Funny you should mention Jonathan Chait: he's only against false accusations of racism when he's not the one making them. Recall that he declared anyone who liked their plans and wanted to keep their plans RACIST! Never mind that calling that a lie was considered racist not too long before the lie was revealed.

It may seem like hypocrisy: If Liberals are lying it's racist to call them liars; if Liberals are admitting their lies it's racist to demand their promises be kept. The contradiction is easy to understand if you understand the Liberal mind: the Left defines racism as opposition to the expansion of their own arbitrary power.

Jonathan Chait is no different in this regard; he just happens to also be a hypocrite of the "Social Justice for thee but not for me" variety. In his view false accusations of racism are a perfectly acceptable and valid debating strategy ... so long as it's not used against HIM. That would be wrong.

WOW...UNBELIEVABLE! Is this article a parody or something? The "Left" is coercive? Is this propaganda? Does the author not recall the past few decades and the political developments of that period that got us to our current dysfunction in Congress?

Today in America we have an historically unprecedented degree of political conflict, especially in Congress. Don't believe me? At what other time in history was the threat of impeaching discussed as a viable political tactic? We know that the use of the filibuster and use of "holds" in the Senate has never been so out of control.

What changed over the the past two or three decades to create this situation? The unique political development during these years has been the growth of the conservative movement, post Reagan. And part of that story has been an ever increasing extremism, belligerence and sense of political entitlement of conservatives.

THIS CRISIS BEGAN WITH REPUBLICAN "COERCION"! Sincerely, it is Republicans that have become "nakedly coercive, antidemocratic, and anti-constitutional." What you want to call the coercion of the left is nothing of the sort. Many Americans who disagree vociferously with the conservative agenda are mad as hell at the arrogance of the right (The arrogant, contemptuous thesis of your article is a good example.) Not surprisingly, they want to fight fire with fire and if anything, Democrats in Washington, especially the President have not called a spade a spade and denounced the so often shameful intentions and tactics of the right.

Nakedly coercive = Holding the govt hostage to force the President to rescind legislation.

Antidemocratic = Voter suppression = Voter ID gambit and many other efforts to to alter voting procedures to reduce Democratic voter turnout.

Anti-constitutional = Putting the full faith and credit of the US in doubt with refusals to raise debt ceiling - this is contrary to oath of office and Constitutional responsibilities of Congress.

"[M]anagerial progressivism is fundamentally corporatist" ...this is fiction, nonsense, delusion. "Managerial progressivism" is not a thing. Anyway, what political action has been more clearly intended to give the corporate world control of our government than the Citizen's United decision?

Democrats do not advocate a planned economy. Unless you think good economic policy and proper and appropriate regulation is the same as a govt planned economy. Regulation and oversight does not imply that govt should be calling the shots in-place of a functioning market economy. But let's face it the banking crisis and economic nose dive we went through was very much the result of inadequate oversight and the badly-informed, self serving and short term oriented decision making of major players in the market. These "better informed authorities" fucked up big time, didn't they? You might consider the obvious fact that business decision makers screw up just as often as government decision makers. Government is no more or less competent than business.

That you equate regulation, good economic policy and real oversight of markets to the policies of fascists, Nazis and Communist 5 year plans sounds like the finger-pointing taunts and name calling of junior high school kids. You can't have a productive debate with that kind abusive remark.

You mislead the readers of the National Review with simplistic dichotomies and nonsensical overstatement. We don't have to chose beween either Fascist corporatism OR laissez faire free markets. Both are poor choices and neither extreme has been in play in US history and never will be. Your implication that if you are't with the conservative anti-government plan 100% then you are a Communist or Fascist or Nazi is a dangerous, destructive idea.

Wow, how ignorant of history are you?

Impeachment was indeed brought up frequently as a political tactic, because that's what it's for. It's the only real means Congress has to keep the President from overstepping his bounds.

What I'm unaware of in all of American history, however, is a President who actually TRIED to get impeached as a political tactic. No, that's a Barack Obama original.

And by the way, if Republicans are coercive, that doesn't mean the Left isn't.

On domestic policy the GW Bush era was pathetic. On foreign policy he left office with a stable Iraq and some progress in Afghanistan (though the rules of engagement for our troops were and are way too limited). If Pres. Obama had not bailed out completely on Iraq and fixed the ROE in Afghanistan rather than making them worse then Iraq, Afghanistan, and the broader Middle East probbably would look like "more
tractable problems than they did in 2001" This president has never met a foreign policy opportunity he didn't squander.

"Another chorus of “The Tea Party Is Racist!” from Ezra Klein, or from whomever."

Shout down anyone or any idea that will not conform. It's why the left loves Sharia, they are Jealous!

