5 Ways Liberals Are Consoling Themselves After Devastating Midterms

Mediaite.com ^ | Nov.5, 2014 | Eddie Scarry

[Colofornian]

When you suffer a defeat, sometimes the only thing you can do is crawl into your dark place and stay there until you’re ready to come back out and get on with your life.

Understandably, many Democrats seem to be going through that process after Tuesday’s midterm elections resulted in massive gains for Congressional Republicans.

The GOP retained power over the House, took control of the Senate and further diminished President Obama‘s relevancy. That’s a lot to take in.

Here are five ways Democrats are consoling themselves:

1. Denying the election’s impact, as CNN’s Sally Kohn and MSNBC’s Joy Reid have done:

This election is not a shellacking. It’s a speed bump. The long arc of history bends toward an increasingly progressive electorate.

--Sally Kohn (@SallyKohn) November 5, 2014

Whatever happens tonight I think it’s fair to say that this is no “wave election.” — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid)

--November 5, 2014

2. Changing the subject, as New York Times editorial writer Jesse Wegman tried to do:

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3. Hating the game instead of the players, a la Democratic National Committee Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile:

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4. Searching for alternate sources of blame in a Ouija board-like fashion, as MSNBC’s Krystal Ball and Joy Reid did:

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5. And on a somewhat more optimistic note, hoping the future is better than the present, like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Salon’s Joan Walsh, and the Rev. Al Sharpton:

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Joan Walsh: “Time and demography are still on the Democrats’ side, but this election showed the difficulty of holding together the Obama coalition without Barack Obama.”

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[lucky american]

Unfortunately Sally Kohn is correct. Slowly and steadily progressive-ism marches forever forward. It's called the Overton Window.

[Springfield Reformer]

No, she’s not right. She is expressing the quasi-religious belief held by leftists in general that history is evolving naturally and inevitably toward the Marxist utopia, but this is false. Human cultures do change over time, but apart from divine intervention, the change is toward whatever the aggregate of individual self-interest produces as a target. In that sense it is undirected change, and can as easily slip into patterns of chaos rather than order, or harmful order versus beneficial order. It is this delusional faith in progressive social evolution that sustains the left in doing irrational acts such as opposing natural variation in outcomes. Their “faith” enables them to idealize these harmful, irrational acts as somehow, magically, building toward that utopia that can never exist under the rules of reality. The Marxist genocides all come from this. But it is false. Human nature tends toward entropy, just like everything else. Unless God helps us, we tend toward chaos.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Whatever happens at the rodeo tonight, I think it’s fair to say no cowboys or horses were involved” - JOI “Harry” Reid

That's because, instead of going to the rodeo, Harry Reid went to the federal-funded Cowboy Poetry Exhibition. No horses or cowboys there either.

[MissNomer]

Thanks, Springfield Reformer. That was a beautifully written and succinct explanation.

[Springfield Reformer]

Thanks. BTW, my apologies for pinging you on that other thread. My error.

[Billthedrill]

Time and demography are still on the Democrats’ side

This translates to: "The racist white people and the women who aren't really women because they don't agree with me will die off eventually and we have the minority and Real Wymmyn's votes locked up forever." There are a couple of pretty creaky premises there...

[The Toll]

Only because they intend to flood the country with foreigners, not because people are failing to reproduce.