The inevitable victory of the Left

[Dad2three]

The liberal policies are becoming more popular? As I recall we had some elections just over two months ago in the run up to those elections the liberal President stated he was not on the ballot but his polices (liberal ones) were the results of those elections do not support the claim made.

And cons said Mitten's was a shoo in. Sometimes people HOPE for the best, while recognizing history says a sitting duck loses AND midterms that have the lowest turnout since WW2?

Paul Weyrich, "father" of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other group


"Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

 

[occupied]

Change is not always good but it is inevitable and those who fight it eventually lose. Wanting things to stay the same out of fear never got us anything except stagnation and eventual domination by a more flexible and imaginative competitor.

Innovation is not a liberal ideology.

Innovation is the fruit of a flexible and fearless mind, conservatives do not possess such a thing.

If liberals want to take credit for the advancement of mankind, conservatives can take the credit for conserving conditions in the universe since the beginning of humanity. Both are silly notions.

I have already said that conservatives are the guardians of stability and the status quo which is not necessary a bad thing until they start denying the reality of things. When things are in balance the pace of change is not too sudden but the really important challenges get met with sober imagination. Conservatives and progressives both have roles to play in society but all too often conservatives get too scared and try to set back the clock to time when they were less fearful. It never works but conservatives are nothing if not blindly and perversely stubborn.

I assure you the right has no monopoly on stubbornness.

Stubbornness is often good, stubbornly denying reality is never good.

 

[Dad2three]

Liberals lost because of identity politics and accusing the majority of this country of being racist & sexist.

A loser for the left that's for sure...

If the left focused on minimum wage, education, science, r&d and infrastructure = you on the right would of lost.

lol, To funny

Voter turnout in 2014 was the lowest since WWII
Voter turnout in 2014 was the lowest since WWII - The Washington Post


Paul Weyrich, "father" of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other groups


"Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."



GOP Memo: Gerrymandering Won Us The House Majority


"How a Strategy of Targeting State Legislative Races in 2010 Led to a Republican U.S. House Majority in 2013" -- RSLC boasts that it "raised more than $30 million in 2009-2010, and invested $18 million after Labor Day 2010 alone" to ensure statehouse victories in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
"The rationale was straightforward," reads the memo. "Controlling the redistricting process in these states would have the greatest impact on determining how both state legislative and congressional district boundaries would be drawn. Drawing new district lines in states with the most redistricting activity presented the opportunity to solidify conservative policymaking at the state level and maintain a Republican stronghold in the U.S. House of Representatives for the next decade."


GOP Memo Gerrymandering Won Us The House Majority

 

[Dad2three]

Furgason was to the left as the economic crash of 2008 was to McCain.

Gawd you are dumb

 

[Clementine]

It's already over. They're just dragging out the inevitable. The population is becoming more liberal as it becomes more educated and diverse. Support for liberal policies like drug legalization, feminism and abortion, and using words as a first resort rather than drones and bombs is going to keep growing. Support for the conservative positions like racism, sexism, and xenophobia are going to die off with the aging conservative population. I can honestly see a purely liberal America within the next fifty years if demographic trends continue. The main things holding us back from this are the bastions of the Right: the fear mongering conservative media, traditional Christian whitebread society, and religion. Luckily all three of these things are dying at record pace.

Liberals always bitch about stupid people in this country.

Some have gotten an education, but still aren't intelligent. Being educated means nothing if you are taught by teachers and professors who have agendas.

Liberalism has been a miserable failure every time it's been allowed to continue.

We have nearly half the people dependent on some form of government aid. That is not what smart people do. It's what helpless people do.

The legalization of pot in some states has led to more homeless and welfare recipients moving there to take advantage of it. They brag about the tax dollars rolling it, but don't talk about how more people are getting high and little else. Potheads aren't known to be ambitious. But, those who can get subsidized by tax payers and get high legally are going to support those who handed them their dream life.

It'll be the death of this country if liberals take over. The things that need to change are eliminating crony capitalism, getting rid of the federal reserve and limiting terms for congress members.

Anytime I see someone supporting liberals, they are usually complete idiots who can't even speak properly. The left has more dependents than ever and that doesn't mean the country is getting smarter, it just means people have gotten more stupid.

