No matter what kinds of acts/misdeeds Dem pols do, when I get on public forums to ..uh...debate liberals, they NEVER!!!! knock any Dem elected official. Everything they do is the most wonderful thing to ever happen to the public and the nation. Hundreds of millions of illiterate people from south of the border entering the U.S. will be great for the country. 50 dollar an hour minimum wage is great. etcetera, etcetera
You'd think there'd be at least one who strays from the herd and says something negative or less than adulatory about a Dem pol, but it never happens. They're all in line. At least the ones on the forums I get on.
That's because .....
feeliings!.
Not one of their positions can withstand rational scrutiny. They appeal to those who are vulnerable on an emotional level, regardless of consequence. Save the whales (we did that with oil wells), stop climate change (even though the climate changes naturally, without our help), save the trees! (even though they were planted to provide wood pulp for paper), renewable energy! (even though it just is not enough all by itself), etc. United in the spirit of do-gooderism, even if the problem they seek to solve exists only in their mind, or the solution they propose won't actually accomplish anything to remediate it, they charge ahead in in the spirit of having "done something!", even if that is only to converge on some public space and leave it later covered with trash after harassing and disrupting everyone else.
Thy measure their success by the amount of discomfort they inflict on those who don't agree enough to join their ranks, and the more they are ignored, the more shrill they become. Long past merely holding their breath until they turn blue and stomping their feet, they are taking to the streets in violent protest, and even inflicting injury on those they hope to influence.
Intellectually lazy cowards will join their ranks rather than point out fallacies, and the real extremists will take courage from those numbers and thus emboldened (not "empowered"), proceed to break the law, other people's stuff, and injure others.
We have seen this phenomenon before (I have commented on the '60s redux in the Democrat/Communist party) in DC, actually in 1971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests with Antiwar riots, but then the people who backed such nonsense were not on Capitol Hill. These people on the Hill are not in profound disagreement with National Policy, like the Southern States were in the mid 1800s. Instead, they are representing ideologies and professing beliefs which are fundamentally anti-American, and which demonize this nation along racial, religious, economic, and even environmental lines. They aren't just trying to get out of being drafted and going to war.
This is the tantrum of those who were banking on Obama's "fundamental change" and who have been thwarted. If they can't take it, they'll do their best to break it. Now it is visible just who hoped most to gain from that, and those backing it are still the 40% who backed Obama. I'd bet dimes to donuts that somewhere in the shadows, Barry Soetoro is lurking with a hand in all this, organizing that 'community'.
