she’s right. trump and Cruz are far left of GWB. /ridiculous s for a ridiculous comment
The left is dying out and only succeeds on sustaining its numbers by corrupting others children to believe in their garbage.
The Left needs the Right to pay for its programs. The Right doesn’t need the Left for anything. This should scare the Left. The fact that it does not, is the Right’s fault.
Interesting article.
I think the article is most correct at the end. The problem isn’t that we’re a nation going in different cultural directions. The problem is that Tennessee would be quite content to let New York be New York, but New York will not be content to let Tennessee be Tennessee. And that’s been our biggest problem for more than a century.
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. The right is digging in its heals, and is mad as hell and not taking it anymore. To the liberal media, that makes it look like we are moving right.
And that is the Big Lie, the great narrative deception practiced especially by the Left, but also by establishment Republicans.
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.
So we don't move (much), not now, not ever.
Only the Left constantly moves changing positions like clothing fashions, they move from opposition to "don't ask, don't tell" to mandatory acceptance of any deviancy you can imagine.
In the mean time, Conservatives are just where we've always been, trying to conserve both our religious values and our Constitution.
So don't let them tell you, "the right is moving further right", we're not moving anywhere.
It's the Left which is going berserk...
I agree with this article and one of just a few reasons why I desperately fear for the republic. Personally, I think if the current ideological divide were also easily geographically divided (a la 1860), we would already be shooting. The only thing preventing it now is that we are all so interspersed with each other.
I do know quite a few former lefties who have snapped out of their hypnotic stupor after being unable to find a job and seeing how high the Obamcare premiums have risen. I sincerely believe far more have moved right than left the past few years; its just that the leftist MSM has control of the viewable content that we see on our TV and computer screens for the moment.
A cultural and political divide this wide will only lead to the thing that always occurs...finally...bloodshed!
Socialism: Look at all of the beautiful places to live that you'll never be able to afford because the rich own them.
Capitalism: One day you may also be one of the rich.
The left leaves out the fact that in socialism you will be living in a "project" and will own nothing especially not a gun.
I agree about the polarization and see no way to reconcile it.
Obama has been the cause of much of the polarization in his efforts to “fundamentally transform America”.
Not true. The left is moving overboard left into full socialism, actively taking freedoms away left and right and the right has stayed the same and gotten pissed off. They are playing dangerous games with riling up blacks to hate and harm whites and cops,and importing islamic men and allowing South American gang enemies on to our soil, attacking Christian businesses, putting conservatives on homeland security watch list, playing with our military, implanting muslims in government, attacking conservatives with the IRS, importing 3rd world diseases and going for peoples guns letting Americans know they are getting dangerous.
The silent majority is not silent at the moment. I have heard more shocking political speech in just one month in the last year from people that never speak up, than I have heard in a whole life time before and it is just getting stronger and more bold as each month moves along. Polite society, social gatherings, sporting events and friends all beyond the normal family talk.....people are pissed and talking in ways not imaginable a year ago....some of it in shocking terms not heard in my lifetime of political correctness.
I do not know how many times the need for people to carry has been brought up this year or been told personally I need to carry and not by family members(that is beyond normal American behavior). Never in my life in public have strangers or acquaintances talked about the need to arm. It happens constantly now and that speech is growing stronger. There is a breaking point when two sides get so far apart and for the first time I think Americans are watching. I do not think we are anywhere near that point but I do think that they are paying attention now and the slow boil has begun.
A real conservative president is the smartest thing that the establishment could give America at this moment. I would not want to be in power if the leftist march continues at full pace.
I contend this is exactly what's happened. Liberals are not content to live their lives they way they feel is right. Instead, they must foist on those around them their progressive values because they're convinced they know better. It's the totalitarian wolf that ever lurks in the progressive sheepskin.
News flash for David French we are already there. Yesterday Mr gg2 and I were behind a lady in aldis who overheard us talking about our garden so she started chatting with us. We said we were soon moving to the mountains and she said she was too. Then she leaned in close and said we are terrified the republicans are going gto win. I leaned in and said we are terrified they won’t and smiled. That was pretty much the end of a beautiful friendship.
Hard to look at the rapid acceptance of gay marriage and argue that the country has not become more liberal.
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.
“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!
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