Where Are The Left’s Success Stories?

[PoliticalChic]

No, his avi is quite apropos....As Ralph Kramden often said; "Norton, you are a mental case."

The avi name he chose.

A lie from the get-go.

 

[rightwinger]

Right....And you support and ever-encroaching, ponderous, overbearing totalitarian State, that makes King George look like Lysander Spooner.

You are a poseur, a fascist, and compulsive liar.

Sorry, not buying into your Strawman argument

 

[rightwinger]

No, his avi is quite apropos....As Ralph Kramden often said; "Norton, you are a mental case."

I am NOT a mental case….
Mother had me tested

The man said I was special

 

[westwall]

You're using "success" by your criteria.

What if they're successful by their definitions?

Exactly. Their success, in the best case is meaning well, actual outcome be damned, but in most cases their version of success is everyone being brought down to their level of misery.

Moonie is an excellent example. He's a miserable troll. He only has a sense of accomplishment if others are as miserable as he is.

 

[westwall]

Sorry, not buying into your Strawman argument

That's because you don't have two nickels to rub together. If you did you might make something of your miserable life.

 

[westwall]

I am NOT a mental case….
Mother had me tested

The man said I was special

Correct. You're just another in a long line of trolls.

 

[rightwinger]

That's because you don't have two nickels to rub together. If you did you might make something of your miserable life.

I am quite successful thank you

 

[westwall]

I am quite successful thank you

No, you are on here far too much to have a real job.

This IS your job.

And you pretty much suck at it.

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. Democrat voters and other supporters of communism have been lulled into accepting a fake religion, Marxism, or Militant Secularism.

But some have their eyes opened, and reverse course.



There is, in fact, a large body of autobiographical material written by former Communists, and it becomes clear from study of same, that the psychological mechanism of ‘belief’ is a prominent theme. In a number of same, the Communist “belief system” is often compared with the “belief system” of organized religion. Note, above, the famous anthology of essays by ex-Communists is called “The God That Failed.”



Ex-Communist Douglas Hyde, who moved from Communism to Roman Catholicism, called his book “I Believed.”



9. “CULT: GOVERNMENT IS NOW THE NEW RELIGION?
A new magazine cover of the Jacobin is striking a nerve after it appears that the magazine is saying the government is now god and our religion, to be worshipped. It sure begs the age-old question: who do you serve?

Cult: Government Is Now The New Religion?​

A new magazine cover of the Jacobin is striking a nerve after it appears that the magazine is saying the government is now god and our religion, to be worshipped. It sure begs the age-old question: who do you serve?

www.shtfplan.com

 

[KissMy]

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Yes, Liberal Leftist Californians invented the modern world!

If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of India and behind Germany. It's larger by far than any other US state.

- California has the Largest & Strongest economy in the USA!!!
- California Tesla is the fastest growing car company & will make fossil fuel vehicles obsolete.
- California Tesla is the fastest growing US Solar company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing Rocket company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing satellite, defense & internet provider.
- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.
- California created Genetic DNA splicing & GMO.
- California created the Video Recorder.
- California created Awesome $ BlockBuster $ Hollywood Movies.
- California created Solid State Electronics.
- California created the Microchip.
- California created the PC.
- California created the Internet.
- California created the Mouse
- California created the Touchscreen.
- California created the I-pad.
- California created the I-phone.
- California created the Laser.
- California created the Laser Printer.
- California created Apple.
- California created FaceBook.
- California created Google.
- California created Yahoo!
- California created eBay.
- California created SnapChat.
- California created Netflix.
- California created Fantasy Football.
- California created the Wave.
- California created Barbie.
- California created Blue Jeans
- California created the WetSuit
- California created WD-40
- California created PayPal.
- California created Adobe.
- California created Intel.
- California created all the Largest Companies.

- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm willing to consider any such.

Can you name any........any not don't include the slaughter and oppression of their own citizens.

The Lefts version, the leadership version, is they have total, unfettered control over the slaves. Fidel's Cuba, Detroit, Mao's China, Hitler's Germany are all Progressive successes

 

[rightwinger]

No, you are on here far too much to have a real job.

This IS your job.

And you pretty much suck at it.

I am the most beloved poster on USMB with legions of fans who follow my every word

 

[PoliticalChic]

Yes, Liberal Leftist Californians invented the modern world!

If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of India and behind Germany. It's larger by far than any other US state.

- California has the Largest & Strongest economy in the USA!!!
- California Tesla is the fastest growing car company & will make fossil fuel vehicles obsolete.
- California Tesla is the fastest growing US Solar company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing Rocket company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing satellite, defense & internet provider.
- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.
- California created Genetic DNA splicing & GMO.
- California created the Video Recorder.
- California created Awesome $ BlockBuster $ Hollywood Movies.
- California created Solid State Electronics.
- California created the Microchip.
- California created the PC.
- California created the Internet.
- California created the Mouse
- California created the Touchscreen.
- California created the I-pad.
- California created the I-phone.
- California created the Laser.
- California created the Laser Printer.
- California created Apple.
- California created FaceBook.
- California created Google.
- California created Yahoo!
- California created eBay.
- California created SnapChat.
- California created Netflix.
- California created Fantasy Football.
- California created the Wave.
- California created Barbie.
- California created Blue Jeans
- California created the WetSuit
- California created WD-40
- California created PayPal.
- California created Adobe.
- California created Intel.
- California created all the Largest Companies.

- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.

They’re always looking to create some sort of ‘paradise,’ those wacky totalitarians, aren’t they?
Remember that great ‘Workers Paradise’ behind the Iron Curtain???
Now….the American version……California.



1.Did Longfellow live in California????
Maybe not….but he sure knew about it:

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.



2.“Everyone thinks California is our most progressive state. And why not? It imposes the highest tax on the richest one percent. It is aggressively implementing Obamacare. And it is standing up to President Donald Trump on everything from immigration to the environment.

And yet the Golden State is also number one in poverty and inequality in America.


3.If racism is more than just saying nasty things — if it is, as scholars like James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander and countless others have described, embedded into socioeconomic structures — then California isn’t just the least progressive state. It’s also the most racist.


4.Homeless encampments of hundreds of people have cropped up around the state in the last two years. Occasionally, they are ravaged by hepatitis A,…


5….workers in California earn 11 percent more than their counterparts nationally. But that amount is not enough to make up for mortgage payments and rents that are 44 percent and 37 percent higher (respectively) than the national average.

6.Environmentalism is used to justify de facto racial segregation in California’s housing. Environmental lawsuits are a major reason for longer delays and higher costs of new housing. “The core legal structure of CEQA,” notes housing attorney Jennifer Hernandez, “protects the existing characteristics of those neighborhoods and thus perpetuates land use practices founded in race and class discrimination.”


7. Consider:

· In the name of helping the poor and protecting the environment, California has placed myriad restrictions and fees on building new housing units, driving up their price;

· Progressive local governments like San Francisco and Santa Monica block even those housing projects that comply with zoning laws progressives had agreed to;

8. Progressive leaders who daily denounce Republicans as racist have blithely presided over a significant decline in the academic performance of black and Latino eighth graders relative to their counterparts in other states. Today, less than 40 percent of non-white and non-Asian students meet state educational standards… When the cost of living is taken into account, California spends less on K-12 education than all but four other states.

9. A decade-long reform effort in Washington, D.C. showed that student performance can be improved significantly by rewarding teachers for performance and replacing underperforming teachers.
But California has rejected similar reforms. Progressives won’t even allow delaying teacher tenure from two to three years to ensure high-quality teachers.” Number One in Poverty, California Isn't Our Most Progressive State -- It's Our Most Racist One




How about changing the name of the state from California, to ‘Hypocricia’?

Or, should the name be reserved for the entire Democrat Party????


10. "What about the state’s much ballyhooed criminal justice reform?

California did indeed reduce the total number of prisoners by 12 percent between 2011 and 2015. But that’s because it had to: barbaric overcrowding resulted in a federal court order that the state to take action.

Meanwhile, the amount California spends on prisons actually increased by a half billion dollars thanks to the influence of the state’s deeply corrupt prison guards union.

As a consequence, California today spends more per prisoner than any other state — $65,000 annually — which happens to be the same amount it costs to send a high school graduate to Stanford University for a year."
Op Cit.

11." While the state has the highest income tax rate for the top tier earners, California also has the nation’s highest sales tax, which is famously regressive.

Meanwhile, two-thirds of the tax relief from Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative that restricted property taxes, goes to homeowners with incomes above $120,000 annually.

How do progressive residents of Elysium protect their wealth across the generations? By allowing homeowners to pass along their low property tax rates to their children.



12. California’s high energy prices and regulatory burden result in the state having fewer high-paying manufacturing jobs relative to other states.

Between 2011 and 2017, California’s electricity rates rose an astonishing five times more than they did nationally, undermining the ability of the state to compete for manufacturing jobs which pay $96,711 per year on average — $40,000 more than the state’s average non-farm income."
Forbes, Op. Cit.

13. “Progressive and powerful public employee unions reward themselves with retirement benefits far beyond those of ordinary workers. Over 200,000 DMV workers, building permit employees, and other government workers collect retirement pensions at the age of 55 at a cost of $5.4 billion per year — an astonishing 30 times more than was paid out before 2000.

Back on Earth, one-third of the public have no retirement savings whatsoever. The median retirement savings of the rest is just $111,000. A person would need $2.6 million in savings in order to receive retirement benefits as large as those received by a California Highway Patrol officer.


… the state’s top accountants are predicting a $55 billion shortfall over the next three years. And that amount is dwarfed by the much larger $366 billion debt taxpayers owe in pension and health care benefits to public employees."
Forbes, Op.Cit.



Let me know if you need more.

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. What were the actual mechanics that convinced the majority of Democrat voters to accept communism instead of the republic that our Founders envisioned?


