It is cool to be a commie. Even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who you would think might celebrate the virtues of the system that showered them with untold wealth are a bunch of aging hippy liberals specializing in hand outs rather than teaching the next generation how to create jobs.
This new breed of lefty is extremely deadly to us and the only way out is to defeat them at the polls and rip out their health care plan by the roots.
If the right doesn't win, the final countdown begins! This means that marshmellow 'centrists' like Romney, Huntsman, et al, must be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Will they face reality?
I sincerely doubt it.
That makes two of us.
Woops, can’t add. Must be three.
Until everything is deemed ‘fair’ - yes.
Simon misses the obvious explanation - liberalism (like its cousin, environmentalism) is a religion, usually the religious outlet for folks who have no traditional religion.
The major difference is that in conventional religions, people put faith in things that cannot be proven wrong. Liberals put their faith in things that can be proven wrong - they just refuse to admit their policies don’t work, or they come up with elaborate rationalizations for why their stupid approaches never work and are usually counterproductive.
Only a religious zealot could invest unlimited trust in an incompetent fool like our current president - our liberals not only have faith in him, they absolutely adore him.
Unfortunately, a huge part of the populace simply doesn`t understand or care about accelerating collapse. My opinion is the 50-state entity we know as America is nearing its end. The cancer of progressivism has been allowed to advance too far.
This doesn`t mean a smaller, reconstituted version of America won`t arise from the ashes...but I believe the current version of the United States has seen its best days.
But, damn... we`ve had a great run!
“Don’t they realize we are going broke? … Why do they and their party adhere to an ideology so shopworn and stultified — forget about tie-dyes and bell bottoms — they should all be running around in jodhpurs and crinolines? “
What “Progressives” lack is altruism. Altruism, which I think flows mightily in the Tea Party people I’ve met, says, I’ll accept less money, or no money, in Social Security for me when I get there. I’ll take a Wal-Mart greeter job in my declining years so that my children and grandchildren don’t suffer crushing debt.
The Progressive says, “I want my BMW and my Cancun vacations now. I want Social Security to keep me in that lifestyle until I die and I want free medical care until then. To Hell with the future. Let them pay for it.”
Bingo! Right there, in a nutshell, is what motivates all Democrat and most professional Republican politicians. They care not one whit about the future because their outlooks is utterly solipsistic. Their only concern is their own power, privilege, perks and comfort. Nothing else is real, nothing else matters.
Because of that, anything they do or say that improves their personal position is "good" in their view, regardless of the damage it does to anyone else. It is why they so gleefully demagogue any issue they can, if they can benefit from it personally.
Democrats are good at pretending. Democrats once pretended that black people weren't people. The Germans pretended that Jewish people weren't people. Democrats currently pretend that preborn people aren't people and that hosexuality is normal. Pretending can be dangerous!
The Democrats are highly to blame, but let’s not forget the Republicans.
Repoublicans were given an opportunity they are squandering, byt sitting on their hands and doing nothing.
Have they stopped Obamacare? Have they made major cuts in the budget? Have they challenged the ethics of Maxine Waters? Have they stopped illegal immigration? Have they stopped Obama from running wild giving away money to the Arab Spring? Have they passed a Budget?
Can Republicans even decide on a Conservative candidate for President?
And, there was no way a Marxist radical like Obama could have been nominated to higher office, let alone elected.
“The Democrats are highly to blame, but let’s not forget the Republicans.”
Call me cynical, but the Republicans can’t even unscrew this “lightbulb fiasco”.
The best defense is 1) knowing they're trying and 2) knowing how the will do.
Three great reference reads to learn 'how' it's being done are; 1) The Secret Knowledge: On Dismantling of American Culture; 2) Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America; and 3) Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.
Reckless Endangerment is more recent history and a very detailed record of how (and who, by name) got us into the mess we're in now.
If you're a reader, I strongly suggest the above. I've finished them all and have passed them on to others who care about what's happening to us by the deliberate left.
Democrats - Thieves, Thugs, Thralls and Thickheads.