Prove it.
Progressives were the ones trumpeting that the Government shutdown would doom the Republican Party. The vote about Gun Control would doom the Republican Party. Progressives declared the Republican party dead after Romney lost. They declared the Republican Party dead after 2006. Progressives declared that the Republicans were doomed after the Sequester. Pictures of tombstones and other similar paraphernalia abounded.
Progressives said that people who warned of this day back in March, and April were spreading FUD and needed to adjust their tinfoil hats.
Progressives said that nobody would vote for a Sexist, Homophobic, Racist party like the Republicans.
Progressives say a lot, but they're rarely right. So how intelligent can they be when even after the election, they haven't yet grasped what the hell is going on? Do you know who does get it? Chris Matthews. He gets it. He understands how dangerous this time is, and the President is going to Double Down. Matthews can't figure out what the hell the President is thinking.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/05/chris_matthews_rips_obama_theres_something_in_this_guy_that_just_plays_to_his_constituency.html#ooid=tyc2RqcTofWCzCqMVtaAG822p6OH_vs5
CHRIS MATTHEWS: What bothered me about him [today] he keeps talking about common ground. Damn it, there's very little common ground between left and right, but what there is is compromise. You do something for me on minimum wage, I'll do something for you in corporate tax reform. You give me something on corporate tax reform and I'll get rid of some of the loopholes or I'll do something on trade for you. He never talks about trading and compromising, he always talks about common ground. Well, damn it, you can not run a government on common ground.
He misses the main point of politics which is to be a politician and to trade. Okay, you want this? You want to take care of people who have been here illegally for 20, 30 years? Here's what I want. No more illegal hiring, and that's all in the Senate bill. But he won't sell the compromise. There's something in this guy that just plays to his constituency and acts like there is no other room out there. And that's going to be a collision at the end of this year like you have never seen. I do believe it will be like waving a red flag in front of the bull. I think Mitch McConnell is headed for a fight with the president.
Chris Matthews is starting to see what I see happening. President Obama is going to destroy the Democratic Party in a way that Bush never could do to the Republicans. Politics is the art of the possible, and that means dealing, trading, give and take. Matthews is getting frustrated, and I don't blame him. I'm there too.
President Obama is doing everything he can, to make sure that the Democratic Party is in the minority for the next decade. I don't know why, if it's ego, or poor advisors, or just incredibly disconnected from the reality. But it needs to change soon.
Now, you can moan and all that. But one thing about Clinton, he was good at the art of Politics. He could trade, and he could get something, and give away little in exchange. President Obama is going to piss off a vast majority of people, and the Democratic Party will be standing on the side of the road watching the Republican get sworn in.
I've never seen so many people who refuse to deal in facts and truth in my life. Look at the exit polling, the number of College Graduates who voted Republican was within a couple points of the number who voted Democratic. Are we saying now that half the College Grads are idiots?
We need to stop patting ourselves on the back and get serious, or we are going to get our asses kicked in 2016. From what I saw of this election, we rammed the Titanic into the iceberg, backed up, and rammed it again. The only question is will we ram the iceberg a third time going into 2016?
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