Most people with common sense are deeply suspicious of Michael Hastings' death.

[alcibiades_mystery]

101. There is no left or progressive movement anymore; there's just this shit

The Left built structures and institutions, connected with people, sought to persuade others in a political manner, talked policy. The Left built the unions. The Left built workers' schools and the civil rights schools. The Left sought election. The Left organized.

This shit is not the Left. For all the fetishism of the New Deal around here, not a damn one of them knows fuck all about the Left in the 1930's, a real broad-based political movement.

Now we are reduced to this: people who don't do anything, who build nothing, who connect with nobody, who participate in jack-shit, who don't discuss policy, who teach us zero, speculating on which dark forces used which dark arts to kill a journalist who most people never heard of.

The progressive movement is a joke because progressives are a joke. The Left doesn't exist as an organized force. It exists now as a pack of internt clowns running a mediocre circus, and mistaking their clownish antics for political activism.