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5 Ways Liberals Are Consoling Themselves After Devastating Midterms
Mediaite.com ^ | Nov.5, 2014 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 11/05/2014 8:49:30 PM PST by Colofornian

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To: Rodamala
Unfortunately Sally Kohn is correct. Slowly and steadily progressive-ism marches forever forward. It's called the Overton Window.
21 posted on 11/06/2014 1:29:33 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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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.


22 posted on 11/06/2014 3:52:30 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
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.

23 posted on 11/06/2014 6:15:07 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Springfield Reformer

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


24 posted on 11/06/2014 8:42:48 AM PST by MissNomer
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Thanks. BTW, my apologies for pinging you on that other thread. My error.


25 posted on 11/06/2014 10:30:28 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Colofornian
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...

26 posted on 11/06/2014 10:34:49 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Only because they intend to flood the country with foreigners, not because people are failing to reproduce.


27 posted on 11/06/2014 10:44:11 AM PST by The Toll
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