 

[TemplarKormac]

It's already over. They're just dragging out the inevitable. The population is becoming more liberal as it becomes more educated and diverse. Support for liberal policies like drug legalization, feminism and abortion, and using words as a first resort rather than drones and bombs is going to keep growing. Support for the conservative positions like racism, sexism, and xenophobia are going to die off with the aging conservative population. I can honestly see a purely liberal America within the next fifty years if demographic trends continue. The main things holding us back from this are the bastions of the Right: the fear mongering conservative media, traditional Christian whitebread society, and religion. Luckily all three of these things are dying at record pace.

Those who always claim victory where there is none, are those who have been utterly defeated.

 

[Dad2three]

It's already over. They're just dragging out the inevitable. The population is becoming more liberal as it becomes more educated and diverse. Support for liberal policies like drug legalization, feminism and abortion, and using words as a first resort rather than drones and bombs is going to keep growing. Support for the conservative positions like racism, sexism, and xenophobia are going to die off with the aging conservative population. I can honestly see a purely liberal America within the next fifty years if demographic trends continue. The main things holding us back from this are the bastions of the Right: the fear mongering conservative media, traditional Christian whitebread society, and religion. Luckily all three of these things are dying at record pace.

Liberals always bitch about stupid people in this country.

Some have gotten an education, but still aren't intelligent. Being educated means nothing if you are taught by teachers and professors who have agendas.

Liberalism has been a miserable failure every time it's been allowed to continue.

We have nearly half the people dependent on some form of government aid. That is not what smart people do. It's what helpless people do.

The legalization of pot in some states has led to more homeless and welfare recipients moving there to take advantage of it. They brag about the tax dollars rolling it, but don't talk about how more people are getting high and little else. Potheads aren't known to be ambitious. But, those who can get subsidized by tax payers and get high legally are going to support those who handed them their dream life.

It'll be the death of this country if liberals take over. The things that need to change are eliminating crony capitalism, getting rid of the federal reserve and limiting terms for congress members.

Anytime I see someone supporting liberals, they are usually complete idiots who can't even speak properly. The left has more dependents than ever and that doesn't mean the country is getting smarter, it just means people have gotten more stupid.

ONE policy conservatives have EVER been on the correct side of history? Just one? lol

Get off hate talk 'news', get informed, grow a brain

 

[Rumsfeld]

Innovation is not a liberal ideology.

Innovation is the fruit of a flexible and fearless mind, conservatives do not possess such a thing.

If liberals want to take credit for the advancement of mankind, conservatives can take the credit for conserving conditions in the universe since the beginning of humanity. Both are silly notions.

I have already said that conservatives are the guardians of stability and the status quo which is not necessary a bad thing until they start denying the reality of things. When things are in balance the pace of change is not too sudden but the really important challenges get met with sober imagination. Conservatives and progressives both have roles to play in society but all too often conservatives get too scared and try to set back the clock to time when they were less fearful. It never works but conservatives are nothing if not blindly and perversely stubborn.

I assure you the right has no monopoly on stubbornness.

Stubbornness is often good, stubbornly denying reality is never good.

Well, then it simply becomes a matter of whose version of reality one is more willing to accept.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Iam so glad I will be 50 this year, because this country will burn down like Rome when 51% vote for free shit

 

[NYcarbineer]

You're one terror attack away from Fascism.

You're one sentence away from ever saying anything intelligent.

 

[Mac1958]

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The hardcore Left has been very effective over time, because it has been very consistent in its messaging and very patient. We've now reached the point where earned success is questioned (or worse), where business owners didn't build that, where people are owed something for nothing.

Of course, the Right has been very helpful to the Left, as it has either (a) acted oblivious or (b) been oblivious to the negative effects of its simplistic, binary, knee-jerk reactions to all taxes, all regulation, all government, pretty much anything that doesn't fit into its tight little vacuum. The messaging skills of the Right have, uh, vanished, and it seems to have absolutely no comprehension of the critical nature of equilibrium. None, zero. A big assist to its political adversaries.

Meanwhile, the Left continues to pile up little victories. We'll know more in 2016, I reckon.

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[Dad2three]

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The hardcore Left has been very effective over time, because it has been very consistent in its messaging and very patient. We've now reached the point where earned success is questioned (or worse), where business owners didn't build that, where people are owed something for nothing.

Of course, the Right has been very helpful to the Left, as it has either (a) acted oblivious or (b) been oblivious to the negative effects of its simplistic, binary, knee-jerk reactions to all taxes, all regulation, all government, pretty much anything that doesn't fit into its tight little vacuum. The messaging skills of the Right have, uh, vanished, and it seems to have absolutely no comprehension of the critical nature of equilibrium. None, zero. A big assist to its political adversaries.

