Posted on 06/22/2014 5:37:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives can be forgiven for believing the political winds are at their back. Obama is flirting with historically low approval ratings as much of the public simply tunes him out. Democrat-backed policies have failed to lift the economy and public anxiety about the limits of government activism grows. Conservative challengers will do well enough this primary season to argue that the "tea party" is alive and well. Behind the scenes, though, the left is retooling and the conservative movement seems unequal to the challenge.
The upcoming edition of The Nation, the long-time house-organ of the institutional left, features a "symposium" with insights from leading organizers on ways to rebuild a progressive, populist political movement. The cornerstone of this effort is an astute, yet arguable, observation about the modern political landscape.
The sad irony of American politics is that the right is far weaker than it appears and the left far stronger than it asserts.
There is some truth in this, but not for the reasons the author, Peter Borosage, probably imagines. The American right is far weaker than it ought to be, given Americans' views on most issues. According to exit polls, a majority of voters in an election in which Barack Obama won a second term also believed that government was "doing too much." Just about one-in-four voters who voted in 2012 described themselves as "liberal."(continued)
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(Translation:) "See, we were there before the takeover!"
BTW, has anyone else see what "Common Core" (unofficially, through their co-conspirators) has done to the Smithsonian American History Museum? It's nothing less than nauseating.
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The right tend to live in the suburbs. It's much harder to organize there.
The difference is the right is not yet having a war base willing to legislate away leftism the way right wings are put in the chain gang.
Front and center, the left is the police state fascist shill new AiDs like plague of the 21st century. If Hitler was tuberculosis, progressism and liberalism is that Autoimmune disease enabling it.
BS!
You continue voting for Republican, you own what they do.
You keep voting for them year after year and then act as helpless babes who have no control over what goes on in Washington. Take responsibility for your voting
Again with the making it personal. Go suck a rotten egg and copulate with yourself.
You deserve to live like a slave to the government.
Wow you are brilliant. Bush should hired you instead of rove.
Agenda for today: boycott a blue state/business; shun a liberal (and make it stick), repent on your knees before Yahweh. Read Psalm 35 daily and think about it. Cut back on leftist entertainment like cable, sporting events and movies. Do it. Sit down and THINK about what you can do to stick it to the left. It’s time to fight back.
Standing and applauding until my hands bleed!!!
In that case, the incompetence lies with voters who vote for the GOP.
1. Republican leaders are spineless.
2. We have no functioning press.
3. The voting system is corrupt.
I completely understand that China is a threat and is the main threat right now, but the rest of the world is not far behind. To compete we need to reduce corporate taxes and regulations.
4. The left uses Alinksyite tactics which we generally don’t counter effectively.
Yeesh, why am I on such an old thread?
Good question. You need a hobby. Get a shotgun and take up trap shooting.
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