Things have been kind of tough for us liberals lately, haven't they? The right has been pecking away at a lot of the progressive programs and regulations and environmental victories we've won over the years, and they've done a pretty damn good job of demonizing us at the same time. However, with the advent of the tea party they have gone from being extremely annoying to outright nihilistic, even to the point where many were advocating that America default on our debt payments and bring down the government! Wow!!
How about a little perspective.
I'm 66 years old and in my lifetime liberals have had a lot of successes and have made a HUGE difference in America. When I was a kid Jim Crow laws were enforced in the south, now we have a black President. When I was a kid women were stuck in the home, or could work as nurses or teachers, little else. Now women are CEOs, scientists, and run for President. Today abortion is legal, gay marriage is fast becoming acceptable, interracial marriage is not even controversial anymore. And for every major liberal win, the conservatives have been getting more and more pissed off about how the country is going to hell!!!
Put yourself in their place. How would you feel if our side kept losing year after year after year? And not small losses either, but huge monumental losses such as complete equality for blacks and women, and the acceptance of gay marriage by a slim majority. These and other major progressive improvements have been huge, humiliating losses for conservatives and hard core bigots over the years.
But now they believe they have FINALLY managed to get the upper hand, and By God they're going to punish us liberals and Democrats, even if it means destroying our country, because chaos and anarchy is better than seeing blacks elected president and gays getting married, and having lawyers tell them they can't force kids in school to pray to their God.
This is all about pent up anger and frustration, and those on the right, especially in flyover country, somehow believe that 90% of the country thinks like they do, and in 2012 they are going to finally wipe out the left once and for all!
They don't realize that the pendulum is beginning to swing back our way and is just about to smack them in the head and squash them flat. You can bet the farm on that!
--Trakker
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