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The Right is fighting the last war, when Reaganism triumphed over a fractured and unbalanced Left. The Left had at that time solved it's major core social policy issues, consolidating the changes FDR began. The Left was left arguing fringe issues of highbrow identity politics when the Soviet Union crumbled. It utterly missed the moment and could claim little or no rhetorical stake in the sudden triumph of the West, despite the fact that it was primarily liberal social and economic policies & approaches that gave the US the large advantage it had over the USSR in the 50's-70's.
But when there were serious issues facing the United States in the early 80's the Left couldn't formulate an argument because it was too busy focusing on identity issue politics and rolling around in the leftovers scraps of it's prior positions that had lost relevancy to the context of the times.
Fast forward 20 years and now the Right has no answer to the primary challenges of the world. In fact it's gadflies and tea baggers are out with rhetoric straight from the 1989 playbook, it doesn't yet understand the Left understands the narrative of the time, that it is struggling with the immediate issues of the moment while the Right is fighting the ghosts of Lefties two deades past.
The current vibrant left is getting back to the social justice issues, freedoms issues..it;s the only one tackling the real problems we are facing - the decline of US hegemonic power relative to it's allies and enemies, the climate change challenge, immigration, the healthcare and financial disasters, the infrastructure problems, etc.
The Left has to realize THIS is it's moment. What it does and what it says in the next 12 months will be crucial. The smart ones on the Right KNOW this and that's where the ferocity from that quarter is coming from. They are railing against the side that has it's feet planted in the zeitgeist because the best the Right can come up with is rehashing the 19th century States Rights issues gussied up with some stale three decade old rhetoric about taxes and gun rights. Has nothing to do with the very real challenges the world faces at the moment. The Right has no answers, and it's blatantly obvious with their attempts to argue on emotion and use anger and distraction as primary weapons in their rhetoric.
- Excellent stuffukit
- in other words, it's all cyclical, so enjoy your day in the sun.********
- Of course it's cyclical. Thanks for stating the obvious.********
- It's like playing chess with a pigeon with you.********
- actually not, it's like toying with children with you guys. Anything that you disagree with and you throw a tantrum********
- HYPOCRITES!********
- what it does in the next 12 months is definitely crucial. they'll lose major seats in Nov. Thus the push...zenmasterfoo
- Saying everything hinges on now is an Al Gore tactic that failed him. Most adults see through that as hype. Once law most of these are extremely difficult to undo.zenmasterfoo
- most of these are extremely difficult to undo.zenmasterfoo
- I know, pathetic right?********
- Uh-huh.********