Seems like all the cool kids are into socialism.
Social Justice rock stars such Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and rest of the modern Democratic Socialists like “Breadline” Bernie Sanders are probably not as popular as we think. The website of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claims only 24,000 members as of
Green New Deal Governance
Will they ever come out and say that the government should control the means of production? But the Green New Deal does
The Green New Deal cannot happen without the oversight of a massive, expensive government agency, taking years to staff and organize into its requisite bureaucracy. Were this project to be undertaken by the private sector, irrespective of funding sources, the bidding, pricing, contractual and planning processes would take years at a minimum to be compliant with the regulations of some other federal agency yet ordained. To accomplish just one goal, the GND government would necessarily control the means of the planning, procuring, hiring and execution.
Left behind in the rhetoric of green deals is the inconvenient truths of state power– the low-wage work, forced relocations, ostracized families, compelled compliance and of course—famine, all in the name of the greater good.
The Left’s anger at billionaires is learned behavior. Put best by writer Joan Didion:
Marxism in this country has ever been an eccentric and quixotic passion. One oppressed class after another had seemed finally to miss the point. The have‐nots, it turned out, aspired mainly to having. -Joan Didion, The Women’s Movement, New York Times, 1972
Bernie socialism is a lie. Dropping the word gulag into the mix doesn’t begin to detail the recipe for human misery that state-run life
Joan Didion’s added:
Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.
Paul Plante says
While the website of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) might claim only 24,000 members as of July, 2017, the fact of the matter is that their superstar flagbearer “Sandy the Bartender,” aka, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is rapidly becoming one of the best-known politicians in America, which in its turn gives the DSA recruiting power, as for them, the game has only just begun.
Consider the MARKETWATCH article “Ocasio-Cortez says the system is broken, and the internet goes wild” by Shawn Langlois published Feb. 11, 2019, to wit:
Her detractors cast her off as some clueless socialist loon hell bent on turning America into Venezuela.
Her fans tout her as a breath of fresh air poised to shake up the tired D.C. establishment.
What both sides can agree on, however, is that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows how to work the room when it comes to social media.
Back in December, she had 1.5 million Twitter followers, which was reportedly more than all the other 63 incoming Democratic freshman House members combined.
Her number has since swelled to more than 3 million, compared with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her 2.2 million.
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Mao Tse-Tung famously said “political power comes from the barrel of a gun,” and in our times today, “Sandy the Democratic Socialist Bartender” is converting that over to “political power comes from TWITTER,” which takes us to this article from the Brit publication The Guardian entitled “Democrats’ coveted 2020 prize? It may be endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez” by David Smith on 16 February 2019, as follows:
At 29 years old, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — already known as “AOC” for short — is too young to be eligible to run for US president.
But her phenomenal impact on American politics means that she could play an outsized role in deciding who does.
As her fellow Democrats jostle for position ahead of the 2020 primary elections, an endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez is likely to be a widely coveted prize, a guaranteed shot of adrenaline sure to energize her army of millennial voters.
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And that glimpse of the political power “Sandy,” seen dancing in this YouTube video to the sounds of a different drummer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI5yvdaMIPU takes us back to a POLITICO article entitled “Ocasio-Cortez visit gives California’s Democratic Socialists hope – But Republicans are taking aim at the ‘socialist’ label ahead of the midterms.” by Carla Marinucci on 8/03/2018, as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO — By the time Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the stage in San Francisco on Tuesday night, an adoring crowd of 500 at her sold-out fundraiser — many wearing “Democratic Socialists of America” T-shirts and buttons — were ready for the next revolution to begin.
“Are we ready to change California?”
“Are we ready to really throw down in San Francisco?” yelled the 28-year-old political wunderkind, fresh off a New York House primary upset, to cheers from the millennial-dominated audience.
Three thousand miles away from the site of her improbable June defeat of 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, Ocasio-Cortez’s appearance is fueling hopes among members of California’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America that their time may have come.
“She’s new, she’s a fresh voice — and we’ve been lacking that,’’ said Faith Eberling, a longtime San Francisco Democrat.
