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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on August 27, 2010, 03:38:39 PM
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Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
Now we know why the country has become "ungovernable," last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?
What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument.
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Charles Krauthammer (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082605233.html)
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Yeah, I read Charles' article this morning. That guy is so brilliant, he almost scares me. But NO TINGLES!!! :lmao:
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When your political ideology fails.....play your trump cards. If that fails, yell and scream.
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When your political ideology fails.....play your trump cards. If that fails, yell and scream.
Perfect discription of the DUmp.
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I like Charles Krauthammer. He's a good writer and tells it like it is.