Democrats and the Politics of Rage

The American Thinker ^ | October 22, 2009 | Carl Paulus

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As liberal ideas have continued to lose at the polls over the last two decades, Democrats have become the party of utopian rage as they persist in replacing real political debate with effusive attacks on conservatives while promising to create an idyllic society for Americans. Barack Obama epitomized these politics when he built a movement offering hope as his main political platform.

To bolster this emotionalism, Democrats have resorted almost whole-heartedly to conjuring up visions of racist conservatives opposing the first black president primarily because of his skin color. The marketplace of ideas has been stifled by identity politics. Whereas George Wallace and his ilk played on the emotions of racism to defend segregation, Democrats today evoke the sentimentalism of antiracism -- regardless of race playing a factor in the issue -- to buoy their causes.

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All this was predictable before the election. The American left know they cannot support their ideas through honest debate