Some California Democrats “are scared of the ‘democratic socialist,’” label, she said.
But Ocasio-Cortez will change all that, “when the wave catches.”
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Now, it has to be considered here that “Sandy the Bartender” is a congresswoman from a congressional district in New York City encompassing parts of the Bronx and Queens, but there she is, over three thousand miles away from her constituents, stumping for the Democratic Socialists in California.
That POLITICO article then continues as follows with regard to the political power “Sandy the Bartender,” who admittedly is the best fancy dancer in the United States Congress, better even than fancy dancer Nancy Pelosi herself, which is really saying something, given all the steps and moves Nancy has accumulated over the years, has amassed, to wit:
Sacramento-based Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio — who has represented the California state Legislature — warns that the state’s Democrats need to be cautious about embracing the “socialist” label this election year.
While democratic socialism may appeal in the Bay Area, he warns that “what plays well in San Francisco does not play well in the swing seats that Democrats need to win.’’
But activists with California’s chapters of the DSA hail Ocasio-Cortez’s rocket ride to political stardom.
Ocasio-Cortez — a self-billed democratic socialist and political rookie who hasn’t yet won a seat in Congress — had a heavy rotation of events in the state this week.
She starred in two sold-out fundraisers in San Francisco on Tuesday — one an exclusive $2,500-a-head event, the other a $27-per-person event that sold out in hours after it was announced on social media.
Demand for the latter was so high that organizers said they changed the venue twice to accommodate larger crowds; they announced at evening’s end that it had raised $15,000, all via donations of under $50 from activist grass-roots followers.
On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez headlined a noon fundraiser at the Los Angeles Theater Center, and she plans to appear at a sold-out event Friday evening at the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles for the DSA, whose L.A. chapter alone includes 1,500 members.
And she’s already planning a return to California, home to more than a dozen DSA chapters, at the end of August to speak at the Left Coast Forum in Los Angeles.
“The biggest thing that Alexandria has done for the movement has just been bringing socialism back into the mainstream political discourse in this country,’’ said Jack McShane, 24, an organizer for the DSA’s East Bay chapter, one of dozens in California that are taking part in Ocasio-Cortez’s California visits.
“Her demands for Medicare for all, a federal job guarantee, free education from kindergarten to college, really resonates with Americans across the country.”
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And that brings us to another POLITICO article entitled “Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez” by Heather Caygle and Rachael Bade on 11 January 2019, where we have this to consider:
She’s barely been in Congress a week and is better known than almost any other House member other than Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis.
A media throng follows her every move, and she can command a national audience practically at will.
None of that came playing by the usual rules: Indeed, Ocasio-Cortez’s willingness to take on her party establishment with unconventional guerrilla tactics is what got her here.
It’s earned her icon status on the progressive left, it’s where the 29-year-old freshman derives her power — and, by every indication, it’s how she thinks she can pull the Democratic Party in her direction.
So far, most of them have kept their criticism of Ocasio-Cortez private, fearful she’ll sic her massive following on them by firing off a tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez is an enigma to most House Democrats.
She’s very friendly in person, chatting up fellow lawmakers and security workers in the Capitol as she’s tailed by admirers and reporters.
Then they see the Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, where she frequently snaps at critics and occasionally at fellow Democrats.
Two House Democratic sources compared her use of Twitter to Donald Trump’s.
Just as congressional Republicans constantly withhold criticism of the president out of fear he’ll unleash a tweet at them, some Democrats have done the same with Ocasio-Cortez.
“People are afraid of her,” said one senior Democratic aide.
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And with that fact established that “Sandy the Dancing Bartender” scares the hell out of the Democrats, back to the Guardian article entitled “Democrats’ coveted 2020 prize? It may be endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez” by David Smith on 16 February 2019, as follows:
In little more than a month, Ocasio-Cortez, whose New York district includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, has taken Washington by storm, overshadowing career politicians who have spent years laboring in the 435-member House of Representatives.
Her proposals — among them a Green New Deal to combat climate change and a 70% tax rate on earnings over $10 million to tackle economic inequality — have reset terms of debate in the early stages of the Democratic contest.
