Posted on 12/05/2016 1:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin
Experience is the best teacher – or so says the conventional wisdom. In practice, the most common lesson is that too many folks never learn – especially those encumbered by ideology. Or as a philosopher might put it, "what we learn from history is that no one learns from history." Worse still, those who cannot, or will not, learn are prone to repeat mindless behaviors. Call it tone-deaf. Better still, call it political autism.
Alas, while Western culture swirls in the crapper, Brussels and Washington political elites still insist on flushing.
Social democracies are probative. In Europe, the left learned little from the implosion of social globalism; learned nothing from the Islamic jihad; learned nothing from "humanitarian" interventions; learned nothing from the Muslim immigrant tsunami; learned little from the Brexit; and more recently, seem to have learned nothing from the election of Donald Trump.
In America, the Democratic Party is now the institutional face of political learning disabilities. We say "democrat" because the American left has lost touch with most things "democratic." The fix was in for Hillary's coronation, the fix was in with "super delegates," and then the fix was again in, with near universal media collaboration, for the general election. Cooked or "crooked" books are now perennial dishes on the au gauche buffet.
The lumpen proletariat, those now infamous "deplorables," would have none of it. The wisdom of crowds foiled the fixers and elected an outsider in 2016.
Premature as it may be to compare the Trump revolution to the Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt eras, if eccentricity and policy tremors are markers, stand by for earthquakes.
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I think they wish the rest of us dead, but such an attitude tends to backfire.
They’re seriously getting ready to put Keith Ellison in charge.
Case Closed.
They are sick people. Very sick. They have diseased minds.
Like this is a bad thing? I volunteer them self-immolate. Go Keith!
He lost me at lumpen proletariat. I’m college educated, live in one of those elitist cities and northeast strongholds, pay high taxes and am not on the dole. I’ll have none of it because I have something the left doesn’t have: common sense and a knowledge of history.
Like this is a bad thing? I volunteer to help them self-immolate. Go Keith!
I am not so sure about that.
Have you thought of moving to the “real” America? You’d save a ton of money too.
We think a lot about it. Unfortunately, my husband’s career these days are centered around NYC. He’s not happy about that either.
Their “sugar daddy” (taxpayers) jilted them...pre-empting them of multiplying their exploitative & manipulative ways... but once @ the over-bloated public trough, they know no other way.
Ditto! I was pulling for the dimwits to vote for Pelosi as their leader and they did! I say, keep doing what you’re doing and maybe we’ll see your pathetic evil party lose even more seats in 2018!
Only a commie or crazy brainwashed person could ever vote for a democRAT again.
I have to agree with you that I’m looking forward to Keith’s advancement.
It would be nice to have a loyal opposition but those days are long over so I’ll settle for the opposition committing suicide on national tv.
I wonder how Sanders would have done as the Democrat candidate, after all he did not campaign to elect the first woman.
I wish they had a death wish. But no, they will continue to fight and we need to remain vigilant. We won a great victory, getting Trump into office. But there are many battles yet to come.
May their wish come true.
The Demonicrats are worse than sick or diseased. The Demonicrats are lying murdering traitors. If justice is served, these people, especially their leaders, need to be indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced, and then hanged for promoting and participating in genocidal murder-by-abortion and for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Demonicrats are as evil as those that were hanged following their convictions at the Nuremberg Trials.
No, not Ellison! He would destroy the RNC.
Besides which, it's an older term and has been ditched by most, long ago.
Sanders is a tool/cardboard stand-in, so it would look like Hillary wasn't already anointed, which she was.
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