“Standing against Progressivism, Liberalism, Socialism, and Communism because they all represent the same thing – the reenslavement of America.”

There really is no point.

A leftist by academic training and by experience like the President does not understand or respect dissenting views. His intolerance to other views is common among current “goo-goo” leftists. His ideological blindness let him assert to Republicans on January 21, “I am not an ideologue. I’m not.” Expectably, the press did not report that nor did it seek to provide the many proofs that that statement could not be true. (Think of the planned trial of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in New York City.) But the press doesn’t report much it should: last Sunday, Speaker Pelosi said that her planned health care legislation would create four million jobs. Her interviewer did not ask her about that and no one else in the press followed up on that startling statement.)

That suggests another problem that, at least in the short run, is tearing off at least some members of the urban working class from the Democrats: the catastrophic failure of the mainstream news media. Partisan and incompetent, it helped Sens. McCain and Obama to be nominated, Sen. Bad and Senator Much Worse. Much Worse won. (America would be better off with either Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton as President.) The press is blind to the President’s weaknesses, in person and policy, and that has hurt the Democrats mightily.

On Tuesday, March 2, my newspaper ran a 597-word article by the AP’s Steven Hurst on the Republican’s use of the filibuster in the Senate. But I have been unable to find a single word by an AP writer reporting the substance of the critiques of the Democrats’ approach to health care reform, which Republicans made at the “summit” on February 24. Sens. Kyl and Coburn and Reps. Ryan, Cantor, and Boustany, and other Republicans had much of substance to say. My newspaper has printed not a word of their critique.

As one result of both the separation of the haughty, leftist political class from white urban workers: the auto mechanics where I get gas and service in Massachusetts listen to Rush Limbaugh. And they voted for Scott Brown. Anecdote? Sure. But telling.

To A. Jay Adler, a good primer on your question regarding Blacks and machine politics would be Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”. More pointedly, the ’60s was a turning in American history, including Black Americans. The saying, “the means justify the ends” is apt and it is true in more ways than one. Unfortunately, in the end, it corrupts.

I wonder, too, regarding the post, when did the African-American segment of the electorate become synonymous with urban, machine politics?

Say, I have new for you. there was am American middle class in the 19th centruty. The Goo-goos did not “create them”. they destroyed them. Middle classes are not created by anyone but themselves.

More elitist Democrat hogwash. You are a thoroughgoing narcissist.

You are not only coward, you are a liar,

Huh? Have any proof for this assertion? This is complete and utter claptrap–little more that Democrat electioneering lies–and that you can repeat it so reflexively and so naivly shows a complete misunderstanding of the greatness of America, the source of that greatness and the actors who called that greatness forth. Hint: Few of those folks went to Harvard. The goo-goos and their spawn in fact cause great damage to this nation. They prolong the great depression, shredded the Constitution, savaged liberty and gave us the overarching socialist state in both its hard and soft forms. WW2 might never had been a world war at all without their and their European co-religioinists’ idiotic handling of the 1930′s .They have corrupted and destroyed every institution that they have touch–most signally Academia, Media, Faith, public and private Virtue and Morality, and our political institutions.They have laid waste to our culture and our society. They pilfered private and public treasure to do so.

Their interest was purely self-serving: They sought to create an American verions of the Soviet nomenhklatura with themselves at the helm. They have contempt for all that is good and true about the West in general and the USA in particular. They are supreme narcissists who will sacrifice everything that the rest of us hold dear–everything worth valuing at all–for the sake of their self-absorptions and self-delusions.

Reform government? We will never know the depth of corruption in the New Deal as they robbed the real wealth producers of there wealth and quite literal stole their properyy from them. To imagine that matters were otherwise, that there is any possible moral defense for this, is to be a Marxist.

You consider these “accomplishments”?

It was the goo-goos who fought for civil service reform, the development of the administrative and regulatory state, who sought to professionalize government and the academy and who generally fought (and fight) for transparency, accountability and the rule of law both at home and abroad.

This is just PR used to to mask their self serving attempts roll back the constitution and implement a Central European Welfare (read fascist) state with them in charge.

What hogwash.

“professionalize the Academy”? Turn it is to a camp for “professional” Marxists is more like it.

Certainly Wilson and FDR had complete contempt for the constitution, and both plunged us into wars, but the collision of the wayward trust-fund brats of the turn of the centrality WASP aristocracy and the “collision” of Leninists, Stalinists and Trotskyites FDR put together in the New Deal are rather two different kettles of fish altogether.

There is the little matter of the Oct. revolution on the other side of that divide.

It is a marriage of Tammnay Hall and the Kremlin.
It is Hell on Earth.