Words Can't Describe The Degenerate State Of The Democrat Party

At this point, I don't know how a moderate mind doesn't just shake their head listening to Democrats.

Ok. Last post about them. I promise.

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It was a mater of time they set their sites on Declaration of Independence.

Oh look. Tlaib.

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Plenty of academics have lost their bearings. A former history professor from my university days is now retired and all he does is inexplicably rant at Trump using tactics and arguments that he would fail students for.

Anyway....from that bastion of liberalism The Washington Post:

Liberalism is not a dogma: It is a set of dilemmas about how to balance freedom and the common good, economic liberty and social fairness, the search for meaning and the desire to be left alone. ….It is true, for one thing, that all the forms of liberalism so far have gravitated sooner or later to economic libertarianism. Indeed, in modern history, they have created larger gaps between the rich and the rest than the Christians and kings liberals once denounced for imposing dehumanizing feudalism did.….Iconic liberals such as John Stuart Mill — by the end of his life a socialist who indicted economic inequality — insisted that a society that permitted free self-creation must avoid descending into conformity and materialism. Liberals must relearn that lesson. Mill today would be appalled, not by the supposed depredations that liberal society visits on the religious (which are minor) but by the ways rampant consumerism for those who make money, and penury for those who don’t, obstruct the possibility of the creative lives liberals once promised. 

Liberalism’s main problem is that its vision of a life well lived has been corrupted — not by too much license and self-expression, but by an overemphasis on economic freedom that has undercut its own promise. 

The right strategy for liberals is therefore to own their failure to make their ideals of self-creation a reality. They must assert not merely that their tradition coexisted with and even promoted religious values — as it undeniably did — but also revive their proposals for meaningful life in the absence of divine superintendence. Liberalism can thrive because it is the only worldview so far that does not try to resolve the eternal debate over whether to orient oneself to the divine, but allows either bet to be made, and creative and meaningful lives to be led either way."

Lots to dissect here and I won't get to it since I'm on vacation. But I'll offer some quick thoughts.

Invoking JSM and his classical liberalism is interesting given modern liberals are basically progressive. Not classical liberal. Classical liberalism is all but dead in the West and I think the author is actually reminding us why.

Modern liberals are about as connected to JSM as I'm to a black American slave.

Don't believe me? Try and run on classical liberal principles. For the love of God, Hickenlooper said socialism isn't the answer for America and was booed by the Democrat faithful.

If you want classical liberalism, you go to libertarian sites or even conservative ones.

I'd also like to point out it's interesting he pulls out classical liberalism when this is the very ideology the modern left is at war with. Dead whypippo slave holders and all that. I rarely see (especially far left) progressives ever cite Enlightenment philosophers. I do tend to think we over venerate them (a little to hyper-secular and hostile to Christianity for its own sake) while we've come to under appreciate classical conservatism and Christianity but this is a matter of intellectual observation on my part.

I digress.

They pick and choose their arguments which makes it very hard to follow their thinking which really has degraded itself into sophistry.

The author - Samuel Moyn - then chimes in with this gem:

"...It also, many conservatives say today, promotes hedonism, nontraditional sexuality, abortion on demand and an unhealthy focus on self-expression.”

This is a rather astonishing statement from a professor. Is this not precisely what the modern left promotes? The cognitive dissonance, aside from the pointless passive aggressive attack on conservatives (who are absolutely correct in their assessment), is rather disappointing if not downright dismal.

How are they going to 'save' liberalism if they continuously misdiagnose it? Worse, stay in denial?

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Nike really isn't impressing me. They let Kaepernick decide what they should take to market?

Really? How embarrassing. Grow a pair Nike.

And so what if the Betsy Ross flag was flown at a supremacist gathering? Why should she and her creation be dragged into the mud?

The next stime omeone cites Snopes, they will get a nice tongue-lashing from me.

How's this for some piece of garbage historical takes?


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More on Tlaib's stupid retweet of a stupid tweet.

The Federalist discusses it here.

This really needs its own post. But for now....

What took them so long?

We knew it was a matter of time when Democrats would stop fiddling around attacking the 1A and 2A and go straight to the source: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.

After all, the nation is inherently unholy and its history is to be forever chastised and sanitized forever more by illiberal ideologues who couldn't hold a sippy cup to the Founding Fathers.

It's an obscene state of affairs within the left-wing flank of the DNC and its supporters.

The abject ignorance, self-loathing and illiberal mind set most make for a most miserable existence.

They really are anti-American.

They hate America.

Simple as that.

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Liberals take something tangental analogous to the past and immediately connect to the present.

Example: 'Tump is literally Hitler'.

Aka a false equivalence.

The modern left will cynically and ignorantly take something they know little of from the past and tag it to some contemporary issue. It's exactly how you usher in a dark age.

They also have a terrible habit if imposting modern sensibilities on the past. For example, this is how Mark Twain suddenly becomes a racist. Sure, according to today's madness laced with vapid terms and definitions, anyone born pre-1990 qualifies as some sort of 'white supremacists' if we take their sophist rhetoric at face value and apply it vigorously.

And no. Conservatives aren't anywhere near as bad. Not even close.



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Portland. Shit show.

Eileen Park:

In the last week, we received thousands of calls/emails and countless social media comments (largely from out-of-state) about the most recent protests.
The majority of the communications were filled with hate speech, abusive language, and expressed violent intentions.

You mean, the situation City Hall allowed to fester and grow to the point of violence?

I wish she'd direct her anger more to where it belongs: Antifa and the violent left.

The detachment from citizens and refusal to accept responsibility is absolutely stunning. That they'd paint themselves as victims all the more crude. Did Eileen get her head smashed in?

Come on Eileen!

This is not leadership.

DO. YOUR. JOB.

Clean up your streets and stop whining.