Posted on 06/13/2017 11:55:35 AM PDT by Mafe
Both victory and defeat have been radicalizing experiences for the Democratic party during this century. Democrats moved left after losing to George W. Bush; they moved farther left after winning with Barack Obama; and now they seem to be moving farther left still under President Donald Trump.
The cumulative effect of all this movement has been to put the party well to the left of where it was during Bill Clinton’s administration. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign felt it necessary to disavow many of her husband’s old stances, and some of her own. President Clinton signed a tough-on-crime bill; Hillary Clinton said it had gone too far. Bill Clinton appointed a commission that recommended a reduction in legal immigration, and briefly endorsed that recommendation. Hillary Clinton campaigned against “large-scale raids and roundups” of illegal immigrants and vowed to bring back some of those who had been deported.
Bill Clinton supported free trade, fighting to get the North American Free Trade Agreement approved. Hillary Clinton repudiated the big trade agreement up for discussion in 2016, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Leading Democrats, including Bill Clinton, seemed open to paring back the growth of entitlement programs in the 1990s. Last year, Hillary Clinton campaigned on an across-the-board increase of Social Security benefits.
The Democratic party’s liberalism became more pronounced on social issues, too. Bill Clinton said abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare”; by 2016 the Democratic platform no longer called for making abortion “rare” but did call explicitly for federal funding of abortion for low-income women. Bill Clinton signed legislation codifying marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal law. Hillary Clinton came out for same-sex marriage in 2013.
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Just hoping there’s a cliff off to the left
They shoulfd just march on over to Venezuela.
ROFL!! The joke I was trying to make!! Couldn’t think of one. Thanks :)
Honestly, this isn’t even communism. I recall that communists were tough on gays and transgender probably wouldn’t have gone over too well either. Not saying that was a GOOD point about communism! Just pointing out the differences.
This is a neo leftist orgy of the worst of humanity in every category possible.
Some dumb #### kids during the election used either Cuba or Venezuela as a place where socialism is doing great.
That’s why my friend said in Cuba you have to bring EVERYTHING to the hospital..linens, cleaning supplies and sometimes MEDS!! He was born there.
That is their response to everything, good bad or indifferent - Go More Left.
McCauliff said even said so once when he was Chairman of the DNC. They lost the 2004 Presidency, House and Senate because, “They didn’t go Left enough!”.......................
The Republicans Globalist march.
Ponnuru says it’s “nutty” to doubt that Obama was born in the U.S. Since Obama’s “birth certificate” has been PROVEN to be a forgery, there is ample reason for doubts.
What swipes like this really prove is that National Review is a corrupt megaphone for the globalist uniparty.
No, it’s a downward march—into the depths of depravity.
Yes....it is part of the Hegelian Dialectic. The sodomite Marxists got total control of the Democrats by the 90s and have large control over the Republicans. Totally bribed judges or Marxists on the courts and head of all ivy universities for complete brainwashing of our children who will be in “politics”.
Many of the so-called “Right” wing papers (and like Fox News) are just a front—to move the Overton Window. They need to control both the Right and the Left for Mind Control of the masses (to control the narrative is to control the beliefs). The “right” is a controlled distraction and a release valve-—so revolution wouldn’t occur-—anger can be released with talk radio but nothing ever “progresses” in the right direction. We got something as satanic, irrational and evil as sodomite marriage with “talk radio” and National Review, etc., after all.
Flipping 2000 years of Ethics to satanism in a “Just Law”——ha ha......Anyone who promotes evil behaviors like sodomy and glorifies and normalizes the islamic behaviors to our children are destroying our founding Chrsitain Ethics—the basis of Objective Truth, Natural Law and our whole legal system. Sodomy and baby-killing “rights” removes Reason and Virtue from Just Law (Justice is the Queen of Virtue-—ha ha).
Now, Satanism is the religion being forced into our schools with “homosexual” “rights” and baby-killing “rights”which come only from satan—never from God. The Left have thrown our our Justice System for a Vice System which will collapse and destroy our civilization (purpose of the Marxists). Our Constitution only promotes Natural Rights from God—the Creator-—never rights from the Father of Lies (satan.)
The battle for our civilization us now. It is upon us. If the left wins we are doomed to an age of horrors beyond anything in the past.
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