In spite of the protestations and denials of liberals, by it's very nature, population make up and history, the US is a center-right country.
Wow, you really went off the deep end this time. Conservatives outnumber liberals in 47 states, and yet Mr. Obama, after exposing himself as an incompetent, terrorist-sympathizing socialist, was able to win twenty-six of them in his reelection bid. And does it matter if liberals are outnumbered in states like Wyoming, Idaho, the Dakotas, Montana, and Alaska? Well it does in the Senate, unfortunately. Nineteen electoral votes, 3.5% of the total, but 12% of the Senate.
>>From what I've observed, the fundamental core of liberalism and progressivism is turn ever more control over to the centralized government
And yet you proudly quote TR, an early and very prominent progressive who described his domestic policy agenda as the Square Deal.
>>the minority communities which generation after generation become ever more socially ill-adapted and ever more dependent on government benefits that others have to provide for them.
If that's the case, then how have African-Americans made so much progress over the last fifty years? Black adults make up ten percent of the country's adult population and own 7% of US businesses. Underrepresented, but a lot better than it was when I was growing up. I'd say the problem is that those firms took in less than .5% of business receipts in 2007 (the data I looked at). Is that because they're too dependent on welfare handouts?
In my view, the reason blacks are overrepresented in the poverty statistics is that they typically live in poor communities (guess how they ended up there), neighborhoods that have LOUSY schools and (in urban areas) high crime rates and which offer very little opportunity to develop the kind of social skills that I know you want them to have. I know yer anything but a racist, but I think yer wrong to say that Great Society programs have hurt blacks. They just haven't helped them enough. I used to work in those areas, and I found the same level of ambition I see in my suburban white town. The problem is a lack of opportunity.
>>it's always easier to blame someone else for your own failures.
And are conservatives blaming the problems in the poor neighbourhoods in our cities on liberal policies because they haven't come up with an alternative? It seems like what you guys would want is volunteerism, things like mentoring programs. I've been begging for that for forty years. So let's go. Let's have a man like Rick Perry, who I've been warming up to, or John Kasich or Rand Paul challenge Republican voters to once and for all PUT AN END TO THIS UNGODLY MISERY. Is this the best America can do? When yer lying on yer deathbed, wouldn't you like to look back on yer life and be thankful that yer generation was the one in which this nation rose up and lived out the great, self-evident meaning of its creed, that all men are created equal. Don't we owe that to those who have fought and died to defend this great republic?
>>a seductive cancer of the spirit … politicians [who] exploit this to their advantage and to grow and expand their power base and the government's power base?
Ahh, so this is how it's done.
>>the biased mainstream media. This mentality is being taught to the net generations through their public school education and especially so in higher education.
My God, that's so pathetic.
>>Having been soundly rejected by the marketplace of ideas?
Because Air America couldn't turn a profit, you decide that liberalism has been rejected by Americans?
>>Liberalism and progressive are out right failures, but seductive failures, that have repeatedly seduced some into believing that it actually has merit, that it's some sort of reasonable way forward, which is clearly is not.
This is a clear rejection of TR, FDR, Jack Kennedy, and other great American leaders. Without that progressive drive to improve the living standards of working class Americans, I don't think the US would be much of anything to be proud of.
I suppose that sums up my "protestations and denials."
