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The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America
The Atlantic ^ | 7 Jan, 2016 | MOLLY BALL

Posted on 01/09/2016 10:19:02 AM PST by MtnClimber

At a recent private dinner in Manhattan, a small group of leftists plotted to take over America.

The group, a dozen community organizers and activists from all over the country, had convened at a sushi restaurant in the Flatiron District with the leaders of the New York-based Working Families Party. They were heads of organizations from Boston to Albuquerque, with names like National People’s Action and Washington Community Action Network. And they were there to hear why their states should form their own chapters of the insurgent party, in order to capitalize on the country's rising liberal tide and push the national conversation leftward.

The party’s deputy director, Jon Green, a pale, bespectacled 42-year-old, made the pitch. "In 2010, we saw the Tea Party yank the entire political discourse way to the right," he said. The Tea Party was powerful, he said, because it was boldly ideological; it recruited and groomed candidates; and it created a strong national brand. "Our view is that there isn't anything analogous to that on the left, and there ought to be." Heads nodded around the table.

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftists

1 posted on 01/09/2016 10:19:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

They think they can finish 0bama’s job of transforming this country.


2 posted on 01/09/2016 10:19:58 AM PST 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

Left wing extremists cannot be honest about their agenda.

They sell Communism on the installment plan. First we install this and then that...


3 posted on 01/09/2016 10:21:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: MtnClimber
there isn't anything analogous to that on the left

Yes there is. It's called The Left.

4 posted on 01/09/2016 10:22:14 AM PST by IronJack
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To: MtnClimber

Been going on for a long, long time. Most of them are obozo’s butt buddies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ


5 posted on 01/09/2016 10:27:19 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: MtnClimber
What difference is there between the goals of this "party" and the Democrats? At least we know what ACORN has been up to of late.
6 posted on 01/09/2016 10:29:22 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re all candidates for the gallows, the firing squad or deportation to the workers paradise of our choice, not theirs.


7 posted on 01/09/2016 10:38:59 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MtnClimber

What rising liberal tide? The left suffered it’s worst defeat in the last election since the 1920’s.


8 posted on 01/09/2016 10:42:38 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Noumenon

Won’t happen.

But who knows? Maybe they’ll start having accidents.


9 posted on 01/09/2016 10:45:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It could happen.


10 posted on 01/09/2016 10:48:07 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MtnClimber
"The Pugnacious Traitorous, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America"
11 posted on 01/09/2016 10:51:45 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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“Rising liberal tide”

Yes.....of course.....just go and ask anyone if you can have half of everything they own.

Everyone is real liberal. That’s why the Democrats have to lie and deceive and obscure and threaten to get what they want.


12 posted on 01/09/2016 11:02:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: MtnClimber
"The Tea Party was powerful, he said, because it was boldly ideological; it recruited and groomed candidates; and it created a strong national brand."

Notice the lack of reference to the actual ideas themselves, and their relevance to the truth, or making the US better.

In way, the left are exactly the capitalists they claim to hate - what can we sell for how great a price no matter how worthless or poisonous - just so we are paid in power. And, of course, that supports the truism that whatever a lefty is accusing you of is exactly what they are doing, consciously or not.

One could ask a Liberal - "if you hate all these things, why are you always the one's caught actually doing them?" Abusing women, lying, holding down blacks, faking hate crimes, your own primary has a nothing-but-cracker roster and where you aren't anything-but-cracker it's by affirmative action. WIth Muslims -> At least the right actually shows Islam respect .. by paying attention to what Mo actual demanded and wrote, and treating Muslims as sincere practitioners/submitters to it. Saying 'you can't come into my country if you subscribe to that' is a show of respect that they are sincere, not oppression.

13 posted on 01/09/2016 11:13:27 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: MtnClimber

What happened to the coffee party?


14 posted on 01/09/2016 11:13:29 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: IronJack
Yes there is. It's called The Left.

It's actually a three-headed monster of academia, the entertainment industry, and the media. The Tea Party has been waging battle against the monster only for a few years. It will be a long battle.

15 posted on 01/09/2016 12:02:54 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: MtnClimber

I believe the WFP cross-endorsed Hillary in both of her Senate elections.


16 posted on 01/09/2016 12:31:22 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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