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This is going to anger some of my progressive friends but here is the hard ugly truth; Trump supporters are united. Progressives are fractured.

Lets break it down.

According to a new ABC/Washington Post poll,96% of Mr. Trumps voterssay they would vote for him all overagain. This in spite of assaults on their health care, a gross diminishment of theprograms that they use, no legislation passed, staffing his cabinet with swamp creatures, possible war on several fronts, the evolving Russian collusionstory and a lumbering economy that is not improving.

Even though the polls show that Trump votersdo not like the nepotism, his tax secrecy and find him to be untrustworthy, they do like his image, his anti immigrant stance, his anti government fury, his war on the free pressand that he is anti gun control. Theycomplained continually about Mr. Obamas off-time while he was in office yet they have no problem that Mr. Trump seems to be constantly playing golfnor with the enormous amount of tax dollars we are spending so that he can.

On the other hand, I am still seeing that progressives are attacking each other wantonly. There are highly emotional, deeply biased and unreasonable anti Bernie and anti Hillary memes and fake newsstories popping up daily on my internet feed, many re-posted by hardcore progressive partisans.

Some claim that Bernie is anti woman in spite of the fact that he gets enormously high marks from national womens groups and of course others feel that Hillary stole the election from Bernieand the old guard that remains at the DNC must go. The poll numbers in regard to either candidate would not come close to Trumps 96% support at this time.

It is doubtful that either Hillary or Bernie will be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 but that is not the issue. Not by a long shot. The point is that unlike neocons, the left simply can not get it together. We are far too willing to believe bad or fake news about other progressives while neocons stridein almost cult-like unisonto nearlyany tune Mr. Trump plays.

The most obvious lesson from the last election seems to havebeen totally missed by many disgruntled progressives. That lesson is that we have a common adversary and that defeating that adversaryin the upcoming elections is the ONLY important thing. This is a message that is at the forefront on the right but appears to beonly a dream on the left. The truth is that too often progressives are theirown worst enemy.

This is a difficult column to write after such inspiring and successful protests likethe Womens March on DC,the worldwide Earth Day Science Marchesand the amazing town hall confrontations that Republicans are experiencing back home. It is clear that on the issues progressivesare united but that somehow we get hung-up in personalities when it comes to elections and that is when wefall apart.

This is the exact weak spot that the Russians exploited in the last election. It has been shown that the hard feelings in the Bernie camp (I was a supporter) were the happy hunting ground for Russian bots and trolls who pumped out nonsense and lies about Hillary at a yeomans ratein the lead-up to the election. Many Bernie supporters accepted the propaganda not because it was true, in fact many knew that it was complete BS. They accepted it because it was about Hillary and they could not stand her. As a result, they either supported Jill Stein who had dinner with Putin and Mike Flynn in Russia and who the European Greens see as badly flawed or they did not vote at all. This was one major reason Mr Trump won the electoral college and is now sitting in the White House.

On the other hand, Hillary supporters are still angry still angry because they feel that Bernie and his followers werea reason Hillary lost steam and then lost the election. That anger turns into a willingness to accept fake facts about who Bernie actually is and what he supports. In turn, thisdrives the wedge deeper into the progressive baseand is a foreboding sign coming up to the mid term elections.

Recently, Berniewent on the road with new DNC Chairman Tom Perez in what was billed as a unity tour. Both progressives were trying to stimulate the electorate on the left to find common ground and to work together. However, there are film clips where young progressives in the audience actually booed Mr. Perez who has a strong and reasonedprogressive record and whose policies most of those who booed him agree with.

I find it frustrating that almost none of the progressives who are anti Perez even watched the DNC debates wherein Mr. Perez was a stand out with concise and pionted answers to the questions put before him. If they had taken the time to research beyond a Facebook meme, they would have known that. However, it seems that having their own way can bemore important and so they consume one BS meme after the other and then pass them on.

In closing, I beseechprogressives to do one thing. Go outside and look around you. We live in a country that is still functioning on a high level. Most of us have a place to live and food to eat. The street lights work and the highways are clear. We are still living in a fairly open society where we can speak out without fear of arrest or worse. All of that is at risk, big time, if progressivesdo not unify and coalesce around issues instead of personalities.

We may not, in fact probably wont, have the perfect candidates we agree with 100% to run in the upcoming elections.. There will be things that our candidates will support that we do not like and things they will not support that we do. However, it is up to us to stop swallowing and passing on foulpropaganda about progressives who are not our choice simply because we childishly want it our way or no way at all. We must focus on the issue and vote accordingly. The counter productive intolerance for members of our own group is what Mr. Trump is depending upon and it is what the Russian trolls enjoyfeeding on.

