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2014-01-01 Home Front: Politix

...In America Alone, Mark Steyn envisioned the United States as a beleaguered hope in a dying West. Seven years later, American politics are much less healthy than those of the rest of the free world. America does stand alone. It stands alone in embracing the rule of the left.

...The rule of the radical left in the United States is very much an outlier in the rest of the First World where conservative and center-right parties predominate. The conventional First World response to the economic crisis has been to cut spending and reform welfare, while in the United States has spent more money than ever before and expanded welfare.

Much of Europe now favors less federalism and less immigration. The United States has expanded its federal government dramatically and both Democratic and Republican leaders support amnesty for illegal aliens at a time when immigration is politically toxic everywhere else.

...While the rest of the First World moves on, America remains trapped in the defunct economic and political grip of the left. After dedicating enormous resources to taking over the Democratic Party and then the country, the left has turned the United States of America into its Soviet Union, a country out of time, its economy and society wracked by the discredited political and economic theories of the left.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-01 10:15|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 When voters thinks it's "cool" to elect a guy like Champ without regard to past or qualifications, that's what you get. When voters vote for goodies that may come their way rather than the good of the country, that's what you get. When you have a complicit press trumpeting Champ all along the way regardless of failures and illegalities, that's what you get. We have a chance to correct that in 2014 and again in 2016. Whether or not that happens is to be seen.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-01 12:46|| 2014-01-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

#2 This is also what you get when you've got over a hundred percent voter turnout in Dem-controlled precints.

Refusal to require voter ID, refusal to purge voter rolls, the (pre-loaded) electronic voter machine, aren't in the interest of the country.

Posted by Fred 2014-01-01 13:29|| 2014-01-01 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Barak Mugabe and the descent of America into third world ignominy.

Posted by Iblis 2014-01-01 13:53|| 2014-01-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

#4 The National Review has a cute little article about how New York City investigators were able to obtain fraudulent ballots 97% of the time. link. This quantifies the adventures Project Veritas had across the country during the last election, trying to do the same thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-01-01 14:02|| 2014-01-01 14:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "purge voter rolls"

I've lived in this house for seven years and still receive ballots for people who've lived here before me.

Posted by mossomo 2014-01-01 21:58|| 2014-01-01 21:58|| Front Page Top

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