“This is a race to the left,” said Dave Handy, a New York-based political consultant and organizer.
“Even if people don’t like her or her policies, they will be racing to get her endorsement because it’s a progressive check mark.”
“She embodies the general direction the party is going in.”
Ocasio-Cortez is also a social media sensation.
She has in excess of 3 million followers on Twitter with more engagement than Donald Trump, Barack Obama or Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
Neil Sroka, communications director of the progressive group Democracy for America, said: “She’s built a profile with a savvy way beyond her years, but she also has an agenda that feels right for the moment.”
“AOC does not exist without the bold, inclusive, populist agenda she’s pushing.”
“The vitriol she has inspired speaks to how afraid everyone is; Republicans see her as representing a country they don’t even know how to speak to.”
Experts predict that, by polling day in November 2020, millennials will have overtaken baby boomers to become the biggest voter-eligible age group.
Sroka noted: “Millennials are not a young age group any more.”
“AOC is 29 and speaks to the range of millennial experiences.”
“There is no one national figure more directly attractive to millennials and that’s what makes her such a potentially powerful endorser in the primary.”
John Zogby, a Democratic pollster and author, said: “Somebody who says, ‘I can deliver my followers’ takes on a huge role.'”
“In such a crowded primary, anyone who can move a few thousand votes is important.”
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And there is where the “Sandy the Dancing Democratic Socialist Bartender” is right at the moment, but stay tuned, for “Sandy” is just getting here, so there is sure to be much more to come, and thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, a centinel of our liberty, for bringing it to us.
Paul Plante says
With respect to these millennials who form the political base of Democratic Socialist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and who by polling day in November 2020, will have overtaken baby boomers to become the biggest voter-eligible age group, MARKETWATCH recently had an article entitled “A shocking number of Americans flunk this citizenship test — can you do better?” by Shawn Langlois published Feb. 19, 2019, which stated as follows:
Americans, for the most part, are trash when it comes to history.
According to a survey conducted by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, only about 40% of the 41,000 Americans polled passed a test of basic U.S. history pulled from questions asked of those applying for citizenship.
It’s even worse with the younger generation.
A mere 27% of people under the age of 45 managed to answer 12 out of 20 questions correctly.
“Unfortunately, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation has validated what studies have shown for a century,” the foundation’s president said.
“Americans don’t possess the history knowledge they need to be informed and engaged citizens.”
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Now, I took that test which is at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-sho … ewer_click and I scored 19 out of 20, and I am ashamed to admit I missed even one question, let alone 8 or more like the younger generations who are all ga-ga over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and why wouldn’t they be, as good a fancy dancer as she is.
And besides, she wants to give them a lot of free stuff, even if they are unwilling to work, and who in their right mind passes up a deal like that?
As to the Democratic Socialists, according to their Manifesto, they are quite content to use the Democrat party itself as their stalking horse, to wit:
A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016
Despite these challenges, once in a generation opportunities currently exist for taking the offensive and launching an assertive anti-capitalist politics in the United States.
The most difficult — and most important — question that remains, is how, specifically, to make democratic socialist politics a force to be reckoned with in rural communities, towns, cities and states across the country in the coming years.
Hence a wide range of programs to dismantle the privileges associated with whiteness, maleness and heteronormativity would have to be developed, and antidiscrimination policies in the workplace and in social organizations would have to be intensified.
Democratic socialism, that is, will not be the utopia that many socialists of old imagined.
Yet the achievement of a democratic socialist society would nevertheless mark one of the greatest advances in human history.
With this vision in place, we turn finally to an overview of DSA’s strategy for moving the needle of emancipation closer to democratic socialism over the coming years and decades.
We believe democratic socialism is the only humane and democratic alternative to capitalism, but considering our limited resources at present we must think carefully about how to translate our socialist ideals and values into a viable political strategy.
Given the magnitude and scope of the challenges we face, as well as the democratic and decentralized nature of our organization, there is no strategic silver bullet, or single, all-encompassing campaign to which we can devote all of our organizational resources.
