Posted on 02/16/2020 2:49:25 PM PST by karpov
World War I.
Lol, that’s awesome!
I sent that to my kids in college.
Consider this. The Left has rejected our Creator. The Left rejects the nuclear family. My guess is that if statistics could removed from secrecy it would show that the Left’s birth rate is negative. On top of that, the Left aborts before a live birth.
On the other hand, I would posit that the Conservative birth rate is at least slightly above zero with abortion being less prevalent.
What is left for the Left? They must cobble together all the remaining groups that would have heretofore simply been marginalized by normal society. The Left simply must give these fringe groups status to keep them as a voting bloc. Additionally, the Left must import illegal immigrants, again, all this is because the Left’s birth rate is negative versus a positive birth rate for Conservatives.
The point is, this is how we have gotten here. This is how all the fringe groups have become so politically powerful. The Left needs these marginalized groups, and the media, Hollywood, and acidemia therefore have pandered to these groups to try and keep their power. The Left has now devolved into a loose confederation of fringe groups, no matter how utterly kooky they are. Absent mass immigration, I do not see how the Democrat Party continues much longer as a national Party. Sure they will win some local elections using enough camouflage, but nationally they are toast unless they find some unique, blank-slate Obama type with no records. That will be hard to replicate.
Biden wasn’t even really running as a moderate candidate. If you look at his policy page, it’s one of the most extreme Left platforms.
His whole campaign is incoherent, he’s banking on Working Class Whites to feel a connection for him, even though he’s doing nothing but repudiating every policy decision he ever took that angers the irate SJW left.
The working class isn’t going to think highly of “Lunch-pail Joe” apologizing for the 1994 Crime Bill by saying it was motivated purely out of white supremacy.
Don't get me wrong. We should assume NOTHING. But the Democrats appear to be all over the map with no unity in sight.
I’m pretty sure they did polling and it came out that 47% of Bernie supporters would not unconditionally support the Democrat nominee if it wasn’t Sanders.
A lot of “Berniebros” are already sour on the DNC, and if they steal the nomination from Sanders a second time they’re going to bolt for good.
I respectfully disagree. The impeachment fiasco was to prevent a full mutiny by the hard left who are not going away inside the 'Rat party. The Bolshevik millennials are ascendant while any who may have voted for JFK or Hubert Humphrey are dying off or already voting R. This current cycle is an ego-stroke, money raising/laundering exercise to position for 2024. They'll not moderate but stick to the plan of having the government schools deliver an electorate dumbed-down, and doped-up enough to vote for their utopia.
Yep, Nancy was almost deposed from leadership for not being radical enough. The DNC has gaslit their base and they lost control of them. It turns out that their “coalition of ascendant” squad memebers like Ilhan Omar aren’t going to just sit back and be tokens while the party leadership remains in the hands of Octogenarians.
They can’t do anything but double down at this point.
The reason the democrat field looks the way it does this year is 100% due to President Trump. For all the accusations of him being an “authoritarian,” a right winger, far right, etc, he is for the most part governing as centrist. I view him as more of a JFK era democrat. Democrats can’t move to the center, because that’s where President Trump is sitting. This was their own fault, constantly demonizing everything he said and did for three years. Now they have nowhere to go but the far left, and lose.
If the Republicans can shake being the stupid party this could be parlayed into an enduring advantage, I’m not hopeful.
("Oh, he's no conservative") He's more of a conservative Republican than any GOPer I've ever seen... He's doing all the things those spineless wimps always talked about but never did.
I used to vote for a DLC Democrat named... Bill Clinton.
I liked his centrist take on the issues. Such Democrats have disappeared.
And socialism? It ain’t my cup of tea.
Their political diversity is limited.
As a film critic once said “Her acting talent runs the full gamut from A all the way to B.”
Well maybe the RINOs....unless they're total RATs.
Your theory is reasonable, especially when you consider Bernie’s age (he won’t be causing trouble by 2014), AOC’s incursion (sponsoring far left candidates to primary sitting Dems), and the long-time Democrat objective of dragging the country slowly to the left, rather than all at once.
If they lose badly, AOC’s name will be dirt, Bernie will be gone, and “moderation” can return to the Democrat Party again, i.e., the ability to disguise their intentions to drag the country left, one small step at a time.
But the NeverTrumpers are having nothing of it. Instead, they’re positioning Klobuchar to be the eventual candidate, hoping she can be the one who gathers the 60% of the votes that Bernie isn’t destined to ever get in the Dem primaries. And, frankly, she scares me. A few mis-steps by Trump over the next few months and she could corral the suburban women vote that Trump seems to have put up for grabs with his tweetstorms. Just my two cents.
Sorry...Bernie...2024, not 2014
Her voice and nose don't help much either.
Sorry but I don’t agree in the least.. Nancy was adamant no impeachment until UKraine came up.. they have claimed he’s broken every law there is since he was inaugurated. Before then in fact but it wasn’t until Ykraine showed up that thr 180 happened.
Why? Because UKraine taints Biden, not Trump. How many times was Biden mentioned by the house managers during thr inpeachment? They repeated Burisma and Biden ad nauseum. Before the staged impeachment only the most die hard politicos could have named hunter Biden let alon his connection with Burisma.
Everything thr Dems are doing is to throw 2020 and knee cap the left wing of their party.. absolute rope a dope in order to moderate in 2024 when they have a shot at winning.
As I said if you were a democrat and you were tasked with making sure you lose this falls election by thr biggest margin possible, tell me one thing, just one thing you would do differently than what the democrats have been doing.
WWI spread Spanish Flu, which killed more Americans than WWI, WWII, AND the wars in VN, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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