Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Progressive Race to the Bottom

The new, new Left questions not the operation of American democracy but the very premise of American democracy.

The new big fortunes of America are now mostly in high-tech, media, and finance, not in the old conservative and muscular corporations centered in farming, manufacturing, or oil and minerals.

In terms of electronic media, the way the news is delivered through Twitter, Facebook, and Google is itself massaged to censor, aggravate, and impede conservatives and conservative thought.

We are also reaping the fruits of the new university run by hard-core leftists who have indoctrinated a generation with progressive envy and anger, while offering them little education.

The new socialism is also attributable to ten years of anemic annual economic growth below 3 percent, massive student debt, open borders, changing demography, and radical new approaches to marriage and home ownership that have radicalized the younger electorate.

The bad news is that conservatives will likely increasingly be outnumbered, outspent, and out-organized unless they are shocked out their somnolence.

The quasi-good news is that the hard Left is unapologetic that it is the hard Left, not just bankrupt in its ideology in a world where socialism has demonstrably wrecked entire countries, but also predictably hypocritical and cynical, given that leftists are now really the party of the rich - and without much empathy for the deplorable and irredeemable middle classes.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/progressive-politics-abolish-ice-tax-increases-free-college/

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