Rather, our strategy — based on the preceding analysis of current political and economic conditions — consists of fighting on a number of interconnected fronts in the short-term, leveraging gains made in these struggles into more structural, offensively-oriented changes in the medium-term and ultimately employing the strength of a mass socialist party or coalition of leftist and progressive parties to win political power and begin the process of socialist transformation.
Achieving our goals will require grassroots organizing and “street heat,” but it will also require a critical mass of political office holders to implement them.
Although elections in and of themselves will not bring about major political, economic or social reforms — let alone establish a pathway to socialism — it is difficult to imagine how we could achieve any of our objectives in the United States without taking part in the electoral process.
In the short term, we need to engage in electoral activity for several important reasons: to defend existing rights; to put forth new demands for social and economic justice that could change public conversations and thereby create openings for more fundamental structural reforms down the road; to attract new members to DSA and thereby build our capacity as an organization; and to build and sustain non-electoral activism.
The nature of our electoral activism will vary based on local political conditions.
But it will include supporting progressive and socialist candidates running for office, usually in Democratic primaries or as Democrats in general elections but also in support of independent socialist and other third-party campaigns outside the Democratic Party.
In the medium-to-long-term we will work to build the organizational capacity necessary to run candidates of our own (as one of DSA’s predecessor organizations, Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, and DSA itself were able to do in the 1970s and 1980s), to forge larger socialist electoral coalitions both within and outside of the Democratic Party and ultimately to create a majoritarian electoral coalition in support of socialist political and economic reforms.
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So there is their game plan, clearly spelled out, as one would expect it to be, given that this is now a war for the soul of America.
Will that soul be capitalist?
Or communist?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Hope Murphy says
I completely agree that many aren’t informed enough to even vote. The Green New Deal would permanently bankrupt this country. The environment is merely the poster for their communist agenda. We are at a point where there is no Democratic Party and it would be wise to vote Republican considering how radical the Left is now. It’s pretty scary!
Paul Plante says
With regard to that ignorance of reality which has come to define the Millennial generation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, FOX News was recently out with an article entitled “Ocasio-Cortez goes on tear defending role in Amazon’s New York exit” by Adam Shaw on 20 February 2019 where we had as follows:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vigorously defended her role in sinking Amazon’s move to New York City on Tuesday in the face of bipartisan criticism, claiming the deal would have been “one of the biggest giveaways in state history” and would have priced people out of the local community.
The freshman Democratic New York congresswoman has faced days of criticism from normally friendly media voices and fellow Democrats over her role in Amazon’s decision to pull back from building a $2.5 billion campus in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens.
Ocasio-Cortez and others at the local level had pointed to incentives such as a $2.5 billion in tax breaks as a reason for their opposition.
“If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to.”
“We could hire out more teachers.”
“We can fix our subways.”
“We can put a lot of people to work for that money, if we wanted to,” Ocasio-Cortez said last week.
Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back on that claim on Sunday.
Even as he slammed Amazon for its decision, the mayor said critics wrongly suggested that tax breaks represented money that could be spent on other things.
He said it wasn’t “money you had over here.”
“And it was going over there.”
The Democratic mayor said: “That $3 billion that would go back in tax incentives was only after we were getting the jobs and getting the revenue.”
Fellow Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., accused those who are against the deal, including Ocasio-Cortez, of being opposed to jobs.
“We are $4 billion less than we usually get and yet we are kicking out a company that would have been projected [to pay] over 10 years roughly $27 billion in taxes.”
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin ripped into critics of the deal, saying it was evidence of a “financial literacy epidemic” in America.
“Quick lesson: NYC wasn’t handing cash to Amazon.”
“It was an incentive program based on job creation, producing tax revenue,” he tweeted.
“There isn’t a $3 billion pile of money that can now be spent on subways or education.”
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Ocasio-Cortez, who knows little to nothing of the world outside of New York City, is a dream-weaver, plain and simple – she knows nothing of finances and taxation and how to manage and grow an economy.
And her ignorance just cost the people of her own congressional district, big-time -losing all those quality jobs.
