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How the Left Plays the Long Game
American Thinker ^ | 21 Jul, 2024 | Rob Jenkins

Posted on 07/21/2024 5:44:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Remember that schoolyard game we used to play as children, where one person turns their back and everyone else runs toward them, until they turn around and you have to stop in your tracks? Then they turn their back again, and you see how close you can get before they spin back around?

Note that, if you’re one of the runners, you never have to go backward. You just stop and remain in place until they’re not looking, then move forward again.

That is essentially the story of Marxist leftism over the past 100 years or so, in the United States and throughout the West: Whenever conservatives notice what the Marxists are doing and call it out, they stop -- but only for a little while, until once gain we’re not paying attention. Then they move their agenda another few steps forward. They never go back, nor do conservatives really succeed in undoing anything they’ve done. We may at times think we have done so and thus become a little complacent --only to find that, while our backs were turned, the Left advanced their agenda far beyond where we last saw it.

This dynamic is evident in almost every aspect of public policy, from taxpayer-funded social programs to illegal immigration to the definition of marriage. But all you really have to do, to see the truthfulness of what I’m saying, is ask yourself one simple question: Are our mainstream political views, as a nation, further Left of where they were, say, 50 or 60 years ago? And the obvious answer is yes, of course. Someone from 1964, transported in time to 2024, would hardly recognize a country where half the population receives some form of government assistance, men can “marry” each other, and third-graders check out pornographic books...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; marxism; obamasfault
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1 posted on 07/21/2024 5:44:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Marxism is a religion to the left. It is a holy war to eliminate human freedom to them.


2 posted on 07/21/2024 5:45:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re winning.

There are 3 big wins for them. 1) Obamacare 2) The Great Society and 3) FDR’s New Deal.

How much can Trump derail? A border fence will be as useful as the Keystone pipeline and the SPR when they’re in charge.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 5:49:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 07/21/2024 5:57:24 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber
Note that, if you’re one of the runners, you never have to go backward. You just stop and remain in place until they’re not looking, then move forward again.

Unless you are caught moving. Then you ho back to start.

We need to keep our eyes on the Marxists and NEVER turn our backs.

5 posted on 07/21/2024 6:00:52 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MtnClimber

“only to find that, while our backs were turned, the Left advanced their agenda far beyond where we last saw it.”

Voter registration and illegitimate votes by both ballot fraud and illegals orchestrated by the GOPe/dem/uniparty/deep state at the state and federal level are a prime example.


6 posted on 07/21/2024 6:07:11 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: MtnClimber

Where is the shining example the socialists/communists can point to and show the success of their ideology?

Cuba? Venezuela? Vietnam? North Korea? China? South Africa?

Where?

Criminals use the leftist ideology to rile up people to fight and die for them so that they can live in the palace and ride in the government limousines.

Millions of dead people to put criminals in charge.

Perhaps the cruelest joke ever played on humanity.


7 posted on 07/21/2024 6:09:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Yo-Yo

Fixing the economy, saving SS, the border, crime, etc...

These smucks will never admit there was a problem in the first place


8 posted on 07/21/2024 6:19:26 AM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: MtnClimber

Communism never sleeps no matter how many times it fails it’s why it goes by many names.


9 posted on 07/21/2024 6:44:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’d add direct election of senators and the income tax.


10 posted on 07/21/2024 7:20:08 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Forgot those two. Goes back to Wilson the worst and most racist POTUS. Very smart. So why do the smart ones get us in so much trouble?

Hillary-smartest in the world? Come on. BJ-Rhodes scholar. Carter-nuclear engineer.


11 posted on 07/21/2024 7:34:40 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
I'll say this about Carter....I don't think he fundamentally hates the US. I didn't see him as a power mad wannabe dictator.

He was very naive in his worldview and let Iran and Russia run all over us.

12 posted on 07/21/2024 7:43:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

I’d say President Trump played a long game. Just in the four years he had, he appointed enough critical judges to totally halt the leftward tilt in guns, abortion, private property, Chevron deference, climate change, and in most ways, civil rights.

Next long game will change the country for 50 years.


13 posted on 07/21/2024 7:53:19 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: LS

President Trump needs to be very careful. The Deep State seems like it will do anything to stop him. Then we need to gain sufficient majorities in the House and Senate to pass laws blocking the leftist nonsense like DEI, ESG, loose election integrity laws and leftist indoctrination in the public schools. Maybe the Department of Education could be eliminated. Those would be great long game goals. I need to read the Agenda 2025 document to understand what is in it. That seems to be a good strategy to hit the ground running.


14 posted on 07/21/2024 8:04:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

When I was a kid, we called the game “red light, green light”.


15 posted on 07/21/2024 8:30:20 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“There are 3 big wins for them. 1) Obamacare 2) The Great Society and 3) FDR’s New Deal.”

4). Takeover of education system through the Department of Education

5) Environmental Protection Agency


16 posted on 07/21/2024 9:12:20 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: MtnClimber

The question was answered in the first sentence. “The schoolyard. “

Perverts, Marxists, commies, liberals, democrats, pedos, child groomers , homosexuals run the public schools with an iron fist. That is where they spread their evil rotten culture and brainwash children. Public schools are child abuse.


17 posted on 07/21/2024 9:18:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Soul of the South

*4). Takeover of education system through the Department of Education
5) Environmental Protection Agency*

He’ll need our help taking on all 5 but will the republicans in congress?


18 posted on 07/21/2024 9:40:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

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19 posted on 07/21/2024 10:10:18 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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