Our priority has to be tostop satisfying Mr. Trump and providing Russia an easy target.If not, Mr. Trump and the Russians will surely appreciate anyeffort to divideus once again as Mr. Trumpenjoys a disastrous second term.If we wish to avert that fate, progressivesmust remember that resistance and unity go hand in hand, not foot in mouth.

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Do you have march fatigue yet? The left, apparently, does not, performing street theater on Saturday, Earth Day, with the so-called March for Science.

Its hard to think of a better way to undermine the publics faith in science than to stage demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and around the country modeled on the Womens March on Washington that took place in January.

The Womens March was an anti-Donald Trump festival. Fine. I found it vulgar and demeaning to women, but its a free country.

Science, however, to be respected, must be purely the search for truth. The organizers of this March for Science by acknowledging that their demonstration is modeled on the Womens March are contributing to the politicization of science, exactly what true upholders of science should be at pains to avoid.

When you read the organizers online statement, the purpose seemed so utterly vacuous as to cause heads to nod: The March for Science champions robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. We unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds the common good and for political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence based policies in the public interest.

Yeah. I know loads of people who oppose the common good, dont you?

So what is it really about?

As best I can make out (besides being a nice excuse to enjoy the April weather in Washington, when everything is in bloom), those who attended wanted to express dismay at President Trumps policies on a range of subjects, including climate change and the travel restriction (which they label a travel ban).

On the matter of climate change, those who present themselves as champions of science, i.e., fact-based reasoning and commitment to the scientific method, ought to be very careful not to blackball everyone who offers a dissenting view. Even among self-described environmentalists, there are differing views on how best to combat global warming. Whether temperatures are rising dangerously is a scientific question. What to do about it is a political question.

When you lump the travel ban into the march, though, you really go off the rails. As Robert Young, an ecologist, warned in The New York Times, including such matters only serves to cement the image of scientists as an interest group who might politicize their data, research, and findings for their own ends.

A true march for science might tackle problems like the replication crisis or confirmation bias.

Its a vanity of the left that they stand for science, fact-based policy and sweet reason as opposed to conservatives, who support superstition, alternative facts and denial. Jeffrey Anderson, an associate professor of radiology and bioengineering at the University of Utah, explained to The New York Times that he would fly to D.C. for the march because of what he regards as the wholesale disregard of truth and fact by the president and his close advisers. Their devaluing evidence and the scientific method, is so extreme that I cant be silent.

Admittedly, this president has been reckless and heedless of the truth or falsity of his comments on a range of subjects. His endorsements of conspiracy theories about vaccines causing autism and climate change being a Chinese ruse to harm American companies were preposterous and worrying. But he hasnt said those things lately, and the march doesnt seem to have been provoked by them.

Note to the left: The above paragraph is what sincere people who are fact-based and willing to be critical of their own side write. Now, where is the acknowledgement that there is plenty of hostility to science among progressives? Who objects to nuclear power (despite its potential to combat global warming)? Who rejects evidence of male/female brain differences? Who stands in the way of genetically modified organisms but also argues that children should be hormonally and surgically modified if they say that they are of a different gender from the sex listed on their birth certificate?

When progressives are ready to admit that they sometimes cherrypick the science they like and disregard the science that confounds their worldview, they will have taken a key first step toward the scientific method.

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Posted: Apr 23, 2017 12:01 AM

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.C.S. Lewis

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer

Our kids are no longer taught about patriotism, morality, honor or self-reliance. Theyre not taught economics. Theyre not taught about the Constitution. The boys arent taught to be men and the girls arent taught to be women. In fact, if you find kids who know anything about these subjects, it is almost certainly because their parents bent over backwards to jam that knowledge into their heads.

Our society used to inculcate these values in schools, church and via our entertainment. It was a different and, in many ways, better world. Liberals try to portray everything that happened in Americas past as evil and backward, but when you look at statistics like these from Charles Murrays outstanding book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, try and tell me that this country hasnt gone downhill in the values were teaching our kids.

To get a sense of how different attitudes were in the 1960s, perhaps this will do it. These ever-married women were asked, In your opinion, do you think it is all right for a woman to have sexual relations before marriage with a man she knows she is going to marry? Eighty-six percent said no.

Starting in 1970, marriage took a nosedive that lasted for nearly twenty years. Among all whites, ages 30-49, only 13 percent were not living with spouses as of 1970, Twenty years later, that proportion had more than doubled, to 27 percent a change in a core social institution that has few precedents for magnitude and speed.

