Posted on 11/06/2015 10:50:33 AM PST by Kaslin
The libertine left has done a lot of boasting over the last several years about the inevitability of History vanquishing every corner of American social conservatism. Election Day 2015 was a terrible day for these revolutionaries, as so often it is when it's the American people, not liberal elites, making the decisions.
Let's assess the damage:
-- In Kentucky, incoming Republican governor Matt Bevin won despite proudly embracing the cause of country clerk Kim Davis, a clear rebuke to the cultural let's agenda to impose gay "marriage" on every conservative Christian jurisdiction.
-- In Virginia, two GOP state senate candidates were targeted by liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg's group "Everytown for Gun Safety." One won and one lost, leaving the state senate in Republican hands.
-- The city of Houston thumped outgoing lesbian leftist mayor Annise Parker by voting overwhelmingly (61 to 39 percent) to refuse the "HERO" -- Houston Equal Rights Ordinance -- a 31-page packet of mumbo-jumbo that among other things would have fined businesses up to $5,000 for refusing to allow men who "identify" as women from using the women's restrooms.
-- Ohio rejected marijuana legalization by a 2-1 margin. "Issue 3" would have legalized recreational marijuana for anyone over 21, and in medicinal form for those of any age with a doctor's note. Some "progressives" didn't like a provision allowing a growers' monopoly system for the first four years.
-- Even in ultraliberal San Francisco, the sheriff who steadfastly defended the city's outrageous "sanctuary city" policy after Kate Steinle was murdered by an immigrant here illegally, went down to defeat.
One journalist is analyzing the elections correctly (for the most part) and it's noteworthy it comes out of The Atlantic, clearly a liberal venue.
In her article "Liberals Are Losing the Culture Wars," Molly Ball acknowledges that the left can attempt to diminish the results by saying this was "an off-off-year election with dismally low voter turnout, waged in just a handful of locales. But liberals who cite this as an explanation often fail to take the next step and ask why the most consistent voters are consistently hostile to their views, or why liberal social positions don't mobilize infrequent voters."
There is clearly a "passion gap" between the secular left and the religious right. The conservatives are mobilizing, spurred by an increasing liberal authoritarianism since the last presidential election, as the left puts "religious liberty" in scare quotes.
Ball offers an analysis far outside the liberal media's conventional "wisdom" that the Republican Party is fractured between the religious right determined to commit political suicide with their ancient positions and a country-club establishment that understands it's time to surrender.
Ball said GOP divisions show "an ideologically flexible big-tent party, while Democrats are in lockstep around an agenda whose popularity they too often fail to question." Democrats want to believe Americans completely share with their radical vision of social change, but end up losing elections.
There's a reason liberals always think they're winning. It's because in both "news" reporting and entertainment propaganda, they incessantly evangelize for gun safety, marriage equality, legalized marijuana, transgender civil rights protections and untrammeled amnesty for illegal immigrants as if only the leftist position is acceptable. The only days they get a reality check are election days.
Which they dutifully ignore or spin as "We didn't go liberal enough!".....................
I’m probably one of the libertines he’s talking about.
And if he thinks same-sex marriage, marijuana decriminalization, voting with no ID, rampant abortion, and open borders signify victories for social conservatism, I’d hate to think what losses look like.
No. Liberals lose an occasional skirmish but they are winning the “war” right along.
Slowly, the direction is going against the liberals.
Only in this present world, not the next one.
It has been slowly going against the Liberals for decades. So now where are we” Same sex marriage is the law of the land sÆ¡n to be followed by polygamy and paedophile marriage and any other mwedding combination that can be conceived and many of the churches will embrace each new abomination in its turn. This is not winning slowly. It is losing great chunks in an accelerating process.
Exactly.
....Yet the seeds for a backlash have been planted.
In major cities, Leftist politicians are proposing laws that would allow mentally ill boys who think they are girls, to show with your daughters and share their bathrooms.
And this article says the Left are ‘losing’ the culture wars???
Liberals and Culture , Good One
I guess liberals have now redefined “winning” they same way they have redefined so many other formerly useful words and terms.
Willy Jefferson Clinton might say “It depends on what the meaning of “winning” is.”
Sad to say, if this is winning it’s almost impossible to imagine how much worse losing would be.
The Libs win when they find the right kind of judge to legislate from the bench, and take the actual choice away from the voters. These judges are rarely impeached or made to address their improper behavior.
And all will be well in the garden.
——— Chance Gardener
The Left always loses the first go-round.
Then the issue lands on Anthony Kennedy’s desk.
If I was elected President, my first act would be to bring the entire editorial board of the NY Slimes up on charges of sedition. They can stay at Gitmo until the trial.
Faggot marriage, much more popular than it was a few years ago and legalized by judicial fiat.
Dems, getting serious about gun control again after years of being afraid to.
Planned Parenthood scandal, shrugged off.
Vapid sluts, glorified on tv along with queers.
Pot smoking, going mainstream.
I wouldn’t say they’re losing just cause they failed to gain a seat in the VA Senate and remain just 1 seat away from control and because they lost a Gov election in a state where Obama got under 40% of the vote. They had a pretty awesome election in PA were union thugs took over the State Supreme Court and plan to use it to gerrymander districts for democrats. They recalled conservative school boards in Colorado, they gained state House seats in NJ.
Further notes
The new Sheriff in San Fran is another liberal.
And weed may not have lost in Ohio without the “giving a monopoly to a few growers” part.
Bridgeport CT reelected a former Mayor who was IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR CORRUPTION from the his first stint as Mayor.
It was good news in Kentucky for the most part and good news in Houston and the line was held in VA, but it wasn’t all roses last Tuesday.
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