"The president’s administration was in chaos in a time of national crisis, one in which the very fate of our free republic hung in the balance. There were internecine battles inside his cabinet, which was composed of many who opposed, and in some instances sought, his position. There were vitriolic condemnations of him as a “tyrant” and a “baboon” (among reams of other epithets) from the opposition party and the enemy. And, yes, there was a hostile press to report every scurrilous charge, juicy rumor and latest defeat regarding the president."
Sound familiar? This was not written about President Trump, but rather President Lincoln.
I'm always entertained at the consistency of the Left's response to the election of a conservative president. They are invariably described as stupid and incompetent or cleverly evil, sometimes both at the same time.
I guess the bigger question is how, given the consistent failure of their policies, do progressives come to dominate institutions like education and the media? You'd think intelligent and honest people would eventually notice the rubble, failure and carnage the policies they advocate cause.
The Democrats REALLY hated President Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteThat excerpt sounds similar to the entire TEAM OF RIVALS book by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
ReplyDeleteRe: "You'd think intelligent and honest people would eventually notice the rubble"
Took me 30 years (from childhood to middle age) before I noticed none of the policies I'd supported since grade school were working, the opposite of the expected result was the reality.
Some of us are just slow.
I guess the bigger question is how, given the consistent failure of their policies, do progressives come to dominate institutions like education and the media?
ReplyDeleteEnough to make you wonder about the character content of people who choose to get into education and the media, isn't it?
"You'd think intelligent and honest people would eventually notice the rubble"
ReplyDeleteMostly because we are comfortable, and we don't see, or want to see, the threat.
Reagan got similar treatment. Democrats have traditionally been and still are bullies.
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln really was the worst president in American history.
ReplyDeleteHe created an unnecessary war, resulting in the most casualties of all other wars.
It was because of Abraham Lincoln and his unnecessary war which forever perverted our divinely inspired Constitution of the United States, that we now endure the tyranny of centralized federal power over all the states, with its attendant loss of individual liberty compelling everyone to be in lockstep with Communist Party USA "political correctness" and "affirmative action" government propaganda.
Lincoln was the first progressive president. He destroyed the Republic and replaced it with this God forsaken empire we have now. The American people would have been better off if Lincoln had been smothered in the crib.
ReplyDeleteWinston Churchill is supposed to have said, "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
ReplyDeleteSadly, far too many liberals today never grow up. Similarly, I've often wondered why so very many talented actors & entertainers are liberals; but then I realized that they live in a dream world, not reality. They too never grow up and remain Peter Pans all their lives.
Most liberals don't live on planet Earth, but can be found by going to "the 2nd star on the right, straight on till morning."
I always knew that 19th century politics was a contact sport but
ReplyDeleteI recall reading somewhere that every Republican presiden since
Eisenhower got the same stupid label. The only difference
between then and now is that addition to stupid, incurious,
unread, etc., at the same time they labeled recent presidents
as evil Machivellian geniuses. President Trump cannot be
be stupid and the reincarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofled at
the same time. Hell, he does not even own a white Persian
cat!
...that we know of.
Deletesomewhere between twenty and fifty, people with the liberal bent come to believe that the future society is as Gene Roddenberry came to described it. it is (according to the script writers of Star Trek) a socialist paradise driven by advanced technology of an alien origin. seriously this is what the kids have in their heads. i do not blame them for believing/thinking that that is what it will be.
ReplyDeletedamn shame the teachers we all hired failed to define what the words "science fiction" means. that is a real disservice to parents everywhere. when reality sets in a lot of the price to be paid is going to be on their parents heads. thirty year olds with degrees in unspoken languages and liberal politics living in the parents basement because they can not find a job that pays better than BK or McDs should cause the hair on the back of you head to stand up.
so they will stand in line for their daily hand out because no one is willing to kick them in the pants and tell them to get on with it. little bobby and little mary anne need to get it together and get on with life.
Failure is an opportunity to do it better the next time. unless you are into participation trophies.
You are confusing the Start Trek of Gene Roddenberry with the later versions.
ReplyDeleteI'd hardly call Trump a conservative lol
ReplyDeleteI agree with Spud...he's not conservative by by any definition. But still, better than Hillary.
ReplyDelete"I guess the bigger question is how, given the consistent failure of their policies, do progressives come to dominate institutions like education and the media?"...
ReplyDeleteI suggest you look into the 'Frankfurt School' as documented in "The Devil's Pleasure Palace" (subtitled 'The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West') by Michael Walsh. The followers of this school of thought believed in 'the long march through the institutions' to subvert Western thought from the inside and they have largely succeeded.
You are exactly right. It's already happened here in the UK.
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