He’s not done trashing the country yet. Two more long years to go.
Meh...folks wrote off the pubbies after 2012 too...
What I don’t see is all the advice on how to attract conservative voters like they were all about giving the GOP on how they must change to get Pedro’s vote.
Progressivism’s Last Call
I doubt that. They’ll just repackage their garbage and resell it. They’ve got a lot of useless liberal college professors showing them how to repackage it.
“This does not mean that leftism is dead and gone. Or that Obama will disappear in a blue flash.”
If only.
BTTT
The title is incredibly naive. I heard the same kind of nonsense after the 1994 Bloodless Coup, with Limbaugh crowing “this is a conservative country!” Folks who are buying into that now are setting themselves up for failure again. That line of thinking seriously underestimates the lengths liberals will go to in order to gain power— the nature of liberalism is such that ethics are situational and lying, cheating, and stealing are legitimate means to an end. At base it’s a lawless worldview. These folks will never go away, never stop undermining the establishment, never stop attacking capitalism and democracy, never stop exploiting poor and minority voters, never stop revising history, never stop demonizing conservatives and the GOP. And they overwhelmingly control the media, the courts, and public education. The kind of rhetoric this article promotes leads to complacency, which will lead to ultimate defeat.
Sometimes that's the only way to learn.
malignant narcissist.....and a distinct commie
Who was the Progressive in 2008 who said that the Left “must crush the Republicans, destroy them entirely.”
It brought me great joy to witness the implosion on DU last week, and it is still burning. But if you pay close attention to what they actually say, they are in total disbelief that people would "vote against their own best interests". to these people it's not about what is right, fair or what protects our individual sovereignty, it's about what is in it for them.
I've almost completely lost confidence in our political system and government. Quite frankly, I don't think you'll be able to tell the difference between the US and the UK in 50 years.
That's why Progressives speak in terms of what is "sustainable" and what isn't. What is "sustainable" is only to be divined by the vaulted "expert" class. They could care less about what is "legal" or "Constitutional," which are only the concerns of the "stupid people" who demand freedom. What we must finally understand about Progressives, who long to be our unelected masters, is that they have deemed our stupid demand for freedom to be no longer "sustainable."
I think much now depends on the military which has shown signs of having a line that it will not cross, even with the purged and replaced command structure. That is why leftists always fear the military and strive to replace it with a parallel military under their direct control. That parallel military is another one of those Progressive structures that will not go away- TSA, DEA, DOE, DOE, EPA, FEMA, your local police force armed and trained by the Feds and all Federal agencies have their armed enforcers with SWAT teams.
REPLY FROM A LEFTIST TO “PROGRESSIVISM’S LAST CALL”
(Opposing opinions requested to this drivel.)
“Congratulations on your election-day victory. I would caution you to enjoy it while you can as the death of Progressivism (as Mark Twain said of his reported death) has been greatly exaggerated. What conservatives and right-wing reactionaries cannot understand is that Progressivism has long ago won the day and we are not ever going back to 1910 regardless of how much they wish it. This is because most people wanted it that way and still do. Just a short list of Progressive policies include the eight-hour day, the five day week, unemployment compensation, workmen’s compensation, banning of child labor, social security and Medicare(all opposed by the conservatives of the day, BTW). Do you think any of these (and many others) are ever going to be repealed? My advice to the right is: I wouldn’t try it!
“Lastly, as a keen observer of the political scene, you are aware that everything was against the Dems in this election, from the states that they were defending to the fact that the party who does not have the presidency in the last mid-term election of a two-term president always loses big to the great motivator of the GOP base, the gut-busting hatred of Barack Obama. In two years, this will all be quite different (especially because the electorate will be completely different demographically as the GOP base continues to shrink) and the Dems are in for a big win. Then we can return to moving things forward again, thank goodness!”