"From the Soviet five-year plans to Obamacare, all central-planning exercises begin in hubris and end in chaos."

Excellent! And precisely the point, "central-planning" requires coercion, which, in and of itself, when speaking of gov't, should be limited to those powers expressly enumerated in the Constitution.

Not, giving iPhones to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

Reading Sowell"s Basic Economics, it was interesting to know that neither Gorbachev nor Yeltzin understood the free market. They were amazed that government wasn't central-planning groceries getting to the supermarkets. How could you rise to power and not at least know this?

Our leftist are this ignorant. The scary thing is to listen to Obama in Belgium I think where he clearly described the differences of the in the statist way of thinking and the conservative thinking. It means he understands and chooses to do what he does. He knows what he is doing.

Obama understands how to use straw men, demagoguery and lies, little else.

Mitt Romney could have won had he given a speech inspired by the 10th Amendment. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a social conservative, and I confess that I am more comfortable with Salt Lake City values than with San Francisco values, but I recognize that my job as president is not to try to force Salt Lake City values onto San Fransisco - and vice versa. Marriage, abortion, guns, and medicinal marijuana can be divisive issues, and they are best left to the states to work out. We have 50 different states plus DC. We don't need central planners in Washington trying to craft a one-size-fits-all policy."

How about simply, "We don't need central planners in Washington?"

Ted Cruz repeatedly denounced the central planners in DC, but once he got into office he made the absurd statement that not locking up pot smokers in Colorado was somehow “fundamentally
dangerous to the liberty of the people." So he was for the Tenth Amendment before he was against it. Like most politicians, Cruz sticks to principles of governance or law only when it aligns with his personal beliefs, and mangles the language in Orwellian fashion to rationalize his quest for power over his fellow citizens.

Egad, to think that I even voted for him.....I feel so dirty now.

Just once I would like to see a presidential candidate stand up and say something like "I personally don't like policy X regarding issue Y, but since it does not involve interstate commerce or some other matter specifically delegated to the federal government in Article One Section 8 of our Constitution, it is a matter solely for the states to decide on their own. It is simply not a question to be decided by whoever sits in the Oval Office, or by a majority of nine lawyers in black dresses, or by 535 mouth-breathing mammals on Capitol Hill. Let California be California; let Colorado be Colorado; let Alabama be Alabama."

Oh wait, there was such a candidate in 2012, but he was rejected by the GOP in favor of the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama in 2008.

This article nails it. How do we fight back? Because as far as I can tell the establishment Republicans are not at all opposed to the coercive, progressive Frankenstein being created before our very eyes, they simply want to be the ones in charge of it.

It does indeed. Establishment Republicans are indeed indifferent to the size of Fedzilla or the debt. It's astonishing that so little energy exists on the issue of constitutional federalism. The Constitution isn't on auto pilot and it isn't self healing, but keeping political decisions at the state level makes for responsive government at least. Alas, voters were bribed with tax money and then everyone decided to sell out. It's a tragedy of the commons proposition now. Grab what you can.

More like acclimated and little concerned than not at all opposed. But immediate effect is the same. And yet, I don't want to make an enemy of someone who would be just as content whether I win or lose. Neutrality is not opposition to me even if it is not opposed to my enemy. Those in NY or DC who are neutral in the culture war may not be a problem at all.

Bush went into the Mideast because we were attacked by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. He removed the tyrannical Hussein who started a war with Iran, attacked Kuwait for her oil, attacked Israel who wasn't involved in the Gulf War, and used chemical weapons on the Kurds. Even if we didn't find WMD, we had to get rid of Hussein or spend all our time putting out his fires..

For all Bush's mistakes, we were winning in Afghanistan. With American guidance, Iraq was finally heading in the right direction, Al Qaeda was losing the battle, and Iran was under heavy sanctions that thwarted her nuclear ambitions.

ISIS, Iraq's demolition, Iran's growing power, which threatens the Sunnis even more than Israel, and Afghanistan abandoned to the Taliban have all occurred on Obama's watch.

Very well said. The left haughtily asserts that morality in general is "relative," while proclaiming its own morality to be "pure." If that's not elitism, I don't know what is.

'Liberals claim to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there ARE other views.' -Wm F. Buckley

Very well put!

Agreed. Lost in the discussion of Obama's foreign policy is the fact that despite all of his anti-Americanism, he hasn't won himself a single friend even among all the world leaders who hate us. He's that incompetent.

Let's face it ladies and gentlemen until somebody grows a set, sorry ladies, this is going to go on and on and on and on. These are easy arguments to refute. Somebody in the Republican Party needs to come out and forcefully tell these "liberals" to go jump off a cliff. Sometimes you need to fight fire with fire. Personally I think the place is in a spiral I'm just hoping for the best.

