On any Sunday, the government-owned stadiums across the socialist country I knew, ruled by the Communist Party, were filled with men cheering their favorite soccer teams, throwing empty beer bottles at other spectators, letting out temporary steam from their miserable lives during the week, a sort of Roman “Pane et circenses,” bread and circuses, for the oppressed proletariat.
There were
no concession stands, no food sold, just beer brought from the outside. The
fans often injured other fans and fights broke out that the police were not
eager to disperse. They were told to leave them alone. The soccer players and
coaches were not immune from injury either.
Sports but
especially soccer could exist in the former Soviet satellite countries to pacify
the proletariat. Other sports were used to glorify, in competitions with other countries,
the existence of the socialist state which controlled everything including athletic
training, domestic competition venues, medals, and small earnings to athletes
and their families – gold dust in the eyes of the beholder.
In the U.S.,
organized sports have become something else, tools of indoctrination into the
much-desired transition from the maligned capitalism, which gave so many associated
with sports a vast and unimaginable wealth, to socialism, which allegedly is
going to make everyone equal under the leadership of the Democrat Socialist Party.
NBA’s
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, born and raised in Gulfport, MS, chose not to stand for the
national anthem in 1996 and said that he did so because the American flag was “a
symbol of freedom for some, … a symbol of oppression and tyranny to others.”
Many wondered if he struggled with such an imagined dilemma when he spent money
received from playing basketball as point guard for the Denver Nuggets.
The American
left started to influence professional sports by declaring football dangerous and
prone to injuries that were unfair to millionaire athletes, causing them severe
brain and joint injuries. It is also true that student-athletes are not
protected by financial remunerations and healthcare like the professional
players are. Both groups experience brain and bodily injuries, some of which
are quite debilitating and affect their long-term health. Some professional athletes
experienced degenerative brain damage such as ALS. Players died from
dehydration and heat exhaustion - thirty lives were lost in 18 years. 30
NCAA Football Players Have Died During Workouts Since 2000, HBO Reveals |
American Council on Science and Health (acsh.org)
One can
imagine and surmise that professional and collegiate sports are headed for the
chopping block after such oft-repeated declarations and heated discussions
against team sports. Who can tolerate so many human casualties?
Then the left
decided to use sports for the “greater good,” to transform it into a democratized”
platform of “social justice” advocacy, pushing “economic democracy.” If you
wonder what direction that kind of rhetoric will take, it is the direction of
socialism and eventual communism.
Americans
were asked, “what dreams would you pursue if your basic needs were met?”
What would you do with your time if everybody were on basic government
dole and equal income?
During King
Henry the VIII’s time, his poor subjects received leftover food from his 12
days of Christmas banquets and these scraps were called “dole.”
Dole is a fitting
description in modern times when you consider that millions of subjects trapped
under Soviet socialist countries in Europe during the twentieth century
received scraps (dole) from the centralized state economy controlled by the
Communist Party.
It is hard
to enjoy organized sports today when highly paid players who live in mansions
and opulence none of their spectators would ever dream of, lecture their fans
about morality, wealth, greed, social justice, racism, questioning their history,
their patriotism, and the love they have for their country.
It is no
surprise that the NFL viewership has dropped by 17 percent, by their own
admission. Fans, called racists by the players, chose to stay home, turned the
television sets off, and stopped buying jerseys and other sports memorabilia. Vilifying
and questioning the fans’ patriotism and political affiliation, destroying the
golden goose so to speak, does not seem to be a particularly good business model
in team sports.
Sports, like
everything else the left promotes, has become a social justice and civil right
issue. They believe sports should challenge imagined and manufactured racism
and should be a “refuge for all who want to play, a place where oppression is
challenged.” What oppression they are talking about, I have no idea, as I see
no oppressed people around me, on the contrary, they are free to do as they see
fit.
Sports, in
the radical left’s view, should eliminate “sexism, toxic masculinity, and
homophobia.” Sports teams should be forces “for the greater good.”
This rhetoric
sounds familiar to me as the socialist society I grew up in emphasized “the
greater good” to the exclusion of the individual who had to accept his/her paltry
station in life and never strive for anything better unless the tyrannical
government decided to give certain people with athletic talent the opportunity
to succeed on the dear leader’s behalf.
The left objects
to sports being used to promote patriotism and militarism and any symbols associated
with them, the flag, uniformed military, and the national anthem which they
despise. It has become familiar to see athletes
speak badly of their country while abroad competing in international sporting events
and even in Olympics. They present themselves as global citizens, not
Americans.
Radical
lefties want to use sports to reflect their philosophy of civil disobedience
and hatred for their country, hatred for capitalism which has made so many of
them rich beyond anybody’s dreams of success. They wish to exploit sports for their
envisioned social justice.
Wealthy
athletes with God-given talent and exorbitant contracts kneel during the
national anthem because they are not proud of our country – they see our most
tolerant nation as oppressing black people and people of color.
From our reality-based
vantage point, we are not oppressing anyone, people are free to make their own
choices in life, athletes included. Americans must deal with the consequences
of their deliberate acts and must take responsibility for their failures
instead of blaming the non-existent construct of “systemic racism” and bogus “white
privilege.”
Okay the way America was controlled from its inception was that the penguins infiltrated everything and controlled it from the beginning. Look up Adam Weishaupt. Essentially in z nutshell the ashkenazi are getting their comeuppence worldwide. The system they built is being taken down by DJT
ReplyDeleteOh if only you were right. Even after a nuclear blast your "penguins" would still be scuttling around...
DeleteThe U. S. must be the LEAST racist country in the world.
ReplyDeleteIt is, Pious Jeems.
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