Posted on 12/04/2016 6:25:29 AM PST by Kaslin
The American left elected Donald Trump. They've been voting for him for decades, and at last they've succeeded. If the left's post-election behavior is any indication, they intend to keep doing so.
I write metaphorically, of course. Few leftists actually voted for Trump, but as sure as the sunrise, they elected him. The fact is hardly debatable, as principled leftists like Noam Chomsky, Joan Williams, and Chris Hedges have said.
Here's one example of the process in action: shortly before Election Day in 2000, polls had Green Party candidate Ralph Nader garnering 5%-9% of the popular vote. He got 2.7%. Where did all those votes go? They went to Democratic nominee Al Gore. Liberals who said they were voting Green succumbed to the "lesser of two evils" argument. They didn't like Gore, but they voted for him because, in that year's timeless phrase, "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush."
Democratic strategists knew they would. The idea that blacks and liberals can be counted on to vote Democratic, irrespective of the actual candidate, has made up the core of the party's strategy since its takeover by the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985.
Back then, Democrats were taking a beating by the GOP because the party was seen to be too liberal, too soft on crime, and insufficiently bellicose. So the DLC moved the party to the right on those issues, secure in the belief that liberal (and black) voters had no choice but to vote Democratic. Bill Clinton's election in 1992 proved the DLC right. Even as Clinton signed NAFTA and the most draconian crime bill in recent memory, and slashed welfare benefits for the poor, leftists marched zombie-like to the polls, pulled the Democratic lever, and celebrated the resulting "victory."
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And all this time I thought the hard working Americans in the mid-west and south who came through with resounding numbers to support Trump, that did the job.
The article is a little difficult to understand.
The author seems to be saying that the Democrats lost because they did not go far enough *left*.
He seems to think the Tea Party is a marginal group.
I think he is wrong on both counts.
Put Keith Ellison in charge of the DNC, that’s all I really want for Christmas.
The left still doesn’t realize that Soros funded Black Lives Matter riots and murdered police officers rallied more Trump voters to the polls than it did black voters for Hillary.
IMHO, BLM caused “grass roots” Americans to realize that if Hillary Clinton was elected, our country would become just another “Banana Republic.” Yes, BLM was campaigning for Trump, but were too stupid to understand how their blatant lawlessness was waking up the American people to what needed to be done to save our country before it was too late.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? BallRoom dancing and midnight basketball is draconian? The assault weapons ban, yes - that's full fascist, but the crime bill Clinton signed was a liberal Christmas tree full of nonsensical crap like the above.
The author is right. The Democrat Party needs to get back in touch with their roots, and go loud and proud, hard left. Most of the nutroots at DU thinks this, and I want to encourage them every chance we get. Harder left is what will get you back into office every time. But only if you are open and honest about it.
/ sarc, in case it's needed, but don't tell the liberals that I don't really mean it.
It actually supports your view of the bill. But, I think it accurately characterizes why the left hates it. It's mostly about perception, not fact.
The Democrat Party needs to get back in touch with their roots, and go loud and proud, hard left.
LOL, I've posted a variation on this several times. I actually think that's what the Democrats are going to do: double-down on progressive politics, thinking it will get them elected.
The only way it will succeed: the economy tanks in the next four years -- which may happen, despite Trump's best efforts. It's been artificially propped up for so long that I don't know if a soft landing is possible.
The other possibility is a major scandal in the Trump administration. The leftist press will be on the lookout for anything they can scream about every night. Something like "Fast and Furious" could be fatal, if it's not a Democrat.
Abortion for the anti-Christian hate-filled..
Race for the anti-white hated-filled.
Socialist-Communism for the anti-capitalist hate-filled bureaucrats and unions.
Crony capitalism for their hate-filled donors.
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