THE LEFT IS TIRED OF PERSUASION

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | March 2, 2015 | JOHN HAYWARD

[Bratch]

“Is Liberalism Exhausted?” Jonah Goldberg wondered recently at National Review, surveying a movement that seems to have run out of intellectual gas after six years of dragging Barack Obama uphill.

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All true, but to quote Obama’s presumptive successor on the Democrat ticket in 2016: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

It’s true that liberalism doesn't have anything exciting and new to offer – even its plans for the Internet are drawn from 1930s telephone legislation – but the only thing the Left is really tired of is selling its ideas to skeptics. It’s largely given up on that effort in exchange for the use of force to impose its ideals. A good deal of this compulsion happens automatically, as the State grows relentlessly larger, and the sphere of private action correspondingly dwindles.

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I would argue that while opinion seems to have shifted rightward, the window of possible action has moved firmly to the Left, in accordance with Obama’s design. Resistance to the leftward pull has been largely rhetorical. How else to describe the 2014 midterm elections, which appear to have done virtually nothing to break the Democrats’ lock on power in Washington?

Obama’s response to that midterm drubbing was, in essence, to tell the uppity tax serfs that their pitiful little electoral temper tantrum didn’t matter, because he was going to plow ahead with doing what he thought best for the truly important constituency of people who don’t – or can’t – vote. Four months on, the Republican leadership has largely vindicated his attitude.

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[Bratch]

[Steely Tom]

Now it's time for compulsion.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Right on schedule, the tyrants are tiring of using the carrot and are more willing to bring out the stick - and they will.

 

 

[txhurl]

That’s why the left is terrified of Net’s speech tomorrow: he’s going to break the fight-or-flight paralysis zero and co. have the American people, and most of Congress trapped into.