The problem as I see it with the Republican Party is that we give them too much credit. They aren't there to do anything meaningful, they are there to negotiate the compromise for the division of the spoils.

There is no need to apologize for saying someone has to grow a set. Women need to understand growing a pair of ovaries is the same as a guy growing a balls. Only female "Victim's" get butt hurt over that saying. They need to be put in their place and told to grow the hell up. This Country is turning into a bunch of victimized pussies.

While I'd never discount the importance of the fear of political persecution that such power grabs by the current Obama Crony Progressivism have instilled in the American electorate to move it in a more libertarian direction, I think that the move to a more libertarian bent amongst the right was a practical response to some very unprecedented moves in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama presidency. Renewed Keynesianism, Mind boggling debts, deficits, bailouts, quantitative easing, an auto industry take over, a health insurance industry take over, and countless tax hikes are enough to scare anyone with a modicum of respect for limited government into thinking that the rule of law is nothing but an outdated concept that Obama and his Progs only pay lip service to rather than believe. The Tea Party is an imperfect political manifestation of some very old classical liberal ideas that are deeply rooted in the libertarian laissez-faire approach to economics and democratic governance and when government goes so far so fast in expanding its reach the natural tendency is to fall back on a school of thought that has been fighting such things for a very long time.

So much of this is just bandwagoning. I do retain some friends on the left side of the aisle--though there are many times I question why--and most of them seem to latch on to the cause du jour or the outrage of the week.

A few months ago, it was Gamergate. Once the flames of Gamergate died down, it was Ferguson. After Ferguson, it was Victor Cruz. After Cruz, it was Chris Christie. Now it's the anti-vaxxers. As soon as that kerfuffle dies down, it will be something else.

Why do they do it? I'm guessing it makes them feel intellectually superior. The fact that many conservatives don't care about gay marriage one way or the other, and believe that vaccination is the smart and right thing to do--none of that matters. All it takes is one conservative to even hint that vaccination might be the choice of the parents, and we're all anti-science dunderheads. Not being 100 percent in the tank for gay marriage means we hate gays. (Never mind that the anti-vaxxer celebrities all voted for Obama, or that the Koch Brothers support gay marriage...)

We on the right (or even the center) HAVE to be anti-science homophobic racists because the left desperately needs us to be. The left HAS to feel good about itself. It approaches the level of begging people to agree with them so they can stay in their own little bubble world where everyone who disagrees is mentally or morally flawed.

We talked about this in some of the American Sniper threads here on NRO. The left hates the fact that Chris Kyle is regarded as a hero. Because if Kyle was a hero, that means (in their minds, anyhow) that Bush was right in invading Iraq. If Bush was right about Iraq, what ELSE was he right on? That can't happen. The bubble must not be burst. Kyle's supporters must be silenced, lest others hear them.

Liberals always place priority of social issues over fiscal and homeland security issue's. They do this not only to feel intellectually superior, but also morally superior. They must do this to hide the fact that they are facists who are ravenous in their desire for 100% control. This is why Obama is so easy to see through. He lied and promised people the world in his first election. He only made those promises to gain control. Once he had control, he blamed the Republican held house, via Harry Reid, for his failure to accomplish 99% of his promises. Sadly, his voters are blind and can't see this. They have been brainwashed by Main Stream Media.

You can't watch a commercial, tv program, or a movie, read most books or most newspapers and magazines without having gay's, abortion, atheism, minority rights, bi-racial relationships, all kinds of victimization causes, etc etc. shoved down your throat. Complain and you are a bigot and a racist.

Sadly, people in this Country want to be part of the "In" crowd, their worst fear is to be shunned. The left uses this to their advantage. They use name calling and worse on people that disagree with their ideology. It is to the point now, where they are even going after people's jobs and personal lives. We have seen numerous CEO's lose jobs for making contributions to causes the left deems un-pc, aka racist/bigoted/sexist.

The people that identify as liberals are damn near impossible to show the light. They are unwilling to take off the blinders and see that the Right are not racist old white men who care only for wealth and are willing to trash the planet to make a dime. They fail to see that as the OP said, we don't really give a damn about gays, bi-racial couples or whether or not someone believe's in God or not. We do care about the financial well being of the Country, because if our Country goes broke and the Economy fails, there will be no more welfare, food stamps, HUD, social security, etc.

We care about Abortion, because it is killing a human being. They get all bent out of shape if we execute a criminal and start protesting, but think nothing of the millions of innocent babies that are torn limb from limb yearly.

