More and more, I am starting to see the Right not as an enemy to be feared but as whiners trying to stand against the inevitable. There was a time when Conservative complaints led to actions that could not be overcome.
Even on points of cultural privilege,” the tide is turning. Donald Sterling will be out of the NBA. The Washington NFL team will change its name. Marijuana will be legal. Smoking will no longer be cool.
Clinton/Castro will be the next administration.
Today, with each victory – gay rights, education, energy, the economy, etc. – the GOP has been reduced to the old talking points against the President. Making a comeback are such classics as: Muslim, terrorist, socialist, not a real American, does not understand, “unique,” dangerous, and so forth. And now we can add Dinesh D’Souza’s latest rant comparing the US to child molesters and Obama as bent on revenge.
I am waiting for someone to reintroduce “terrorist fist bump” into the lexicon…
James Michael Brodie
06/20/2014 at 7:55 AM
And a comment in reply:
The cultural advancements we are seeing really are quite amazing for a baby boomer to see. We can still remember they old ways of the 50s and 60s and 70s.
I think social and cultural changes and advancements are an inevitability in the human race. They are slow in coming, but I believe, in a free society, they are unstoppable. This is something the GOPTP just refuse to admit. They’re unwillingness to change and their habit of clinging to old ideas will be their downfall.
Their lust for money and power is a blinding one. I think they’ve always been a little myopic, as a political party, but now, they just can’t see at all, or refuse to see.
Political dirty tricks is pretty much all they have left. The bad thing for progressives is that the GOPTP are very adept at such dirty tricks.
KillgoreTrout
06/20/2014 at 10:30 AM
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