Democrats May Be On The Verge Of Becoming A ‘Permanent Minority’ Party

Tell me, if something is free, would you be tempted to take advantage of it?

 

The American People spoke, and now the democrat party is in decline.

 

Really? We don't want to? And we won't ever want to?

The OP is saying that Democrats are the PERMANENT minority. That's a bold claim. If you don't agree that it's PERMANENT, then you shouldn't be supporting the OP's opinion.

But you do seem to agree that it's permanent, and that reflects some attitude that people don't change. And people very much do change. They become way less religious, which I'm sure you don't like, and I didn't like it either when I saw the rotting corpse of my mom on the floor a few months ago and wished that Christianity were true. But just because I saw something like that doesn't make my beliefs true.

 

Lefties remind me of an old contractor's joke. "So we are losing X numbers of dollars per unit produced, but that's okay. We'll make it up on volume."

I guess if they kick, scream, and pout enough, they think they will get their way.

 

Only about 20% of American citizens actually cast a vote for Donald Trump. I'd hardly refer to that as saying "The American people spoke".

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All we have to do is let you lunatics spout your nonsense for as long as you feel entitled to do so. I can't wait for your party to get its ass kicked in 2018.

 

The OP is saying if you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. Political correctness and the right to never be offended are not constitutional protections.

 

Your problem is you are strawmanning like a used car salesman. Anyone can read the thread title and OP and see that isn't what he said. In fact, I challenge you to show where he said that.

He did not-it was a flawed lefty inference (lots of that going around).

This is what happens when you try to stick your head up out of that safe space, guy.

You are like that dude in Anchorman yelling "LOUD NOISES". Don't know what you are trying to say, or how to say it.

 

Wish in one hand, ..............and you know the rest of that story.

 

And what makes you think the Democratic Party isn't going to change at all from this point forward? Do you know what the word "progressive" means?

 

From the OP:

I see the term "permanent minority" and I disagree with it. That's what I'm reacting to. Tell me why I shouldn't be allowed to react to this exact phrase from the OP.

 

The current definition is snowflakes and safe spaces, and the inherent right to never ever get butthurt.

 

Possibly for the near future. For either party to win, they need to draw in laborers. The democrats do it by pandering to union bosses and Donald Trump did it by pandering to job security. If he were truly to make America significantly more prosperous, those fears would go away and he would lose. Since he won't, just some progress will be enough to get him or his hand-picked successor elected next time. What America craves is a true labor party---not the sort of thing the UK one has morphed into, but one that focuses its existence on protecting and promoting the working classes. Basically something akin to a free-market version of Marxism.

 

It was referring to a theory. Context is your friend.

Your reading comprehension difficulties are not everyone else's problem.

 

I don't think you realize how willing liberals are to get hurt and bleed for what we believe in. Butthurt doesn't even begin to describe the pain we're willing to endure to stand up for what we believe in. None of us take the teenage girl approach to our beliefs where we'd use an ROFL emoticon to express our opinions. We're much more mature than that.

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Then please, wise all-knowing sage, explain quite clearly what this theory is, and tell me why I was wrong to assume that when the OP said that a party would permanently remain in the minority, he meant that party would permanently remain in the minority.

 

With Dems chasing off rust belt dems, I don't see it happening anytime soon.

 

Have they so far? Right off the bat they started with the recounts. How is that change? And since then it has been nothing but the status quo...

 

If the status quo is fighting for women's right to choose in a world where that right isn't universally recognized, or fighting for a gay person's right to marry in a world where that right isn't universally recognized, then I'll gladly stand by the "status quo" for as long as i f*cking live.

 

No apparently the status quo is rioting, destorying things, shutting down highways, stopping people from speaking on college campuses etc... I haven't seen anyone try and take away a gays right to marry...

 

K.............I guess all those mature butthurt individuals instead of merely using forums to show displeasure are maturely breaking laws, rioting, and smashing their own safe space windows of their favorite internet cafes, Starbucks Safe House.

 

I didn't say it would happen, but that is what the winner will be--the side that most appeals to Joe the Plumber and his clients types. The DNC has become so lost in the world of transvestites and would be terrorists that they have forgotten their playbook. Trump just happened to get lucky. Any other election in the past, he wouldn't even had come close to the nomination, let alone the Presidency running the campaign he did.

 

The first, second, and fourth things you mentioned are specifically tied to the rioters at Berkeley who are not at all representative of the majority of liberals. Fired-up teenagers don't represent an entire school of thought.

As for shutting down highways, is that really the worst thing you can come up with? People believe so strongly in their beliefs that some other folks have some brief delays in reaching their travel destination? I hope this highlights just how privileged you are to live in America.

 

Interesting take, from the same bunch who loves Islam.........the complete antitheses of said beliefs. You really, really, can't make this stuff up!

 

As I pointed out to the poster above, you are assuming that the behavior of fired-up teenagers (and any growing-up experience that doesn't involve releasing your energy is such a tragedy) is representative of an entire school of thought, and that's not even close to a rational conclusion.

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If you're any older than 13, you're really sad.

 

The fact that you are a victim of your own BS is really, really sad. When the center and right protest (like the TEA Party, which for those that don't understand Taxed Enough Already is the meaning), protests are peaceful, not even a handful of arrests and nobody gets raped on has their vehicle defecated on. That's strictly reserved for the left and an occasional OCCUPY traveling carnival. Mature indeed.

 

Have I not made it PATENTLY F*CKING CLEAR that the behavior of the protesters at Berkeley is not representative of the left?

I really wish you could see how rational, open-minded folks will see right through this approach you are taking. Objective folks are well aware of the fact that the actions of a small handful of folks do not represent an entire group of people. I, and any other open-minded liberal, readily and freely admit that the protesters at Berkeley were in the wrong. I would have much rather seen Milo offer up his nonsense in public where it can be openly criticized and torn apart like it deserves to be. The fact that this opportunity for liberals to thoroughly dissect his worldview was taken away is very unfortunate, and his opinions were given more validation than they deserve as a result of the violence. It's disappointing.