What happened?
You lost the election. You lost it badly.
A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed.
And so the pathological insinuations begin quickly. Dems just can't help themselves.
The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988.
It is sweet, isn't it?
...if Bush could fraudulently win as a candidate four years ago...
The ubiquitous Democrat self-deluding mantra. Isn't the denial phase of mourning supposed to end eventually? Perpetually staring at hanging chads will make you cross-eyed.
How does a progressive keep going after this?
Either A) She finds lots of like-minded friends and family to prop up her false beliefs, or B) She begins to learn the painful truth: She's wrong.
My father jokes, “Remember the Reagan years, when Republicans were happy to just ignore the poor people?”
And that nasty Reagan went and lifted most of those ignored poor people out of poverty with one of the most vibrant economies in history.
...changing the government’s legal interpretation of the Second Amendment to bring it in line with the NRA for the first time ever.
Changing it to bring it more in line with the original intent of the authors of the Bill of Rights? Sounds like a good move.
Declaring the policy of the United States to be preemptive warfare on their own terms.
Preemptive warfare following repeated attacks on US citizens, at home and abroad, by IslamoTerrorists and the repeated, flagrant violation of all international law by a brutal, narcissistic dictator...if you can truly call that preemptive.
Chipping further and further away at a woman’s right to choose.
Translation: Further affirming an unborn child's right to live and not face summary execution at the hands of a death doctor acting to preserve the mother's carefree lifestyle. Again, good for us!
Making homosexuals the burning effigy to draw out more support.
Translation: Further affirming the sanctity and social importance of the time-honored institution of marriage. Reacting with revulsion to the depraved, frontal assault waged by the professed enemies of marriage and family. May we continue with redoubled effort.
Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock.
...and I have a hand-typed memo from 1971 from his campaign director proving that Bush was the source of these rumors. The source is unimpeachable.
The politics of hate are no longer a goal; they’re the tactic as well.
Correction: The politics of hate truth are no longer a goal; they’re the tactic as well.
I still can’t quite believe that it’s become acceptable political discourse to stand up and argue that a discrete and insular minority group should have less legal rights than the majority.
I still can't believe the overt perversion of facts necessary to come up with the idea that failure to give additional benefits to an immoral and disease-ridden lifestyle constitutes deprivation of rights. You don't have the right to marry someone of the same sex; I don't have that right either. You may marry someone of the opposite sex and receive exactly the same benefits I receive from marriage. We're equal under the law.
I can’t believe that the politics of hatred and prejudice have become a better election tactic than running on your platform.
The only hatred and prejudice I have seen before, during and after the election have been:
I was calling up stores in the mall at 10 years old to say that they shouldn’t sell fur because it killed animals, because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change. I just assumed that people did bad things because they didn’t know that what they were doing was wrong, and if I showed them, they would stop. I don’t know when it finally came home to me that sometimes people do the wrong thing because they didn’t care about injustice, or that they hold values that make an unjust result seem to them worth striving for.
And sometimes people live stridently certain of their innate moral superiority, derived from... their innate moral superiority.
Arguments about making abortion illegal again, and ending all gun control, and continuing and intensifying the oppression of homosexuals provided a rallying cry for the right, and they clung to it even as we sink further into a morass of military casualties, a tanking economy, and systematic destruction of the social programs that progressives fought so hard for fifty years ago.
...the closest we ever come is towards the rich white plutocrats oppressing the rest of the country...
Oh, poor you. You live in such a terribly oppressive country. Isn't it horrible that you have the freedom to write such critiques without the likelihood that doing so would mean your children would be executed in front of you? In your excruciating, oppressed life, have you been brutally beaten for showing your ankles in public? To even use the word "oppression" in the USA is a naive, sad joke.
Dara, your plaintive diatribe serves only to rehash the stale leftovers of the Left: The weak are oppressed. The corporations are taking over the world. The Right-Wing hates everyone who doesn't think like they do. The VRWC stole everything I hold dear in this life. Blah blah blah.
People don't like B.S. served up with a side of whining propaganda even when it's fresh.
Well done.
As to her article...what childish twaddle. A 10-year-old calling stores and telling them what they should not carry? My Mom and Dad would have yanked the phone out of my hands and sent me to my room until I got my head on straight.