IRL I have a couple of good friends, couples that are liberals. They are good people, married with children, they have good jobs, homes and are just plain old good Americans. We don't see eye to eye on politics but they are not hateful by any means. They don't want to see the government take over everything. It is more in the priorities in which we disagree on.
These people are being left out in the cold by the democratic elite and by its many minions, some of which we see on this board. These people have no real grasp on the issues, no reality in which to work from. Their motivation is hatred. Not that I am going to say that they all hate America but they do not share the dream of America as it was founded.
Our elections are supposed to be a celebration of our political system, but the Democratic elite, led by Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha and the others are instead practicing M.A.D. on it. When I was a kid I remember our elctions being one of both parties telling us how great our country was and how much greater it will be with them in charge. Today though, the Democratic elite now are casting a view of America as a country in utter ruins. Much of this being the fault of everyday people and of course the Republican party.
Rather than tell us how they can make our country better, more prosperous and safer, they are attempting to fill its citizens with fear. Fear of everything basically. Fear of the free market, fear of individualism.
On this board as of late the hatred and foul rhetoric has hit an all time high. They are attacking Republicans and in many cases America itself. In recent days we have owned them on a number of topics, especially the economic threads. Either from their total lack of knowledge on the subject, only repeating crazy lies and distortions from the most partisan and hateful, easily being debunked as we have shown them that during the Clinton administration the markets suffered worse volatility and the fed acted much in the same manner. A manner some have now cried is only helping the wealthy. Now, facing the fact that they would be arguing against the entire Clinton economic expansion, they now turn to the absurd and attack us as individuals. The 9/11 conspiracy is making its return. Liberals read more than conservatism. lol. When all else fails just claim they are so much smarter.
We knew it was going to be this way and it is getting ugly in a hurry. It is the Hillary effect. She leads not by strong stances ont the issues but of attacks against the opposition. It creates an atmosphere of hatred and paranoia, which is what she wants. Ultimately we don't need to do much to thwart this off. About the only thing we need not do is go play in the mud with them. The more we keep hitting them with facts and how history has shown our way to be the better way, the more absurd they will become. The more this country will see what has happened to the Democratic party and the type of leadership it is under today. The stakes are high, no doubt about it. If we get down to their level and play the political mud wranging games we will lose, because it is their domain, it is their home field advantage. Now more than ever we must stay above this, keep on defending America and pushing a positive agenda. No matter how bad the Democratic elite attempt to make America out to be, the people do not wnat to vote for a party which wants to change this country into another European syle socialistic mess, with so little individualism and little to hope for or dream about.
It will be one of our biggest challenges, not of true liberalism, but of this monster that has been created by the Hillary effect.