The Exhaustion of American Liberalism

[FakeNews]

The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party’s spiteful reaction to the Trump presidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos. Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.

Today’s liberalism is an anachronism. It has no understanding, really, of what poverty is and how it has to be overcome. It has no grip whatever on what American exceptionalism is and what it means at home and especially abroad. Instead it remains defined by an America of 1965—an America newly opening itself to its sins, an America of genuine goodwill, yet lacking in self-knowledge.

This liberalism came into being not as an ideology but as an identity. It offered Americans moral esteem against the specter of American shame. This made for a liberalism devoted to the idea of American shamefulness. Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism’s unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.

https://www.amren.com/news/2017/03/exhaustion-american-liberalism/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Protesting is tiring...

 

[KingOrfeo]

Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive.

But there is an ugly America to loathe, and it is more highly visible now than at any time in the past 30 years.

 

[Rightguide]

But there is an ugly America to loathe, and it is more highly visible now than at any time in the past 30 years.

Yes, so many more your kind have emerged from behind the shadows to openly display their political and social ugliness.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yes, so many more your kind have emerged from behind the shadows to openly display their political and social ugliness.

Which bears no comparison to the stunning and shameful ugliness of the deplorables (far too kind a word, really).

 

[Rightguide]

Which bears no comparison to the stunning and shameful ugliness of the deplorables (far too kind a word, really).

More bullshit. There is no comparison in Trump supporters to the documented violence of the left wing supporters of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, none whatsoever in proportion or ferocity.

 

[Parminderjeet]

Yes, so many more your kind have emerged from behind the shadows to openly display their political and social ugliness.

Trump isn't his kind, dummy.

 

[KingOrfeo]

More bullshit. There is no comparison in Trump supporters to the documented violence of the left wing supporters of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, none whatsoever in proportion or ferocity.

This is far, far uglier than anything liberal.

 

[BotanyBoy]

This is far, far uglier than anything liberal.

Riiiiiiight.....
http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/01/Chicago-torture-screenshot.jpg

 

[silver gurl]

Yes, so many more your kind have emerged from behind the shadows to openly display their political and social ugliness.

I have never seen the country so divided. So much hate. I have never seen a president who constantly lowers himself and values. I have never seen a president who tweets nonsense in the middle of the night. I have never seen refugees walking across the border to get out of the US. Sorry but this is headed for an out right disaster.
Name something good that has happened since Trump took over? I gave him a chance. I have seen nothing good and a man that gets off on having rallys every night, to boast his ego. Alternative facts BS.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Name something good that has happened since Trump took over?

This.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

In the 60s I worked to get a black guy elected to the city council in my small white trash town. William Blackshear had his shit together and beat all his white opponents. But one term was all he wanted, because the town is and was a shot hole. But Blackshear was okay, and the first black elected to anything in Florida since the end of Reconstruction. The liberal paper cant seem to remember this event.

I'm racist to the center of my soul nut I aint a fool. Blackshear was the best of the bunch. The others were gy[sies tramps and thieves.

Today miggers get consolation prizes for showing up. We need niggers (queers, gals, and muslims) to fill quotas. Merit don't matter. If you got tits, or black skin, or a towel covering your head, youre in. No cunt necessary, just tits.

I have two black grandchildren. I told them how it is. They can go the nigger consolation route or they can get the prize by merit. The girl is the same age as Malia Obama but already has two years of college, she is seriously pissed that Malia got into Harvard with a nigger consolation prize....my great grandfather went to Harvard, my grandfather graduated MIT. No nigger consolation prizes for us.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

But there is an ugly America to loathe, and it is more highly visible now than at any time in the past 30 years.

Yes, so many more your kind have emerged from behind the shadows to openly display their political and social ugliness.

Good play...

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Part of the exhaustion we are witnessing here.


In order to makes itself look palatable, the Liberal (in actuality, a Progressive Socialist) cannot talk about how great they are and how magnificent their programs are instead their whole sales pitch is reduced to out failure is their ugliness...

 

[Rightguide]

I have never seen the country so divided. So much hate. I have never seen a president who constantly lowers himself and values. I have never seen a president who tweets nonsense in the middle of the night. I have never seen refugees walking across the border to get out of the US. Sorry but this is headed for an out right disaster.
Name something good that has happened since Trump took over? I gave him a chance. I have seen nothing good and a man that gets off on having rallys every night, to boast his ego. Alternative facts BS.

He's picked a good Vice President.

He ended dynastic presidential politics.