We, libertarians and conservatives, need to show our fellow citizens on the left that we are not the evil greedy .0001%er's they think we are. Part of doing this is cleaning out the skeletons out of our closet. Establish term limits and vote out the Conservatives that are "status pro quo" voters, that fail to make changes and are in it for the money. All we can do is try and show them we are still the decent Party we were once seen as and then prove it when we are put in charge. Gay's are here to stay, so, no more trying to stop them or supporting causes that keep them from equal rights. Lett'em get married, if they can find a preacher that will marry them, he isn't a Preacher that practices my brand of Christianity.

We need to stop fighting the war on weed. Take off the blinders ourselves and see that the majority of the Country smokes or has smoked weed and thinks nothing much of it. This doesn't mean we should allow coke or heroin or meth. Pass laws legalizing and taxing the hell out of weed and insist that if it is passed, part of the law the left must agree to is that all the rest of drugs out there are banned forever and there shall never be another vote on it or an attempt to create a law to vote on it. I know many libertarians will scoff at this, as they believe what a person puts in their body is their choice. Problem is, those drugs, if allowed to be used, will affect others. Users that can't afford their drugs, will turn to crime to support their habit, so, these drugs must be banned and never even thought of being made legal.

The "good ole days" aka the 1950s are gone and will not be coming back, so, we need to lose the vision of "Leave it to Beaver" that many far right Conservatives seem to be holding on to. We need to change, adapt and overcome to survive, so that we can maintain control and steer our Country away from the path we are on. We do not want to become a Socialist Country and that is the path we are on.

Rambling Rant over.

I don't think any of us on the right need to show we're part of the Decent Party. Rather progressive trolls, and all others who dream of arresting their political opponents at 0300 hrs., need to stop lying about our views. We need to call them out for their fawning over minorities who are living as parasites, can't compete academically, are laying waste to our cities and are the prime source of crime. Ditto for their insane promotion of open borders and the devaluation of citizenship.

Mainly, they need to cut the racistbigotteabaggernazi flapdoodle and stop trying to destroy people for speaking freely. Morons of any stripe who can't control spending, never heard of the Constitution, and can't bear for every Mexican, Muslim, and witch-burning Madigascarian on the planet not to be settled in Nashville or Pocatello - and take an American's job - need to be called out as well.

It's hopeless to try to control drugs. Can't be done and never has. All drugs are freely available now under a regime of "strict control" and they'll be freely available under a regime of no control. We should focus all efforts on meth and stopping people from injecting and inhaling household chemicals and substances from the four major food groups.

A thoughtful comment.

Your friends are morons just like some of my friends lol

"Why do they do it?"

They're casting nuts before squirrels.

I believe I'd rather be casting bullets.

That's cause you are a traditional wheel man. Magnums need jacketed, No fouling.

True, but don't underestimate 230 gr. at 900 fps.

I'll take 220 at 1500 any day. 41 mag.

I'll take "ballistics" for $200, Alex.

I'll take "The Rapist" for $400....

Very true. The echo chamber is deafening, and the left seals itself inside of it. The same thing happens on the right too, to be fair, but the left seems to be much, much worse.

While not your main point, this:

"the
Bush approach is not really looking any better in retrospect, at least
in the sense that it would be difficult to say with a straight face that
Iraq, Afghanistan, or the broader Middle East look today like more
tractable problems than they did in 2001"

is outrageous. You fall into the Democrat trap of blaming Bush for what has happened since 2009. How did the ME look when Bush left office? Maybe not like paradise, but a lot better than it looks today. The Democrats are trying to blame current mess on Bush, and you have just endorsed their rewrite of history.

I used to believe what you do, but taking on an enormous initiative, such as wars on several fronts with the stated purpose of making the US and West safer from terrorism and also with the hardly tacit mission of bringing a new way of doing politics to regions blood-soaked in tribalism and oppression for millennia, has proved a costly mistake since 2001.

Our previous war and transformation President should have realized successor Administrations and other Western nations wouldn't necessarily stay with the program and that terrorism would rebound with a greater vengeance, if the undertaking dragged out-- as, of course, it would have to do in order to achieve any lasting success, given the vagaries of local conditions and global politics over time.

That President should especially have known his own fickle electorate and enemy media would get war weary quite soon. The hand-off of Iraq to the current WH was almost like presenting a quiet grenade with its pin half-pulled to one's relieving sentry. Of course, even a non Muslim sympathist Democrat President probably would've passed on that grenade in the same dangerous condition to the Iraqis and run, as Obama did. Democrats care far more about the optics of not looking like occupiers and not getting quagmired etc. than they do about winning wars and the peace. Besides, they know we back home won't get it or care, ultimately, and for the most part they're right.

