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Trouble in River City: The Left's Ugly Con Game

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    …..Except the trouble being sold by today’s progressive stand-ins for “Professor” Harold Hill is not about pool, and it isn’t child’s play. But it is most definitely a con game. They want the American public to believe the most blatant lies:

    • We will be safer without police.
    • Trump caused the border crisis by closing the border.
    • Requiring voter ID will end fair elections.
    • Oppressing your enemy is a sign of tolerance.
    • Free speech is a danger to democracy.
    • Equality means some people get special treatment.
    The list is endless. Everywhere you turn, you are confronted by absurd falsehoods and being told you must accept them or risk losing your job, your privileges or even your freedom. And if you happen to question whether the trouble is real or imaginary, you will be shouted down or worse. So-called cancel culture has outsourced authoritarian power to the private sector, and has reinstituted public shaming as the main tool to control the populace.

    Unfortunately, this is where “The Music Man” analogy falls apart. By the end of that bit of Americana, Harold Hill had been exposed for his chicanery and was under threat of being tarred and feathered, but was also repentant and ready to go straight. There is no such reckoning on the horizon for the progressives, including many Democrats, who stoke fear and promote mass hysteria everywhere they go.

    In that regard, the current crisis more closely resembles the Chinese Cultural Revolution….



    Read much more: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...iver_city_the_lefts_ugly_con_game_145727.html





    This rather lengthy Real Clear Politics opinion article is so right on in my opinion. It nails the politically correct woke left to the wall for the harm their snake oil selling message is causing to the level of political discourse in this country. Sadly they are completely arrogant in what they do and say to repress, suppress, and cancel others who won’t go along with their agenda.
     
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    We must resist and confront the left when they try to dump their “solutions” for our issues upon us and when they go woke and try to cancel us for daring to disagree with them.
     
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    Cool story bro.
     
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    the cult of Trump spreads lies about the left, don't believe them

    the big lie is not their only lie
     
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    Because real clear politics is such a hyper partisan outlet…not! Calling viewpoints that disagree with yours the big lie or lies in general is no substitute for rationale robust debate of the issues. That was the point of the article.
     
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    It is a very good article.
     
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    What about it makes it "good"? Could it possibly be that he uses the same rhetoric that gets your panties in a bunch?
     
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    The left spreads lies about Trump and Trump voters and totally ignores the obscenities of their own party. When even leftists like Bill Mahr and a few other brave souls are calling out the nastiness that is the woke folk, you know it's gone way too far down the rabbit hole.
     
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    It exposes the charlatan behavior of progressive left ideology when it’s taken to the extremes it’s being taken to by today’s democrat party leaders, mainstream media, and their big tech social media enforcers.
     
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    Wow. Just breathtakingly wow.

    You call out the left for canceling those who disagree on the same day that the GQP canceled Liz Cheney for disagreeing with Trump's "big lie" about the election?

    Seriously, look up the word "hypocrisy." You've just illustrated it better than anyone on this forum.

    :applause:
     
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    Whiney losers gonna whine....
     
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    Cheney is cooperating with big tech social media and democrats to cancel Trump and his supporters so she has no place in house GOP leadership
     
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    the american voters "cancelled" trump in a complete landslide. the deplorables cancelled themselves on jan 6. show just a little respect for the us constitution and get over your self.
     
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    Some things are real. Some are imaginary. The latter doesn't excuse the former.
     
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    RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Biden Job Approval
     
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    This "big lie" you libs so foolishly banter around comes from your leftist party. The "big lie" that permeated America for 5 years was that Trump colluded with the Russians. I suggest you work on that real "big lie" for once and then learn to accept the fact that everything stated in this OP is not only true of the woke lefties in our nation--but those truths are destroying our republic every day.
     
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    Trump did collude with the Russians. He obstructed justice, too. That's irrelevant. That was Trump's little lie, "No collusion. No obstruction." Lie. We're talking about the big lie. Catch up.
     
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    What you call rhetoric is reality, and lefties are either too ignorant of it or are just willingly wanting to accept their push toward a failing destructive Marxist society.
     
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    He obstructed justice? Wow, how do you lefties come up with such nonsense?
     
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    *looks for lefties*

    Who you talking to? You fascists are confused.

    Cut the crap. Yes, read the Mueller report.

    Irrelevant. Still confused?
     
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    CUBS (Commie Under the Bed Syndrome)
     
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    Which parts of the article, specifically, are lies?
     
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    LOL, the left's Big Lie.
     
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    But it is most definitely a con game. They want the American public to believe the most blatant lies:

    • We will be safer without police.
    • Trump caused the border crisis by closing the border.
    • Requiring voter ID will end fair elections.
    • Oppressing your enemy is a sign of tolerance.
    • Free speech is a danger to democracy.
    • Equality means some people get special treatment.

    Of this list only two are things you could actually support the left as claiming. That would be numbers 3 and 6. The rest are just dumb.
     
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    We will be safer without police is exactly what leftists in Seattle and other left-leaning cities are doing. Defunding police, reducing their budgets. Having them not prosecute smaller crimes altogether, etc.

    NY cut police budgets
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...budget-billion-nypd-defund-police/5354307002/

    Seattle cut police budgets
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-police-department-budget-nearly-17-n1248795

    Minneapolis cuts police budgets
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/minneapolis-approves-cuts-police-budget-staffing-74655919

    Michigan cut state police funding
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...on-from-state-cops-replaces-portion-with-fed/

    And on and on...
     
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