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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on April 12, 2017, 09:22:06 AM
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Everything happens in cycles. We were down once, and (probably) will be again. And this was written last month.
Why the liberal establishment is collapsing
Calamity at the Academy Awards illustrates the folly of making smug assumptions
By Tammy Bruce - - Wednesday, March 1, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
I didn’t watch the Academy Awards, but I sure enjoyed them — via Twitter. The collection of world-famous and super-rich liberals and leftists had one job, and they failed. The spectacular screwup of announcing the wrong winner for Best Picture wasn’t even the issue, or about one person making a mistake. Mistakes are made all the time.
In reality, this vignette of fools is a perfect illustration of why the liberal establishment is in collapse: hate-obsessing on something that contradicts their own self-reverential worldview, condemning them to perpetual distraction. The result is the inevitable crashing and burning.
In other words, Democrats and liberals have been driving drunk while texting for eight years. Swerving into the wrong lane, they crashed into oncoming traffic and sit, dazed and confused, wondering what happened. The few survivors crawl out of the clown car screaming at the innocent people they’ve harmed. After all, it’s never their fault, you see, it’s everyone else’s for daring to get in their way.
Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel led the way, as Entertainment Weekly noted, “The first salvo against Donald Trump was fired only a few minutes into the Oscars — and then they just kept on coming. In what might be an unprecedented number of jokes, allusions, and sincere articulations inspired by a single person during an awards telecast, Hollywood’s most luminous tackled Trump and his policies. …”
The target may have been President Trump, but the derision was meant for the people who elected him. Nothing says “oops” like ridiculing your audience.
True enough. The rest of the column . . . http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/1/liberal-establishment-is-failing/