After BO created a huge power vacuum in Iraq and surrounds and told us straight-faced that his withdrawal of forces were 1) a tremendously good thing, and, 2) also not his fault, he and his first Sec State were then all in for toppling the relatively stable Egyptian, Libyan and Syrian governments nearby. Together, they managed to spawn ever greater chaos in the ME and then the creation of a comic book horror army called ISIS (never mind how the acronym coincidentally is the name of the Egyptian goddess Isis, mother of Horus, whom international Freemasons and other esoterics still reference, if not worship...)

The upshot of our being at war in Mesopotamia, Asia and Africa for a decade and a half and hemorrhaging blood and treasury all the while, is that there seems to be no end in sight to the hostilities, no end to western terror and threats, no end to and even a substantial uptick in the drug and human trafficking both within and exported from those theaters, and no end to our civil liberties getting curtailed here. Since 9-11, US military intervention in the Muslim world that appears to have served more the interests of bankers, arms merchants, mercenaries, surveillance and killing tech developers, contractors, and oilmen than world peace, seems to be of a piece. Could it be possible a more sinister agenda is being implemented?

At any rate, GWB's grand project likely was not doable, and many of us are now seeing so in hindsight. We currently have a bi-partisan manufactured disaster in the ME and SW Asia. It may be intentional.

GWB wasn't tasked with being Nostradamus. He WAS tasked with getting the bastards that planned and implemented the attacks of 9/11. Part of getting these aholes was to use intelligence to track Al Qaeda. Our own Government's rules of Classified Information hurt GWB. We went to war with the head of the snake, which was Afghanistan and the Taliban. As any good tactical specialist will tell you, a well planned war never has one front. Iraq was another front, the tail of the snake, so to speak. We traced the training camps, bomb making facilities and leadership, to Iraq, but, GWB couldn't disclose this to the American people. It was classified intel. This gave rise to all kinds of conspiracy theories as to why we attacked Iraq, like GWB getting back at Saddam for the planned attack on Bush Sr. Or that we were after oil. Truth is, most of Al Qaeda was in Iraq, the Taliban was in Afghanistan. The Talib's offered sanctuary to UBL. UBL knew he could not be safe in Iraq and knew he would draw attention to that area if he remained there, so, he went to Afghanistan knowing he could evade us in the Mountainous areas there.

GWB was a victim of the Mainstream Media run amuck. They had it in for him when he won the election in 2000 in such a controversial way. Sensational stories sell papers and garner viewers, so, the MSM took a stance against Bush after he declared the War over, knowing more papers sell and more viewers watch stories about a President perceived as a villain. He was taken out of context. He didn't mean we were pulling out and coming home. He meant the role had shifted from war to occupation, but it was all the MSM needed to paint him as an idiot, something they had felt all along, but, couldn't point out while Bush was still seen as a hero for his actions post 9/11 when he was leading very well and had a popularity rating in the 90%+ range. Once the Patriotic Fever had started to wear off, they began their assault on him and it worked well. It was all implemented by liberal writers on the internet and in papers and magazines that had been bought out by Liberal Owners. That was the beginning of the end.

In hind sight you should be able to see how decent a man Bush is and how intelligent he really is, now that the MSM is no longer trying to trash him with rabid tenacity.

Sure it is easy to pick apart his decisions now. But, his goal was to keep us safe for the long term. It has been 14 years now, since 9/11 and we haven't had a major terrorist attack attributable to Al Qaeda or its offshoots, on our soil. I'd say his job was a success. Obama damn sure hasn't done much to keep us safe. Short of being the lucky guy on watch at the time of UBL's killing, he hasn't done much at all to ensure our safety. He did sign on to re-enact the Patriot Act, which was to expire and go away. Not only did he re-up on it, but he took it further, giving the Government even more intrusive abilities. So, there is that. I personally wish the Patriot Act was gone, it was a needed over-reach post 9/11, years later, it is too much and should have been allowed to go away.

It was more than just a frontal attack. In the course of maneuvers against Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush & Co. positioned powerful allied air and ground forces on both flanks of Iran which, together with our naval forces and economic sanctions, put us by the mid-2000s in a position of overwhelming advantage. Then we threw it all away, for reasons history will puzzle over.

You're singing to a former choir member, believe me. I've said all of what you have and with similar conviction. And you've stated the case well, btw.

I'm not second-guessing him. I'm now questioning the basics and premises we were told were true at the time, also the internal logic, intell, and real motivations over the past four or so Presidencies.

After everything I've read and have been exposed to from the end of GWB's Administration and through the current and most obviously execrable one, I'm convinced we're never told the real agenda, because we're on it.

