Liberals are pussies and Donald Trump has just grabbed us by the crotch.
Bill Maher
warned us over and over again that liberals are overly concerned with political
correctness while conservatives line up and fight.
On the very day
Obama was sworn in as President, Mitch McConnell, leader of the House
Conservatives, said that the aim of his party would be ‘to ensure that President Obama became a one term President.’
Yet, with a
mandate in both the House and Senate, Obama compromised away from universal
health care before the discussions even began, wrongly believing that moving
toward the middle would elicit cooperation from the Republicans.
Even Harry
Reid, when he had a chance to do away with the filibuster in the Senate and
override Republican obstruction, made a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with McConnell that
allowed the filibuster to remain.
We have
constantly heard Democrats speak of their
friends on the other side of the aisle; but those words have never been
uttered from the mouth of a Republican.
I warned in
my blog, that a Trump election was a real possibility. We saw thousands of rabid supporters turn
out for Donald Trump’s campaign events and only hundreds turn out for Hillary. The momentum was always with him. We chose to ignore The Burn with a popular ultra-liberal agenda, and instead line
up behind the politically correct, middle of the road, accepted heir to the
throne.
It didn’t
matter that Trump’s party intends to privatize Social Security (remove the safety net for seniors by
offering tax cuts for investment in commercial retirement accounts) or that
his party intends to do away with Medicare (turning
health management back over to insurance companies.) Trump’s P.T. Barnum flare mesmerized the
uninformed and easily manipulated Tea Party masses and the racist, homophobic,
anti-government far right extremist, who’s main desire was to throw crap like
monkeys in a cage.
Liberals are
now experiencing a ‘regroup assessment.’
A ‘how could this have happened to
us’ regret. But again, there is
danger in our tendency for politically correct overreaction.
Liberals
will make a monumental mistake if they try to move toward the conservative
right in order to patronize the Republican base voters. The idea that we did not try to appeal to the
blue collar middle class is a straw man of political correctness
mentality.
We are the party of the
middle class and should shout it to the sky.
We should hunker down in our liberal beliefs and loudly and aggressively
call out ignorance and bigotry and racism and misogyny when it dares to rear
its head. We should become aggressive
in our values and not cower to ‘our friends across the aisle.’ It is time for liberals to give up
political correctness and enter the cage match, not with the attitude to resist
and compromise, but with the attitude to win.
the Ol’Buzzard
