The Democrat vs Republican dynamic was a lot different in the earlier parts of the 20th century, and you really cannot draw direct lines to what is happening today. It was not as bright-line conservative/liberal within the parties. It was not as partisan in some ways, but not necessarily better ways. The Democrats had a major split in their own party - the Dixiecrats controlled the south with some racist ideas. But this allowed the Democrats to win more in the South and the northern Democrats tolerated some of this for this reason. So the "control" the Democrats had is not the same control a party would have today, where they are more unified. They had control, party-wise, but they did not have cohesion within the party to get things done like maybe could be done today, as the votes were not party line.
Very true that politics was much different in the past My history teacher in high school used to say that people voted their pocketbooks. They vote for the party that looks out for them financially.
Republicans dominated in the suburbs and in parts of the country, like the Missouri bootheel, you could find just as many Democrats as you would in inner city St. Louis.
Nowadays, people (primarily over educated whites) tend to vote their feelings over logic. This is why the suburbs are trending blue. You’ll see someone pulling out of a tony neighborhood, with RESIST! PROUD DEMOCRAT stickers on the back of their Mercedes. In my experience, people like this generally have always had it pretty good and have been indoctrinated to think they are privileged and are somehow responsible for all the wrongs in America.
By voting Democrat, a liberal believes that he/she/it is being a good human. Just the action of filling in the bubble next to the D candidate erases their guilt. It’s almost like it’s their penance.
Everyday I'm becoming increasingly more convinced that Michael Knowles' is right on the money when he says leftists have replaced religion with politics. You've got their orthodoxy (liberal narrative and the victim hierarchy), the original sins of whiteness and male privilege, the scientists are their high priests and heresies for speaking against them, indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits, prophets of doom with global warming, NBC had a climate confessional, hell you can even be raised from the dead...it's only to vote, but still.
From the 60s until 2008 or so, the Left was primarily centered around the idea of moral relativism. “What’s true for you may not be true for me.” They did this to advance their social agenda and sold us the idea that conservatives were the ones who imposed their morality on everyone and that liberalism was about being free and open-minded.
During the Obama years, the Left officially asserted themselves as the Moral Authority of America. You can’t turn on the tv without seeing some Commie pontificate about Trump attacking “the integrity of our institutions” and uttering phrases like “This is not who we are as Americans.” In other words, if you don’t agree with the Left on every issue, you’re not American.
No_Malarkey_Joe was describing the current symptoms, but the underlying philosophy is Marxism.
It's very safe to say that... if you find emerging misery, hate, and degradation of a society being driven mostly by envy, anywhere in the world, Marxism (or the popular nom du jour, such as "democratic socialism") is the root cause.
The Democrat vs Republican dynamic was a lot different in the earlier parts of the 20th century, and you really cannot draw direct lines to what is happening today. It was not as bright-line conservative/liberal within the parties. It was not as partisan in some ways, but not necessarily better ways. The Democrats had a major split in their own party - the Dixiecrats controlled the south with some racist ideas. But this allowed the Democrats to win more in the South and the northern Democrats tolerated some of this for this reason. So the "control" the Democrats had is not the same control a party would have today, where they are more unified. They had control, party-wise, but they did not have cohesion within the party to get things done like maybe could be done today, as the votes were not party line.
Very true that politics was much different in the past My history teacher in high school used to say that people voted their pocketbooks. They vote for the party that looks out for them financially.
Republicans dominated in the suburbs and in parts of the country, like the Missouri bootheel, you could find just as many Democrats as you would in inner city St. Louis.
Nowadays, people (primarily over educated whites) tend to vote their feelings over logic. This is why the suburbs are trending blue. You’ll see someone pulling out of a tony neighborhood, with RESIST! PROUD DEMOCRAT stickers on the back of their Mercedes. In my experience, people like this generally have always had it pretty good and have been indoctrinated to think they are privileged and are somehow responsible for all the wrongs in America.
By voting Democrat, a liberal believes that he/she/it is being a good human. Just the action of filling in the bubble next to the D candidate erases their guilt. It’s almost like it’s their penance.
Everyday I'm becoming increasingly more convinced that Michael Knowles' is right on the money when he says leftists have replaced religion with politics. You've got their orthodoxy (liberal narrative and the victim hierarchy), the original sins of whiteness and male privilege, the scientists are their high priests and heresies for speaking against them, indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits, prophets of doom with global warming, NBC had a climate confessional, hell you can even be raised from the dead...it's only to vote, but still.
Yes, Marxism is their religion.
From the 60s until 2008 or so, the Left was primarily centered around the idea of moral relativism. “What’s true for you may not be true for me.” They did this to advance their social agenda and sold us the idea that conservatives were the ones who imposed their morality on everyone and that liberalism was about being free and open-minded.
During the Obama years, the Left officially asserted themselves as the Moral Authority of America. You can’t turn on the tv without seeing some Commie pontificate about Trump attacking “the integrity of our institutions” and uttering phrases like “This is not who we are as Americans.” In other words, if you don’t agree with the Left on every issue, you’re not American.
As if some community organizer from Chicago who spent their formative years outside of America would know what being an American was all about.
Bingo.
No_Malarkey_Joe was describing the current symptoms, but the underlying philosophy is Marxism.
It's very safe to say that... if you find emerging misery, hate, and degradation of a society being driven mostly by envy, anywhere in the world, Marxism (or the popular nom du jour, such as "democratic socialism") is the root cause.