I whole heartedly agree with you. We have been and will continue to be kept in the dark on many things, some for our own good, some for national security and the one I have issue with, so politicians can get rich and possibly implement or commit some heinous actions on the society as a whole that they know we would never agree to.

The blatant lies from the current Administration and the lack of care that we see through the lies are what scare me the most. Obama is arrogant about his lies to the point that it almost feels like he believes he is above the law and safe from ever being accountable. Kind of like many Dictators act, knowing as long as they can control the population and keep them at bay with force, they are safe.

I promise you that one day, History will know and reveal to us or our progeny, the truth of what all is going on and has happened behind our backs. If Bush did anything that was outright unlawful for his own or his families own personal gain, that resulted in loss of life of our Servicemen, I will take to a soapbox in D.C. daily for the rest of my days and let the masses know how wrong I was. I don't believe I will ever have to do it though. While Bush made MANY mistakes and decisions I do not agree with, I do not believe for a second he ever used our military to make money for himself. I don't know about his staff, but GWB to me seems too sincere in his care for human life, especially our Soldiers, to do something so dastardly.

After the Ft. Hood shooting, people don't know it, but, Bush was on scene within hours, without any press. Checking on the injured and speaking with them at length to show he cared and was going to do all he could to help them. The fact he did that without any Press around to document it, proves to me how genuine he is.

If I am wrong, I will as I said, shout it to the Heavens and to anyone who will listen.

blaming bush is a pathetic attempt to explain obama's election. i am soo tired of these stupid excuses. why doesn't anybody take responsibility for their own failures??

The Bush foreign policy a failure? It was a war, as soon as it was politically advantageous to oppose it, the democrats did with, as this article is titled, "brute force." Sadly, the republicans that were in positions of responsiblity in the congress proved themselves incapable of carrying the argument to the American people and showing us that the democrats, while the voted for the war were using it for political gain, all the while our troops were on the battlefield fighting an enemy willing to use violence to dismantle western civilization.

The Bush foreign policy resulted in a nation (Iraq) that voted for it's own constitution as well as leaders and the destruction of a guerrilla movement in 5-6 years.

Ill liberalism. The Left attracts those with mental health issues who wish to inflict them on the rest of us.

Minion lefties love spreading misery so they won't feel like lonely losers, and self-anointed ruling Progs are pure power freaks, thieves, and sadists in expensive suits and pantsuits.

They both lie, but the base does so to assuage its cognitive dissonance and to protect its cult leaders, otherwise known as Ivy League career academicians and politicians.

If you notice, most Progressive Liberal's are former outcasts. Look at your High School classmates. Who are the Progressives? Is it the Class President? The football team's QB or Captain? Not in my Class and not in most if not all of my friends class's. Its the outcasts. The unpopular kids, ones that withdrew, or as some were labeled, nerds, geeks, etc.

Why is this? Well, look at who had the power back then. Look at who was popular. They were jealous. They were mad. We all grew up and those of us that felt accepted went on to embrace Society the way it was. It was working for us. They wanted to change things, they wanted the power.

Enter the internet. Those that weren't very "socially accepted" went on to get advanced degree's and worked their way up through tech. careers, started companies dealing with Technology and gained power. Many of them went into politics, angry at the establishment. They joined in with the progressives in college that were part of the radical underground. Those that came along later were subjected to this ideology, by Professor's that were part of the movement in its day. Radicals had taken over a lot of universities and were pushing their deranged BS on these kids that wanted to be accepted. Just like fatherless inner city youth today relish Gang life, for the acceptance they feel. The one's I am discussing embraced radical Progressive movements as they felt accepted.

2008 roles around and the war is unpopular with many thanks to BS in magazines, tv, newspapers and online articles, that spewed lies and half truth's. Obama, a radical underground follower and friend of a terrorist gains power as President. Online these people we went to school with, that were once timid and wouldn't dare lift a voice at anyone, could now hide behind a PC and spew vile hateful rhetoric at Conservatives. In effect, paying them/us back for all the ill perceived injustice they felt early in their lives when they were unpopular and had withdrawn making them socially outcast.

They never knew that most of the time, they weren't invited, because they had pulled away and put out a vibe that they didn't like those of us that threw parties and socialized and had fun.

This is the power struggle that makes up our two party system. Its not 100% of it, but it is a big part of how Progressive Liberals have come to power and are hell bent on changing our Country.

All the injustice and feelings of not belonging, ingrained in them that there could be a world where EVERYONE is accepted. This is why they push victimization on EVERYONE. Black?? You have been wronged by white priviledge, slavery too, but thats losing its power as it ages out along with the struggle for civil rights. They had to come up with a new struggle for young blacks, hence, white privilege. It will never go away if we allow it to get established. They can say to each new Black generation, you are a victim of White Privilege!

