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Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues. Most Americans aren’t thrilled about it.
Washington Post—The Fix ^ | July 22, 2015 at 7:00 AM | Peyton M. Craighill and Scott Clement

Posted on 07/22/2015 10:42:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Liberals have won a string of victories on gay marriage and health care reform this year, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds a large majority of Americans are unhappy with where the nation is headed on social issues.

Sixty-three percent of people say they are uncomfortable with the country’s overall direction on social issues these days; four in ten feel “strongly” uncomfortable about the nation’s changes.

The downbeat results in the aftermath of a series of landmark Supreme Court rulings earlier this summer runs parallel to how people see the nation’s overall direction—65 percent say it’s on the wrong track in the survey—and both these views are colored by partisanship and views of President Obama. Over 8 in 10 of both Republicans and those who disapprove of President Obama say they are uncomfortable about the nation's shifts on social issues. …

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


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; judicialactivism; liberalagenda; socialissues

1 posted on 07/22/2015 10:42:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Cause they really haven’t won anything. They’ve just convinced SCOTUS to cram it down our pieholes.


2 posted on 07/22/2015 10:43:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

They must be undone.


3 posted on 07/22/2015 10:44:40 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Olog-hai

Pyrrhic Victory. They’ll eventually be going down the drain with the rest of us.


4 posted on 07/22/2015 10:44:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Olog-hai
Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues.

It's much more than that.

The Left has won the culture war. All that remains is the mopping up operations - and they're commencing across the land.

After that, the occupation begins.

5 posted on 07/22/2015 10:53:40 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Olog-hai

most liberals believe in getting what they want anyway she can. the big mistake they are making is thinking that getting the courts to make rulings on law with out basing it on case law. there is going to be a backlash against everything they have done.


6 posted on 07/22/2015 10:53:54 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (VORS)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Pyrrhic Victory. They’ll eventually be going down the drain with the rest of us.


That’s exactly right.

They think they are immune to the disaster they are bringing on.


7 posted on 07/22/2015 10:54:36 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Cause they really haven’t won anything. They’ve just convinced SCOTUS to cram it down our pieholes.

Bingo. Its kind of like forced unionization. For years they claimed vast support but in the end, some 40% of Michigan union members supported RTW because they were conscripted opposition.

You can only force acceptance for so long.
8 posted on 07/22/2015 10:56:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Olog-hai

43% of Democrats and 63% of adults (that’s 106%:) are uncomfortable with the country’s direction on social issues.


9 posted on 07/22/2015 10:58:44 AM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: cripplecreek

Kinda stuns me as when I lived in Michigan I never had so much union propaganda preached at me by nearly everyone I met.

Perhaps I just lived too close to Flint.


10 posted on 07/22/2015 11:06:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Old Sarge

I wouldn’t grant them that.


11 posted on 07/22/2015 11:16:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Reconstruction all over again.


12 posted on 07/22/2015 11:20:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Olog-hai

The sheeple will do nothing.


13 posted on 07/22/2015 11:23:57 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WSJs approval of law-breaking and disdain for the Bill of Rights reveals anti-American principles)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Correction: The Sheeple will do worse: Elect the totalitarian with an innie.


14 posted on 07/22/2015 11:24:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WSJs approval of law-breaking and disdain for the Bill of Rights reveals anti-American principles)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Pyrrhic Victory. They’ll eventually be going down the drain with the rest of us.

What really POs me the most is that for decades conservatives have been saving liberals from themselves
15 posted on 07/22/2015 12:44:10 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: laplata

Very true.

The Progressive urbanistas are going to be the first ones who get impacted by what they’re creating. It’s already happening, in fact: look at that Progressive activist who got himself butchered on the DC Metro on July 4th.

And read Cortland Malloy’s piece on the Gentrification of DC’s 14th St in todays WaPo.


16 posted on 07/22/2015 12:51:58 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

The Progressive urbanistas are going to be the first ones who get impacted by what they’re creating. It’s already happening,


Right. I knew of a white Progressive that wanted to date a black girl. The guy was an arrogant jerk. A black guy whipped his azz and for good reason. He couldn’t believe that one of the “oppressed people of color” would do that to him, one of the “enlightened”.

The “oppressed” black guy who whipped his butt was a Chemical Engineer and Dept. Head for a mining company.


17 posted on 07/22/2015 1:02:31 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: uncbob

Yep. The term AFTER a Socialist has been in the White House is always WASTED cleaning up the mess they leave behind.

By now, that kinda seems by design, doesn’t it?


18 posted on 07/22/2015 5:04:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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