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1. Well, a bartender job might not be that bad I read of a guy that could one in New York City and the tips with the job met he was getting 80,000. It just depends upon where you are at. Large cities like New York or La in upscale resorts or bars with wealthy clients can me you can do better sometimes than folks with 4 or master degree jobs that are lucky to pay 40,000.

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2. “How the Left has never recovered from the traumatizing experience of fascism and the crippling paranoia that grips the Left as a result”

   I had to comment on that one. I think this is one of the most accurate intuitions from Keith Preston.

   You’ll see: I come from the Left. I come from the Left in a personal, familiar and sociological sense. Family, neighborhood, social circles… everything. However, my continuous personal evolution, as well as the utter destruction of my family, neighborhood, city, nation-state and fatherland have moved me to what could be termed as the ethnicist far-right. Too many readings and studies, too many experiences, too much life.

   The Left’s trauma with Fascism comes from the fact that they’ve been continuously winning in the cultural and political realms for the last two hundred years… with the exception, the parenthesis, of the rise of fascism-styled ideologies and regimes.

   They got their asses handed over to them.

   In that light the trauma is perfectly understandable. Only the alliance of Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Plutocrats, most christians and the ethnic networking of some prosecuted groups could bring the fascists down.

   I saw an unprovoked agression by a marauding band of “red skinheads” that only dared to beat their victims when they received “reinforcements” that gave them a 5 to 1 ratio or so. Until then, they didn’t dare to attack even with the superiority they already had..

   Only a cultural trauma can explain that. The feeling they have that a “resurgence” of “fascism” would mean their destruction.

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