And the enigmatic quote by Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y that “We are $4 billion less than we usually get,” is a reference to the several billion dollar budget shortfall the state of New York is facing in part as a result of Democratic Socialist governor Young Andy Cuomo’s socialist programs including free college.
To close that budget shortfall, Young Andy is now proposing closing the prisons and turning the prisoners loose, which will be a certain boost to the Democrat party enrollment rolls in this state.
As to the form of socialist economics “Sandy the Dancing Bartender from Queens” believes in, the best source of information on that issue I have found is a BUSINESS INSIDER article entitled “THE TRUTH ABOUT ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: The inside story of how, in just one year, Sandy the bartender became a lawmaker who triggers both parties” by Eliza Relman on Jan. 6, 2019, where we learn as follows, to wit:
Ocasio-Cortez calls constant questions about how she’ll pay for her proposals “very disingenuous.”
She argues there are myriad ways to fund free college, Medicare for All, and a federal jobs guarantee.
She subscribes to modern monetary theory, a burgeoning theory among some economists positing that the federal debt is not an economic restraint for the US.
“We can pay for it with deficit spending.”
She said modern monetary theory, which holds that the government doesn’t need to balance the budget and that budget surpluses actually hurt the economy, “absolutely … needs to be a larger part of our conversation.”
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Deficit spending, of course, tends to be inflationary, which is basic economic theory, and it is linked to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in Germany after WWI due to hyperinflation, but I truly doubt that “Sandy the Dancing Bartender from Queens” is aware of any of that actual history, which an article in Spiegel gives us a glimpse of as follows:
The seeds of the problem (Weimar Republic hyperinflation) were sown many years earlier.
Indeed the ball was first set in motion by World War I, during which Germany spent an estimated 160 billion marks on its men and machinery; an unimaginably large sum.
The only way the state could finance this was to acquire money by unconventional means.
On August 4, 1914, just three days after the Reich had declared war on Russia, parliament passed a series of currency acts that would have a fundamental impact on the country’s money markets.
The new legislation suspended the standard of backing cash with gold “until further notice,” claiming that an “exceptional increase in unbacked paper notes” was an “economic necessity” in times of war.
In other words, the Reich intended to pay for its war effort by printing more and more money.
The sheer volume of banknotes increased dramatically.
Whereas there were just 13 billion marks in circulation in 1913, this had jumped to 60 billion by the end of the war.
Unfortunately this still wasn’t enough to cover the state’s expenditures.
“As things stand, the only way to finance the cost of fighting the war is to shift the burden into the future through loans,” economist Karl Helfferich said in 1915.
The Reich thus racked up huge debts with its own people, repeatedly issuing government bonds; a total of almost 100 billion marks in all.
At first Germans bought these bonds almost unthinkingly, secure in the belief that victory was in sight.
The national debt shot up from 5 to 156 billion marks.
“There is a point at which printing money affects purchasing power by causing inflation,” warned socialist Eduard Bernstein in 1918.
But his words and those of others went unheeded.
The mountain of bank notes continued to grow, while the volume of goods gradually declined.
It was a classic constellation.
Too much money and too few goods could lead to only one thing: Inflation.
A government decree setting a maximum price for important consumables such as grain and coal didn’t help either.
Such artificial limits simply dammed up inflation, causing the liquidity glut to flood the market with even greater devastation when the economy collapsed after the end of the war.
So although the Weimar Republic was not bankrupt from the outset, its creditworthiness was restricted, and inflation saddled the fledgling state with a congenital defect that would have dire consequences.
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There is the social experiment “Sandy the Bartender” and her Green New Deal crowd want to repeat in this country, as they consider the Green New Deal to be their “WWII.”
Under the heading of “How will you pay for it?” in her “Green New Deal: Fact Sheet and FAQ” by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on February 8, 2019, she answers as follows:
The same way we paid for the New Deal, the 2008 bank bailout and extended quantitative easing programs.
The same way we paid for World War II and all our current wars.
The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit.
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In other words, just do like the Germans did in the Weimar Republic and start printing gobs of money and pretend there will be no consequences.
