It would be if not for the lies.
Liberals will gloat all the way to the bankrupt.
[. . . social stability seems to be an important ingredient to economic success.]
Carl Jung once referred to this as the “protective wall of the human community.”
I’m not sure who this Douhat guy is but I rather like people (both conservative and liberal) who hold their own to account. Seems like a pretty rare quality these days. Most people just want to attack the other side. And yes, I thought this article was very thoughtful.
Gloating’s fine. But, I’ll always have the last laugh because I don’t have to face every day as a complete idiot.
The comments are stunning—unless one spends a lot of time with progs. I don’t. Talk about darkened intellects. These people are denizens of Hell—they just haven’t died yet.
I grew up with this fishwrap of a paper. I now buy it on Sundays (with cash, or they hammer me with solicitation as they are desperate for sales), just for the crossword - ice to have in magazine form. The rest sits undisturbed in my bugout stash of necessities.
This article sounds a few paragrphs in, can’t read anymore lest nausea set in prior to bedtime, like it’s the liberal guilty gloat. They cannot be truly pleased and they are particularly mortified regarding the Republican on challenge position.
Can`t disagree with what the author is saying. When the familial cohesion is absent, something is going to fill the gap, and that something tends to be government. Many single women regard government as husband and provider, thus bringing up children who see it as a surrogate father.
With trends as they are heading, this is only going to increase.
This is to at least some extent a chicken-egg situation.
Social stability is a lot more difficult to achieve when struggling economically.
Eric Harley from Red Eye Radio makes this point too. He says that one of the primary reasons that democrats win these elections is because of fear. People will nod their head in agreement to each and every conservative point you make. But when they go into the voting booth they vote for democrats. Because during bad economic times, they feel they need ‘big government’ to care for them. And the democrats are FOR big government, republicans are against it. (at least they say they are)
These are the ones who dont presently feel that they are a part of the 47%. But they want to know that big momma will be there to protect them when they do become a part of it. There’s not much you can do about this mentality. I am in agreement with some folks who say it’s best to let it all go to greece. Because folks will not understand the failure of this model until they feel the pain.
The mind of the ultimate political, ‘moderate’ suck up confessed and revealed:
“Please let me choose the popular (ie, cool) candidate and be among the winners!”
No wonder he writes for the NY Times as a fig-leaf ‘conservative’.
Read the comments, no one seems to agree with this guy.
So...buy more guns.
Our country, under the Obama admin, hasn’t been this divided since the Civil War. How can this be considered stability?
In the 50's military contractorss built products, like airplanes on spec and went into competition to win a longer contract. Then the Democratic party decided to take that burden off the workers and the employer. We may not return to that but we sure could work out some of the cost over run crap.
Typical of liberal rags to publish something like this right after the election, in which they actively took the liberal side. It’s as if thye are trying to wash themselves somehow, ask for absolution of their bias, or somehow make the scales balance so they can lay some (however tenuous) claim to neutrality.
Sorry, we have seen this movie before. Not buying it.
It is a sloppy analysis to blame a group like Latinos for the loss, who have never been a Republican voting bloc. Voter Cutting welfare wasn’t even a particularly big issue during the campaign. Obama did as well among that group as Clinton did. Romney lost the election because he did not make the sale on the economy and fixing the finances of the federal government, even to conservatives, not because of changing demographics.
srbfl
“Republicans are now Radio Shack to their Apple store, “The Waltons” to their “Modern Family,” a mediocre Norman Rockwell to their digital-age mosaic”
In all three comparisons, I prefer the former to the latter.