[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Not fast enough. Chow down, pigs !

[IAMNO1]

I agree with the author, but I think Hillary and the Democrats will utilize their usual ploy, disingenuity, so it doesn't matter what they really think or how far to the left they really are, they'll try (and succeed) at pulling the wool over the eyes of many of the voters.

Interesting article, but I learned in another story Fouad Ajami died a year ago tomorrow. I somehow missed that.

[onedoug]

Just the left, eh?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Hope they choke themselves to death. Too many evil people in our country anyway. Time to thin the herd, and if the herd wants to do it to themselves, I see no reason why we shouldn’t encourage it.

[bluejean]

“When the Native American Rachel Dolezal”

Okay, this self-identification thing has everyone confused....

That said, interesting thoughts, I’m just not sure that the Queen of the Dem Borg Nest isn’t in some way allowing all of this Sanders/Warren/Whomever to wear out the alternatives and the side-stories so her coronation path later on will be crystal clear. The Clintons are forever royal and entitled, after all. They play the game better than almost everyone. Except of course for the Obamas, who squat in a neighborhood they don’t belong in even better than the Clintons. With the Clintons, we had Bubba and trailer trash goofiness. With Zero, we have the actual dismantling of the USA.

Hillary, being the more diabolical (between Bubba and herself) will probably be much more dangerous in the once-honorable White House than Bubba was.

Amazes me that times have made it possible to say that, but here we are.

[oldbill]

Dream on!

The Left is winning, and not just because the public debate and knowledge flow comes from the monolithic liberal media, but also because the Republican leadership and elites just won’t fight back.

Remember, the Tea Party advocates, the only voice of opposition to the left, are not an organized political party, but a spontaneous grass roots consensus. It alone can’t beat the vast forces allied against it, ironically led by the Republican power brokers.

McConnell and Boehner ain’t punishing the Left (e.g., TPP, amnesty, spending, Obamacare, etc.) they’re punishing conservatives.

[nathanbedford]

When Obama couldn’t make anything work, he switched to loudly selective radicalism to turn out his base. It worked and it also created the unsustainable pursuit of radicalism for its own sake.

That explains a great deal of the otherwise unfathomable: Obama excited his base by appealing to their base instincts. These demagogic appeals were not limited to the African-Americans but extended to women, Latinos, homosexuals, college students etc. I don't believe he created the "unsustainable pursuit of radicalism", that is inherent in leftism but I do believe he extended it and democratized it for the mob. The left has seen how powerful a tool demagoguery is and they will be increasingly less restrained in resorting to it.

Why can't we appeal to our base by appealing not with demagoguery but with well-founded fears of loss of liberty, government tyranny, using the examples of Obamacare and the Environmental Protection Agency. Well-founded fears of economic insecurity can be quite properly aroused by referring to Obama's trade agreement. The conservative who can convincingly connect the dots between the national debt and the national trade imbalance with job insecurity can win the election.

The issues are there, the threat is real, we lack only a candidate who can find the words and the courage to utter them.

[Louis Foxwell]

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[MrB]

Comment - it’s impossible to be epistemologically consistent as a leftist/Humanist without the logical conclusion that you must kill yourself.

Most leftists borrow from the Christian value system while at the same time rejecting it.

[Interesting Times]

Ping. Let’s hope he’s right.

[Billthedrill]

The Left doesn't mind eating itself so long as it eats us first. In fact, as the author points out with regard to the French and Russian revolutions, it always does eat itself eventually anyway.

That's little comfort for the rest of the people they've led down the rose-strewn path to perdition. It took three-quarters of a century for the Russians finally to climb out from under, and then climb right back in again.

"The question is who is to be master, that is all," said Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through The Looking Glass, serving as a prototype for the Left everywhere. Words meant only what he intended them to, and served not as a means of communication but as a means of manipulation. After words, naked force. After naked force, Orwell's jackboot on a human face, forever.

Most Leftists who have given the matter any real intellectual effort will tell you they're after liberation, self-actualization (Marx practically invented the term), and the withering away of the State in favor of some proletarian hive mind. In practice this means they want to boss other people around and steal their stuff. The latter formulation is avoided not because of its inelegance but because of its accuracy.