Posted on 05/24/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
Because they view President Trump in these extreme terms, progressives view themselves not as violent extremists, but as "the resistance." But resistance implies that there exists something worthy of resisting. The progressive resistance began just seconds after Trump was declared the victor on election night. The resistance was not engendered by anything Trump had actually done. It was just a refusal to accept any candidate who varied from the left's own line of thinking.
That sort of reaction, reminiscent of what happened with the election of George W. Bush, is a dangerous turn in American politics. It implies that the left refuses to accept any political action that does not accord with their own ideology. The left now demands the right to govern permanently and without opposition, regardless of the outcome of elections. This is evidence that the left today has lost respect for democratic institutions and that, if they were ever to find themselves firmly in control of government, leftists would not willingly relinquish power, even if voted out in a fair election. The Trump era has exposed the dark, vindictive, and oppressive side of liberalism, but that side has always existed. "Progressives," as they prefer to be known, have a long history of extremism going back to Woodrow Wilson's Sedition Act of 1918 and FDR's many power-grabbing activities, including the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court. Progressive thinking, because it attempts to impose an extreme vision of society on a public that resists its measures, is by its very nature authoritarian, antidemocratic, and elitist. Liberalism is not the "party of the people," as it has long claimed to be: it is, rather, a despotic philosophy that because of its intention of imposing "advanced" thinking on the masses can govern only through deceit and force.
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“evidence that the left today has lost respect for democratic institutions”
Stopped reading right there. I think that’s obvious based on how they ran the gov’t the past 8 years and the abuses we are finding out about now (FBI, DOJ, CIA, DOS, etc...)
Precisely what is going on now with the Mueller witch hunt and DOJ/FBI stonewalling.
It was just a refusal to accept any candidate who...........
..........was opposed to the bipartisan plan to turn the USA into North Mexico.
The resistance is a bipartisan thing.
Bush League Republicans need to become extinct politically.
There is no compromising with these bastards. They must be destroyed before they destroy us.
Bingo!!!
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They will not stop until Trump is forced out of office or killed. This will not end well. The left has spun off into total lunacy. I have an acquaintance that thinks killing Trump would be justified.
It’s amazing when you compare how the left reacts to losing elections to conservatives. Only the left gets violent and throws tantrums when they don’t get their way.
President Trump need to, and soon, have a graduate college created for the purpose of educating generations of those that follow in his footsteps in reforming and redeeming government.
Even with two terms in office, there is so much detritus and corruption in the USG that it will take several conservative POTUS’s in a row to restore order.
More than even excluding leftists, it must exclude Republican corporatists, what today we call RINOs, whose allegiance is to multinational corporations, not the American people. They are very skilled at infiltrating and undermining individuals and organizations, but at a different level and means from leftist infiltration.
Often these two enemy groups team up against conservatism and good government. So vetting of this graduate college must be very intense.
But the downside is that if President Trump doesn’t do it, we will have to wait for another rare lightning strike like him to emerge. And this is intolerable.
Brink? The leftist are building their own gallows.
Stopped reading right there.
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You should go back and read the full article.
I agree with you that there is really nothing new in what the author had to say - at least for Freepers.. No real news. But it is a well written and excellent summary of how close we are to the abyss of permanent radical Democrat control of our government.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Excellent article, thanks for sharing.
“It implies that the left refuses to accept any political action that does not accord with their own ideology.”
No kidding? Really?? Shirley, you jest!
Pres. Trump’s election win put a crimp in the progressive movement toward a one world government. They cannot stand to have an eight year delay to resume that goal. The lame street media is party to this movement.
Meaning that the resistance was planned out and financed in advance. And that means they knew they were going to loose. And that make all the tears an Kabuki act.
You are correct.
They are extremely dangerous and would squish us if they could do so. By “squish”, I mean eliminate top people and render helpless/defenseless the average conservative.
Anifa types would join in and Snowflakes and others would turn their heads just as the average German did.
People like Brennan and Holder would be the enforcers.
We’re going to see violence.
I think that are scrambling because the original plan was Never Trump and it failed. What we are witnessing is an ill thought out recovery plan that is also falling apart at the seams.
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