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1 posted on 11/27/2016 5:56:29 AM PST by randita
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The Democrat party is becoming the splinter party of large urban area ghettos, where the party faithful are dependent on the party masters to hand out living expenses one way or the other. And the Democrats have to figure out how they can run a Caucasian candidate at the top of the ticket and not suffer a severe decrease in votes. Right now their best course of action is rotate stereotypes at the top of the ticket and hope for the best.


2 posted on 11/27/2016 6:01:39 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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Good points here; in the end, Hillary simply didn’t make the case that she would be a good president to many people.


3 posted on 11/27/2016 6:04:35 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The disparity of wealth within American cities will ot be tolerated for ever. The control of the cities by corrupt black scoundrels will not continue. The cities will continue to fall apart as sections are burned and abandoned. The city centers will continue to be safe until the first fires destroy real money, real wealth.

Then theory and ideology will be abandoned and the power will crush the people and progressiveism will die


4 posted on 11/27/2016 6:14:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closets?)
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Never miss the opportunity to bask in the glow of victory provided by Trump, as if they were entitled to it. Considering how this mag fought tooth and nail to undermine Trump, the tone of article is rather disingenuous, even though many valid points are raised. If you read this article without any knowledge of what they did prior to the election, you could get the feeling that they saw all signs of momentous change and worked to make the best out of it.

Here is what he wrote back in August

Donald Trump's Media Supporters Have a Lot to Answer For
Trump Is Losing, and Losing It


5 posted on 11/27/2016 6:17:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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The Dems are in serious danger of becoming a regional party.

So. . . .don’t stop them. ENCOURAGE them. Fluff-up their lunacies. . .


7 posted on 11/27/2016 6:26:27 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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I have a number of issues with the article, which I read in an earlier iteration. The overt sexism is fun but not particularly true or helpful.
Progressives are most effective when out of power and throwing bombs at those in power. Since it is not actually ideological so much as it is purely left wing political it resembles a war machine more than a political party. Progressives are best at breaking things and killing, even when in power.
Obama will be remembered for his attacks on traditional American values - family, culture, religion - and not on building anything at all. Even his vaunted medical program had more to do with destroying the greatest medical system in the history of the world than it did making those services available to the masses.
Hillary, for her admirers, was all about vagina politics. She has nothing constructive to offer. It is especially ironic that the only smear that half way landed on Trump was a private boast between boys about their sexual exploits. Ironic because Trump boasted of grabbing the very essence of the Clinton candidacy.
The article never quite breaks from its insistence upon identity politics as the sole means of achieving a plurality. It overlooks entirely the most basic element of Trump’s campaign, his appeal to basic American values. His was not an appeal to a group or a class but to an idea, a way of life, and a set of principles that is at the core of what it means to be an American.
Clinton kept yammering away about “American Values” but she never described them and showed an indifference to their more specific application. (free enterprise, religious values, family in the strictest sense, brotherhood, and unity) Trump was all over these specifics.
The article is at best a half hearted attempt to acknowledge Trump’s political genius while not giving away the leftist farm.


11 posted on 11/27/2016 6:43:14 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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Trump’s lack of conservative principle is unwelcome,..

Lol. But Jeb Bush, he's a real fighter for conservative principle, right NR?

Trump has already put together a far more conservative agenda than any of the pantywaists that the Never Trump NR cowards and insiders wanted to foist on us.

To coin a phrase: Pussies

13 posted on 11/27/2016 6:52:14 AM PST by ecomcon
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Kevin is part of the game, because if conservative intellectuals did not take seriously those crazy white women of the Left no one would. Oh thank god for conservative intellectuals and their egos, >sarcasm off


16 posted on 11/27/2016 7:09:04 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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ITS NOT PROGRESSIVES....ITS REGRESSIVES

REGRESSIVES NOW.

ITS A NEW DAY


21 posted on 11/27/2016 8:10:25 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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WE LOST 2 SENATORS
WE LOST 6 REPRESENTATVES
WE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE BY OVER A MILLION VOTES

time to go to work
not time to gloat.

VIVA TRUMP


22 posted on 11/27/2016 8:12:14 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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Power is all the pro-egressives want.
Not for everyone but for themselves.
It kind of works like thev pyramid schemme but it’s more about self aggrandizement than money.
Money is only the vehicle.


23 posted on 11/27/2016 8:34:51 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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From its beginnings in the late-1800's, the Liberal/Progressive movement's ideology has disguised its focus on acquisition of power over people by the same tired old arguments Hillary made in 2016, that "she" was going to "fight for you," if "you" would just be "with her."

Perhaps we might look back to Republican, Abraham Lincoln, and to the principles of Jefferson which he declared to express an "abstract truth applicable to all men and all time" as a "stumbling-block" and warning to threatening ideologies which lead to tyranny and oppression by government.

Springfield, Ills, April 6, 1859

Messrs. Henry L. Pierce, & others.

Gentlemen

Your kind note inviting me to attend a Festival in Boston, on the 13th. Inst. in honor of the birth-day of Thomas Jefferson, was duly received. My engagements are such that I can not attend.

Bearing in mind that about seventy years ago, two great political parties were first formed in this country, that Thomas Jefferson was the head of one of them, and Boston the head-quarters of the other, it is both curious and interesting that those supposed to descend politically from the party opposed to Jefferson should now be celebrating his birthday in their own original seat of empire, while those claiming political descent from him have nearly ceased to breathe his name everywhere.

Remembering too, that the Jefferson party were formed upon its supposed superior devotion to the personal rights of men, holding the rights of property to be secondary only, and greatly inferior, and then assuming that the so-called democracy of to-day, are the Jefferson, and their opponents, the anti-Jefferson parties, it will be equally interesting to note how completely the two have changed hands as to the principle upon which they were originally supposed to be divided.

The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

I remember once being much amused at seeing two partially intoxicated men engage in a fight with their great-coats on, which fight, after a long, and rather harmless contest, ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat, and into that of the other. If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams, they have perfomed the same feat as the two drunken men.

But soberly, it is now no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation.

One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success.

One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities"; another bluntly calls them "self evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races."

These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect--the supplanting the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned heads, plotting against the people. They are the van-guard--the miners, and sappers--of returning despotism.

We must repulse them, or they will subjugate us.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.

Your obedient Servant
A. Lincoln--


Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler.

Source for this reproduction of the letter is

With regard to Lincoln's expressed admiration and defense of the "principles of Jefferson," perhaps a recap of those principles, as expressed by Jefferson in his 1801 Inaugural Address, might be in order here:

(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;

- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;

- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;

- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter

—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?

- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,

- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.

- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;

- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;

- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;

- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;

- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;

- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;

- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;

- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;

- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;

- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;

- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;

- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;

- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.

These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson


24 posted on 11/27/2016 9:14:21 AM PST by loveliberty2
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Democrats control the dean of students’ office at Oberlin.

LOL!

28 posted on 11/27/2016 10:18:49 AM PST by Rummyfan
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