Posted on 02/04/2019 12:43:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s been two years since the end of the Obama presidency and in that span, the mainstream Democratic Party has made an extreme shift to the far left. In 2019 the Democrats have put their weight behind increased taxes, universal health care, open borders, and third-trimester abortions.
How do we account for this radical trend?
A journalist friend of mine reports that his generally liberal college son was somewhat somnolent and indifferent during the Obama years, lulled into quiescence by liberal policies and moderate talk. Then came Trump. A huge splash of cold water hit his face and he and his cohorts were galvanized into angry action.
Flannery O’Connor wrote that sometimes you have to, “push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.” Trump pushed hard, and the liberals have become the left, pushing back even harder.
The problem is that their blind indignation for President Trump is clouding their judgment and pushing them to the brink. They’re punching back at their magnified perception of Trump, not his actual policies.
Trump’s policies are conservative, but mostly traditionally so with a good dash of moderation and compromise.
This isn’t a Newtonian ‘equal and opposite reaction’ by the Democrats. It’s unequal and opposite and may cost them dearly.
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Heh. ISWYDT
Hi laplata,
I hope you weren’t offended by my last post. If so, I do humbly apologize.
Please know no offense was intended....I enjoy reading (and agreeing) with your posts : )
Kalamata
I agree 100%.
Kalamata, I saw no offence at all so your kind apology was not necessary. Thank you.
Bennett is old GOPe.
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He very much is.
Agreed. The lefts goals have always been to gain complete control and implement a totalitarian government. They are simply swinging a little harder now that they have some opposition.
JoMa
when daddy says no, baby throws a tantrum
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As the older generation passes away the youngsters like Occassionally Cortex will take over unless we come up with someone after Trump. The college’s are turning out socialist idiots
Trump must destroy the Democrat party completely with hundreds nay thousands, indictments for consipracy to overthrow the republic
Chris Mathews subed for Rush a couple of times early in Rush’s career.
If McCain & Romney weren’t such wimps the Obama years wouldn’t have happened, and if they did, it would have been a single 4-year blip.
I truly hope he does. But we have traveled so far down the rabbit hole. Only Jesus can save us. The playboy philosophy is so deeply entrenched that people have lost trAck of reason and decency. The contraceptive mentality has been screwing thing up since Griswald vs Conn in 1965
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