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America Isn't Growing More Liberal; It's Growing More Polarized
National Review ^ | 12/29/2015 | David French

Posted on 12/29/2015 5:48:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Hard to look at the rapid acceptance of gay marriage and argue that the country has not become more liberal.


41 posted on 12/29/2015 7:33:30 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Shadow44
The left is dying out...

Sadly, no.

42 posted on 12/29/2015 7:50:51 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: BroJoeK
The simple truth is, the real facts are: the Right has not moved, not now, not ever. Indeed, that's why we are called "conservatives" because above all, we wish to conserve what is the best from our inherited legacy, i.e., the Bible, the Constitution.

Well stated!

43 posted on 12/29/2015 7:52:21 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama got elected. Twice.

Gay ‘marriage’ is legal in every state. 20somethings are backing Bernie.

The liberals have just ‘pushed the middle’ position to the left. You’re now a ‘right wing radical’ if you’re for traditional marriage and capitalism.


44 posted on 12/29/2015 7:54:00 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Daveinyork
The right is not moving more right. It’s just that the left is moving so far left that the distance between the two is increasing.

Most agree though the right is also moving left in that it isn't putting a stop to liberal foolishness as it once would have. The right is becoming too tolerant. All this globull warming, gay marriage and gun control carp wouldn't have been on the radar a few years ago.

45 posted on 12/29/2015 8:06:36 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Failed gun-control measures have given way to increasingly extremist rhetoric about confiscation...”

Failed gun-control measures combined with harsh confiscation rhetoric have also resulted in skyrocketing sales of guns and ammo across the nation. Bammie letting in hordes of Muslim invaders is spurring gun sales even more.

If he wants jackbooted thugs to start banging on doors, Bammie will have to declare martial law

Molon labe!


46 posted on 12/29/2015 8:10:29 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: TigerClaws
The liberals have just 'pushed the middle' position to the left. You're now a 'right wing radical' if you're for traditional marriage and capitalism.

And you are a racist if you expect black people to act civilized.

47 posted on 12/29/2015 9:53:10 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Look at the case this weekend. Black kid with fake gun that looks real. Points it at people and then the cops when they arrive. Blacks are angry cop wasn’t indicted.

So cops are just supposed to wait until blacks kill them before they do anything? Insanity.

We’re getting to the 3rd and 4th generation of the ‘War on Poverty’ crowd and what we get is angry, violent, bastard generation that’ll cost us hundreds of billions to house in prisons.


48 posted on 12/29/2015 10:29:56 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: jimmyray; libertylover
Thanks, FRiends

:'-)

49 posted on 12/29/2015 11:04:42 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Axeslinger

why bother invading. Even Iran said our debt will kill us

Khrushchev was right, just about 50 years too early, and we’re doing it without the USSR around anymore.


50 posted on 12/29/2015 12:21:15 PM PST by dp0622 (i)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

RE: Hard to look at the rapid acceptance of gay marriage and argue that the country has not become more liberal.

If gay marriage came as a result of REFERENDUMS everywhere, the case for the country going more liberal would have been made.

But it was decided by 5 people in black robes, not the people. Therefore, the case is NOT MADE.


51 posted on 12/29/2015 1:47:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: chrisser

Your probably right about that, although its worth noting that our strength in no small part comes to our activity as voters.

The left rely heavily upon their domination in areas of Public and private education and media to sway a lackluster public that pays limited attention and votes only in ‘major’ elections.

We dominate in the minor & low turn out elections.

What is unclear is how many of them would continue to vote for liberals if they really started to pay attention. Polarization seems to suggest they would stick to their side no matter how much its killing them and their country.

Playing on Trump’s liberal past may be a good General election tactic to sway some of the ill-informed democrats to join our side the same way he did.

In the end however your right, liberalism is not content to allow people to live as they choose, as they have justified their vastly powerful governments punitive role in commanding every aspect of people’s money and life on the basis of correcting supposed evils that they feel everyone should have a right to not endure regardless of the fact that they exist as a product of nature not man, and that ‘correcting them’(they rarely ever do) under their leader’s plans involves creating still other more dangerous evil’s upon the entire of the population.

The left’s Objection to letting Tennessee be Tennessee, is thus largely directed by their leaders who recognize that their solution’s actually create circumstances in their State far worse than the ‘evil’ they supposedly corrected.

This basic reality is then blamed upon the ‘hard workers’ IE industry that leaves for freer pastures. Instead of staying there as slave labor for their ‘solution’ to supposed social issues.

This is of course untrue, as their state’s natural resources as vast as any gives them a base level of potential industry provided they don’t drive that industry completely out of business by making it impossible to work. The people will buy what is cheapest and work for whom ever pays the best. Unfortunately for them under socialism that is always in anther country that embraces more economic freedom.

The alternative is the people simply become slaves, traped within their states to labor in whatever relatively low paying job can be made available under the rules of the state’s socialist system paying whatever high priced Good is legal to buy under the same rules of the same socialist state. Thus people would always have less if they could not work and buy in freer countries.


52 posted on 12/29/2015 6:12:54 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


53 posted on 12/30/2015 10:24:59 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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