Give the liberals time....
I didn’t agree with him the other day, so I’m glad I can here.
I sure hope he doesn’t hold his breath though.
To be honest, I think he gave our side a free pass here. We could use a little more thinking as well IMO.
Sowell ping!
BTTT.
Of course we’re not Russia or Germany. I don’t expect mass arrests or killing on a mass scale.
What I expect is the loss of careers in academia, media, and government by those who don’t believe the prevailing ideology; harassment through regulation against groups and individuals who don’t try to get along; intimidation and threats, usually spoken in soft, kindly voices, with a smiling police official or a government agent standing silently in the background; silencing voices using laws against “hate speech” and “sexual harassment”; and, occasionally, a show trial for those few who are prominent enough or sufficiently vocal to upset the apple cart. I can see the apologetics even now: “He just lost his job, can’t he move on?” or “No one has the right to say things which can be interpreted as hate.”
The end result will probably be something on the order of the Glorious Revolution of the 1660s in England, with elites battling elites, institutions battling institutions, and a few prominent heads rollings, perhaps literally among the fanatics in leftist communities.
At the end, hopefully, we will regain our sense of freedom and individualism, in the same way that the English dealt with their issues of royalty, church, and rule of law. I have faith in the United States, and I really don’t see us at the end of our time in this world. On the other hand, for the next several years, it might seem that way.
I could title this, “Why I don’t listen to anything politicians say and look only at their records.”
BTTT
It says something that Hillary is arguably—and by a very small margin—perhaps, the least scary Democrat out there!
Their call is for UTOPIA but in reality they want ME_TOP_A_U.
“the time is long overdue for voters to demand specifics instead of rhetoric that turns their emotions on and their minds off...”
look for voters to opt for emotionalism. (heaven help us.)
heil hillary! !!!
The real difference between liberals and conservatives is in which specific things they want to change, and in what way.
Milton Friedman was the leading conservative thinker of his time but he wanted to radically change the Federal Reserve, the school system, and the tax system, among other things.
Everybody is for change. They differ on the specifics. Uniting people behind the thoughtless mantra of "change" means asking for a blank check in exchange for rhetoric.
The real difference between "liberals" and "conservatives" (note my scare quotes) is in which specific things they want to change, and in what way.Journalism is simply self-promotion via the ownership of propaganda organs and monopolization of the newswire. Journalism, that is, exists to promote its cheap talk over concrete action, which can always be second guessed. Journalists award positive branding to their fellow demagogues, and negative branding to those who reject demagoguery. The founding fathers were liberals (without scare quotes), and outside the US the word "liberal" still is understood to refer to their (and FreeRepublic's) perspective. So when journalists were handing out positive labels to their friends they awarded the term "liberal" to them. And when journalists were handing out negative labels to their opponents they imposed the term "conservative" (which is the last thing that the British would have thought to call the founding fathers) on us.
And many others, dissenters typially, did not 'make it' to realize the regret.