Posted on 01/02/2014 3:43:12 AM PST by Biggirl
Mr Dionne,
Are you saying that the Demagogic Party is not radically leftist now? The same Party the ousted perfect liberal socialist and once Donkey VP candidate Joe Lieberman for siding with Bush on the WOT? A leftist siding with a moderate Republican on one issue gets you rejected, how ideological pure do you want your beloved Democrat Party to be? The Post celebrates Republican Mavericks but I won't get into that...
You are delusional and psychotic and liberalism really is a mental disorder.
E.J. Dionne = Cognitive Dissonance.
If the center was pulled to the right, then Obamacare wouldn’t exist and we’d be condemning Stalin and Mao in the same breath as we condemn Hitler
The Left will be sorry and embarrassed by de Blasio. He has already started being the Communist he really is. If Bonehead doesn’t save the Democrats with amnesty de Blasio could be one of the best things to come out of 2013, but alas that will never happen. Ryno and Bonehead will grant amnesty and end America sometime in July - probably at 3:AM on a Saturday morning.
“Joe McCarthy pushed them into hiding where they remained until the last 10 years.”
Yes, but one of the things that actually brought them out of hiding was the US victory in the Cold War. After that, the left pushed the theme that the USSR was never really that big of a threat, and they dressed up socialism / communism in ‘the third way’ politics that the Clinton’s embraced. Ironically, the when the fear of the USSR and communist world aggression was diminished with the end of the Cold War, the left kept fighting, repackaged socialism/communism as ‘thoughtful and progressive humanitarianism’ and the rest of the nation let its collective guard down.
They have been resurgent since 1992, when Perot helped them get in.
The Left is never going to admit that their ideas don’t work. Only that Obama was incompetent in implementing them.
The trouble with the left is that as radical as their far left wants to be, to the point of Pol-Pot death camps, their ideas are old, failed, vitiated and unwanted by the vast majority of people. They just plain don’t work, though tried many times, and can never work.
The grand example of this was the failed ‘Occupy’ movement, which was populated by spoiled children calling for the overthrow of their parents prosperity. So empty and meaningless was their upbringing that they figure society, even civilization, has to be destroyed, to accomplish “something”.
Years ago, the protesters at some internationalist economics convention, marched outside with a banner that said, “Abolish Capitalism And Replace It With Something Good.” This is young leftism in a nutshell.
Their elders just fall back to the bad ideas of socialism and national socialism, with predictable results.
Joseph Stalin once said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs”, but then he proved beyond any doubt that you can break a vast number of eggs over decades, but still not produce anything more than aborted chickens.
For their part, the American left is quite skilled in breaking useful machines, fouling engines, and spending vast fortunes of money to achieve only suffering and hardship among the weakest, the lame and the poor.
That’s what they offer. That’s *all* they offer. Socialists are just bitter reactionaries, supplicants to an old, failed religion of losers.
But so are the Tea Parties. Even if the Left were successful in knocking Ted Cruz, another "leader" will arise.
They used the Gramsci/Alinsky method of portraying a (very) small vocal minority as a large minority on the rise.
Hillary’s biggest risk for 16 (as it was in 08) is on the left in the D primaries.
Will the Chicago mob defeat her again?
I want a hit of whatever E.J. is smoking, please.
This author is downright delusional.
There was not a single Republican vote for Obamacare, yet the author tries to pin certain unpopular aspects of the law on Republicans.
Seriously?
SERIOUSLY?
For decades they were uncomfortable with etiquettes and having to look good but now it is mainstream, they can curse, booze and frack around like Ted Kennedy without making issues with equaly lose minded lofo voters.
They are like looting it out like the exorcism.
They are close minded.
E.J. Dionne is a clumsy propagandist for the left, nothing more...
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