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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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.
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IMO, I’m not so sure if it’s more of a perceived injustice (shape\matter\form). Just my $.02, but I think we’ll be seeing a tete-a-tete of young vs. retired when they start realizing the tax burden the GOVT is imposing upon them for the Ponzi schemes promised (and rightfully so).
Unfort., the ‘everyone in college’ thinking just = more govt indoctrination. Real life is going to bring that into focus RIGHT QUICK.
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