By: Diane Benjamin
Remember when Bernie Sanders could have been the Democrat nominee for president before the process was “fixed” against him? Democrats used to know he could never win.
Krystle Able would vote for him.
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Labor didn’t create a 40 hour work week, Henry Ford did 12 years before the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed.
Note who Krystle claims endorsed this bill: unions that think the pay will still be for 40 hours even when people don’t work that much. Medicare for All means no healthcare. Nobody is working for the federal minimum wage. Employees won’t be working 32 hours a week—they will become part-time employees with no healthcare. It will create more part-time jobs when two people with no benefits fill the job that one person used to do.
I bet Krystle missed all the new millionaires this country creates. She thinks the pot of money is limited instead of seeing it expand every time an entrepreneur fills a need and creates a solution that makes them rich. America is still the land of opportunity for those who seize it. She really hates that!
At least a few people who think rationally commented on her post. One guy said he doesn’t care what Bernie says because he’s never had a job in his life. He has always lived off taxpayers.
Able’s post is easy to understand if you read the fine print:
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Socialists hate corporations. They want the government controlling the “means of production.”
Socialism has never worked anywhere and has killed hundreds of millions of people. A 32-hour work week will create shortages and kill more people here. Why does the left think they can control how businesses operate when they have never run one?
The economically challenged should never be anywhere near power. Normal Township voted for its own destruction. Congrats. Hopefully the majority of Americans haven’t been infected with the same virus yet. If you sense it, ask them if they like to eat. Then ask them how the food is going to get to their favorite restaurants when truckers aren’t allowed to work. Must be magic.
If you missed this in school:
One of several ironies here, is that Crystal Ables hero Bernie Sanders never worked at anything other than a government position his entire life.
Accidentally hit the comment button before I was finished with my previous remark. Krystle Able, like many communists, has no concept of basic economics. Her sole focus is on the idea that others have money that they have rightfully earned, that she has a right to. It is very easy to sell that to young ignorant people. You never have to work.
Wait so the problem is Americans are working too much? Is that why we import hundreds of thousands of h-1bs and give work permission to their spouses? Is that why we have tens of millions of illegal immigrants working in the country, because we have too many people working too many hours?
It’s obvious American companies are starved for workers, otherwise we wouldn’t have imported the third world to do the jobs.
I know, let’s force American companies to get less productivity out of their employees and then make it cost even more to employ them with OT kicking in at 32 hours, plus their payroll taxes, which they don’t have to pay for non-American workers.
Kudos, you just made the immigration crisis worse Krystle. But maybe that’s your plan, import the third world to get back at the “colonizers”.
Whenever you see Krystal Able’s name remember her People’s Bookshelf – Posted here on the NOT IN OUR TOWN Bloomington-Normal Facebook page.
Adminstered by Mike Matejka .
NIOT – January 29, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/groups/niotbn/permalink/3750867741640283/
This is who Able really is at her foundation. This is what she and her “comrades” think about politics and America. As she climbs her political ladder, this is the wall it leans against. The summary of themes in the Bookshelf and characterization of the person who keeps such a library (Krystal Able) has been done using AI.
You can tell a lot about people by the books they read and the friends they keep.
Dominant themes
• Marxist and communist theory and history, including works by or about Gramsci, Domenico Losurdo (class struggle, liberalism as counter-history, Stalin), Alexandra Kollontai, Ai Siqi, Bogdanov, and Derek Ford’s Marxist pedagogy. There is also a Maoist-inflected handbook on criticism and self-criticism.
• Black radical and revolutionary tradition: Assata Shakur, Black Marxism (Cedric Robinson), history of the Black Panther Party, Akinyele Umoja’s We Will Shoot Back (armed self-defense), and an autobiography of an Afro-American communist.
• Anti-imperialism and critiques of the U.S. security state: Peter Dale Scott, Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance, books on CIA–drug connections, FBI COINTELPRO/infiltration of the left, “deep politics,” and Crossing the Rubicon.
• Anarchism, anti-work, and militant anti-fascism: anarcho-syndicalism, Abolish Restaurants, the Antifa handbook.
• Materialist feminism: Silvia Federici (Caliban and the Witch), Andrea Dworkin, Feminism for the 99%.
• Labor and workplace struggle: class-struggle unionism, a pamphlet on what employers cannot legally do.
• Cultural and theoretical works that sit adjacent to the above: Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.
• Conspiracy-adjacent / “deep state” research: Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda, an Epstein/Anglo-American establishment book, Nick Redfern’s alternative Roswell theory (Body Snatchers in the Desert), the CIA Gateway Process document, and a book on “acid fascism” and cults.
Characterization of the person.
This is the working library of someone who treats reading as political work. They are collecting and circulating texts that explain capitalism, imperialism, racial capitalism, and the U.S. state as systems to be understood in order to be fought.
The combination of classical Marxist theory, New Communist Movement practical manuals (criticism/self-criticism), Black revolutionary history, and detailed studies of intelligence-agency operations points to a person oriented toward revolutionary rather than liberal or social-democratic politics.
They are not a casual reader of “left” books. The presence of cadre-development material, class-struggle unionism, and Marxist pedagogy suggests someone who has been in, or aspires to, organized political work—study groups, labor organizing, or small-party/Maoist/anarchist milieus.
The heavy emphasis on COINTELPRO, CIA drug operations, and elite networks (Epstein, Anglo-American establishment) shows a strong suspicion of official narratives and an interest in “deep politics.”
The act of assembling and publicly sharing the folder under the name “The People’s Bookshelf,” complete with extra resource lists and a QR code, indicates a pedagogical or agitational impulse: they want others to have access to the same texts.
This is the digital equivalent of an Occupy-style people’s library or a radical study-group archive.
Likely profile: an English-speaking (almost certainly American) activist or independent researcher, probably in their 20s–40s given the upload dates, with a particular interest in Chicago and U.S. racial/labor history. They read both dense theory and conspiracy-adjacent investigative work, and they value armed self-defense histories and practical organizing texts alongside philosophy.
In short, a committed radical who sees knowledge as a weapon and is systematically arming themselves—and anyone who finds the Drive—with it.