Posted on 04/23/2018 6:14:21 PM PDT by yldstrk
"Instead of open minds and lively debate, I found dogmatic progressive ideology and groupthink. One attendee told me that I, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, am “no better than Roger Ailes” because my company aggregates both liberal and conservative commentaries and thereby is “pushing a right-wing agenda.” Someone else said: “Trump supporters are so stupid . . . they think the tax bill was a good deal because they got back—what, a few thousand a year?”
I don’t claim to have the answers. I am, after all, a card-carrying member of the liberal elite. I went to high school on the Upper East Side, graduated from Bryn Mawr, and once made a six-figure salary at a Big Four accounting firm.
Still, I know that burying our heads in the sand and hoping everyone we disagree with goes away is not an effective solution. TheFlipSide.io has received lots of positive and constructive feedback from liberals and conservatives. But the most unconstructive criticism we’ve received comes from the left:
• “We need to convince the Trump supporters they’ve been duped.”
• “Trump supporters are not the norm; they are an aberration.”
• “You’re a traitor to the cause.”
• “Some ideas do not need to be engaged with, they need to be ridiculed.”
I am a bleeding-heart liberal, a patriot and an optimist. I refuse to believe that 63 million of my fellow Americans were “duped,” that exposing people to different viewpoints is betraying “the cause,” or that liberals have all the answers.
For all our smugness, we liberals have little to show. Republicans control the White House, Congress, and 32 state legislatures. Yes, polling data suggests we may be in for a “blue wave” this November, but we’ve gotten overconfident about polling numbers before.
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Seems to have a lot of common sense; why in the world is she still a democrat?
Personally, I would prefer to see a cat skin a liberal.
There will come the Time of The Settling of Accounts.
Annafi Wahed
Just one more 3rd world import telling Americans how wrong we are. This one hails from the Indian Subcontinent.
Self preservation really has a way of clearing the mind....
Haven’t seen you for awhile. I hope you are well.
Just like that Fake American Indian communist on the Seattle city council.
This one says: I am a bleeding-heart liberal, a patriot and an optimist.
Listen up lady, you are not an American.You know nothing about the ethos of this nation, its original people, nor it Christian heritage/faith.
If we win both the house and senate while Trump is in office some liberals might take your advice.
“Remeber. They hate you. they hate us.”
Liberalism, Progressivism, or whatever they call themselves next week is very close to Communism which “aborted” 200,000,000 ambulatory people in the 20th Century.
There really is no question as to the outcome for you, for me, if they were free to choose.
Leftists ... not “Liberals”.
On average city slickers wear smaller shoes than suburbanites, and much smaller than country people. City slickers are always trying in vain to sell the wrong shoe size to everybody else. Hey what works for you is not for us. Let’s make a deal: communal living city slickers can go full communist if they leave the rest of us alone. Really we don’t care anymore what you do in the cities. Steel and concrete cliff dwelling is just another old technology being made obsolete by the internet.
#14. re “I found dogmatic progressive ideology and groupthink”.
In the words of Mark Levin, “Progressivism is the bastard child of communism”. Game, set, match!
Let’s call today’s liberals what they are, ambitious, authoritarian Communist/Marxist wannabees. Their ultimate goal is power and they will use “any means necessary” to achieve it, as we can see in their attacks against Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, Sara Sanders, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and the sane professors left on our college campuses, not to mention the police, our intelligence services (the workers, not the corrupt leaders of the past 8 years), our military, and religious people in general.
Under Roosevelt, the ultimate liberal after Woodrow Wilson, we had a chance to stop fascism early in the game. He and his advisors chose not to. That may be one reason I have no family left in Europe. The Nazis got them all.
And the railroad tracks to Auschwitz, as well as the ovens and the camp facilities themselves, were never touched by our bombers who flew over it. Just blowing the walls might have helped those prisoners escape.
Just think about the SS. St. Louis. Cuba could have taken them if FDR has told Batista or whoever was in charge then, to do so.
And FDR let the Soviets thoroughly infiltrate our society from universities to the unions, politics, Congress and even the White House without any resistance though he knew who they were and who they worked for. Ever wonder why?
Liberalism as a positive force in the intellectual arena is as dead as my relatives were in the sand pits of Lemberg or Auschwitz.
What we need now is a coalition of the few remaining sane liberals, centrist moderates, and rational/pragmatic conservatives to form a new American alliance to protect this country, and it means getting rid of the reds, socialists, progressives and psychotics who now run the Democrat Party and too many major cities and states.
Let the revolution and house-cleaning begin at home, and I’m not opposed to facing their Antifa communist/fascist mobs in the street, if need be. “BAMN” works both ways.
