The Imploding Leftist Establishment

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American Thinker
Bruce Walker
Sept. 17, 2016

Leftism has been on life support for fifty years.  The Republican landslide in the 1966 midterm election was recognized by everyone at the time as a massive rejection of the agenda and the politics of the left.

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[goatprairie]

Wishful thinking. The lib/left dominates three main areas of American life: the media, the entertainment industry, and academia. Of the three the latter has the worst effect on young Americans. It is academia where young, impressionable minds are told the "evils" of America. The liberal brainwashing continues from kindergarten through college.
I was watching the news on my local tv station a few weeks ago, and they put on a segment about the new school season. They interviewed and quoted teachers and big shot administrators.  One of the chief idiots in the school administration was talking eagerly about how they were going introduce concepts about "white privilege" and "income inequality" into the classrooms. At that moment I wouldn't have been against organizing a mob to run those people out of town on a rail....after tar and feathering them.

[LMAO]

Speaking of White Privilege, my youngest son asked me several months ago what that meant. I  told him it was a political term used by one group of people to blame another for their failures.

 

[Cripplecreek]

Wishful thinking. The lib/left dominates three main areas of American life: the media, the entertainment industry, and academia. Of the three the latter has the worst effect on young Americans. It is academia where young, impressionable minds are told the "evils" of America. The liberal brainwashing continues from kindergarten through college.
I was watching the news on my local tv station, and they put on a segment about the new school season. They interviewed and quoted teachers and big shot administrators.  One of the chief idiots in the school administration was talking eagerly about how they were going introduce concepts about "white privilege" and "income inequality" into the classrooms. At that moment I wouldn't have been against organizing a mob to run those people out of town on a rail....after tar and feathering them.

And it will continue unabated because conservatives are too damn lazy to deal with it.

[endicom]

Wishful thinking. The lib/left dominates three main areas of American life: the media, the entertainment industry, and academia. Of the three the latter has the worst effect on young Americans. It is academia where young, impressionable minds are told the "evils" of America. The liberal brainwashing continues from kindergarten through college.
I was watching the news on my local tv station, and they put on a segment about the new school season. They interviewed and quoted teachers and big shot administrators.  One of the chief idiots in the school administration was talking eagerly about how they were going introduce concepts about "white privilege" and "income inequality" into the classrooms. At that moment I wouldn't have been against organizing a mob to run those people out of town on a rail....after tar and feathering them.

Wishful thinking in that the leftist mentality is eternal.

Perhaps not wishful thinking in that the current leftist edifices may crumble under their own weight.

I agree about the brainwashing in schools but I'm not sure of how effective it is. In the last decades of the Soviet Union it was said that few students believed what they were forced to recite for the pervasive reality instructing them otherwise.

[LMAO]

Wishful thinking in that the leftist mentality is eternal.

Perhaps not wishful thinking in that the current leftist edifices may crumble under their own weight.

I agree about the brainwashing in schools but I'm not sure of how effective it is. In the last decades of the Soviet Union it was said that few students believed what they were forced to recite for the pervasive reality instructing them otherwise.

@endicom

You're right  but as of now, most young people in America think socialism is the superior policy.

I read an article a few years ago that stated in Cuba, it was  a crime to deface Che posters and many young people there did. Young people here, however, wear Che T shirts because, unlike the youth of Cuba, they never had to live under the policies he espoused

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@endicom

You're right  but as of now, most young people in America think socialism is the superior policy.

Few know what it is. I think fifty years ago there were few young people advocating socialism. But, if asked about specific socialist policies they may have agreed with most.

I recall my own youthful opinion to be that socialism was superficially attractive. Superficially, it is about seeing that none go hungry, without shelter, etc. Decent people will fall for that sales pitch if they can fail to notice what socialism is truly about and what it actually yields.

[goatprairie]

Wishful thinking in that the leftist mentality is eternal.

Perhaps not wishful thinking in that the current leftist edifices may crumble under their own weight.

I agree about the brainwashing in schools but I'm not sure of how effective it is. In the last decades of the Soviet Union it was said that few students believed what they were forced to recite for the pervasive reality instructing them otherwise.

There is a story on the internet about Georgetown U students being quoted as saying the constitution is outdated and not suitable for the times. Their sentiments are most likely felt on many college campi. You show me evidence that there's a conservative trend occurring.

[Cripplecreek]

There is a story on the internet about Georgetown U students being quoted as saying the constitution is outdated and not suitable for the times. Their sentiments are most likely felt on many college campi. You show me evidence that there's a conservative trend occurring.

Just try getting people to get out and vote in local and state education races. Its nothing to see democrats take 2 and 3 times as many votes as republicans in races for board or regents or state board of education seats.

Addicted to the easy button.

[bigheadfred]

Addicted to the easy button.

Around here they call it heroin.  I guess it is the same thing.

[endicom]

There is a story on the internet about Georgetown U students being quoted as saying the constitution is outdated and not suitable for the times. Their sentiments are most likely felt on many college campi. You show me evidence that there's a conservative trend occurring.

It needn't follow that conservative sentiments grow as leftist structures fail. I don't know that there are any conservative structures about which to build sentiment.

During the Vietnam era it might have appeared that all college students were New Left. Then the draft was ended and that leftist thang seemed to evaporate. The center of that movement couldn't hold without the draft as a rallying cry.

The center, or centers, of the leftist movement now is all fantasy. BLM is built on fantasy and transgenderism is itself a fantasy and microagressions and so on. I think people have enough tired of the fantasy to crave some reality.

What's real is the obviously rotted economy and lack of jobs for large segments of the populace. And only the man on the orange horse is promising to fix the economy to create the jobs. And he may do enough right to get that done. Without being a proper conservative. We'll have to wait and see.

[bigheadfred]

Think of all those people at CNN jumping off their soapboxes trying to kill themselves.

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Think of all those people at CNN jumping off their soapboxes trying to kill themselves.

[geronl]

Trump is the left too. They control both parties now.

[bigheadfred]

Trump is the left too. They control both parties now.

Left is right.

[Norm Lenhart]

Wishful thinking in that the leftist mentality is eternal.

Perhaps not wishful thinking in that the current leftist edifices may crumble under their own weight.

I agree about the brainwashing in schools but I'm not sure of how effective it is. In the last decades of the Soviet Union it was said that few students believed what they were forced to recite for the pervasive reality instructing them otherwise.

I agree it isn't eternal. Unfortunately before an alky, druggie or society can fix itself, it has to hit bottom. We aren't at the point of total collapse yet. Once we collapse, for real, AKA no power, cell phones, no internet, no financial system that works or recognized govt, we can begin rebuilding. Until then, the enablers will just keep playing 'winning' games, electing liberals and pretending they are patriots.

[bigheadfred]

I agree it isn't eternal. Unfortunately before an alky, druggie or society can fix itself, it has to hit bottom. We aren't at the point of total collapse yet. Once we collapse, for real, AKA no power, cell phones, no internet, no financial system that works or recognized govt, we can begin rebuilding. Until then, the enablers will just keep playing 'winning' games, electing liberals and pretending they are patriots.

I don't think a collapse is that far off. hillary is going to set new record lows.

[Norm Lenhart]

I don't think a collapse is that far off. hillary is going to set new record lows.

Nope, it isn't, indeed. A bunch of people that were intent on electing another liberal assured that. either way America as we knew it is going to auger in spectacularly. More so than it already has thanks to lesser evil voters.