They’ll brag about it in print
Rob Stein is the founder of the Democracy Alliance, an umbrella a group that organizes the funding of left-wing causes by rich liberals and interest groups. In The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer, at page 7, Stein explains candidly what politics is all about for the Left:
“The reason it is so important to control government is because government is the source of enormous power,” Stein continued. “One president in this country, when he or she takes office, appoints…5,000 people to run a bureaucracy, nonmilitary nonpostal service of 2 million people, who hire 10 million outside outsource contractors–a workforce of 12 million people–that spends $3 trillion a year. That number is larger than the gross domestic product of all but four countries on the face of the earth.”
“So the reason we’re doing what we’re doing…and the way we get progressive change, is to control government,” Stein said. “That’s what this is about.”
This will to power explains why the Left, a clear minority among Americans, consistently punches above its weight, politically.
Glenn Reynolds once commented on the seeming paradox of liberals who are terrified at the prospect that libertarians might take power and leave them alone. Actually, liberals probably do want to be left alone; they just don’t have any intention of leaving you alone. Liberals hunger for power so that they can enrich themselves, in many cases, but more generally, so they can remake the world according to their own preferences.
They openly move to quash Free Speech they cannot control:
In a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the Republican chairman to warn that Democrats want to regulate online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report.
Democratic FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel announced plans to begin the process to win regulations on Internet-based campaigns and videos, currently free from most of the FEC’s rules. “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long over due,” she said.
And they work to ensure they control voting, too.
Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor and minority voters from exercising the franchise, while others define such incidents as a threat to democracy itself. Both sides depend more heavily on anecdotes than data.
In a forthcoming article in the journal Electoral Studies, we bring real data from big social science survey datasets to bear on the question of whether, to what extent, and for whom non-citizens vote in U.S. elections. Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote. But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races.
The decidedly il-liberal Left is the most dynamic religion of the 20th and 21st centuries. It claims it knows best how to run your life, and if you don’t agree it will work diligently to tear down not just you personally, but all institutions that support your Liberty.
We are in the midst of The War on Independence.
As a wise old cowboy once said, Don’t hunt trouble, but don’t count on trouble never huntin’ you.
Go after them just as hard and nastily. Let’s see how they like it.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
– It won’t make any difference, they’re to naive and closed minded (by design – it’s what you do when you know your idea’s will never win), and as I said in the other thread, they’re adolescent attempts to fix problems are so ass backwards to common sense they almost always cause more problems than they solve.
– Generally they get their asses kicked out of power when they cause enough havoc, but the lessons are eventually forgotten, and of course they know how to play minorities, the young, and the poor.
Looks to me more like Americans are America’s biggest threat, with the political left merely a crowbar used to leverage them, and contentedly at that. To the extent that a will to power is in play, it’s in play in the breast of every man.
– This is just one of the wonderful perks that Bumblefuck and the Left bring to America with their asinine “inclusion politics”, which of course is nothing more than a way to contrast themselves with any other will to power movement least they be ignored.
I’ve been saying it for years… Second War for Independence by 2025.
You heard it here first. The two best items that can be offered for barter (since the currency can be used as toilet paper, although coins would hurt) are ammo and alcohol, and anyone who can make both will be wealthy.
The first set of Progressives gave us Prohibition, the Income Tax, a segregated government, and Planned Parenthood. The current bunch are incompetent. Look at their crowning acheivement…Obamacare……it has been a cluster f*ck since day one.
I could almost handle the Lefties if they were at least competent……
“Don’t hunt trouble, but don’t count on trouble never huntin’ you.”
I like that.
Any violation of this mandate is unacceptable. The Foreign Affairs Committee is working with the Office of the Inspector General to get to the bottom of this matter.
– That may take awhile because in saying that he makes the mistake of underestimating just how low Bumblefuck, Clinton, and their ankle lickers will go.
– If this “dirty little secret” gets out and grows and spreads among Blacks it could be a real problem for Progressive Democrats.
BBH wrote: Generally they get their asses kicked out of power when they cause enough havoc, but the lessons are eventually forgotten, and of course they know how to play minorities, the young, and the poor.
Some of the less emotional Leftists realized this in the late 70’s and early 80’s. They launched a scheme to gain enough control of the machinery of governments at all levels in America so that, at some point, having their elected officials kicked out of Power would not result in the Left In America losing any appreciable Power And Control.
That stage certainly has been reached. The only question – and this is one for Historians and strategists seeking to understand The Enemy – is if this stage was reached in the 1990’s or in the Aughts.