Posted on 11/11/2016 6:15:58 PM PST by Maceman
Well, what do they expect? Policies that doom American jobs to go elsewhere, increased taxes and insurance premiums to suck up disposable income, etc. created a world of hurt.
Instead of paying attention to the Tea party, they arrogantly went about continuing down a path of further destruction, keeping there propaganda machines running at full tilt as to why this was the best way to do things.
Did they really think that the people left unemployed or underemployed or forced into working several jobs, were going to just sit back and let them continue to pee on their legs and tell them it was raining?
No one to blame but themselves.
As someone who hasn’t had tv for five plus years, that was actually not funny (not a slam at you Maceman). It was jarring to see, as opposed to read about, how blatant and unthinking the bias has become!
These people (many of whom I do not recognize) must live on another planet. They have no idea what more than half of this nation is thinking or living. They are all Pauline Kael!
And they have foul mouths. Is that the norm now on cable?
I’m watching ABC 20/20 right now, and it looks like it’s going to start out good but probably turn into a fear-mongering hit piece.
They, and all the pseudo-intellectual "progressive" regressives portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear to be totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.
Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.
Keillor and his fellows rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
The sad thing is that not one of those pathetic losers was distraught enough to put themself out of their misery.
Awwwwwwwwwwww. I need a crying towel, but it is in the laundry.
Van Jones has to bring up the race card — the election was against Obama. Waaaaaaaaaabulance.
Hillary the most qualified candidate to ever run — but none of her supporters could point to ONE accomplishment.
I have spent 8 years feeling this way.
Enjoy it democrats, it’s yours now.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
You mean our brilliant negotiators at GOPe. Can you imagine Martha against the GOPee favorite Jeb! He could have stood on tippy-toes to show how tall he is while he stammered and blathered.
Praise be to an all merciful God. I wasn't very much liking that world.
Der Spiegel was not lucky?
If he doesn't paint them with their true colors in the minds of the American public, he will be faced with the same treatment that Nixon faced when he won a bigger mandate with 520 electoral votes.
The Democrat Party had total control of media outlets, and use them to destroy our nation's resolve and slime the Republican Party for all time.
We now see that Nixon's acts while in office were minor, very minor, compared to what has been going on for the last eight years, and during the Clinton administration. The destruction of our nation's security, and the infiltration of our enemies into the highest levels of our government must not be swept under the rug, to appease those who want the American public to continue in ignorance of the true vileness, and traitorous acts by people in power.
The evil that is embodied within the leadership of the Democrat Party must be exposed fully and completely, so they will not even think of going down that path in the future.
How about the simple fact that the total media crap that anointed her as the most qualified candidate ever disregarded the fact that she was a total crook. Her supposed talent and qualification was all a media lie. People saw through this fraud. She needed help in debates. She couldn’t answer tough questions without a script. And she probably is a fairly sick older woman.
You made my night dude - funny as hell. And they call themselves “journalists”...
Happy go lucky.
PFL
The mirror was not happy... Good one Lis
These leftists have mental problems and think everyone thinks like they do.
On election night I found it pleasurable to switch from channel to channel (NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Fox, etc.), watching the shocked faces of the newsreaders. There was not a single one that looked anything other than gobsmacked.
I don’t think they’d have looked that way if Hilliary had been winning.
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