Women are victims of men! But, not Black or Latino or Asian any minority men, just White men. See, it can't be minority men, because they are victims and a victim can't victimize.

The Planet, yep, it's a victim. A victim of white men who are after one thing, WEALTH!

White men! YES! White men can be victims, IF and only if they are Liberals. See, they are victims of Conservative White males, who push them aside, made them social misfits, didn't include them and later in life pushed God on them and war and all the things liberals hate. White Conservative Males are Bullies, so yes a white Liberal male is a victim!

Atheists.... Victims!! Victims of Judeo-Christians pushing their Religion on them, which leads to Gays!

Gay's are victims, because to be a Conservative you must be a Christian and the Bible says Homosexuals are an abomination unto God. Therefore, they are hated by Christians and will never attain equal rights, therefore, they are victims!

See how this works. They can turn anyone they want into a victim and then convince them that they can belong, just come to their side. Vote Democrat! Belong! Never be outcast again! We can fight the bullies! Fight the Evil Conservatives!

This ensure's the Left control of our Country for life, once they convince 51% of the population that they are........Victims.

Don't get me started on how they build up their "victims" by convincing the dumbest of the dumb that they are a genius. Yeah, listen to them, hear it told by a Progressive and you are told ALL Conservatives are idiots. Morons of the highest order. If you are a Liberal though, you are a genius, you have vision! You can see clearly! You are evolved and not stuck in an archaic belief of a Society that is only great if it mimics the "Good ole days" AKA the 1950's. They would quickly remind anyone that those good ole days weren't so great for Black folks! Nevermind that us Conservative/Libertarians want those good ole days for everyone of any color. They convince their "victims" that we only want those great times for ourselves. The rest of society are just worker drones, born to slave away for minimum wage, making us Conservatives richer so we can enjoy better lives the Liberals will never see.

Yep, its all about victimization with them. In the end these "victims" don't see that they are now real victims. Victims of the Left, who are using them for one thing, votes. If Liberals were really all about helping the poor and homeless and they want the poor to be equals and have as much as the rest of us do. Then why aren't they giving their wealth to the poor?? Why aren't they donating all their pay to charity and lifting up the poor to their level? If you were really that worried about the poor, you would give until you had no more to give. But they don't do that. No, they keep their wealth. They do donate and more than the Right by some studies. But that isn't the issue. The issue is, why have Democrats had control of all of Congress and the Presidency and the poor are worse off?? Their leader has a cell phone and a pen, he makes his own rules, so why aren't the poor better off?? Because they don't genuinely care about the poor, minorities, women, gays, etc. They just want them to think that. As long as the poor, minorities, women, gays, etc. think the Left is fighting for them, they will vote for the left and keep them in power. Why do they want power?? Look at Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, Obama, McCain, etc etc, check out their wealth and assets over the last 20 years. They went from being in the average upper middle class to 1%ers via Politics. I am not against the wealthy at all. But!! The one place where an American should not be able to become a millionaire is in Politics. Allowing them to make financial gains other than their salary for their office in Government is an open invitation to corruption and both sides do it and it needs to stop!

anyways.... preaching to the choir, I know.... Rant over.

Please allow me to extend a dinner invite to you and your family the next time you're in Houston!

It's all what you say. And more, but that would take us into dessert.

Something bigger is also going on, but as they say, "Think globally, act locally." And act up and act out is what they do, in service to their own arrested and malevolent adolescence and to those wider forces that use them.

Does nobody escape high school? Must we forever deal with classmates' insecurities, addictions, their cliques, dealers, pedo mentors, etc. on national and world levels, while trying to live fairly decent lives and encouraging people everywhere to embrace liberty, opportunity, and dignity?

Imo, it's the epic struggle of Good v. bad we can't get away from. There's no moving on from it; one has to see, take a stand, persist and endure.

You nailed it! It is indeed good vs evil. Not to say that the people on the left have bad intentions. Most honestly want to help and solve all the social issues in the World. They honestly believe that we can form a utopian society.

