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The Imploding Leftist Establishment
Townhall.com ^ | September 17, 2016 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 09/17/2016 4:41:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

Leftism has been on life support for fifty years. The Republican landslide in the 1966 midterm election was recognized by everyone at the time as a massive rejection of the agenda and the politics of the left.

The reasons were clear. The War on Poverty produced race riots and idiocies like "Welfare Strikes." Having achieved civil rights, militant blacks were now demanding "Black Power." Affirmative action was so clearly discrimination that there were few serious minds who could coherently defend this vile incarnation of state-mandated bigotry.

The left's approach to foreign threats was precisely as it is today: put in our brave men in harm's way with no discernible purpose other than to make Washington bosses look good; reject waging war to win and instead muddle from failure to failure hoping not to win or to lose; reduce defense spending so that in any future conflict, instead of spending treasure, we would spend blood.

Beginning in 1968, Democrats began calling themselves "Progressives" and scrupulously avoided the term "Liberal." As I have noted often, self-defined "conservatives" dramatically outnumber self-defined "liberals," but less known is that even in the aftermath of Goldwater's defeat, when smug leftists insisted that conservatism was dead, ordinary Americans called themselves "conservative" by a two-to-one margin over "liberal."

The left was sustained not by the quality of its politicians. Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton are such dull minds and slow wits that the worst Republican nominee in the last five decades looks brilliant and wise by comparison.

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To: Kaslin

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21 posted on 09/17/2016 6:05:40 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Kaslin
The guy should have done his research better, or maybe defined what he means as "the Left."

On the one hand, there's no doubt that the last 50 years have seen social destruction in this country that is largely driven by leftist politics.

On the other hand, we've gotten to the point where Democratic candidates are pushed by Wall Street because they sell out so easily. Liberals don't like to remember that most of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" was actually signed into law -- by Bill Clinton.

22 posted on 09/17/2016 6:12:17 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Kaslin
Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton are such dull minds and slow wits that the worst Republican nominee in the last five decades looks brilliant and wise by comparison.

The worst Republican nominee of the last five decades was Mitt Romney, who somehow found a way to lose to an unpopular president who governed against the will of the American psople and presided over a bad economy. The next worse nominees were McCain, Dole, Ford and the Bushes.

23 posted on 09/17/2016 6:19:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Kaslin

“Leftism has been on life support for fifty years.”

B.S.
It’s gotten so far that it’s becoming illegal to keep men out of women’s bathrooms.
Conservatism has never been so in danger from the Left becoming totalitarian about reversing all values.


24 posted on 09/17/2016 6:26:25 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Kaslin

Liberalism, like Islam, is of satanic origin. That’s why they both love death, etc. That’s why liberals hate Jesus Christ and cannot bring themselves to NAME islamic terrorism, let alone CONDEMN it.


25 posted on 09/17/2016 6:31:59 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Will88

Blacks will be eliminated first. Everyone else sees it but them!


26 posted on 09/17/2016 6:37:09 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: bert

They’ll be with us until the devil is locked up, Revelation 20:3 and context, and Christ sets up his thousand-year reign here on Earth.


27 posted on 09/17/2016 6:40:41 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Blacks will be eliminated first. Everyone else sees it but them!

In a political sense, they've already been eliminated as the nation's largest minority, and they will become less and less influential if current trends continue. I've heard individual blacks express concern about that, but their 'leaders' seem oblivious to it while they seek short term alliances with other minorities.

28 posted on 09/17/2016 6:42:23 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Kaslin

“Leftism has been on life support for fifty years.”

Don’t we wish. Maybe the next 50?


29 posted on 09/17/2016 6:43:34 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Ted Grant

My thoughts exactly. The only thing on life support is Traditional American Values.


30 posted on 09/17/2016 6:47:13 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: Kaslin

Leftism/progressive has totally hijacked our country in the last 50 years. Where has this moron been?


31 posted on 09/17/2016 6:49:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Is this guy on peyote?


32 posted on 09/17/2016 6:53:12 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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To: i_robot73
Life Support? Refutation? I want whatever the author is smoking, imbibing!

Man on the street 95% of the time couldn’t tell you our form of govt, or the 3 branches of govt. Let alone the (R), being the small govt types that they say they are, recently gave us the DHS, NSA, TSA and the largest expansion of Medi-X in recent history (can’t forget the open checkbook for Zero too).

Dude is delusional on all fronts


Yeah. The author gives your average, dupe on the street, way too much credit. Your current crop of college ...graduates, (LOL!!) over the last ten years, are just not all that bright and little more than angry infants; now looking for someone else to be Mommy and Daddy.
33 posted on 09/17/2016 7:08:21 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: SkyPilot

You are correct, of course. Christ is the only Hope.

That said, we do not know that we are in, or near, the End Times.

It is our duty as Americans, as Christians, and as men, to do what we can to defeat the spawn of Satan that is liberalism as represented by Hillary.

The victory is in Christ.


34 posted on 09/17/2016 7:45:37 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: arthurus
The Left cannot be defunded without massive and total deconstruction of the Agencies and total separation of government from education and medicine.

Probably right. But we can make a serious dent. For instance, the DOJ is funding La Raza. What the FReep!

35 posted on 09/17/2016 7:55:33 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Kaslin
The title is correct but the content is wrong. How about this?:

The LSM is a shadow of its former Self, because, due to the alternative media telling the truth, they have lost most of their viewers and are no longer able to convince their remaining viewers to think like they do. Lies just become so apparent when contrasted with the truth.

The #NeverTrumpers are a combo of LSM, Big Government and Military-Industrial complex, but I repeat myself. That's been made abundantly clear recently thanks to Donald J. Trump.

The Education establishment is on the ropes, since last year when the inmates (students) took over the asylum. Safe spaces, freaking out at Halloween costumes, etc have caused them to lose endowment and students and any stitch of credibility they had with normal people and even some liberals. The only good part is seeing the liberal professors faces when faced with verbal attacks from their students for not being liberal enough.

36 posted on 09/17/2016 8:09:04 AM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: Ted Grant

This is absurd. Liberals have won every presidential election since Bush 1, with the exception of 2000 and 2004. Their courts overrule our ballots routinely. They flaunt the law and dispense favors. Their people live like monarchs and drain us of our wages. They control thought and speech through political correctness.

That’s winning? Rush Limbaugh said that in 1993. It was stupid then and insane now.


37 posted on 09/17/2016 8:09:29 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

Well, not only that, but the GOP in presidential elections has only won the popular vote once since 1988.

That’s why I find GOP Inc boosters particularly maddening. They stick to the 1988 campaign book, continue to lose, and somehow think minor changes here and there will reverse the trend.

It’s crazy.


38 posted on 09/17/2016 8:13:35 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Kaslin

Tons of bureaucrats that will have to be fired.


39 posted on 09/17/2016 8:26:50 AM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Kaslin

Stakes must be driven through their hearts.


40 posted on 09/17/2016 8:39:46 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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