He's appointed a superbly competent cabinet that will dismantle government excess. The best cabinet of any president since Abraham Lincoln’s famous Team of Rivals in 1861.

He's nominated Neil Gorsuch a brilliant legal intellect to the Supreme Court, unlike the political hack appointed by Obama.

He's slashed the wasteful budgets of several agencies in order to re-build our depleted military

He's ordered a 180-day review of redundant federal agencies and has asked the OMB for a plan to streamline the government function by September of this year.

He's issued a travel ban aimed at improving our vetting process for immigrants and refugees. It will be upheld on its legal merits as soon as its appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction.

He's issued an Executive Order Promoting Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

He's issued an Executive Order to review the EPA's overreach in its 'Waters of the United States' rule.

He's issued and Executive Order creating Regulator Reform Officers in every federal agency who will be required to search through government regulations in those agencies to find regulations that prevent job creation, are too costly or out of date.

He's issued an Executive Order cutting funding for sanctuary cities.

He's given orders to accept bids on building "the wall."

He's presently engaged in taking down Obamacare, a socialist abomination on our health care industry and an insult to our tradition of freedom of choice.

He prevented the multiple felon, Hillary Clinton, from taking office to conduct a third term of Obama's campaign of social destruction against the American majority.

He's thoroughly upset the liberal equilibrium in the most tone-deaf district in America, Washington DC.

He's taking the fight against terrorism to the enemy.

He's approved the construction of the pipeline.

He's ordered a federal hiring freeze, long overdue.

He got us out of TPP.

He's done more in two months than any other President I can remember and that's a few.

You just lived through 8 years of treason, malfeasance, lawlessness, anti-American corruption with peer in American history. So, relax, take a deep breath. I'll tell you when to start crapping your pants.

 

[KingOrfeo]

He ended dynastic presidential politics.

He filled his staff with close relatives.

He's appointed a superbly competent cabinet that will dismantle government excess. The best cabinet of any president since Abraham Lincoln’s famous Team of Rivals in 1861.

He's appointed a Cabinet of corporate CEOs. Most have no government experience, and some do not believe in the laws they are tasked with enforcing.

He's nominated Neil Gorsuch a brilliant legal intellect to the Supreme Court, unlike the political hack appointed by Obama.

He's slashed the wasteful budgets of several agencies in order to re-build our depleted military

He's issued a travel ban aimed at improving our vetting process for immigrants and refugees. It will be upheld on its legal merits as soon as its appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction.

He's given orders to accept bids on building "the wall."

He's presently engaged in taking down Obamacare, a socialist abomination on our health care industry and an insult to our tradition of freedom of choice.

He prevented the multiple felon, Hillary Clinton, from taking office to conduct a third term of Obama's campaign of social destruction against the American majority.

He's approved the construction of the pipeline.

You just lived through 8 years of treason, malfeasance, lawlessness, anti-American corruption with peer in American history.

You just get stupider and more dishonest every day, don't you?

 

[water505]

Which bears no comparison to the stunning and shameful ugliness of the deplorables (far too kind a word, really).

Fifty of these .

 

[Rightguide]

He filled his staff with close relatives.

Only two. Kennedy had three. But before you reply you should probably read this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-family.html

He's appointed a Cabinet of corporate CEOs. Most have no government experience, and some do not believe in the laws they are tasked with enforcing.

All brilliant people. The Constitution does not require prior government service as a prerequisite to government employment. You really need to get a clue.

The private sector, for whom the Constitution was written to serve and protect, is best served when it's members are in control of the government, as the Founders intended, instead of a government class who have as its main motivation the protection of itself and its parochial interests from the ultimate sovereignty of the private sector.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The private sector, for whom the Constitution was written to serve and protect, is best served when it's members are in control of the government, as the Founders intended, instead of a government class who have as its main motivation the protection of itself and its parochial interests from the ultimate sovereignty of the private sector.

Nonsense. They're businessmen. They think like businessmen. They'll try to play football on a baseball field. The purposes of business and government are entirely different, and government requires a different kind of people to run it.

 

[Jennifer]

He's picked a good Vice President.

He ended dynastic presidential politics.

He's appointed a superbly competent cabinet that will dismantle government excess. The best cabinet of any president since Abraham Lincoln’s famous Team of Rivals in 1861.

He's nominated Neil Gorsuch a brilliant legal intellect to the Supreme Court, unlike the political hack appointed by Obama.

He's slashed the wasteful budgets of several agencies in order to re-build our depleted military

He's ordered a 180-day review of redundant federal agencies and has asked the OMB for a plan to streamline the government function by September of this year.