Meanwhile, the Left continues to pile up little victories. We'll know more in 2016, I reckon.

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LOL

At least you still have humour


Political Scientist: Republicans Most Conservative They've Been In 100 Years

Political Scientist Republicans Most Conservative They ve Been In 100 Years It s All Politics NPR


Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.


The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.


Let s just say it The Republicans are the problem. - The Washington Post

 

[Mac1958]

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The hardcore Left has been very effective over time, because it has been very consistent in its messaging and very patient. We've now reached the point where earned success is questioned (or worse), where business owners didn't build that, where people are owed something for nothing.

Of course, the Right has been very helpful to the Left, as it has either (a) acted oblivious or (b) been oblivious to the negative effects of its simplistic, binary, knee-jerk reactions to all taxes, all regulation, all government, pretty much anything that doesn't fit into its tight little vacuum. The messaging skills of the Right have, uh, vanished, and it seems to have absolutely no comprehension of the critical nature of equilibrium. None, zero. A big assist to its political adversaries.

Meanwhile, the Left continues to pile up little victories. We'll know more in 2016, I reckon.

.

LOL

At least you still have humour


Political Scientist: Republicans Most Conservative They've Been In 100 Years

Political Scientist Republicans Most Conservative They ve Been In 100 Years It s All Politics NPR


Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.


The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.


Let s just say it The Republicans are the problem. - The Washington Post

Yes, another thoughtful, objective analysis from an independent thinker.

"It's all their fault! Those guys, over there! AUUUGHHH! AUUUGHHH!



.

 

[Darkwind]

It's already over. They're just dragging out the inevitable. The population is becoming more liberal as it becomes more educated and diverse. Support for liberal policies like drug legalization, feminism and abortion, and using words as a first resort rather than drones and bombs is going to keep growing. Support for the conservative positions like racism, sexism, and xenophobia are going to die off with the aging conservative population. I can honestly see a purely liberal America within the next fifty years if demographic trends continue. The main things holding us back from this are the bastions of the Right: the fear mongering conservative media, traditional Christian whitebread society, and religion. Luckily all three of these things are dying at record pace.

Yet, in the past 8 years, Republicans have increased their US House seats, their US Senate seats, hold more Governor seats and have taken more State Legislatures than any other time in the past 70 years.

All of that in the face of the only policy that progressives cling to.

Robbing Peter to get Paul's vote.

 

[Carib Gyal]

As already stated, change is not always good. Ask Germany and Russia.

Change is not always good but it is inevitable and those who fight it eventually lose. Wanting things to stay the same out of fear never got us anything except stagnation and eventual domination by a more flexible and imaginative competitor.

Innovation is not a liberal ideology.

Innovation is the fruit of a flexible and fearless mind, conservatives do not possess such a thing.

If liberals want to take credit for the advancement of mankind, conservatives can take the credit for conserving conditions in the universe since the beginning of humanity. Both are silly notions.

I have already said that conservatives are the guardians of stability and the status quo which is not necessary a bad thing until they start denying the reality of things. When things are in balance the pace of change is not too sudden but the really important challenges get met with sober imagination. Conservatives and progressives both have roles to play in society but all too often conservatives get too scared and try to set back the clock to time when they were less fearful. It never works but conservatives are nothing if not blindly and perversely stubborn.

Yes, I know what you've said. I hate to put a cramp in your self-aggrandizement, but for at the very least during the past 100 years virtually ALL innovation was the direct result of business and military development. Hardly the bastions of liberalism that you envision. Perhaps the desire for advancement has never been as benevolent and esoteric as you imagined.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Modern conservatives hardly even realize that many views and positions they hold today, and take for granted,

were once issues that their conservative predecessors fought bitterly against.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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Yet, in the past 8 years, Republicans have increased their US House seats, their US Senate seats, hold more Governor seats and have taken more State Legislatures than any other time in the past 70 years.

All of that in the face of the only policy that progressives cling to.

Robbing Peter to get Paul's vote.

And what do Conservatives have to show for it? In fact, what do Conservatives have to show for the 6 years the GOP had majority in Congress and the Presidency from 2001 to 2007?

 

[Darkwind]

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Yet, in the past 8 years, Republicans have increased their US House seats, their US Senate seats, hold more Governor seats and have taken more State Legislatures than any other time in the past 70 years.

All of that in the face of the only policy that progressives cling to.

Robbing Peter to get Paul's vote.

