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Derek Hunter
May 6, 2018

If you thought conservatives could “make nice” with liberals, that “both sides have the country’s best interest at heart,” you were wrong. This week more of the con-jobs and character assassinations the political left is attempting have been exposed, and if it doesn’t make you realize the Liberal Industrial Complex will stop at nothing to protect itself and destroy the Trump administration, nothing will.

The economic news was all good this week, though you’d barely know it if you watched cable news. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent, which means nearly everyone who wants a job can find a job. Black and Hispanic unemployment are at the lowest rates ever recorded. Turns out all those liberal predictions of doom and gloom if Donald Trump were elected president were not only wrong, they were lies.

Same goes for the predictions that tax cuts would bring about pain and suffering.

So where’s the accountability for those politicians, pundits, and journalists who fanned the flames of panic in trying to defeat both? There isn’t any. Liberals can lie without fear of accountability because the people who’d hold them accountable – journalists – are on their side.

That’s how John Kerry, the only Secretary of State whose tenure makes Hillary Clinton’s look good by comparison, can conduct “shadow diplomacy” with the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism and it not cause the outrage it deserves. When Donald Trump contradicted the Obama administration’s foreign policy positions AFTER he’d won the election, but before he took office, liberals were screaming about “Logan Act” violations. Kerry takes sides against the United States (again), and it’s just another day in the office.

But foreign policy isn’t the only area liberals are actively seeking to undermine the rule of law and the President. “You don't really care about Mr. Manafort, you really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever,” is something you’d expect Sean Hannity today. But it was actually said by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team as they sought more power to widen their investigation in search of a crime.

How can you compromise with someone who supports an open-ended investigation to see if there are any crimes you’ve committed? The specific charge Mueller was given was to see if how Russia tried to influence the election results. It’s evolved into a liberal fever dream oozing into every aspect of anyone even loosely associated with the President to see if maybe they did something that can be used against them to get Trump.

I wasn’t a big believer in the “deep state,” this push by the permanent power class in Washington trying to destroy the President because he crashed their party. But with every new bit of “evidence,” there’s little choice but to believe it’s true. Politics is a clique where party only matters around the edges. Donald Trump didn’t work his way through the ranks, pay his dues and kiss the right rings as he ascended to the White House, he stormed the gates and cut the line. He not only didn’t “pay his dues,” he beat those who did. Upsetting the apple cart is always unsettling for those who cultivate apple trees.

The power structure in Washington lost power when Trump won, so the investigations began. A year and a half later and they’ve discovered nothing. Rather than admit the obvious, they’ve shifted to digging for potential “technical” crimes in an attempt to get him for something.

I don’t know if his lawyer paying off a porn star is a technical violation of campaign finance laws, and I don’t care. I didn’t vote for Trump to marry my sister, I voted for him to be president and to make sure Hillary wasn’t. On that count, his presidency has been a smashing success.

But to the Liberal Industrial Complex, it’s a nightmare.

Electoral politics is their domain, their path to wealth. It’s important to keep in mind that while they scream about President Trump trying to use the White House to get rich, he was already rich. He will likely be the only person in the modern age to leave the White House poorer than he was going in. Meanwhile, the Clintons and Obamas went into “public service” as people of relatively modest means and amassed generational wealth in and after leaving office. Who’s corrupt again?

Donald Trump’s biggest, non-personal sin was winning. And for that, they’re trying to destroy him. And they’ll destroy anyone and everything that stands in the way of doing that, even the country, if necessary. They have the infrastructure to do it, the accomplices, and the will to do it.

Which is why they have to be destroyed first.

This week was a stark reminder of the importance of having judges who are interested in the rule of law and the Constitution, not advancing a political agenda. That’s what is on the ballot his November. While the idea of beating back the liberal mob in the fields of science, journalism, and Hollywood is appealing and important, those are but the tentacles of the monster. The ballot box and confirmation votes in the Senate are the only way to truly destroy liberalism. I just hope we destroy it before they destroy everything.

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agreed

These guys keep referring to leftists as "liberals." It's clueless. Now I stop reading as soon as I see that.

This is war. Until people that see themselves as "liberals" become outspoken as not supporting" leftist" ideals, they are enemy.

ensigmatic,

You're correct.

They're not liberals.

They're communists of one stripe of other...

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Exactly. There are liberals, and there are leftists. And they are COMPLETELY different.

You can debate with a liberal, you can negotiate with a liberal, you can "give and take" with a liberal. As much as we can "hate" liberals, for the most part when it comes down to it they love the country as much as we do.

Leftists on the other hand, well with them you cannot do any of the above. And they do not love this country, to the contrary they want to see it destroyed.

Dershowitz is a liberal. I do not agree with him on a lot of things (most things) but he will debate, discuss, and put fourth a good argument for his position. If he is wrong he will admit it. A leftist will never do that.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
This is war. Until people that see themselves as "liberals" become outspoken as not supporting" leftist" ideals, they are enemy.

I disagree. By continuing to go along with leftists calling themselves "liberals" you're giving them cover for what they really are: Which is either communists or fascists, depending upon how you look at it.

