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Liberals Are in Trouble – and They Know It
American Thinker.com ^ | July 4, 2017 | John Horvat II

Posted on 07/04/2017 9:03:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Conservatives often complain about the lamentable state of their movement. They would do well to look left. Liberals are in greater trouble, and they know it.

The recent special elections for vacant House seats made this evident. The thrashing liberals received in the 2016 elections were also a sign of an inability to communicate their message. Gone are the days in which liberals worked inside a consensus and engaged in debate with others. Everywhere, liberal democracy seems to be endangered by the breakdown of political discourse.

This is due to a great crisis inside the left worldwide. It is no longer a movement of ideas. Liberals have no new ideas because they have adopted such an extreme relativism that they no longer strongly believe in anything. Everything is fluid and undefined. In this way, they have undermined their own foundation of logic and authority that is essential to the functioning of any political movement.

As a result, the old days of rational debate are over. The left exploits emotions and resentments, but can no longer be held to the logic of ideas.

The left also has little passion. Passion requires strong beliefs worth fighting for. To be effective, it must be focused and directed by vision. However, many liberals now admit that they have no vision. Their ranks are full of aging militants who lack dynamism. More often than not, its most ardent activists, like those of “the resistance” or Black Lives Matter engage in erratic and irrational behavior that alienates the population as a whole.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: liberalism
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To: Kaslin
RATS are the biggest disparate group of scumbags on the planet that wouldn't pizz on each other if they were on fire except on election day...
41 posted on 07/04/2017 10:37:51 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Kaslin
More often than not, its most ardent activists, like those of “the resistance” or Black Lives Matter engage in erratic and irrational behavior that alienates the population as a whole.

Looting, burning, murdering, raping, robbing, shooting at cops aren't "erratic" or "irrational" behaviors -- they're CRIMES and THAT is why the alt-left is destroying the Democrat Party.

The American public has now rightfully equated the Democrat Party with criminals. This is what you (Democrats) get when you embrace BLM.

You're getting what you deserve: Irrelevance.

42 posted on 07/04/2017 10:41:59 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Kaslin
Liberalism became Tyranny and Marxism, people have rejected it.
The GOP had better heed the movement or their next.
We want less Fedzilla, way less.

It's not about Trump either.
Trump should be their warning flag though.
Back Off corrupt tyrants!
Stop selling us out. We don't work for you, you work for us, and, your job is to lessen government intrusion in our lives.

It is a massive failure that they cannot even back off away from our health care. They think they must control us and the backlash will keep coming.

43 posted on 07/04/2017 10:43:19 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

True. As they identify ever more openly with their Stalinist roots it gets ever more difficult for them to disguise their satanist souls.


44 posted on 07/04/2017 10:47:11 AM PDT by samtheman (The Germans -- having failed twice -- have finally hit on a way to destroy Europe.)
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To: bert

There are how ever many liberal hives. They are the American cities.

The hive mentality controls the cities and the thoughts of the majority of people that live there. In the cities, the shedding of the liberal groupthink is not going to happen


You are correct. The liberal groupthink will never go away.

I live in a town of about 16,000 and is very evident even here.

We don’t know how it will play out but it will get uglier. I can’t see how we can avoid bloodshed because our side is fed up and won’t take much more.


45 posted on 07/04/2017 11:03:44 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Kaslin
It is no longer a movement of ideas. Liberals have no new ideas because they have adopted such an extreme relativism that they no longer strongly believe in anything.

Unfortunately, because of their disintegrated mode of thought, which has not changed, they still have the same ideas that they always have had, namely, emotionalism, altruism, collectivism, one world government statism, socialism, and mass dependency.

46 posted on 07/04/2017 11:13:53 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: All

The Left have become the Cult of I/Me/My....


47 posted on 07/04/2017 11:21:02 AM PDT by Maverick68 (T)
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To: Kaslin

>> Liberals are in greater trouble, and they know it.<<

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But they have strong ally — the MSM.


48 posted on 07/04/2017 11:59:11 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Kaslin
Gone are the days in which liberals worked inside a consensus and engaged in debate with others.

Because they aren't liberals, they're leftists.

49 posted on 07/04/2017 12:01:00 PM PDT by Hugin (ithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: dforest

>>Just look at the communist Obama undermining this country.<<

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And the country elected him, TWICE!!

What does it tell you?


50 posted on 07/04/2017 12:05:24 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: bert
The hive mentality controls the cities and the thoughts of the majority of people that live there. In the cities, the shedding of the liberal groupthink is not going to happen

I hear there's a state about to go bankrupt somewhere around Chicago /sarcasm.

Reality is a b!tch and winter is only a few months away.....

Did I forget to mention that HRH HiLIARy isnt in charge......who will throw the United Socialist Republic of Chicago a life line? /more sarcasm

51 posted on 07/04/2017 12:35:03 PM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: Kaslin

“... the old days of rational debate are over.”

You know what’s next...


52 posted on 07/04/2017 12:58:40 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: Kaslin

Liberal and Democrats are about as close to hemorrhoids as possible they both are a major pain is the rectal area. The deal is one can get rig of hemorrhoids but there is no known cure for Liberals and Democrats


53 posted on 07/04/2017 1:08:11 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

The problem is, the children are not being taught about all this abject failure. So no matter how badly leftism has failed in the past, it always gets a clean slate with the next generation.


54 posted on 07/04/2017 3:16:13 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: HiTech RedNeck
But secular conservatism is not Christ.

Secular conservatism NEEDS Christ.

Indeed! You said a lot in just two sentences because salvation's not found in conservatism.

Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.



55 posted on 07/04/2017 3:59:57 PM PDT by rdb3 (I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. Who am I?)
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To: Pollster1

Good points & well communicated.


56 posted on 07/04/2017 4:01:23 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: robroys woman

That guy is HILARIOUS! Just spent a half hour watching his videos!


57 posted on 07/04/2017 4:46:51 PM PDT by The Right Stuff
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To: Erik Latranyi

The main play of the liberals is to fuel resentment, a sense of victimization, and entitlement. This is a recipe for violence. They shouldn’t feign surprise when it happens.

If they spent that effort encouraging responsibility and self-sufficiency there would be an amazing improvement in the lives of so many Democrat voters.


58 posted on 07/04/2017 7:02:06 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: 353FMG

>>Just look at the communist Obama undermining this country.<<
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And the country elected him, TWICE!!
What does it tell you?


“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry

capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency.

It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an

Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense

and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a

man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far

more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what

ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind

anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their

prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is

less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those

who made him their president.”

Translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010


59 posted on 07/04/2017 8:13:46 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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