Posted on 01/18/2017 5:22:18 AM PST by Kaslin
The great Broom of Time recently swept away another failed ideology and political movement.
On the 20th of January, the dustbin of history will slam shut on the Utopian American Progressive Left. Followers, leaders, and philosophers of this dangerous and failed global movement will not go quietly, however; ideas die hard, and ideologies, movements, and political theories do not simply disappear overnight.
Inauguration Day 2017 will mark perhaps the greatest political and cultural shift in American history as the Utopians of the Progressive Left kick and scream, wail and whine as they shuffle off into forced retirement and irrelevance. Perhaps not since Lincoln's trip to Washington in early 1861 to begin his first term has so much vitriol, so many official and unofficial attempts to derail and delegitimize the president-elect, been seen.
Many have commented on the astounding and disturbing reaction of those now out of political power in the United States. The gross irony of Mrs. Clinton's admonishments during the election that Mr. Trump must promise to accept the election results (her victory was assured, remember?) in light of her supporters' post-election unwillingness to do the same is lost on the majority of them.
That the reaction of the Utopian Progressive Left is based upon anger, resentment, hatred, intolerance, and pique rather than logic is not important to them; it is a point that remains always unaddressed. Every political "dirty trick" that seems obviously a sham is accepted at face value, and bitter attacks built upon these false accusations immediately begin. The dizzying speed of the reactions, the overwhelmingly standardized nature of the talking points and commonly invoked yet faulty arguments, suggests a uniformity of thought more typical of an ideological movement or cult than of reasoned, cogent advocacy for a political candidate within a democratic open society.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They tried but they didn’t have Trump’s playbook. He blitzed them. And we, of course, were fed up.
Haha...I had not seen that one
Oh, I think most of us know the battles in this war have just begun...
The Trump Administration needs to root out fraud in the voting process. Early voting eliminated, picture IDs required, illegal aliens prevented from voting, cleaning up the voting rolls, etc.
This would be a huge help in 2018, 2020 and beyond.
The insidious hard-core Left hath always been amongst us, is amongst us now, and will always be amongst us.
Its ideological mindset is almost bibilical in scope.
Leni
There wolf. There castle!
After reading "great Broom of Time" and "Utopian American Progressive Left" I quit reading. It was obviously written by someone who is pouring spices on bullshit to hide the stink.
No time to waste, at my age, on sophomoric writer wannabes.
“You’re welcome to take a run at convincing me and the rest of this forum (that one cannot say the same for Conservative Orthodoxy), in addition to your 11-year old.”
You think the forum needs to be convinced that it is a lie to say that conservatism is another failed ideology and political movement? You think they believe that on the 20th of January, the dustbin of history will slam shut on American conservatism, that conservatives will kick and scream, wail and whine as they shuffle off into forced retirement and irrelevance, that conservatives have displayed an astounding and disturbing reaction upon losing an election, that conservatives have displayed a post-election unwillingness to accept the loss, that conservative reactions are based on anger, resentment, hatred, intolerance, and pique rather than logic, that conservatives accept at face value every political “dirty trick” that seems obviously a sham, that conservatives make bitter attacks built upon false accusations, that conservatives show an overwhelmingly standardized nature of talking points and commonly invoked yet faulty arguments, which suggests a uniformity of thought more typical of an ideological movement or cult than of reasoned, cogent advocacy for a political candidate within a democratic open society?
Or did you mean that conservatives attack the messenger and ignore truth revealed, or that the reaction of conservatives is extreme, excessive, intolerant, and often cruel because this election is about the collapse of an ideology at least 50 years in the making, or that conservatives speak a political and ideological language that is singular, slanted, biased, rigid, self-deceiving, and pervasive?
Perhaps you meant that the conservative viewpoint is self-congratulatory and insular, and that the conservative world is one of self-delusion, false narratives, and fantasies, that conservatism is a failed political ideology which must fall.
What I explained to my child was that it means nothing that a person is physically and emotionally capable of uttering a proposition. All that tells us is that people often get things wrong, and often lie. When someone says, “Well, I could say the same thing,” the facts must be examined to see if this statement is true. I called it an argument earlier, but I misspoke. It is never more than the opening salvo in a quarrel.
My comment refers to Conservative Orthodoxy as espoused by Ted Cruz (the conservative shamer extraordinaire), McCain, Ryan, NRO RedState etc.
Open borders and the free movement of trade product and labor.
Endless interventions in the world when we have no core interests at stake.
Those two alone make Conservative Orthodoxy stand out as a dirty whore unworthy of further advocacy.
it sucks to be them
lamentations and wail ing panic stress their souls
This political war has been raging my entire life time, and I am not a spring chicken by any stretch of the imagination.
The election of PRESIDENT TRUMP is only one small battle in the global war on the progressives and the NWO.
Never let your guard down, and plan for a very long and hard fought road to a hoped for victory.
They will never surrender until they are totally destroyed.
so long as new york boston philadelphia Chicago los angeles sanfrancisco all exist america is in danger
That is a completely invalid definition of conservative orthodoxy.
Conservative orthodoxy is Reagan, Friedman, the Chicago School, G. K. Chesterton...
Cruz is an empty suit with no real principles, and therefore not a conservative. McCain and Ryan are RINO scoundrels, and therefore conservative in no way. NRO has diverged wildly from the conservative vision of William F. Buckley.
To call that hodgepodge “conservative orthodoxy” impinges upon reality at no point.
if or when europe collapes under the economic and isla ic stres,they will be finished off
a masse californis earth quake might do the job
a nuclear suitcasi in new york might do the job
On the two issues I cited, how do they differ? Are not the two cited issues in line with the pantheon you cited?
“Are not the two cited issues in line with the pantheon you cited?
Not even close.
Free trade, for a conservative, does not mean lop-sided agreements that promote the rape of the American economy.
But you cited Friedman.
“But you cited Friedman.”
So? Friedman never advocated for the destruction of America.
He did advocate for the free flow of trade and labor across borders.
I don’t know if he gave consideration to the consequences.
And it is a classic, established conservative position. One from which the Republican party will not deviate.
And that’s because Conservatives hold nationalism below orthodoxy. Ideological purity is their goal, no matter the result.
Exactly right.
This is absolutely not doom and gloom or a damper on the win. It is practical and honest.
I plan to keep winning. How? by continuing to fight. I hope all conservatives join me. And I hope we are joined by newly minted conservatives : liberals who have woken up and seen the light, who are able to deal with facts and not just feelings.
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