who work to maintain the status quo and the liberal politically correct who only want to create symbolic change so that we’ll misinterpret the actual state of things.

I share many concepts with socialist and communist radicals, but I do not advocate either political institution. The reason why many left-leaning people today who support a “liberal” agenda are being demonized as socialists is because it is an easy way for conservatives to copout and deem those individuals who want to change the system as being dangerous. This way, they are able to scare enough people in the middle to maintain the power necessary to prevent change. If the middle remains complacent, then the balance of things stays the same and the status quo is preserved.

The reality is that revolutionaries like myself are not communists at all, but, rather, “Democraticists” that see the current condition of our democracy in a state of great inequality. The comparison to Communism only exists because most of the literature that a radical can find in relation to social revolution is that of the socialist and communist upheavals. This is not to say that every radical is a communist or a socialist, but that every radical is most likely schooled in the ideals of socialist thought as it relates to our current class, economic, and political system.

It is with these ideas that I encourage you, Friends of Freemont, to be weary of such copout tactics of both conservatives and liberals. Examples of such can clearly be seen this week in the NAACP’s discussion of possible Tea Party racism buttressed by the far right agenda of these political newcomers who continue to veil their greed for power with the idea that an unchanging Constitution will benefit everyone equally and the concept that organizing for the purpose of political change is a communistic ritual. Here, the liberals remain attached to the tactics of the past and are not thinking creatively to find new ways to affect the nature of the system. They are either too dumb to realize this or they are apathetic and comfortable with the continued state of things. By the same token, the Tea Party far right conservatives have no answers to our current social problems, but they find a threat in the possible upheaval of our social order. As such, they use scare tactics that are packaged with the unifying concepts of patriotism and pride. In this way, both sides are blurring our image of the social order and preventing us from advancing the revolutionary agenda.

And until we are able to recognize these realities and use our Democratic influence to change the current social structure, we will continue to be ruled by the powerful few and will eventually drown in our own apathy.

- Freemont Barrington       

I was scoffed at a bit this week by many coffee-drinking, PC-abiding liberal fart blog heads who disagreed with the last couple of posts that I made. For the most part, these knee-jerk liberals remain confident in our President and they disagree with my former remarks. Some of their arguments against me include: their disagreement with my notion that the Democrats made no political ground with the healthcare summit; their refusal of the idea that the healthcare bill is still incapable of passing; their distaste for my use of the word ‘PUSSY’ when describing the Democrats’ political behavior; and their outright rejection of my underlying support of radical and anarchistic methods to bring about political protest.

Well, I must say, this is the fight that I fucking love fighting. Because sometimes it’s just a whole lot more fun fighting against these liberal faggots than against the empty black hole of conservatism. I remain a proud supporter of gay rights, but as an activist I will say that there are certain situations where I reserve the right to use the ‘F’ word. One is in satire when confronting the bigoted attitudes of conservatives who speak out against gay rights. The other is when describing these lazy, uncreative, PC liberals who drag down the progress of the real leftist fight and point towards symbolic victories of rejecting singular words like faggot. To these such liberals, I say: stop being a bunch of fags and listen up because pussy-footing around the real cause ain’t going to help your prophet of change up there on Capital Hill.

I stand by my previous comments: I do believe that the Democrats have been pussies over this past long year of this healthcare debate; I do think that the healthcare summit did nothing to sell the Democrats’ healthcare plan to an undecided America; and I do, still, believe that the only way that we shall win in advancing our leftist agenda is by shouting a whole lot fucking louder than our opposition and not by continuing to let this conservative movement walk across the country scaring the American public into a confused submission while treading all over the integrity of the middle class and poverty-stricken people of this nation. This past year has been the result of a complete lack of effort on behalf of the combatant left.

So, when the President speaks to the American people and says that he is going to push on with his healthcare reform agenda, I’m sorry if I have mixed feelings, you worthless liberal fuckwads. But I do. I have mixed feelings because, even though I admire this very politically risky move by the White House to pass such broad sweeping reform bill through Congress with a simple majority, I am completely insensed that it has taken this long as we’ve gone through an entire year of innumerable bad decisions and countless political balks just to get to this point. This entire year has been a complete failure on behalf of the left. Liberal bloggers remain uncreative and unproductive. They revolt against Democrats for playing politics while offering no movement that defies the forces working against their own liberal ideas. They are a waist and a stain on the real movement. And they let these conservatives walk all over them as they storm the fucking capital building.

The President claims that he is forging ahead with his sweeping healthcare reform not because it is good politics but because it is the right thing to do. And for this, I must say, I do commend him. It is certainly the Obama who was voted for. But, the simple fact that it has taken this fucking long and the idea that the process of reconciliation is still—to say the least—very much up in the fucking air is ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

47 MILLION Americans (say it with me now) 47 MILLION citizens of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are without health insurance. And these centrists and these blue dog fucks will drag their feet to reconciliation, kicking and screaming, while the liberals continue to allow this fear mongering conservative movement tread its trail across America without any defiant challenge against them. It’s all bullshit, Friends of Freemont. And we’ve sat around and taken it for far too long. I stand by everything that I’ve said thus far. And I urge you all to make your imprint on this American landscape. Let the intellectual and the tired and beaten people of this world unite. And, in the weeks coming, I want you to join me to make your mark.

I AM the mother fucking revolution.

- Freemont Barrington