Is the right-wing nightmare almost over?

Question

THIS CONSERVATIVE CERTAINLY THINK SO. LET'S HOPE HE'S RIGHT.

"There are cycles in history where one party or one movement ascends for a while and then it sows the seeds of its own self-destruction," said Bruce Bartlett, a conservative analyst and author of the 2006 book "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy."

Bartlett added, "It's clear we have come to an end of a Republican conservative era."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-shift23mar23,1,1983647.story

HE'S RIGHT. THERE ARE CYCLES BETWEEN LEFT-WING LIBERALISM/RADICALISM/PROGRESSIVISM AND RIGHT-WING CONSERVATISM. IT IS LIKE A PENDELUM SWINGING TO THE LEFT FOR 20/30 YEARS THEN BACK THE OTHER WAY. THE THING THAT SOME PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT IN THE LONG RUN THE PENDELUM ITSELF IS MOVING TOWARDS THE LEFT (AKA PROGRESS).

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I still see so many die hard supporters of horribly wrong headed views, such as that it is perfectly ok for the US to engage in the permanent detention, torture, and execution without trial of citizens of other countries. It is perfectly ok for the US to run foreign gulags, violate the Geneva Conventions, suspend habeus corpus, engage in domestic spying and illegal surveillance, secretly abolish the FISA court, add signing statements to congressional bills exempting the executive branch from their purview, fire US attorneys for political purposes, incompetently respond to every disaster, engage in unprovoked war...

This list grows tediously long, and yet so many people think the sun shines on every incompetent act over which this administration presides.

Answer 2

Well, Bartlett may be right, but Bush is going to go out kicking and screaming. The Weekly Standard keeps urging Bush to bomb Iran on his way out of office, and I believe that he will do this at some point in the next 17 months. Bush also just sent new legislation down to Congress which would amend the FISA law giving him additional powers, cutting back on the warrant requirement, and retroactively legalizing previous warrantless searches and violations of privacy by the administration.

Answer 3

I will be thrilled when these imposters of democracy are out of office. But I am also very skeptical of the left's ability or desire to undo so much damage that has been done over the past 25 years. And quite frankly, a return to the days of Jimmy Carter is NOT what this country needs.

Answer 4

This is one of my favorite quotes and I'm using it twice today as it applies most ardently to two separate questions. "I may need the postman, but if I use him to satisfy some inner urge, then the social need becomes a psychological necessity and our relationship has undergone a radical change. It is this psychological need and usage of another that makes for vioence and misery. Psychological need creates the search for power, and power is used for gratification at different levels of our being. The man who is ambitious for himself or for his party, or who wants to achieve an ideal, is obviously a degenerating factor in society.
When we cling to others to cover an inner ache, using them for a psychological need, then we create an atmosphere of violence within ourselves that is the precursor of wars and every human tragedy". This is what's happened to the right wing administrations and ideology. Internal corruuption breeds disaster and as I've said before in analogy, "we see the fall of Rome". Actually both major political parties have grown greedy and power hungry while in the pockets of Corporate America. Let me suggest to you to consider a third party such as the Greens to establish a fresh foundation and even though third parties may be small in comparison presently. They pose a threat by sucking away votes so the major parties have to address their issues to some degree to avoid this vote loss.

Answer 5

Power To The People

Answer 6

Left wing Socialism, is the Nightmare, I think armed conflict
within will breakout first before, its allowed it to dictate to
America !

Answer 7

Geez,everybody and their mother has a book out. Don't forget to read Carl Bernstein's book about Hillary.

Answer 8

Yeah it should give way to Leftist version of Hades.

Answer 9

Yes. We will shortly be returning you to your regularly-scheduled left-wing nightmare.

Answer 10

Kudos! Great article.
I wonder how much influence the baby boomers have on these views.