The Left in decline
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
There is nothing novel from them: no new political adventure, no fresh cause over which to bleed, no harebrained plan to further the doormat agenda for America. Instead we are getting more of the usual: raucous demonstrations so typical of liberal unhappiness; more lecturing on the horrors of what will happen when the left is left out; high drama from the teary-eyed Chuck Schumer aghast at the notion of tough national security.
Progressives defending the status quo contradict their forward movement claim. Their agenda is more frozen than Pelosi’s heart.
Indeed, the very idea of “open-minded” liberals falters before the facts. They are like the skeleton found in an abandoned refrigerator with a faded photo of Bernie Sanders clutched betwixt bony digits.
Libs don’t want to get it–the very thing of which they accuse everyone else–but the truth is there is a new sheriff in charge and his badge is shiny.
Progress has been redefined by a motivated new president while the left promotes every tedious tie-up as a colossal achievement and an indicator of the Trumpian downfall necessary before Utopia can be rejoined.
Trump, you see, has ruined everything. Obama was supposed to be followed by eight years of Hillary Clinton who was supposed to be relieved by yet another open-border redistributionist. One party was to dominate with all the dominoes in alignment.
But liberal arrogance led to neglect. Clinton got outworked by Trump and big media failed to deliver. The left should have learned there is more than one point-of-view afoot, but that revelation went by them like a drone on a mission. It hasn’t occurred to them to work with conservatives for the greater good. The only good they acknowledge is themselves.
The current condition of liberalism is miserable. The left has become purveyors of diminishment. They would be perfectly happy to see the country falter if they could engineer Trump’s failure in the process. The left believes that will be accomplished by an overflow of accusations of racism, social injustice, and income inequality.
In other words, the same old record continues to spin. They can’t let it go nor can they detect boredom on the part of the fed-up. They will stick with all they know.
The left’s insistence is feverish even as failure metastasizes.
The left claims forgiveness and the virtue of second chances, but they harbor no forgiveness for those who fail politically. Hillary Clinton vanished quicker than a stage girl in a Lance Burton show. She is more washed up than driftwood on a rocky shore, left so by Hurricane Donald.
Failure means forgotten in the leftist thesaurus.
No more forgotten than the avuncular Harry Reid who prattled off to retirement leaving in his wake the legacy of the nuclear option. Harry, you see, prematurely assumed permanent control of the Senate by the left. Whatever the liberals wanted they should have by simple majority.
A precedent was set. Listen to the left holler when the right uses the option as it was used against them. Now is different.
In Reid’s place stands Chuck Schumer, clucking away at the error of doing good for citizens instead of those who break our laws upon arrival. He is a master of concealing intent.
Schumer is setting himself up as the anti-Trump. Watch him like an eagle with a telescope.
Marking her territory in what was once Hillary Clinton’s backyard is Elizabeth Warren, the deeply weird senator from Massachusetts who defined her true self recently on the floor of the Senate in an embarrassing spectacle of self-promotion.
Schumer and Warren. Two senators who see Donald Trump and all who voted for him as malignant. Two ambitious loyalists to the liberal agenda.
One or both will run against Trump after they have done everything they can to prevent America from becoming great again. Any success they may have would return us to where we were before Trump entered boldly.
Encouragingly, there are small signs of unhappiness in moderate Democratic ranks concerning the far left leadership that has wrecked the party. Modest discontent could grow into rebellion.
That’s what the party of no needs.
Let’s hope for and encourage that because the far left is ill and beyond hope. Democrats’ best chance lies in broadening moderation under new leadership.
Larry W. Anderson is a retired educator, author and lifelong Northwest Missourian.
