Posted on 07/24/2015 8:11:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: This article was co-authored by Tim Graham.
The end of the Supreme Court term was depressing for conservatives. The double-whammy of a 50-state mandate for gay marriage and the upholding of Obamacare sounded the alarms for religious freedom. All that unease is measurable.
Credit The Washington Post for doing precisely that. The polling team has just reported, "Liberals have won a string of victories on gay marriage and health care reform this year, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds a large majority of Americans are unhappy with where the nation is headed on social issues."
They found 63 percent of respondents are uncomfortable with the country's overall direction on social issues these days; 41 percent feel "strongly" uncomfortable about the nation's changes.
The spin coming from the media suggesting there is a national celebration underway is simply false. Indeed, the findings aren't encouraging for Democrats: 51 percent of racial minorities are uncomfortable with the current tide on social issues, along with two-thirds of women and even 50 percent of adults under age 30. That doesn't sound like the conventional wisdom about the "right side of history" crushing everything in its path.
The left counts on unelected forces to press its agenda. Hollywood's assembly line of products push the LGBT agenda with so much fervor that polls show Americans think about a quarter of the population is gay, 10 times higher than reality. Judges with their fingers in the wind feel "change" is in the air, and bow to media elite pressure.
But the debate isn't over. On the hot-button issues individually, the nation is divided. "History" is incomplete. It's as fluid as the liberals are on gender. It's true that gays have made significant gains in recent years -- but how significant? On the Supreme Court mandate for gay marriage, 52 percent expressed support and 44 percent were opposed (51 to 45 among registered voters). The public divides more closely on the Supreme Court ruling for Obamacare (45 percent for, 42 percent against).
Nevertheless, media coverage of these issues lines up dramatically for making and solidifying "change" and lectures that the Republican Party would be suicidal to take a stand against the tsunami of social liberalism. It dovetails perfectly with President Obama's spin. Both willfully ignore polls that suggest otherwise.
A new AP-GfK poll also found less of a social revolution in the polls. Their survey found support for gay marriage in America slipped to 42 percent, with 40 percent opposing. Only 39 percent backed the Supreme Court decision, 41 percent were opposed, and 18 percent didn't take a position. When gay rights was placed alongside religious liberty, 39 percent said it's more important for the government to protect gay rights, while 56 percent said protection of religious liberties should take precedence. Support for religious vendors being able to refuse to serve gay marriages climbed seven points to 59 percent.
Unease with the state of social issues in the country surely means other issues as well, including illegal immigration, legalizing marijuana in several states, racial rioting, and the rhetorical war on police officers coming from the left.
No one should believe liberals when they imply that social conservatives are finished. As a liberal hero once proclaimed on a convention stage, "the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Is the Pope Communist?
The Americans unhappy about all this do not count. They will have to be rounded up and shot. (Or at least narcotized on trashy TV . . . )
Yes. The cliff is rapidly approaching.
Geez Brent, where the hell have you been? Need to get out of that DC bubble and see the damage liberalism has done on the country.
Public schools are winning.
to undo the fundamental change, there must be fundamental change.
As a liberal hero once proclaimed on a convention stage, “the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Ted Kennedy said this at the 1980 Democrat convention.
Liberals dreams are never fulfilled. They just move the goal posts.
With homosexual marriage, for example, the goal posts have simply moved. Rather than feeling their lives are complete for having achieved so called “marriage equality”, now there are rumblings that we need to sue churches and religious institutions which don’t recognize homosexual marriage. Even before the Supreme Court ruling, we have seen lawsuits against wedding vendors which didn’t service homosexual weddings.
The liberals are never happy. Having achieved any goals of their’s simply moves the goal posts as they move on to some other alleged “inequality”.
Anyone else notice we’re hearing lots more recently about the “T” or transgendered, of the “LGBT” peoples??? They have decided that the social/political climate has changed enough for them to push more and more depraved behaviors and ideas upon us.
That’s a question that doesn’t need asking.
Or put into Concentration Camps (reference: the Weather Underground Manifesto) until they ‘see the light’. And if they don’t see the light, THEN rounded up and shot.
No. It is just the current fad of the prosperous and the sick who have managed to gain control of the propaganda apparatus and spread their warped understanding through the current populace.
But this is just a temporary thing, because idiocy is self correcting over the long run. All these currently dominant ideas will cause their adherents to come to a bad end, and nature will eventually reestablish sanity through the survivors.
We see this happening in Europe where they have committed suicide by inviting Muslims to live with them. That will likely end up in a clash of blood at some point.
General Wesley Clark calls for putting ‘disloyal’ Americans in internment camps. (to re-educate them) Of course, the term ‘disloyal’ is subjective.
Brent apparently still thinks that the will of the people and public opinion still count for something in this country.
The pendulum has about swung to its furtherest
It will begin to swing the other way soon
“General Wesley Clark calls for putting ‘disloyal’ Americans in internment camps.”
I suspect Dinesh D’souza is a test run.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/psych-major-judge-overrides-doctors-on-dsouza/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3311657/posts
More like 'dupe'...
Remember how some used to answer an obviously simple question? Is the Pope Catholic?
I’ve just changed it around a little to reflect the current Pope.
The Right's victories are "not losing any yardage" ... which is devolving rapidly into "not losing too much yardage (at one time)".
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