As to the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America as a new political force in this country, the Business Insider article provides as follows:
With Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid, Trump’s election, and Ocasio-Cortez’s rise, DSA has seen a resurgence in national prominence.
Between 2015 and 2017, a period encompassing the span of Sanders’s campaign, the group grew from 8,000 dues-paying members to 25,000.
During that time the average age of the group’s members dropped from 64 to 30.
Its membership surged the day after Trump was elected and again the day after Ocasio-Cortez won her primary.
Today, it’s 55,000 members strong (but still an insignificant force on the national political stage).
With newly-elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, DSA now has two lawmakers in Congress.
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As to how “Sandy the Bartender” intends to “transform” our national politics in this country to usher in national socialism in this country, the Business Insider article continues as follows:
And Ocasio-Cortez is willing to make a few enemies.
With the help of Justice Democrats, the group that helped spot and empower her, she plans to push the party to the left by focusing on replacing incumbents in safe blue seats.
Progressive groups have already trained targets on Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Kathleen Rice of New York, and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.
They’re planning to run more progressive and diverse challengers.
“Democratic incumbents are kind of f—ed next cycle because there’s a lot of young women of color who are all much more interesting and exciting and have more interesting policy ideas than all the white guys in Congress,” says McElwee, the progressive organizer.
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As Jimi Hendricks once mused: “Is it tomorrow, or the end of time?”
I guess we’ll just to have to stay tuned and wait and see.
In the meantime, to get a glimpse of the future the whack-job economic theories of Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promises us, let’s go back to that Spiegel article, where we have as follows:
You could say journalist Eugeni Xammar had a stroke of reporter’s luck when the Barcelona daily La Veu de Catalunya sent him to Berlin in the fall of 1922, a pivotal moment in the country’s history.
In the months that followed, it was the most exciting place in the world to report from.
Germany’s financial structures collapsed, and the mark began its descent into near worthlessness.
“The price of tram rides and beef, theater tickets and school, newspapers and haircuts, sugar and bacon, is going up every week,” Xammar wrote in February 1923.
“As a result no one knows how long their money will last, and people are living in constant fear, thinking of nothing but eating and drinking, buying and selling.”
“There is only one topic on everyone’s lips in Berlin: the dollar, the mark, and prices.”
Nearly every day the journalist sent home new stories of the hyperinflation he was witnessing; reports of everyday insanity in a country whose currency was going crazy.
In 1914, at the start of World War I, the dollar was worth 4.20 marks.
From then on the German currency steadily declined, and in the fall of 1922 it went into freefall.
By November 1923 the dollar was at 4.2 trillion marks.
Few people understood what had happened.
Even today, three generations later, much of it sounds pretty incredible.
Take for example the family that sold its house to emigrate to America.
On arrival at the port of Hamburg, they found that the money wasn’t enough to pay for their crossing — in fact, it didn’t even pay for their tickets back home.
Then there was the man who drank two cups of coffee at 5,000 marks each, only to be presented with a bill for 14,000.
When he asked why this was he was told he should have ordered the coffees at the same time because the price had gone up in between.
And then there’s the story about the couple that took a few hundred million marks to the theater box office hoping to see a show, but discovered it wasn’t nearly enough.
Tickets were now a billion marks each.
At the height of the crisis, the inflation rate was in the tens of thousands — per month, that is.
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Is that the future we want for America?
Paul Plante says
To see a toxic mix of ignorance and the shameless exploitation of children by this Ocasio-Cortez crowd in their effort to get this GREEN NEW DEAL passed, this video of Senator Diane Feinstein being confronted by children coming at her with this bull**** that if the Green New Deal is not immediately enacted, the world is going to end, and they are the ones who are going to be impacted is quite enlightening, given that there is an adult in the room with the children feeding off their ignorance while trying to put Dianne Feinstein on a guilt trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu-VzZ45MwI
As a grandfather, I personally find the conduct of that adult to be despicable.
Mindless TWITTER, of course, is bashing Sen. Feinstein for “disrespecting” the children.