They are not liberal. They are the antithesis of liberalism. Those who keep referring to them as "liberals" are doing them a favour, and it's weak thinking.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
This is war. Until people that see themselves as "liberals" become outspoken as not supporting" leftist" ideals, they are enemy.

I disagree. By continuing to go along with leftists calling themselves "liberals" you're giving them cover for what they really are: Which is either communists or fascists, depending upon how you look at it.

They are not liberal. They are the antithesis of liberalism. Those who keep referring to them as "liberals" are doing them a favour, and it's weak thinking.

Again, until true liberals vocally and officially distance themselves from the goals, ideals, and tactics of leftists, they are just as dangerous to us. Until they are willing to say these things to a rabid leftists face, they do not help us.

Leftists wore 'liberal' as camouflage when being a Leftist had very negative consequences. Now the two labels are associated and interchangeable. It's not fair to classic liberalism, but that's what they get for not protecting their borders.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Leftists wore 'liberal' as camouflage when being a Leftist had very negative consequences. Now the two labels are associated and interchangeable. It's not fair to classic liberalism, but that's what they get for not protecting their borders.

Exactly. They need to openly denounce the extreme left to ever gain their credibility back with me.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Again, until true liberals vocally and officially distance themselves from the goals, ideals, and tactics of leftists, they are just as dangerous to us. Until they are willing to say these things to a rabid leftists face, they do not help us.

You mean liberals like Alan Dershowitz? Or the many other true liberals who've been decrying the antics of the left for months, if not years? Those liberals?

There've been liberals, true liberals, that've been hounded off college campuses for daring to raise their voices against the rampant leftism that's happening on them. There've been liberal professors who've resigned from tenured positions over it.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Leftists wore 'liberal' as camouflage when being a Leftist had very negative consequences.

So of course the logical thing to do is keep helping them maintain that cover, right?

I'm beginning to take the position that people who refer to leftists as "liberals" have no more credibility than the leftists, themselves.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Again, until true liberals vocally and officially distance themselves from the goals, ideals, and tactics of leftists, they are just as dangerous to us. Until they are willing to say these things to a rabid leftists face, they do not help us.

You mean liberals like Alan Dershowitz? Or the many other true liberals who've been decrying the antics of the left for months, if not years? Those liberals?

There've been liberals, true liberals, that've been hounded off college campuses for daring to raise their voices against the rampant leftism that's happening on them. There've been liberal professors who've resigned from tenured positions over it.

As far as I'm concerned: People who refer to leftists as "liberals" have no more credibility than the leftists, themselves.

He is the exception to the rule, and you know it. A vast majority of the liberals riding the fence will not do what it takes to distance themselves from the antics of the left. Sorry if that opinion bothers you, but if they don't distance themselves just as vociferously as conservatives, the gray area liberals are not my friends.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
He is the exception to the rule, ...

No, he is not.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Sorry if that opinion bothers you, ...

It does not bother me, any more than the opinions of leftists "bothers" me. I simply disregard them--as I now do Hunter's comments.

Liberals, Leftist, Communist all one and the same and they make up the bulk of the Democratic party and a portion of the Republican party.

Call themselves what they will, their views mesh together to work to the same end.

I give you John McCain, most would consider him a Liberal, yet he works for the detriment of our Country more feverishly than some Democrats.

Liberalism is disease working to destroy the Country.

Liberals, leftists, Progressives, Communists, Socialists - I don't care what they're called; they are enemies of this country and our freedom.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Liberals, leftists, Progressives, Communists, Socialists - I don't care what they're called; they are enemies of this country and our freedom.

Bingo!

Thanks WaterburyBob, I forgot a few names.

It's not the name it's the ideology.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Liberals, leftists, Progressives, Communists, Socialists - I don't care what they're called; they are enemies of this country and our freedom.

Bingo!

"Enemy" is the exact term used by all of the 'progressive' ilk mentioned above when referring to their political opponents, and it has been for decades.

The Crimson Kenyan let it slip out a couple of times, as well as a few other prominent Progressive politicians. Much to my dissappoint, a few of my politically Progressive family member's (immediate and close) have used that word as well. It made me rage with fury, and I told them that they were my enemy as well, wrt politics.

The bottom line is, that Progressivism and ALL of its evil twins and defective cousins, must be neutralized. And it will be, but our history is yet to be written on that.
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To be clear, 'Liberals' with their capital "L" can be destroyed politically with no angst on my part. Happy to cheer on the process, help out where a hand might be useful, spike the wheels of any ill-intended rescuers, etc.

Small-l liberalism, however, is what got us free of kings and that ilk, and was what the Founders believed in. Many or most of us would agree with the 'little-l's' positions: limited government, personal liberty, etc.

One of the first uses of the now-standard trick of suborning words was when the 'progressives' remarketed themselves as liberals. Trick continues as facist bullies label themselves as 'Anti-facists' etc.

Gotta watch what what people do, not what they label themselves.

By population, there are more liberals in the country than conservatives. So, face it, they're not going away.

The only thing that keeps them from taking over the country is the way the government was originally set up, which keeps the more populous states from dominating the smaller ones. But as the liberal states fail, and create a liberal diaspora in the conservative states, and as the anchor babies of yesteryear become today's voters (think Texas), even that may not save us.