Conservatives Predict ‘The Collapse of American Liberalism’

[Addison]

The Affordable Care Act’s rollout has left much to desire, something of which Democrats, including President Obama, are painfully aware. And perhaps unsurprisingly, Obamacare’s “failure to launch” has Republicans glibly plastered all over conservative networks saying four words no one ever wants to hear: “I told you so.” And in true GOP fashion, they’re also jumping the gun to celebrate American liberals’ demise. Columnist Charles Krauthammer even went on Fox News to state that what we’re witnessing is “not just Obamacare [and] the Obama administration unraveling [but] the collapse of American liberalism.” Michele Bachmann also added her 2 cents to the “victory lap” when she announced that the Obamacare flub has her looking like a “genius.”

Thankfully Stephen Colbert has a facetious skit or two to prove Krauthammer and friends wrong.

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http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/conservatives_predict_the_collapse_of_american_liberalism_20131119

[Laelth]

1. They are outrageously good at projection.

People in the US under 30 view socialism more favorably than capitalism. And liberalism is dead?



-Laelth

[on point]

2. Only economic liberalism associated with slavery to market forces & trickle down

[yellowcanine]

3. If Krauty and Bachmann are proclaiming the death of liberalism we can be sure it is very much alive.

[JaneyVee]

4. Yet we're watching the collapse of conservatism.

Idiots. This next generation wants gay marriage legal, marijuana legal, and think the Republican Party is awful, but liberalism is collapsing? LOL.

[Gothmog]

5. I expect the Tea Party to fade away long before American Liberalism

The tea party is at a crossroads http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/tea-party_n_4308305.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

After a string of setbacks and losses, the insurgent Tea Party movement is at a crossroads, between learning to live within the Republican Party or pursuing its fight against those it sees as not conservative enough.

The choice is an easy one for Tea Party activists, who vow to keep up their campaign to vote out of office those Republican politicians they say have betrayed the tenets of the conservative cause - smaller government and less federal spending and taxes.....

With important mid-term congressional elections coming in November 2014, the Tea Party is under pressure from within the Republican Party to call off their insurgency and focus on the end game of defeating Democrats, rather than bruising primaries to clobber Republicans, some of whom could be in close contests to keep their seats.

Republican strategist Ford O'Connell said the Tea Party movement needs to decide its long-term strategy.

"Are they interested in toppling Republicans or winning elections? If they don't win some elections they're probably going to die on the vine," O'Connell said.

It will be interesting to see if the Tea Party remains part of the GOP or if the GOP can survive and co-exist with the tea party

[ancianita]

6. They've been predicting that for almost as long as they've been predicting the collapse of America.

This is some pretty stale stuff, trying to recycle the "Liberal=Evil" meme. That shit went out the window with the last election.

[Arkana]

7. These guys love spiking the football before they cross the goal line.

How many times has it NOT bitten them in the ass?

[RussBLib]

8. these rightards never cease to entertain and amaze with their BS

gotta keep the rubes pumped up!

[Blue Idaho]

9. Americans are fed up with right wing austerity based solutions.

Once again the New Confederacy is shouting into its echo chamber and believing they are speaking to America. They certainly are not. Ask anyone - they know the right wing trickle down game is rigged. People understand the teapublican party is owned lock stock and barrel by the Koch Bros, the Wall Street Weasels, and the mega-corporations - and they have just about had enough of ever widening disparity between the haves and the have nots.

2014 can be a great year for liberals - but we can't sit on our hands and we can't get too hung up with purity tests. We need every hand on deck - contributing to causes, talking to neighbors, and writing letters to editors. Public opinion is changing and we can help it change faster with our efforts. Lets face it - who has the stronger message? WE DO. We may have to find new ways of getting past the M$M but we can do that too.

The teapublican party lis headed for extinction - lets try to hurry that along shall we?

[YoungDemCA]

10. Wow, a law based on 1990s proposals from the Heritage Foundation is unpopular/inadequate?

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

[libodem]

12. And undoubtably zero push back

To correct the misconceptions. The silence implies consent to be trashed in the media. I'm tired of the lies and sick of the ACA being derided by being called 'Obamacare', as an insult to my President and the new LAW.

Fuuuuuck them!

[CANDO]

13. Holy shit, Batman! It was a frigging website!

They are truly desperate if a failed website launch means the collapse of American Liberalism.