How did we (as in the west) get to the point where liberals control so much of our lives ?
When life is going well, we do not get involved because we are busy running our OWN lives. The libs, on the otherhand, are like rust. They never sleep, rest or quit in their efforts to rule the roost. They usually pass these type rules in secret and no one finds out about it until they are hassling you.
Because they are sneaky bastards. Before the present administration they would do things slowly and incrementally using our morals and values to subvert us. They would always appeal to our better natures by "protecting the environment, protecting the children, standing up for oppressed minorities", etc., to slowly bind us with political correctness.
The wisdom of that approach, from their point of view, is now being illustrated by the push back of the American people against Obama and gang as they try to get it all at once.
Read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
The “Progressives” have been at this for a LOOOOONG time - since well before the turn of the twentieth century. In our government it started with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and has been growing, shrinking, then growing even larger, ever since. The biggest culprits are the Wilson, FDR, and LBJ administrations.
“How did we (as in the west) get to the point where liberals control so much of our lives ?”
Why do we (you) let them control so much...?
PC means we have to call them “Brazil Nuts”
We can’t say the nursery rhymes we learned as kids (Lil ... Sambo, etc)
We can’t play “eni-meanie-minie-mo”
It is now “the dark complected gentleman in the lumberyard”
We can’t talk about the three R’s taught in West Virginia schools (readin’, ritin’ and the road to Akron)
We can’t profile middleeasterners when we are looking for jihadists.
I don’t hear “Polock” jokes anymore.
Soon there will be no more “blond” jokes.
Forget the word “moron”.
...and the rest of you can have fun adding to this list.