Posted on 02/15/2020 4:37:48 AM PST by karpov
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Mr. Sanders wouldn’t be this close to the White House if not for the complicity of Democrats and the liberals who dominate the academy and media. Rather than fighting the ideas that animate him and his millennial voters, they have indulged and promoted them. They created the political environment in which he could prosper. Consider the intellectual currents he is riding:
• The attack on capitalism and markets. Like Tony Blair in Britain, Bill Clinton’s New Democrats accommodated the economic lessons of Ronald Reagan. By the Obama Presidency, all that had changed. The left blamed markets for the 2008 panic and crash—not failed government regulation, subsidies for bad housing risks, or too loose monetary policy.
Then came the socialist intellectual comeback led by French economists Thomas Piketty (“Capital”), Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Inequality replaced growth as the top economic policy concern. The economists resurrected the anti-market ideas and tax policies of the 1930s, and they were celebrated by the Democratic press. Occupy Wall Street became the street version of this movement and was praised by no less than Barack Obama.
It’s a short ideological hop from there to 60% marginal tax rates, wealth taxes, the demonization of billionaires, and equating business success with “corruption,” as Mr. Sanders and Elizabeth Warren do. Millennials heard Democrats assail “the rich” for years, but Bernie has the courage of their pretensions.
• The rise of left-wing intolerance on campus. From the late 1960s on, the political left flooded into the academy and rewrote the curriculum to fit its ideological fashions. American history was dogmatized, often according to the work of Howard Zinn. The Western canon was purged. Conservatives resisted but lost as liberals accommodated the revolution.
[Humanities,] social sciences and now even the sciences have been forced to bend to identity politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
(3) the "critique of America as irredeemably racist" from Black Lives Matter and writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates. They cite the 1619 project of the New York Times as an example of this thinking.
(4) "climate change as religion, not science" leading to support for radical proposals such as the Green New Deal.
As I told my TDS friend “What does it say about the Democratic Party if their Presidential nominee is not a Democrat?”
Which is not completely different from the Republicans in 2016. The Republicans didn’t want Trump initially but the people (and the Democrats) did.
Good article. It is possible that what it assails is the majority opinion in the country and Trump could lose to Bernie, all the excitement and audiences at Trump rallies notwithstanding.
Also in the 60s leftists began to embed themselves in social service jobs.
(5) The unfettered right to abortion in all circumstances and times, including post birth
(6) The notion that gender is a social construct
I other words, as Rush noted, the Rats are dictating and creating issues when NONE exist. Just like Russia, Russia, Russia, and impeachment.
We see right through this BS.
Soviet moles started infiltrating our institutions decades ago and grooming useful idiots to spread their. What we see now is the culmination of decades of inserting communist ideology into academia, entertainment, and news media. Our election of Trump was a push back against that, but we are still in a very precarious and dangerous situation as far as our freedom and rights are concerned.
“If you build it, they will come!”
Applies to every evil thing the Leftists promote - and then they’re always SURPRISED by the results: Increased Poverty, Increased Crime, Economic Strangulation, Poop in the streets...and now, Bernie!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of Commies!
He holds a large fraction of the Dem base hostage, until the DNC pays him to go away.
Did it in '16, he's doing it now, will probably do it in '24 if he's still alive.
Have you noticed that wherever leftists are in charge, there is is filth?
What is the relationship between leftism and filth?
Dirty RATs.
(somebody had to say it)
‘It is possible that what it assails is the majority opinion in the country and Trump could lose to Bernie’
he wouldn’t be losing to Bernie, he would be losing to the entirety of the left wing; Bernie is nothing more than a titular head, serving his purpose of unseating Trump and then slated to die within a year or two of election...then their Young Turks take over, after the phony tears at the funeral...
Hear hear!
Good post.
FMCDH(BITS)
I love how and Independent swooped in to steal the precious Gold Ring that the Democrats spent decades nurturing and molding.
-PJ
<>The notion that gender is a social construct<>
One upside is Leftist parents get to watch their daughters getting cheated out of sports awards.
Peace Corp.
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