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A Warning to my fellow Liberals
WSJ ^

Posted on 04/23/2018 6:14:21 PM PDT by yldstrk

"Instead of open minds and lively debate, I found dogmatic progressive ideology and groupthink. One attendee told me that I, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, am “no better than Roger Ailes” because my company aggregates both liberal and conservative commentaries and thereby is “pushing a right-wing agenda.” Someone else said: “Trump supporters are so stupid . . . they think the tax bill was a good deal because they got back—what, a few thousand a year?”

I don’t claim to have the answers. I am, after all, a card-carrying member of the liberal elite. I went to high school on the Upper East Side, graduated from Bryn Mawr, and once made a six-figure salary at a Big Four accounting firm.

Still, I know that burying our heads in the sand and hoping everyone we disagree with goes away is not an effective solution. TheFlipSide.io has received lots of positive and constructive feedback from liberals and conservatives. But the most unconstructive criticism we’ve received comes from the left:

• “We need to convince the Trump supporters they’ve been duped.”

• “Trump supporters are not the norm; they are an aberration.”

• “You’re a traitor to the cause.”

• “Some ideas do not need to be engaged with, they need to be ridiculed.”

I am a bleeding-heart liberal, a patriot and an optimist. I refuse to believe that 63 million of my fellow Americans were “duped,” that exposing people to different viewpoints is betraying “the cause,” or that liberals have all the answers.

For all our smugness, we liberals have little to show. Republicans control the White House, Congress, and 32 state legislatures. Yes, polling data suggests we may be in for a “blue wave” this November, but we’ve gotten overconfident about polling numbers before.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrogance; bluewave; leftwingnuts; liberals; overconfidence; polls; smugness; snobbery; trump; waheb
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Maybe one of the liberals understands there is more than one way to skin a cat
1 posted on 04/23/2018 6:14:21 PM PDT by yldstrk
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To: yldstrk
Liberals have so poisoned the well that nothing can ever redeem them.

Death is their own option.

2 posted on 04/23/2018 6:22:58 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2020)
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To: yldstrk
Liberals have so poisoned the well that nothing can ever redeem them.

Death is their only option.

3 posted on 04/23/2018 6:23:34 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2020)
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To: yldstrk

For those who, like myself, want to know who actually wrote this;
Ms. Wahed is founder of TheFlipSide.io, a daily digest of liberal and conservative commentary


4 posted on 04/23/2018 6:27:19 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: yldstrk

I’d like to see Dennis Prager debate whomever the left thinks expresses their beliefs with the most clarity on their side. I’d like to completely openly put our views up dispassionately for open public disacussion and thought.

People are duped on BOTH sides. And people sometimes are led astray by those who have personal agendas. We need to separate from personalities and deal with political honesty as it relates to the free republic that unites us all.


5 posted on 04/23/2018 6:28:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yldstrk

Bkmk


6 posted on 04/23/2018 6:29:39 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Thumper1960; Lurker; DuncanWaring

Remeber. They hate you. they hate us. They want you and your family - along with the rest of us - dead in a ditch. History is my witness. Prepare accordingly.


7 posted on 04/23/2018 6:30:15 PM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: Thumper1960

Even this liberal admits he is a bleeding heart and only admits he is willing to find other ways to gain his ends. And he calls this a warning? He is no better than any of his horrible liberal friends.

More information warfare, folks. Do not believe for a second this liberal, or any other, is willing to compromise.

JoMa


8 posted on 04/23/2018 6:30:49 PM PDT by joma89
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To: Balding_Eagle

Thank you, I couldn’t find her whole name


9 posted on 04/23/2018 6:30:53 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

His mistake is still believing that liberals want to solve this country’s problems. They don’t. The want to use these ongoing problems as a stepping stone to personal power.
When he realizes that truth, he will have become one of us.


10 posted on 04/23/2018 6:31:21 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Noumenon

“Prepare accordingly.”

We are, my friend. We are.

L


11 posted on 04/23/2018 6:32:38 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: yldstrk

Yeah, they hid it at the end of the column.

It must have been an oversight on the part of the amateurs who put it together.


12 posted on 04/23/2018 6:34:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Noumenon

It goes deeper than that. As Cultural Marxist they are so focused on the advancement of the other (it was supposed to be the Soviets, but the like of the Muslim Brotherhood have co-opted many with great ease) and the destruction of the “we” that the Left is descending into self-destructive madness from which nothing of this civilization can survive if they truly ran amuck as they are now ramping up to.

... well, nothing unless they are mercilessly gunned down by their fellow Citizens as they riot ... one big reason why they want to get rid of guns.


13 posted on 04/23/2018 6:36:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: yldstrk

Instead of open minds and lively debate, I found dogmatic progressive ideology and groupthink>>>>>>>>>>>>

D’ya think?

America and its “liberals” need to realize that the DNC is no longer in the control of liberals.

In reality the FNC is controlled by jingoistic propagandist liberal fascists who promote only group think as promulgated by Saul Alinsky in his seminal work, “Rules for Radicals.” They have every intention of destroying America and our Constitution.

Our nations “liberals” must regain control of the DNC before they can have any chance to expand their electoral mandate.America has had enough of liberal fascism, especially after witnessing the weaponization of the DOJ, FBI, NSA,and the IRS against the People.

If you READ THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE CONTINUING DEATH OF “LIBERALS” AND HOW THAT HAS HAPPENED.

“The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


14 posted on 04/23/2018 6:39:11 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Wiser now

He’s already on the path to becoming one of us because he’s willing to consider other viewpoints.

The only way to be lifelong liberal is to refrain from that.


15 posted on 04/23/2018 6:44:13 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: yldstrk

...said Hillary never!


16 posted on 04/23/2018 6:47:26 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Thumper1960

All Liberals need to self abort to save the planet.


17 posted on 04/23/2018 6:48:47 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yldstrk
Someone else said: “Trump supporters are so stupid . . . they think the tax bill was a good deal because they got back—what, a few thousand a year?”

You can't fix stupid!

18 posted on 04/23/2018 6:59:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Noumenon

They hate you. They hate us. They want you and your family...dead....
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Please study this post. Noumenon makes a lot of sense.


19 posted on 04/23/2018 7:02:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Lurker

Liberal Snowflakes, please don’t cry when you “blue wave” putters out on November.


20 posted on 04/23/2018 7:05:59 PM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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