The Autumn of the Left

According to Battleground Poll results over the last ten years, conservatives are about sixty percent of the population, liberals are roughly thirty-five percent, and all the others -- moderate, don't know, and refused to answer -- are consistently about five percent.

Not all polls show the same results as the Battleground Poll. Many polls, which reveal only a slight amount of information on their internals or which switch the questions that the polling organization asks to fit the current needs of the left, show smaller percentages of Americans as conservative (but also smaller groups of Americans as liberals). Gallup, one of the oldest polling organizations, has shown the same ratio of conservatives to liberals (roughly two to one favoring conservatives) and that this ratio has stayed the since at least 1992.

Gallup has just updated a poll which I wrote about last August: the ideological breakdown of each of the fifty states. The August 2009 Gallup Poll showing the state-by-state breakdown had the hyper-bland title "Conservatives Label Prevails in South." Gee...who would have thought that? The real story came from looking deeper at the data, which Gallup made available, and the real title of the poll results should have been truly dramatic: "Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in Every State of the Union."

One year later, in August 2010, Gallup has published a new poll which should have been entitled "Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 49 of the 50 States" -- only in Rhode Island, where 32% of Rhode Islanders call themselves liberals and 29% call themselves conservatives -- do conservatives not outnumber liberals. (The poll was entitled "Wyoming, Mississippi, Utah Rank as Most Conservative States," which I am sure shocked many political pundits.)

Every poll shows more or less the same ratio of conservatives to liberals in America (about two to one favoring conservatives). No one, however, seems to feel that this means much of anything. Some conservatives even question the validity of these numbers by saying, "The people who call themselves conservatives really do not know what the term means." I think differently.

The institutional stranglehold that the left has on American society is almost Orwellian in its breadth and intensity. Why would anyone in America willingly call himself a "conservative" when the left has so insidiously smeared conservatives with the failed leftist malignancies of National Socialism and Fascism? Conservatives, to the omnipresent organs of leftism, are like Dalits in India: untouchables, loathsome and despised. So the upper-caste leftists think nothing of privately joking about Rush Limbaugh in agony or gratuitously smearing Fred Barnes or Karl Rove as racists. Leftists are simply terrorists. Many closet conservatives, I suggest, are too frightened to be open and honest about what they believe.

What would that mean, if it is true? It would mean that the number of Americans who embrace the stupendous folly, the conspicuous malice, the selfish childishness, the sneering mendacity which struts around us wearing the label of "liberal" or "progressive" is even smaller than we have suspected. Maybe no one, anymore, is fooled by its bogus promises. Maybe the left in America today is like the Communist Party in the last decades of the Soviet Union. We know from many books and interviews that no one in the Soviet Union, except very young children or certifiable lunatics, believed in Marxism at all. They professed the soulless dogma of Marxism out of fear, out of lust for power, and out of habit.

Maybe the left in America today is no more truly serious today than the Communist Party members of the Soviet Union were thirty years ago. If that is so -- and I think, in part, it is -- then these poll results are truly powerful. It means that all the firebrands, the scourges, the torments which the left uses to keep us in chains and in fear are losing their sting. The Tea Party members simply accept, as a matter of course, that they will all be called fascists, racists, and morons -- and no one cares anymore.

If that is true, then although we seem to be in the middle of hot battle, we are really near the ridge of great victory. The left in America, like the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, seemed immortal. Then it was all blown away, collapsing before little more than a soft autumn wind. Gallup, no haven for conservatives, tells us that conservatives outnumber liberals in every state but Rhode Island. Battleground, whose polling is conducted by a bipartisan team, tells us that sixty percent of Americans, year in and year out, call ourselves "conservative." Smile: We are winning.

They are bleeding the hearts of bleeding heart liberals dry. The only ones still supporting Obama are blacks and socialists. Even a dope can see through the hope. Obamas Hope a dope is not working.

If this is accurate, it could well be that Obama was the best thing to happen to America since Reagan, despite the nausea and agony he is causing in the short term.

Obama is rubbing America’s face in just how out of touch liberals are with the rest of the country. Not only that, the LSM’s constant fielding for him (ala the JournoList, etc.) can no longer be denied by anyone who is paying attention.

The above two factors could cause examination in other areas where liberals have burrowed in deep and choked out dissenting views, such as academia, raising the possibility that Conservatives will force change and accountability there as well.

Obama, a thug and a socialist, has pushed so hard and so fast, that no one with a half a working braincell has any doubts any longer just how inimical his policies are to everything the nation every meant.

They may indeed have already hit the high water mark. Their fall could be just a couple of months away.

May this article be so. May it be darkest before the dawn.

But this time: DEFUND THE LEFT. SHRINK GOVERNMENT BY A LARGE AMOUNT.

No phoenix this time around. Get the left gone for good and let’s have 2 patriotic and common sense parties in America debating those issues that are debatable.

The problem with this analysis is that the Left controls the media and the media is still watched by most people, even those who call themselves “conservative”.

And with the media in full-tilt against America, people are easily fooled about what is the “right” thing to do.

Example: Harry Reid and other communists are now running ads claiming that their opponents want to “privatize” Social Security. This tactic may have the effect of scaring a bunch of oldsters (who are nominally “conservative”) into voting against their own best interests and voting for communists.

Such is the power of the press. Such is the power of the Big Lie. And such is the weakness of the People who are willing to sit in front of the Boob Tube and absorb all their opinions from communists.

I am not optimistic. I think this article is painting a far too rosy picture.

“Smile: We are winning.”

Oh, I hope to God it is so..........

We must remain vigilant!

I wonder when Andropov envisioned the grand plan to effect Khruschev’s “We will bury you” idea that he understood how America would react? I wonder if they knew that the Internet would bring an end to their plans. They could have taken control under Johnson or Carter but now with the ultimate free speech vehicle of the Internet it is being thwarted. In the history of the United States we have never had it so good.

We must not let up the fight!
Argue freedom and liberty with everybody you encounter!

I think you’re right about Reid and his SS ads. One reason so many seniors have attended tea parties and townhalls is a fear over $500 billion in Medicare cuts under Obamacare.

Many of those same people can be spooked into thinking the E-vil pubbies will be taking away their SS checks through privatization. It’s an ancient ‘Rat tactic and seldom if ever fails.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.