He's issued a travel ban aimed at improving our vetting process for immigrants and refugees. It will be upheld on its legal merits as soon as its appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction.

He's issued an Executive Order Promoting Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

He's issued an Executive Order to review the EPA's overreach in its 'Waters of the United States' rule.

He's issued and Executive Order creating Regulator Reform Officers in every federal agency who will be required to search through government regulations in those agencies to find regulations that prevent job creation, are too costly or out of date.

He's issued an Executive Order cutting funding for sanctuary cities.

He's given orders to accept bids on building "the wall."

He's presently engaged in taking down Obamacare, a socialist abomination on our health care industry and an insult to our tradition of freedom of choice.

He prevented the multiple felon, Hillary Clinton, from taking office to conduct a third term of Obama's campaign of social destruction against the American majority.

He's thoroughly upset the liberal equilibrium in the most tone-deaf district in America, Washington DC.

He's taking the fight against terrorism to the enemy.

He's approved the construction of the pipeline.

He's ordered a federal hiring freeze, long overdue.

He got us out of TPP.

He's done more in two months than any other President I can remember and that's a few.

You just lived through 8 years of treason, malfeasance, lawlessness, anti-American corruption with peer in American history. So, relax, take a deep breath. I'll tell you when to start crapping your pants.

You should get a CT scan for your head injury. I wish a speedy recovery.

 

[Rightguide]

Nonsense. They're businessmen. They think like businessmen. They'll try to play football on a baseball field. The purposes of business and government are entirely different, and government requires a different kind of people to run it.

Not according to the law, the Constitution, or common sense. This is why it's so widely supported in left-wing circles that only the government class should govern. You have a totalitarian mindset.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Not according to the law, the Constitution, or common sense.

Yes, according to common sense. Government is complicated. Anything complicated should be left to career specialists.

 

[silver gurl]

He's picked a good Vice President.

He ended dynastic presidential politics.

He's appointed a superbly competent cabinet that will dismantle government excess. The best cabinet of any president since Abraham Lincoln’s famous Team of Rivals in 1861.

He's nominated Neil Gorsuch a brilliant legal intellect to the Supreme Court, unlike the political hack appointed by Obama.

He's slashed the wasteful budgets of several agencies in order to re-build our depleted military

He's ordered a 180-day review of redundant federal agencies and has asked the OMB for a plan to streamline the government function by September of this year.

He's issued a travel ban aimed at improving our vetting process for immigrants and refugees. It will be upheld on its legal merits as soon as its appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction.

He's issued an Executive Order Promoting Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

He's issued an Executive Order to review the EPA's overreach in its 'Waters of the United States' rule.

He's issued and Executive Order creating Regulator Reform Officers in every federal agency who will be required to search through government regulations in those agencies to find regulations that prevent job creation, are too costly or out of date.

He's issued an Executive Order cutting funding for sanctuary cities.

He's given orders to accept bids on building "the wall."

He's presently engaged in taking down Obamacare, a socialist abomination on our health care industry and an insult to our tradition of freedom of choice.

He prevented the multiple felon, Hillary Clinton, from taking office to conduct a third term of Obama's campaign of social destruction against the American majority.

He's thoroughly upset the liberal equilibrium in the most tone-deaf district in America, Washington DC.

He's taking the fight against terrorism to the enemy.

He's approved the construction of the pipeline.

He's ordered a federal hiring freeze, long overdue.

He got us out of TPP.

He's done more in two months than any other President I can remember and that's a few.

You just lived through 8 years of treason, malfeasance, lawlessness, anti-American corruption with peer in American history. So, relax, take a deep breath. I'll tell you when to start crapping your pants.

I am not going to waste my time, so I will only reply to your last sentence: Most of the world, is crapping their pants. He is unstable as they come. And I am not a Hillary advocate. He is just off the wall.

 

[Rightguide]

You should get a CT scan for your head injury. I wish a speedy recovery.

You've managed to project a proper representation of where your brain resides with that inflamed AV, so since you have nothing to offer but a vertical smile and some gut wind, you can join my ignore list.

 

[Rightguide]

I am not going to waste my time, so I will only reply to your last sentence: Most of the world, is crapping their pants. He is unstable as they come. And I am not a Hillary advocate. He is just off the wall.

I have no problem with your opinion, we all have one, we're all are entitled to one. I don't quite see it the way you do, yet. The whole world isn't crapping its pants, just our enemies, the triggered left, and those who fear the dismantling of Big Brother.