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I would prefer the ballot but I’m not opposed to bullets if need be. If Vietnam taught me anything (I was a journalist there and in Cambodia), you don’t negotiate with your sworn enemies, you destroy them, utterly and totally like the Romans did to Carthage.
Let’s put the fight into simple terms - We are for America, they are against America. And I, for one, am not abandoning our great country to a neo-Marxist totalitarian state. I owe it to my grandchildren to stop our enemies from destroying our freedoms on the campuses, in the news media, in our schools, religious institutions, libraries or in the streets.
What we have now is the 60’s on steroids, led by greedy and corrupt politicians, Marxist professors, really stupid young people, and professional communist/racist agitators with tons of money from corrupted liberal foundations and individuals.
It is time to take a stand for freedom. Otherwise get the hell out of the way, hide in your basement, and let those of us who value freedom protect it, one way or the other.
Thankfully, they are not as free to choose as they think.
We are armed, and legal or not, I intend to stay that way.
Appreciate the update.
“Bleeding heart liberal’’ Oh, yeah. You’ll be bleeding from more than that if you ever screw with me.
Yes. There will.
Thanks for posting. Nice to read one liberal still using their brain for what it was intended for as well as their heart. I also very much appreciate the challenge of calling out many liberals elitist dogmatism that has easily entered the very concerning territory long ago. (Fascists, totalitarian thinking, action, and black heart.)
Let’s call today’s liberals what they are, ambitious, authoritarian Communist/Marxist wannabees.>>>>
I disagree. There is nothing communist about the magic negro’s in your face , community organizing movement.They have successfully weaponized the DOJ, CIA, FBI, IRS,EPA, Veterans Affairs, and Dept of Education against the People. To do this they did not follow communist economic theories of the proletarian and bourgeoisie revolutionary ideology of Karl Marx or Stalin. Instead these Socialist racial -ethnic minority nationalists have systematically usurped our cultural institutions , government institutions and even our financial institutions. They use the ideology of Saul ALinsky ( book: rules for radicals,), seeking to establish an America ruled by various racial and ethnic minority cities across the nation ( Sanctuary Cities), intending to spread and grow this poison until it engulfs the whole nation.
The problem is that people do not meet these liberal fascist bastards head on, either thinking they are communists or legitimate politicians. They are not. They gain their election success through pretending to be supporters of the Constitution when in fact they are not, fooling the People into electing the bastards.To fool people they rely on a usurped liberal fascist press.
Now how can we stop these liberal fascists? Winston Chuirchill showed us how to do that during and after WWII
which defeated international fascism and irs rise both in Americ ( yes America had a fascist party admired by Joseph Kennedy and Lindburgh), Japan and Europe. What Churchill showed us is a three part approach:
1) Reveal publicly , shine the light on their activities
2) Clearly identify the individuals involved
3) Subject these individuals to public ridicule
4) Prosecute them to the full authority of the law for crimes committed.
Commnunist revolutionaries would simply seek arms and use them to destroy their political enemies. That does not work in America, too many of us are armed. We face the isidious enemy of liberal fascism, and we need to make our politicians recognbize them and wage political war on them, assign them to thedust bin of history. Our government is in and internal battle wioth a weaponized executive run by a liberal fascist syndicate which is much like the mafia, using racketeering and influence to gain unlawful political and financial ends, comntrary to our federal RICO statutes.Men like Comey , McCabe, Rosenstein, Mueller and many others are liberal fascists who should be on the inside of a jail cell for their crimes.
Yes, we have liberal fascists and a president who knows how to stop them.We are winning. What you see on the propaganda news are the death throws of these liberal fascists who have been such a scourge on our nation. This is why these liberal facists hate our president so much and they are now trying to whip their base into a frenzy of violence so they will commit violence in the streets. If necessary Americans will kill them to stop them, but that will not likely be necessary, for we will prevail at the ballot box, ridicule these liberal fascist further and hand their dirty asses to them on platters in th epresence of the general public. All we have to do is get out the vote.
This is a very giood read explaining the lineage of today’s modern liberal fascists, who are much like the nationalist socialist party of 1928 Germany, right down to hating the Jewish People.
Good Read:
“The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
When half the country agrees with the leader but the
other half believes the opposite things need to be
worked out. Obama never learned that.
“Yes, polling data suggests we may be in for a “blue wave” this November, but we’ve gotten overconfident about polling numbers before.” BINGO we have a winner! They will soon come to realize that the polls that tell them they are convincing us to willingly line up to let them 1) repeal the 2 A 2) repeal Trump’s tax cuts 3) Impeach Trump 4) treat US like illegal aliens should be treated and 5) force US to pay reparations to give them the money to buy Black votes ARE AS WRONG AS :HILLARY WINS BY A LANDSLIDE POLLS.
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