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While it was a slow, incremental path to where we are now, it picked up a little speed during the Bush years, when Democrats refused to accept him as president. But, once Obama was installed, the Left assumed warp speed in attempting to destroy whatever unity there was in this country. And to the Left, unity means you have to agree with them. So, Obama deserves a fair amount of the blame for where we are now.

The good news is the left have had their rear ends handed to them on November 8, 2017 with election of one Donald J. Trump as President.

“While it was a slow, incremental path to where we are now . . .”

The road to Obama was paved with good intentions. Not all of his supporters were sincere, but many really thought everyone would get something for nothing. It’s only a small fraction of the Left who realize what they are voting for and support it anyways.

May we consider for a moment that the term, "the Left," like other broad descriptions, is inadequate in presenting the very real movement which, from its inception in the late 1800's, had a determined agenda for shifting and "changing" America from its foundations in Creator-endowed individual rights and liberty.

FR's own ProgressingAmerica details much of the Progressive movement's agenda and the imposition of that agenda historically in some of his own writings.

America's citizenry needs to be informed through every means at hand about the insidious history of what began in the late 1800's as a group of self-declared "liberals" who published an agenda for just the purpose described in this thread.

Nothing about their agenda was secret: the agenda simply was ignored for decades and decades--almost as if American citizens didn't care that there was a movement under way to "change" America in a "fundamental" way.

Does that "fundamental change" phrase sound familiar?

The words, "the Left" mask, and are totally inadequate to the task of unmasking the bold and determined individuals who, since the late 1800's, have brought us to where we are.

Now is the time for those who care about the Founders' ideas of liberty to search the history of "the Progressive movement" and to understand the perverse ideology which motivates that movement.

And, finally, an Excerpt from the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" (1886) (of Declaration of Independence) by a Black Ohio Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett on "The Greatness of America"
- Note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American Section
A significant section of the above-quoted message, delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War, contains a section which addresses what Arnett called "Dangers to Our Nation" from self-described "Liberals," along with that group's published "Agenda." Readers of this thread will be surprised to read that Agenda and compare their concerns of today to the declarations contained therein.