Posted on 09/03/2010 10:36:13 PM PDT by neverdem
So desperate they have been to re-define what “mainstream” is. The mainstream doesn’t buy it. Progressivism is fringe and always will be.
Ridiculous.
Liberals have won the culture war. Since the Great Depression, the United States has shifted left both socially and economically. Conservatism has served only to slow this shift, not to arrest or reverse it. And even conservatism has gradually been redefined to the left.
Look at the nation we live in today compared to the nation our grandparents and great-grandparents lived in. To claim that liberals have lost the culture war, that there has been a rejection of liberalism, is just preposterous.
Wishing this were different doesn't make it so.
An excellent commentary on the culture by Roger Hedgecock.
He’s put into words something that most of us Tea Party rebels have been feeling for years, and that is; Americans have reached the end of their tolerance and patience with left-liberalism.
The American people naively accepted that the left truly wanted to improve this country, and allowed them to slowly and incrementally violate our Founding Principles, our traditions, and our Constitution, in a million ways, large and small.
The cumulative damage done to the country by nearly 100 years of left-liberal destruction has brought us nearly to the brink of collapse.
I think that most of us have seen that brink approaching, and are now applying the brakes with everything we’ve got. This is the natural, and predictable response of a great people.
So desperate they have been to re-define what “mainstream” is. The mainstream doesn’t buy it. Progressivism is fringe and always will be.
This is the spiritual revival that Palin and Beck have been advocating and will be happening all across the country.
Ah....one of FR's brightest rays of sunshine weighs in.
No, Drew. No one's rejecting liberalism, the Democrats are going to win even MORE seats in Congress this fall, and everybody just loves Obama.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. Witness George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" which resulted in a huge Medicare benefit increase for prescription drugs, and also in an Administration which looked the other way while illegal immigration got completely out of hand. Today, the Republican Party is pandering to homosexuals. It's all about the votes and power, there is no principle.
we need to change the liberal, commie brainwashing happening in U.S. schools everywhere. It is one critical breading ground for all of this mess.
1994. Where are we now?
I’m not ever giving up but Drews point is what it is.
You are correct, sir!
And as far as culture war issues go, the left has won on abortion. I doubt that Roe vs. Wade will ever be overturned, and even if it were, it would simply return the abortion issue to state laws. Liberal states would pass laws allowing abortion on demand. Some conservative states might severely restrict or outlaw abortion if Roe were overturned, but abortion on demand would still be the law of the land in much of the country.
And we’re on the verge of seeing federal courts impose homosexual marriage on all 50 states. It may take a few years but the seeds for that one are planted too.
And even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the challenges in federal court from Mass. and California, bit by bit we will see liberal states vote to allow homosexual marriage. If society continues on its current track of being more open and accepting of homosexuality, then homosexual marriage will be institutionalized in our culture.
Good article here.
I'm surprised you have to ask, with all of the articles posted here on that very subject.
In short, the Republicans polled about 5 points ahead of the Democrats in the Generic Congressional poll, just before they took over Congress in 1994.
Today, the Republicans are polling close to ten points ahead of the Democrats, which portends a massive shift to the right in November. Many observers are saying that this will likely be the hugest shift of Congress in our history.
That's where we're at.
Drews point is what it is.
Which means what? That his point is valid? If you're a liberal who refuses to see the reality happening before your very eyes, I guess it's valid. The rest of us see exactly what Roger Hedgecock sees.
There's a fundamental, tectonic shift in attitudes occurring in America, which is resulting in a growing rejection of left-liberalism. The country is turning back toward its Founding Principles with a vengeance. The long experiment with (and tolerance for) the progressive agenda is over.
Sadly, I agee with you - I see the Sacco and Vinzetti trial as the turning point. We’ll never get a foothold there - the Right abandoned culture generations ago.
In this country, things can change swiftly, so I am hoping that 2010 will mark a change of the magnitude such as marked the 1820s. Time will tell. Pols like Miller and Rubio belong to a generation born after the last of the Boomers. Not all the Boomers were liberals, and DeMint is evidence of that.
You’re right. The AAL (Anti-American Left) has lost some recent skirmishes, but they’ve won so much for so long that it will take herculean efforts to bring America forward to its Christian roots.
“Wishing this were different doesn't make it so.”
Exactly and well stated. The gays have won so much that they can't ever be criticized, even by the church. We have no real freedom of speech. Look at a woman the wrong way and you can be charged with sexual harassment. Crimes against minorities have double penalties because of hate crimes legislation. The Log Cabin Republicans just had a big party led by Bush's out of the closet campaign manager, while Freepers galore here twisted themselves into knots saying that they didn't even care about homosexuality.
Television is a wasteland of half hour long commercials because most old time programs and movies can't get past the invisible curtain of political correctness.
But we supposedly won the culture war, according to this guy. Liberals lost on guns, the ERA and the death penalty, but they filled up the judiciary with judges that won't enforce that third item, so they won there too. They have won so often and so much that their horses have to stop and rest. That's all.
This is a single election, and afterwards the press will blame Republicans for everything from snow storms to hurricanes to toilets not flushing. And the same idiots that believed the media liars since 2004 and for sixty years before that will believe them again.
I hate to spoil the party. Enjoy the win. It will be a win. Just remember we only get one of these every twenty years, and only after the Dems achieve full and total power and begin to drink the people's blood.
Every now and then we slow the train down. That's about it.
Good article.
It would take a major shift in November to bring to a halt to the worst excesses of the liberals. It is not a good sign that even some of the headliners are soft-peddling the gay marriage issue. It was a big mistake agreeing to the so-called civil union. But as the gay activists correctly pointed out, the real dagger in the back of traditional marriage was “fault-free” divorce. No partnership of such importance ought to be dissolvable on a whim.
great article regarding the Bolsheviks relentless march.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_drumbeat.html
Pass this on to everyone you know.
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