Posted on 08/08/2017 6:06:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Ironically, the acting-up of Occupy Wall Street led to Donald Trump’s presidency. At a moment ripe for populist anger, the left, aided by mainstream media, turned it instead into an elitist temper tantrum. As a result, Middle Americans saw how little they resembled the left and went decisively in the opposite direction.
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On September 17, 2011, almost four years after the financial crisis began, the left responded. Occupy Wall Street seized Zuccotti Park in New York City… and the mainstream media. While Occupy Wall Street held the park for two months, it still has not relinquished its hold on mainstream media.
Three years after Tea Party populism, which it could neither understand nor accept, the mainstream media had a leftist populism it could embrace and broadcast. Reveling in the 99% rhetoric, it dotingly delivered the left’s images and story to America. Unintendedly, the result was to remind America it had little in common with the left. Yet as America drifted away, mainstream media only drifted closer to leftist populism.
For the next five years, Obama governed as a liberal’s liberal and the economy did not recover. Still mainstream media could not shake its attraction to the left. In this alliance of message and media, Middle America found a different elite to oppose. Middle America discovered it was less envious of the rich than repulsed by the left’s elitism.
Far from being the party of the common man, America’s left delighted in belittling his beliefs, concerns, and condition — particularly as Trump’s campaign began to gain traction. As Trump increasingly tapped into these dismissed concerns, the left and mainstream media only increased their ostracism of those they professed to support.
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The Left has left sanity, reason, the Constitution and even self preservation way way behind it.
What, pray tell, is there left of the old extreme left that the left considers extreme anymore? Socialism? Nope. Communism? Nope. Anarchism? Nope.
It’s small wonder that the leftwits, the politically correct, are creatures of cultural Marxism who consider everything wholesome and correct to be extreme.
RINOS, are you listening?
Truth has left deceit in the dustbin of history. HOORAY Americans.
They are more like Vichy Republicans than RINOs.
Excellent term. Hope it catches on. Far more easily understandable and accurate than "RINO".
Not this one:
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