One of the most formative times of our life as far as our social skills go, is during our teens. This is when our Children value friends more than Family and they fight us tooth and nail when we infringe on their social time with friends. That said, our classmates that felt left out during this stage of development, failed to learn important social skills. This becomes evident in how they interact with others here on these comment sections and on Facebook. I have 10 or so people I went to school with that were not too popular. They are now impossible to talk to when it comes to certain topics. They do not understand give and take in conversation. They are hyper aggressive in their support of their beliefs. They never challenged any of their peers growing up and now, through the safety net of a computer, they can say what they want, how they want, to who they want and they are over the top with their new found freedom! They are militant. Every topic myself and others post, that they do not agree with, is taken as a personal assault on their cor belief system and they come out swinging. I find it humorous and chuckle. Most of their classmates have now put them on permanent ignore. Imagine one of these people in power, like the President or some lesser office. It would be a disaster. Obama comes across as one of these types, but! He has enough social skill to know not to become hostile in his support of his Ideology. He is still militant about it and will never change his thoughts on the direction we should go in. He believes he knows better and it comes across as paternalistic.

Anyway's.... I hope we make it through the next year and a half and our next President has a bit better set of Social Skills. Like Israel's PM speaking to Congress. The fact that made Obama so irate and the actions of his underlings is so childish, it is pathetic. Nancy Pelosi saying herself and most other Democrats will find that their Calender is full on that day is just plain immature and were I a Democrat, I would be embarrassed by their actions. It seems to not bother any of my Liberal friends and family though. They see it and the "smack talk" like the little quip the President made towards Republicans in his SOTU Address as being cool. I see it as beneath the position of President or any elected official in Political Office. I guess that just shows the difference between Liberals mindset and Conservatives. Other Countries see it too, that is why our Foreign Policy is so pathetic, there is little respect for us at the moment.

I'm fortunate to know lovely people who don't care about popularity and who have no "social skills." That they don't compromise with evil to get along and be accepted commands my respect.

Wish they were far more people with good core convictions on both sides of the aisle in DC, and by that I mean principles that don't intentionally hurt, defile and oppress people, especially children, for some "greater cause," dark ideology, or personal revenge.

Too bad many people never psychically graduate from high school; they merely turn into so-called adults who exact vengeance on classmates years later for how they chose to feel about themselves when insecure hormonal teens. I was active in school but was treated shabbily by many in my small class. Went home and cried many days after class or sports practice -- but never once thought about plotting to hurt the snotty mean girls and snobby boys (who acted just like mean girls) years into the future. I moved on and assumed they would, too.

Decades later, starting a few years ago, a group of psycho ex-classmates began cyber and real life stalking me and my family with the stated intention of "utterly destroying [me] and everyone I love," because my mother wouldn't allow me to date one of them back in tenth grade. She read his notes to me without my permission and, even though I was sweet on him, she was adamant something was wrong with his obsessive spying on us, his putting bugs under glass and playing God as to whether he'd let them live or kill them, talk about blood, his mother's pantyhose, Portnoy's Complaint, etc. I fought her but she forbade me or else.

This Barry L. (who apparently is GAY) hated me the instant I told him I couldn't attend a school dance with him, and he and his clique made the last two years in a tiny school hell for me, although every day in the halls I smiled through the gossip and snubs. Whatever. People go through far worse, and I knew it. I've had boys and men break my heart and to betray me since then, but I got over it and had a life without harboring dark intentions toward them.

Several years ago this stalking cabal murdered my daughter's baby in utero (we dosed her, they bragged), and then sterilized her by expressing her ova using an unscrupulous ObGyn she was advised to see. They sold the eggs on the black market to abusers and rich jerks wanting designer babies and also bred a number of them on their sex farm west of Austin as degraded little "dogs." These fine liberals say they sired them with some retarded black men to make "dumb submissive chocolate puppies" who will be treated and abused like dogs the rest of their lives. Their clientele include a lot of sickos from around the world. A couple of years ago, they bought an island and developed an anything goes sex resort for wealthy and connected pervs.

Recently, they've been saying they're going to "collect" me and my daughter, my sister and her daughter and do sexual mutilations to us. And more. These so-called self-described high school "outsiders" are satanic deviants who're into coerced slavery, pedophilia, sadism, porn, trafficking, ritual slayings and snuff-- in addition to holding down day jobs such as marketing, medicine, law, screenwriting, IT, day-trading, and trolling conservative sites on behalf of Soros. The group includes a number of trustifarians who, btw, also have an Anonymous hacking team in order to blackmail and steal from their targets. Hacking, tracking, and all manner of blood sport is what turns them on.

I've been counseled by some classmates to go along with them, else I will be killed, and to quit holding fast to my position that there will be serious consequences for the horrors they've committed and further promise to do. All has been documented by special investigators off the record, since these people are connected and their satanic crime syndicate includes lawyers, judges and LE...

Let them call me "hyper aggressive" for standing my ground until I die soon, and may God have mercy on all of our souls upon the reckoning. Till then, Foxtrot them.

In every liberal there is a desire for a man on a white horse who can make the trains run on time.

In every liberal there is a concentration camp guard struggling to get out.