Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

When Republicans Win, Politics Are 'Dysfunctional'
Townhall.com ^ | November 11, 2014 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 11/11/2014 3:15:32 PM PST by right-wing agnostic

Since the Bolsheviks inaugurated the first edition of their party newspaper Pravda (the Russian word for truth), the left has shaped truth to serve its goals. On an individual level, there are plenty of progressives who are honest and plenty of conservatives who aren't. But truth is just not a left-wing value -- feminism, environmentalism, material equality, and fighting racism, sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia are far more important.

The myriad falsehood-based hysterias unleashed by the left in our country -- the alleged heterosexual AIDS epidemic in America, the number of homeless people, the number of deaths from anorexia, the current charges of a "war on women" in our society and of a "culture of rape" on American college campuses, the immediate assertion that the killing of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri was caused by racist police -- testify to the left's cavalier attitude toward truth.

The latest shaping of truth is almost funny because the left's claims are so transparently self-serving. Since last Tuesday's elections, commentator after commentator on the left has declared American politics "dysfunctional." When Democrats win by a landslide, the left regards the vote as testimony to the great message of the left and the good sense of the American people. Only when Republicans win by a landslide does the vote reflect dysfunction.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; dysfunctional; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; politics; republicans
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

1 posted on 11/11/2014 3:15:32 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic

Treb ye mon Sondra.


2 posted on 11/11/2014 3:18:10 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic
On an individual level, there are plenty of progressives who are honest and plenty of conservatives who aren’t …
No, not on either an individual level or mass level. Being a progressive means to be a denier of truth by definition, and if a self-professed conservative is not honest, then that person is not a conservative.
3 posted on 11/11/2014 3:20:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
if a self-professed conservative is not honest,

He's telling the truth!

4 posted on 11/11/2014 3:22:01 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic

Yup- and if you remember when John Roberts sold out in favor of the obamacare individual mandate somehow he “saved the supreme court”. Effing hypocrites.


5 posted on 11/11/2014 3:24:10 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Pain to pleasure ... They believe you when you are dead (LOL)! But in looking through ... It is never the same!


6 posted on 11/11/2014 3:24:13 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: God luvs America

It disappears overnight ...


7 posted on 11/11/2014 3:25:09 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

There are places God Remembers .... May God Remember America!


8 posted on 11/11/2014 3:26:58 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic

May the gift be Remembered. It was God’s Gift.


9 posted on 11/11/2014 3:29:16 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: no-to-illegals

Who’s telling the truth?


10 posted on 11/11/2014 3:30:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Conservatives!!!!


11 posted on 11/11/2014 3:33:52 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

and May God Remember Free Republic!


12 posted on 11/11/2014 3:36:16 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: FReepers

Come on FReeers ... This is the night before!!! Bump the FReepathon!!!


13 posted on 11/11/2014 3:40:52 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

If Free Republic is gone ... can you go on?


14 posted on 11/11/2014 3:42:22 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

Gather round ... Don’t Hide Your Love Away ... Make a Difference!!!


15 posted on 11/11/2014 3:43:59 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic

When Republicans win, it means the left won the argument and it’s a victory for Hillary.


16 posted on 11/11/2014 3:45:43 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ari-freedom

{{HUGS}} ... you have figured this out ... LOL ... am going to have fun losing this hillary


17 posted on 11/11/2014 3:50:00 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: right-wing agnostic

“Tim Storey, the bipartisan group’s election analyst, observed, “Democrats will control the lowest number of state legislatures since 1860.””

Do you think it’s fair to say “...the lowest number of state legislatures since 1860, when the Democrats were so recently repudiated by the Republicans (like Lincoln) for their fervent fight to continue slavery in the South.”

Or is that going to far?


18 posted on 11/11/2014 3:55:25 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

They promised they were going to put me in movies ... LOL ... They lied but I’m the biggest fool that ever hit Free Republic! Yep, I acted naturally. I play the part so well.


19 posted on 11/11/2014 3:56:04 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Pritchett

Butterflies! Is that right?


20 posted on 11/11/2014 3:57:28 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson