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An awakening: conservatives vs. progressives
American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2022 | Patricia McCarthy

Posted on 05/16/2022 4:16:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber

George C. Leef has written a wonderful, definitive book that lays out the difference between self-identified progressives and conservatives. The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, A Political Fable for Our Time is a fictionalized narrative about a Washington Post journalist -- a progressive leftist, of course -- who is chosen to write an official biography of the first woman president, Patricia Farnsworth. The facts of this woman’s eight years in office are essentially the Obama/Biden two terms in all but name. Their destructive policies, briefly interrupted by the successful presidency of Donald Trump, are all in play again. The Supreme Court has been packed. Offending statues have been duly destroyed. Riots and protests are endemic, often staged for political purposes. Opponents of the left have been virtually silenced. The book feels like it was written in just the past few weeks, so accurate are the devasting consequences of progressive policies Americans are enduring under Biden.

Van Arsdale is at first thrilled at the opportunity to write about the woman she has long considered heroic. She has written numerous columns celebrating Farnsworth’s policies implemented to transform America without regard for the Constitution. Both women pride themselves on their successful gambits that have destroyed opponents and won elections. Farnsworth even brags about having ballots ready to submit if needed. Arsdale is selected because she is particularly skilled at constructing progressive narratives to go with any event, policy, or disaster without letting facts get in her way. She has fully embraced the dictates of gender and identity politics. She knows how to slant any story, how to obscure inconvenient facts in order to make any column suitably progressive. As a lover of classical music, she attends concerts in disguise because among her friends and colleagues’ classical music is “problematic” since most composers were..,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: freeenterprise

1 posted on 05/16/2022 4:16:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If the left can’t see the difference right now then they will never break out of their false reality.


2 posted on 05/16/2022 4:16:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Conservative used to be smeared as conserving wealth, privilege, outdated habits that endanger the environment, military industrial complex, racial advantage.

Now it is clear that many, many more Americans understand that Conservative means conserving the Country, starting with its Constitution, liberties of movement, health choices, privacy, family/parent responsibilities, faith way of life, and local control, voting.

Even brainwashed liberals can discover these treasures we have at one or another time in their lives.


3 posted on 05/16/2022 5:20:11 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: MtnClimber

Wasted effort. The Libs do not read, and most of them probably can’t.


4 posted on 05/16/2022 6:11:16 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: epluribus_2

Enshrined in a Tweet, “From a Friend”.

https://twitter.com/David_H_Baker/status/1526204305631498245?s=20&t=QY5IY4vratCeh2hIGoo4tg


5 posted on 05/16/2022 7:15:46 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: MtnClimber

Progressives = Note Blue state Blues

Arsonists find a party they like


6 posted on 05/16/2022 8:28:12 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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