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Why America Is Moving Left: The liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning.
The A ^ | 12/24/2015 | Peter Beinert

Posted on 12/24/2015 8:26:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation.

In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally, was choked to death by a New York City policeman.

That August, a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed an African American teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. For close to two weeks, protesters battled police clad in military gear. Missouri's governor said the city looked like a war zone.

In December, an African American man with a criminal record avenged Garner's and Brown's deaths by murdering two New York City police officers. At the officers' funerals, hundreds of police turned their backs on New York's liberal mayor, Bill de Blasio.

In April 2015 another young African American man, Freddie Gray, died in police custody, in Baltimore. In the chaos that followed, 200 businesses were destroyed, 113 police officers were injured, and 486 people were arrested. To avoid further violence, a game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox was postponed twice, then played in an empty stadium with police sirens audible in the distance.

Then, in July, activists with Black Lives Matter, a movement that had gained national attention after Brown's death, disrupted speeches by two Democratic presidential candidates in Phoenix, Arizona. As former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley fidgeted onstage, protesters chanted, "If I die in police custody, avenge my death! By any means necessary!" and "If I die in police custody, burn everything down!" When O'Malley responded, "Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter," the crowd booed loudly. Later that day, O'Malley apologized.

Donald Trump, who had ascended to first place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination while promising to represent the "silent majority," called O'Malley "a disgusting little weak, pathetic baby."

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: america; blacklivesmatter; blm; globalagenda; left; liberalagenda; liberalism; omalley; peterbeinert; socialism; trump
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To: SeekAndFind

Media and the minority is nudging and pushing Left; the others in the country, i.e., us, are not.


21 posted on 12/24/2015 8:46:15 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Some Animals are more equal than others.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If America is moving left it is because of all of the freeloading socialists that the DemocRATs are importing into OUR country to increase their voter rolls. Americans aren’t “moving left”.


22 posted on 12/24/2015 8:47:28 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The biggest liars in the liberal media have started referring to themselves as fact checkers. Sad.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As he lists sign after sign of America’s leftward journey, we can see that we need to absolutely reject the left. Every sign is ugly. Why would anyone want more of that ugliness?


23 posted on 12/24/2015 8:48:15 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: o_1_2_3__

That’s why firearm and ammunition sales are at highest ever peaks. To be used for a move back toward the right!


24 posted on 12/24/2015 8:56:03 AM PST by Renegade
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To: SeekAndFind

The tyranny of the Libtards!


25 posted on 12/24/2015 8:56:48 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: American in Israel

They do but they don’t use them.
It’s all about emotions and feelings for leftist clowns.


26 posted on 12/24/2015 8:57:30 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: skeeter

I glanced through the article but it’s more like a book.


27 posted on 12/24/2015 9:01:32 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Renegade
That's why firearm and ammunition sales are at highest ever peaks. To be used for a move back toward the right!

If so, then it's not leftists buying the guns. So while some of America may be moving Left (no argument there, only the contention that it is a very small some) clearly not all of America is.

One photograph can make a gathering of a dozen people look like a crowd of a thousand. This is the media's strength. That and its willingness to lie brazenly.

28 posted on 12/24/2015 9:01:41 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ ( –)
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To: SeekAndFind

An oversized, overspending, out of control, incompetent and corrupt federal government and its policies have caused about 50% of Americans to be on the dole. While many may say a change is needed, when it comes to voting they vote for continuance of the dole (free lunch). Thus, America turns further and further to the left. And until this worthless and failed system blows up, and an insurrection takes place that is the road we will continue to follow.


29 posted on 12/24/2015 9:04:50 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Carry_Okie

“Public schools, Marxist universities, and mass media.”

Also fecklessness, duplicity and treachery of the country club rino set!


30 posted on 12/24/2015 9:06:22 AM PST by amnestynone (Political Correction is a tactic based social intimidation to suppress opposing views.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To recap, America has been schlonged by the Left.


31 posted on 12/24/2015 9:15:51 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left has a great deal of power. It is able to infuse its message into every TV program and movie that is watched in this land, thanks to its domination of the entertainment and media industries. It holds a near complete monopoly on academic matters, to the point where ‘intellectual’ at this point is a code word for leftist. We have seen things come to the point where they are able to define ‘diverse’ and ‘equal’ as virtues rather than descriptions, and able manufacture secular sins such as ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ in order to destroy opposition. Those two sources of control have to be broken, somehow.


32 posted on 12/24/2015 9:17:46 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: SeekAndFind

[[Why America Is Moving Left]]

The answer is very simple- people are turning into selfish pricks- end of story- We’re now the ‘gimmedat now- the hell with everyone else’ society

Nuff said


33 posted on 12/24/2015 9:22:19 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind
See? Now all you lefties can stay home and smoke weed and play video games on election day. No stress dudes and dudettes and gee I don't knowettes.

Merry Christmas.

34 posted on 12/24/2015 9:23:59 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

[[The left moved years ago to capture political office, our religion, or schools, our media, our economy and now even American business.]]

Precisely, and heir victory celebration was the night dear leader lit up the whitehouse in a shameful display of ‘in your face America’ homosexual colors- which by the way- the left STOLE from God- turning a symbol of God’s love into a symbol of immorality

[[We are at a tipping point where it is distinctly possible that no Republican will ever be President.]]

Things though SOMETIMES have a way of going too far- we’re perhaps seeing it in NY where there is rampant corruption and discontent in the politics there- IF NY has any sense left- they will boot those thugs and criminals out and begin afresh with republicans


35 posted on 12/24/2015 9:27:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: PGR88

You are correct. Without “money” the gov’t can’t do much.


36 posted on 12/24/2015 9:28:39 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind
Why America Is Moving Left: The liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning.

Well, Mr. Beinert, you'd better hustle on the gun control then - these things DO have a way of getting out of control.

37 posted on 12/24/2015 9:29:37 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Bryanw92
Another problem is that the current captains of industry lack the sense of noblesse oblige that led the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age to endow libraries and suchlike. (Silicon Valley is something of an exception; note that the tech CEOs generally have better public reputations than their industrial and (especially) high-finance brethren.
38 posted on 12/24/2015 9:30:16 AM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
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To: SeekAndFind

Once again, “Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”


39 posted on 12/24/2015 9:33:08 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Gandalf the Mauve

>>Another problem is that the current captains of industry lack the sense of noblesse oblige that led the “robber barons” of the Gilded Age to endow libraries and suchlike. (Silicon Valley is something of an exception; note that the tech CEOs generally have better public reputations than their industrial and (especially) high-finance brethren.

You’re right. The “robber barons” generally thought of themselves as the builders of a great nation with a great sense of responsibility to leave it better than that found it. Today’s CEOs see themselves as the leaseholders of a great nation that is inhabited by replaceable minions.


40 posted on 12/24/2015 9:33:21 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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