Stephanie
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Ive mentioned this a few times...They don't just disagree if you have different political views, they hate you for it..their elected Representatives show so openly today it's no wonder..
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By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
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The Washington Times
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly limited range of perception. It all began back in the 1960s when radical thought gained a footing with American liberals. Back in those days, liberals relished America, the mixed economy (as they called capitalism) and our system of government, and they were free of the bees in their bonnets that eventually drove them to collective suicide: feminism, socialism, identity politics and all the little stuff: consumerism, the sky is falling, something about organic foods. Taken one thing with another, it finally consumed liberalism, moving me last year to administer the last rites to the whole gaudy set of bugaboos and to pronounce liberalism dead in a sad little book, The Death of Liberalism.
Now liberalisms heirs compose the left. From the radicalism of the 1960s, the left emerged, grew powerful in the Democratic Party and replaced the corpses of liberalism to become the reigning orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. As recently as 2006, Machiavellians such as Rahm Emanuel tried to reinvigorate the party by running moderates and traditional liberals as candidates in congressional races, but his achievement was completely undone by the Republican sweep of 2010. By 2012, the left, led by their leader, the improbable president Barack Obama, completely took over the Democratic Party. These people are not like the liberals, who, while condescending to conservatives, did not hate us. These left-wingers really do hate us. That is why not much in the way of compromise can be achieved in Congress. Sometime back, I dined on Capitol Hill with a senator who had been around some three decades. He said it with telling precision, Up here, the two sides hardly ever meet. The left hates us.
I personally discovered this back in the Clinton days. A friend probably of the moderate left came banging into my gym to announce, Well, if Clinton had sex with a young intern, you were right. He should be impeached. My friend held to this view for about a month, whereupon he came again into the gym and announced, But we cant possibly side with Ken Starr. In the months ahead, the Clintons diabolized Mr. Starr so successfully that Democrats and their allies in the media came to disrelish anyone favoring the Boy Presidents impeachment. Mr. Clinton survived. Even Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a moderate liberal if there ever was one, voted against impeaching good old lovable Bill, after having said on national television that to lie under oath was cause for impeachment.
By manipulating moderate liberals passions, the left has come to this happy pass; they dominate the Democratic Party and they hate us. I know we are very likable people. We do many good works. We are kind to children and to household pets, but the left hates us. That is the way it is today. The left rarely has any dealings with conservatives whatsoever. On a growing list of issues, from guns to affirmative action to whatever militant homosexuals want, the very mention of our side of the issue brings the left to a boil. Talk radio brings the left to a boil. Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin can sally forth into comedic genius. I laugh. You laugh. Even a moderate laughs. Yet the left-wingers see no humor at all, and they have even tried to limit talk radios First Amendment rights. Such extreme measures would have been unthinkable when Hubert Humphrey was in his prime, say in 1968.
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Read more: TYRRELL: Why the left really, really hates us - Washington Times
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Links in article at site
Snip:
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
-
The Washington Times
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly limited range of perception. It all began back in the 1960s when radical thought gained a footing with American liberals. Back in those days, liberals relished America, the mixed economy (as they called capitalism) and our system of government, and they were free of the bees in their bonnets that eventually drove them to collective suicide: feminism, socialism, identity politics and all the little stuff: consumerism, the sky is falling, something about organic foods. Taken one thing with another, it finally consumed liberalism, moving me last year to administer the last rites to the whole gaudy set of bugaboos and to pronounce liberalism dead in a sad little book, The Death of Liberalism.
Now liberalisms heirs compose the left. From the radicalism of the 1960s, the left emerged, grew powerful in the Democratic Party and replaced the corpses of liberalism to become the reigning orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. As recently as 2006, Machiavellians such as Rahm Emanuel tried to reinvigorate the party by running moderates and traditional liberals as candidates in congressional races, but his achievement was completely undone by the Republican sweep of 2010. By 2012, the left, led by their leader, the improbable president Barack Obama, completely took over the Democratic Party. These people are not like the liberals, who, while condescending to conservatives, did not hate us. These left-wingers really do hate us. That is why not much in the way of compromise can be achieved in Congress. Sometime back, I dined on Capitol Hill with a senator who had been around some three decades. He said it with telling precision, Up here, the two sides hardly ever meet. The left hates us.
I personally discovered this back in the Clinton days. A friend probably of the moderate left came banging into my gym to announce, Well, if Clinton had sex with a young intern, you were right. He should be impeached. My friend held to this view for about a month, whereupon he came again into the gym and announced, But we cant possibly side with Ken Starr. In the months ahead, the Clintons diabolized Mr. Starr so successfully that Democrats and their allies in the media came to disrelish anyone favoring the Boy Presidents impeachment. Mr. Clinton survived. Even Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a moderate liberal if there ever was one, voted against impeaching good old lovable Bill, after having said on national television that to lie under oath was cause for impeachment.
By manipulating moderate liberals passions, the left has come to this happy pass; they dominate the Democratic Party and they hate us. I know we are very likable people. We do many good works. We are kind to children and to household pets, but the left hates us. That is the way it is today. The left rarely has any dealings with conservatives whatsoever. On a growing list of issues, from guns to affirmative action to whatever militant homosexuals want, the very mention of our side of the issue brings the left to a boil. Talk radio brings the left to a boil. Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin can sally forth into comedic genius. I laugh. You laugh. Even a moderate laughs. Yet the left-wingers see no humor at all, and they have even tried to limit talk radios First Amendment rights. Such extreme measures would have been unthinkable when Hubert Humphrey was in his prime, say in 1968.
All of it here
Read more: TYRRELL: Why the left really, really hates us - Washington Times
Follow us: [MENTION=39892]Was[/MENTION]htimes on Twitter
