When I was a wee lad, the TV News would show brief clips of the Soviet May Day parades from Red Square. What I remember is lots of tanks and troops, and a bunch of old geezers waving from the top of Lenin's Tomb. Back in the Vietnam War days, even the 10 year old Borepatch was pretty unimpressed with the left's accusation that Uncle Sam was a warmonger. I mean, didn't they watch the TV News?
In 1990 or 1991, there was a New World, fit for a New World Order.
Except it's not, of course. Francis Fukuyama was an idiot. History didn't end. It didn't even change. The Russian tanks still roll through Red Square on May Day.
And the Left still call Uncle Sam a War Monger. The same Left that 's so enamored of the United Nations, still doesn't seems to watch the TV news. Seems a UN Human Rights Council member government is telling its army to put down a civilian uprising, even if it means burning cities to the ground.
The Left is fond of pointing out the advance of history, describing the arc of progress towards their ideal. We've gone from Roman legions plowing Carthage's fields with salt all the way to UN Human Rights Council members doing the same. Impressive progress, right there. Even the ten year old Borepatch wanted a higher caliber drivel.
But don't you forget, it's Uncle Sam that's the War Monger. And the Left is way, way smarter - and nicer - than you or I.
May Day is a Christian (mostly Catholic) celebration, Maypole dances, dedicated to Mary, Mother of Jesus.
ReplyDeleteOr, if it pleases ya', the pre-Christian festival of dancing around a tall representation of a phallus, followed by bonfires and Walpurgus Night. Look that up, but I promise it is NSFW, being full of orgies with drunken wenches and the like.
Any attempt to make May Day into a modern celebration of Communism is insensitive to my beliefs and offensive. No, off to build a bonfire!
I know a Vietnam Vet who told me there used to be (maybe still is) a Really Big Hat Co. that makes the hats for all the morons (like Qadaffi) who like the RBHs.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the Soviets bought them, too.
Got a new dress (and hat)to wear when I was chosen to "Crown the May Queen" at St. Michael's Catholic Church. It seems like many lifetimes ago now...
ReplyDeleteI think the name the Dwight D. Eisenhower gave to May Day is what I would prefer to focus on--particularly since there seems to be an outright assault on the preeminent Law of the Land...
May 1,1958 was the first Law Day. President Eisenhower proclaims Law Day to honor the role of law in the creation of the United States of America. Three years later, Congress followed suit by passing a joint resolution establishing May 1 as Law Day.
Six years before I was born--and I had only heard of the tanks in Red Square, and of course, Mary, the mother of Jesus...