THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 204, August 17, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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LIBERALISM'S "NEW" STRATEGY: THE SAME OLD LIES
By Christopher G. Adamo
A VERY PROFOUND CHARACTERISTIC OF LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN AMERICAN POLITICS: THEIR ABILITY
TO KEEP STRAIGHT FACES, OR EVEN LOOK GRAVELY SERIOUS, WHILE SPEWING THE MOST HYSTERICAL & LAUGHABLE LIES
-- LECTURING AMERICA ON "GLOBAL WARMING," "CIVILITY" & "BIPARTISANSHIP," WHILE SEEKING TO CRUSH THE
CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION & LEAVE THE ROAD OPEN FOR FURTHER LIBERAL EFFORTS TO GROW GOVERNMENT,
ENCROACH ON THE BASIC FREEDOMS OF AMERICANS, & RAISE OUR TAXES -- EVENTS & DEVELOPMENTS SIGNIFYING THAT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ARE RAPIDLY LOSING SUPPORT AMONG AMERICAN VOTERS --
THE ABSURD & VICIOUS LIBERAL RESPONSE TO THE "BAD NEWS," A RESPONSE DRIVEN BY LIBERAL PANIC & LIKELY TO
BACKFIRE IN THE 2012 FEDERAL ELECTIONS & BRING THE REPUBLICANS BACK TO POWER IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FULL STORY:
Perhaps the most profound quality common to Liberals is their ability to keep straight faces (or even look gravely serious)
while spewing the most hysterical and laughable lies. In this manner, we have heard them in recent years frantically
pontificating about how “global warming” would surely end life on this planet as we know it, unless, of course, they were
allowed to grow government, encroach on our time honored freedoms, and raise our taxes.
Similarly, we have been forced to endure their shameless sanctimony, as they lectured real America on the topic of “civility,”
which ultimately means that Conservatives rightly ought to remain silent, while the Liberals grow government, encroach on
our freedoms, and raise taxes. And, whenever any real opposition arises, they revert to demands for “bipartisanship,” which
means that our side should collaborate with them, as they seek to grow government, encroach on freedom, and raise taxes.
In recent months, this campaign has gone into high gear. Clearly, despite all pretense of being confident in the Democratic
Party agenda and its unfailing popularity with the American people, Leftists remain shell-shocked in the wake of last
November’s Conservative electoral landslide. And, with each ensuing public opinion poll showing another drop in their
standing among the people of the Heartland, and similar numbers indicating that their esteemed leader, Barack Obama, is
fast losing ground with the electorate, panic is spreading among Liberals who, only a few years back, believed that the
nation’s future was completely theirs to commandeer and reconstruct.
Of particular alarm and frustration to them has been the grassroots movement popularly dubbed the Tea Party. Reflecting an
authentic and devoted groundswell of common citizenry who, previously having remained detached from the distasteful
confrontations of the political arena, now realize that continued indifference is a luxury they can no longer afford. By
continued passivity, the nation they knew and cherished is being wrested from them and must be retaken if the promises of
its future are to be restored to their former luster.
Throughout much of 2009 and early 2010, the Democratic Party and Liberal media cabal believed they could dilute and
undermine the Tea Party by merely ignoring it. Yet, as Election Day 2010 approached, and legitimate polling data increasingly
indicated that the Democrats were destined to lose big, come November, 2010, opposition to the Tea Party movement became
more brazen and vitriolic. Post election, every conceivable “analysis” was presented as cold hard “fact,” depicting the
political tsunami as overblown, and citing such anomalies as the California, Nevada, and Delaware U.S. Senate races, in which
Democrats won, as proof that America still leaned toward the political Hard-Left. The massive Tea Party gatherings in
Washington and elsewhere in the nation were ostensibly a flash in the pan, and would soon dissipate.
Yet, as the nation enters into the 2012 election cycle, it is increasingly clear that Liberal Democrats are both aware of the
continued presence and growing influence of the Tea Party movement, and petrified by everything that it represents. So, they
have predictably returned to their political playbook and resorted to the standard tactics by which they have often neutralized
opponents in the past. Not surprisingly, this assault embodies all of the typical and despicable ploys that so characterize
Liberalism in general. But the latest efforts reveal that, as a result of their panic, Liberal Leftists are vastly overplaying their
hand. And, in so doing, the effort will surely backfire.
Consider the transparently frenzied attempts to exploit every potential crisis engulfing the nation, and even the world, as an
opportunity to impugn the Tea Party. It is beyond absurd to contend that a groundswell of American patriots objecting to
their government’s wanton spending binges and extra-constitutional legislating is somehow culpable for everything from the
mayhem of a deranged murderer in Tucson, to the downgrading of America’s bond rating, to the riots in London.
Nevertheless, such indictments, and even more, are regularly leveled by Liberals with straight faces.
The chronically buffoonish Senator John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts) echoed this nonsense, referring to the bond
rating fiasco as the “Tea Party Downgrade.” Previously, he asserted, with apparent solemnity, that Tea Party statements and
concerns “don’t deserve equal time” in the media, since they do not pass his standard for being “legitimate.”
Vice President Joe Biden derided the involvement of Tea Party activists in the recent debt-ceiling battle, accusing them of
“acting like terrorists.” Such a characterization is particularly despicable coming from an administration that refuses to apply
such a label to Muslim men known for brutal murders of Western non-Muslims.
Increasingly, the venomous Leftist hyperbole exceeds any boundaries of reason or believability, and appears on its face to
be so shrill and excessive that it no longer inflicts any damage on its intended targets, but instead reflects the psychosis of
its authors. Thus, such ferocious invectives as Missouri Democrat Emmanuel Cleaver’s “Satan sandwich” and New York
Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s characterization of the debt debate as a “Washington Chainsaw Massacre” now
border on the comedic.
In what may, at first, seem like an extreme contradiction from all of the allegation of Tea Party murder and mayhem, Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-NV) on August 14, 2011, repeated his “observation” that the Tea Party is in retreat, and that
“They will lose a number of [congressional] seats next year.” In this he echoed an earlier premature obituary from January,
in which he enthusiastically proclaimed, “The Tea Party is dying.”
It may appear that such divergent assessments of the Tea Party are at total odds with each other. On the one hand it is
dissipating into oblivion, yet it has the power to destroy the U.S. economy. However, the underlying motivation for such
radically dissimilar critiques is quite consistent. Though totally incongruous, if taken literally, they are in fact separate
fronts of a common attack. And the nature of that onslaught can be studied in the pages of Saul Alinsky’s
Marxist-Leninist grail “Rules for Radicals.” When seen through the dark prism of Alinsky’s subversive philosophy, the
continuity of the anti-Tea Party agenda becomes crystal clear. Marginalize it under any circumstances, employing any lie
necessary to achieve the goal.
However, the people of Real America are no longer susceptible to such tactics, but are informed and aware of the methods
and motives of those Leftists who employ them. And the shrill tenor of Liberal caterwauling against the Conservative
grassroots carries with it an underlying message. The empty promises of Liberalism are finally facing a day of reckoning.
The gig is up and the political Left, in abject terror, knows it.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
American Government & the U.S. Congress:
Congressional Legislative Politics & National Public Policy
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level
for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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