And what do Conservatives have to show for it? In fact, what do Conservatives have to show for the 6 years the GOP had majority in Congress and the Presidency from 2001 to 2007?

I know you think you have a point, but if you look closely, the makeup of the GOP in the 2001 to 2006 Congresses has been altered pretty drastically. Those that were the liberal go along to get along GOP'ers are being replaced with better representatives. Representatives that understand that we cannot continue to go the progressive way. It is disappointing and unfortunate the more republicans did not vote against the boner, but some did and that's a good example of the the country moving in the correct direction.

What we have to show for the growing and increasing popularity in the States and in the countries Congressional districts is a Congress that has finally started doing its job.

I realize that you lack civics education, but you see. The purpose of the House of Representatives is to write and pass legislation that addresses and corrects specific issues.

They are required to do this regardless of who controls the Senate or the Presidency.

The same can be said about the Senate. They are to do their job regardless of who controls the House or the Presidency.

For the past 6 years, only 1 chamber of the Congress has done its job.

Remember. Congress is under no obligation to follow a President or a President's agenda. None whatever.

Each time the President vetoes the just and legal legislation of the Congress, the people will see it. They will remember it. They will finally get a first-hand look at which who is obstructing whom.

 

[NYcarbineer]

[
Yet, in the past 8 years, Republicans have increased their US House seats, their US Senate seats, hold more Governor seats and have taken more State Legislatures than any other time in the past 70 years.

All of that in the face of the only policy that progressives cling to.

Robbing Peter to get Paul's vote.

And what do Conservatives have to show for it? In fact, what do Conservatives have to show for the 6 years the GOP had majority in Congress and the Presidency from 2001 to 2007?

I know you think you have a point, but if you look closely, the makeup of the GOP in the 2001 to 2006 Congresses has been altered pretty drastically. Those that were the liberal go along to get along GOP'ers are being replaced with better representatives. Representatives that understand that we cannot continue to go the progressive way. It is disappointing and unfortunate the more republicans did not vote against the boner, but some did and that's a good example of the the country moving in the correct direction.

What we have to show for the growing and increasing popularity in the States and in the countries Congressional districts is a Congress that has finally started doing its job.

I realize that you lack civics education, but you see. The purpose of the House of Representatives is to write and pass legislation that addresses and corrects specific issues.

They are required to do this regardless of who controls the Senate or the Presidency.

The same can be said about the Senate. They are to do their job regardless of who controls the House or the Presidency.

For the past 6 years, only 1 chamber of the Congress has done its job.

Remember. Congress is under no obligation to follow a President or a President's agenda. None whatever.

Each time the President vetoes the just and legal legislation of the Congress, the people will see it. They will remember it. They will finally get a first-hand look at which who is obstructing whom.

The question was,

what do conservatives have to show for it?

Your answer is, quite clearly, Nothing.

 

[Carib Gyal]

[
Yet, in the past 8 years, Republicans have increased their US House seats, their US Senate seats, hold more Governor seats and have taken more State Legislatures than any other time in the past 70 years.

All of that in the face of the only policy that progressives cling to.

Robbing Peter to get Paul's vote.

And what do Conservatives have to show for it? In fact, what do Conservatives have to show for the 6 years the GOP had majority in Congress and the Presidency from 2001 to 2007?

I know you think you have a point, but if you look closely, the makeup of the GOP in the 2001 to 2006 Congresses has been altered pretty drastically. Those that were the liberal go along to get along GOP'ers are being replaced with better representatives. Representatives that understand that we cannot continue to go the progressive way. It is disappointing and unfortunate the more republicans did not vote against the boner, but some did and that's a good example of the the country moving in the correct direction.

What we have to show for the growing and increasing popularity in the States and in the countries Congressional districts is a Congress that has finally started doing its job.

I realize that you lack civics education, but you see. The purpose of the House of Representatives is to write and pass legislation that addresses and corrects specific issues.

They are required to do this regardless of who controls the Senate or the Presidency.

The same can be said about the Senate. They are to do their job regardless of who controls the House or the Presidency.

For the past 6 years, only 1 chamber of the Congress has done its job.

Remember. Congress is under no obligation to follow a President or a President's agenda. None whatever.

Each time the President vetoes the just and legal legislation of the Congress, the people will see it. They will remember it. They will finally get a first-hand look at which who is obstructing whom.

The question was,

what do conservatives have to show for it?

Your answer is, quite clearly, Nothing.

Control of Congress. Next question.