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At the End of the Liberal Dynasty
The American Thinker ^ | October 26, 2010 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 10/26/2010 3:52:21 AM PDT by Scanian

You really have to feel sorry for our liberal friends. With each passing day, they are coming to resemble the old WASP elite they sneered at for a century. Good liberal journalists should visit only those inscribed in the Liberal Social Register. And the Netroots seem more and more like southern rednecks, the folks who howled their approval when George Wallace vowed, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in 1963 in the last moments before the Civil Rights Acts and the end of Jim Crow.

In the Juan Williams affair, they are telling us that liberal journalists have to take a vow, as members of the exclusive NPR Vegan Club, never to be caught grabbing a salty snack at the Fox News Drive-In window. Is that what liberalism is reduced to?

This is classic late-dynasty behavior. The founder of a political dynasty, whether a Napoleon or a Mao, understands the nature and use of political power down to his fingertips. He uses power to win his objective, never merely in the service of social snobbery. He decks his opponent with a knockout punch: no face-slapping for him. But the heirs do not get it. They have never had to fight for power; they have merely stepped into positions of power carved out by others.

The women at NPR who bungled the firing of Juan Williams last week advertised their weakness in all directions. They told the Angry Left that they could be rolled. They told the Republicans in Congress that they were not up to the job of defending their institution.

In addition, they are demonstrating to anyone who cares the strategic folly of Affirmative Action. Why on earth would liberals want to staff their nomenklatura with a bunch of second-raters chosen on the grounds of race and gender

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elitism; leftists; liberaldecline; snobbery
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1 posted on 10/26/2010 3:52:28 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

We are watching the death of liberalism before our very eyes.


2 posted on 10/26/2010 3:54:16 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: Biggirl

Liberalism is like a vampire. It will rise again to feed on the blood and sweat of hard working people, sapping the life out of them. That is unless we drive a stake through it’s heart on Nov. 2nd...


3 posted on 10/26/2010 3:59:33 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Russ

....Or it is like a bad penny that just does not goe away. That is why we MUST VOTE THE LIBERAL BUMS OUT!


4 posted on 10/26/2010 4:04:12 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: Biggirl

“We are watching the death of liberalism before our very eyes”

I wish I could share your optimism, but I fear that we are
simply watching old American liberalism be replaced by
full blown Marxism and a Communist government.

They may have a slight setback in November, but the trend has been steady for some years.
Keep in mind, every kid in a public school today is under indoctrination, and the black and illegal populations are growing at an unprecedented rate.


5 posted on 10/26/2010 4:07:05 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: Russ

Also I think of liberalism like the famous Phantom of the Opera, a most obsessed monster.


6 posted on 10/26/2010 4:07:08 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: AlexW

True, but once these kids live in the “real world” then they get their eyes opened up to the truth.


7 posted on 10/26/2010 4:09:13 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: AlexW

I don’t feel sorry and they are not dying.

Next?


8 posted on 10/26/2010 4:11:02 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Biggirl

“True, but once these kids live in the “real world” then they get their eyes opened up to the truth.”

Maybe so, maybe not.
It depends on their seeing the truth.
Under a Communist government, your ability to see the truth is severely restricted.
Remember, you can check in, but never check out.
The Communist shot people trying to check out.

Remember, over 40 percent of the country still thinks Obambie is so cool. That should scare the H out of anybody.


9 posted on 10/26/2010 4:29:03 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: Biggirl

.....We are watching the death of liberalism....

Liberalism is a cancer that permeates every fiber of our society and controls the institutions and orgizations that make the country run. We are not looking at the death of liberalism, merely the surgical removal of a tumor of say colon cancer.

The cancer has spread all over. It has metastasized.

The death of liberalism will not occur until the universities, public broadcasting, the enviro organizations, the unions and other such sources of power and resources are purged of the cancerous people


10 posted on 10/26/2010 4:38:57 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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To: Scanian

The level of rage on the left is very telling. This isn’t just the rejection of their politicians, this time it is a total rejection of the leftist ideology. I have been waiting for this, as I knew they would HAVE to show their “teeth” sooner or later. Socialism can not exist without those teeth.


11 posted on 10/26/2010 4:42:11 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Scanian

Liberalism will live on, as does the global warming scam and political correctness. They are the undead trinity.


12 posted on 10/26/2010 5:31:25 AM PDT by deadrock (Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
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To: DEADROCK

As long as people continue to want something for nothing, it will indeed live on.


13 posted on 10/26/2010 5:32:33 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: bert
The death of liberalism will not occur until the universities, public broadcasting, the enviro organizations, the unions and other such sources of power and resources are purged of the cancerous people

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Bingo!

The Weekly Standard 05-18-2009

Our public schools are deeply entrenched with a socialist, progressive ideology.

14 posted on 10/26/2010 5:34:29 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: 13Sisters76
This isn’t just the rejection of their politicians, this time it is a total rejection of the leftist ideology.

The essence of Liberalism is that it makes the believer feel good about themself. "I'm one of the Good Guys."

What we have now are a whole bunch of people turning on the Liberals and saying "You're not the Good Guy -- you're a racist creep who took away my job, took away my house, and saddled by grandchildren with enormous debt!"

That's gotta hurt.

15 posted on 10/26/2010 5:35:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: bert

....And the process will begin come next Tuesday. Have HOPE.


16 posted on 10/26/2010 5:36:59 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It is called “buyers remorse”.


17 posted on 10/26/2010 5:38:33 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: 13Sisters76

The removel of the teeth has begun!


18 posted on 10/26/2010 5:40:58 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: 13Sisters76

PS: Because they KNOW they are on the OUTS.


19 posted on 10/26/2010 5:43:11 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: BobP

Because these folks are on the way out, that is why they are pictured as such.


20 posted on 10/26/2010 5:44:20 AM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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