The Soviets were wayyyyyy ahead in the area of indoctrination and propaganda. Stalin was prepared before the end of the war, and, probably, before the war.


"The Captive Mind...is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, academic and Nobel laureate, Czesław Miłosz.... It draws upon his experiences as an underground writer during World War II, and his position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years.


The book attempts to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict"....a portrayal of four different gifted Polish men who capitulated, in some fashion, to the demands of the Communist state.....
The book elaborates the idea of "enslavement through consciousness" ..."


The book is described by historian Norman Davies as a "devastating study" which "totally discredited the cultural and psychological machinery of Communism".[5]In that the book represents the view of an insider and draws on extensive analysis, it has been compared to Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler and Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell.[4]"
The Captive Mind - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


In the above we find how Soviet indoctrination directed a singular focus on Nazi atrocities and an ignorance of far worse ones by Stalin's communists...

.....Communists in control of pop culture populate the entertainment media with Nazi villains, and, secondarily, CIA or corporate villains, leading to the America of today, accepting communist aims "with never a commissar, Gulag guard, or show trial in sight."
West "American Betrayal," p. 282



Being strong minded isn't enough to withstand the barrage of propaganda.....

....one must read books, especially books by the other side.

The Left doesn't.....and we see the result.

 

[westwall]

Yes, Liberal Leftist Californians invented the modern world!

If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of India and behind Germany. It's larger by far than any other US state.

- California has the Largest & Strongest economy in the USA!!!
- California Tesla is the fastest growing car company & will make fossil fuel vehicles obsolete.
- California Tesla is the fastest growing US Solar company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing Rocket company.
- California SpaceX is the fastest growing satellite, defense & internet provider.
- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.
- California created Genetic DNA splicing & GMO.
- California created the Video Recorder.
- California created Awesome $ BlockBuster $ Hollywood Movies.
- California created Solid State Electronics.
- California created the Microchip.
- California created the PC.
- California created the Internet.
- California created the Mouse
- California created the Touchscreen.
- California created the I-pad.
- California created the I-phone.
- California created the Laser.
- California created the Laser Printer.
- California created Apple.
- California created FaceBook.
- California created Google.
- California created Yahoo!
- California created eBay.
- California created SnapChat.
- California created Netflix.
- California created Fantasy Football.
- California created the Wave.
- California created Barbie.
- California created Blue Jeans
- California created the WetSuit
- California created WD-40
- California created PayPal.
- California created Adobe.
- California created Intel.
- California created all the Largest Companies.

- Red States NEVER innovate because they lack education.

Almost all of those innovations occurred when Cali was a Red state.

Proving once again you are an ignorant buffoon.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Are you implying that Liberals have remained the same for 240 years?

You confuse classical liberalism with dumb fuklibturdism.

Anytime in our history that was very unfavorable, you libturds flip parties like pancakes

So with your logic FDR was a Republican

 

[rightwinger]

You confuse classical liberalism with dumb fuklibturdism.

Anytime in our history that was very unfavorable, you libturds flip parties like pancakes

So with your logic FDR was a Republican

A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal
They change to meet the challenges of their time

It is only conservatives who remain constant
They oppose all change

 

[rightwinger]

Almost all of those innovations occurred when Cali was a Red state.

Proving once again you are an ignorant buffoon.

California has not voted for a Republican President in 30 years

 

[skews13]

America, you moron.


Freedom, liberty, individual rights.

A very simple test of which ideology, the American traditions versus the Democrat socialism, consider the Gates Test. When the gates are opened, do people rush in or rush out?

Under socialist regimes, they build walls to keep people in, instead of having so much freedom and prosperity that they need to build walls to keep the rest of the world from rushing in. If you leave a socialist nation, they call it an ‘escape,’ like Cuba, East Germany, where they shoot you in the back for trying to escape from their ‘Worker’s Paradise.’

That’s the Utopia that the Left says they’re building….using an interesting methodology: "Terror is an instrument of social hygiene" Lenin

If you vote Democrat, you are one of the folks he called ‘useful idiots.’

Freedom, liberty and individual rights are Liberal ideals.

We won those rights from a conservative named George III.

socialism, and marxism are a mental illness of the right.

Part of that mental illness has so deluded their minds, that they actually believe religious laws, and inequality somehow equal freedom and liberty.

They are the exact opposite of freedom and liberty. Where inequality and religious law exists, only oppression exists.

Read this, and this time pay close attention to the actual words.

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Jeffersons Statute For Religious Freedom

I. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was his Almighty power to do . . .

II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

III. And though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the act of succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such as would be an infringement of natural right.

You are one of the most educationally challenged people on the board, for someone who allegedly has a degree. Contrary to popular belief, capitalism, conservatism, or religion have absolutely zero to do with the very concepts of freedom, and liberty.

 

[skews13]

A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal
They change to meet the challenges of their time

It is only conservatives who remain constant
They oppose all change

A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal

Also known as situational awareness.

Which takes effort.

The reason why conservatives oppose change.

Also known as trifling.