As the late, great Andrew Breitbart said, Politics is downstream from culture. Is it a shocker that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their favorite musicians, and Hollywood? Is it a big surprise that 51% of millennials do not support capitalism when we allow honest-to-goodness communists to teach them in college and liberals are publicly extolling the virtues of socialist hellholes like Cuba and Venezuela?

The Greatest Generation grew up storming Normandy and fighting the Japanese across the Pacific. Meanwhile, many millennials of the same age feel unsafe if someone they disagree with speaks at an event they dont have to attend on their campus.

Oh, and morality? Kids today grow up being told that morality is wrong because morality demands judgment. As Hugh Hewitt said, My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because its founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.

Additionally, as my friend Evan Sayet noted, everything liberals teach to kids is backward.

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

In the sixties, American kids were dreaming of building rocket ships and going to the moon. Today, theyre trying to figure out what gender they are and which bathroom they should be using. Its not an improvement.

This is where snowflakes come from. Its where the victimhood mentality comes from. Its why so many kids think theyre entitled to have whatever they want based on what we can only assume is the sheer gratitude the rest of us should have for their very existence.

As someone who has millennials working for him, I can tell you that theyre not a doomed generation. Theyre not all snowflakes. They can be just as successful as past generations of Americans.

However, to make that happen, we conservatives cant just keep going with the flow because its easier. We have to teach young Americans about the values that have made this the most successful, prosperous nation on earth.

To start with, we need to begin challenging the victim mentality liberals push on millennials. As I write in my brand new book, 101 things All Young Adults Should Know, Dont ever feel sorry for yourself. Dont ever seek pity from other people. Dont ever play the victim, even if you are one. Why? Its a mentality. If you wait for someone else to solve your problems, youre usually in for a long wait. Even if you do get help, you probably wont like the help you get. Hammer that message home to your kids. Also, buy a copy of my book. In fact, buy 30 and give them to all your kids friends.

Lets cut off the funding of state run colleges which discriminate against conservatives. Furthermore, if liberal kids keep tearing up Berkeley every time conservatives want to speak, then maybe Trump should send in the National Guard to keep order and protect their First Amendment rights.

Weve also got to teach our kids about capitalism, Christianity, and love of country, because that is what this nation was built on. Snowflakes may melt when the going gets tough, but kids who are taught good, conservative values will stand tall even when its not easy.

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Posted: Apr 24, 2017 12:01 AM

Understand that if America is stupid enough to let liberals take power again, they will persecute and prosecute normal Americans like us who dare to dissent. Thats not a guess or a prediction thats a commitment they have made to their fascist followers. Theyve seen what the truth can do to their schemes. After 2016, theres no way they are going to take a chance on another electoral rejection by us normals, so they dont even pretend to support free speech anymore. It will be one gender neutral being-one vote, one more time, and then never again.

Hold on. Thats clearly nuts, right? This is obviously crazy talk thats talking crazy, isnt it? Dont liberals love free speech?

No.

We know they dont love free speech because they tell us they dont, in both words and deeds. The whole free speech thing lost a lot of its luster for the libs when people like us decided to try it out. The liberals didnt count on that free speech was supposed to be their jam, a way to offend, annoy, and outrage us squares, to blow our bourgeois minds with their transgressive, no-holds-barred free thoughtery and critical thinkery. But they never intended for it to allow those banjo-strumming rubes living between I-5 and I-95 to express wrong thoughts and thereby win elections.

So now the progressives are trying to do something about it. Recently, every single Democrat voted to effectively repeal the First Amendment. You see, the words Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech were too expansive for liberals tastes because they prevented Congress from making laws abridging the freedom of speech.

This creepy idiocy was in response to Citizens United, a Supreme Court case that, to people who actually believe in free speech and not liberal fascism, conforms to the First Amendment by telling the federal government that no, you cant put people in jail for making a movie critical of Hillary Clinton.

Yes, you read it correctly. Democrats think that Congress should be able to make laws to put people in jail for making movies critical of Democrat politicians. Roll that around in your head for a while.

Now, they call it campaign finance reform, and their argument is that they arent really limiting speech - just limiting how people spend their own money. Apparently, under the First Amendment, we are allowed to say anything we want, but Congress can pass a law telling us that we just cant spend any money to actually be heard.

It would mean the government can tell us we cant buy paper, we cant buy ads, we cant buy video tape, we cant pay a film crew or writers, and we cant pay for airtime. Congress could even tell us we cant buy internet access to post our thoughts on Twitter or Facebook. And Congress, in the Dems utopia, could even pass a law not letting you spend a few measly pennies to buy my awesome book about how liberals will split our country in two.

Yes, they want to be able to ban books.

Other than that, under the liberals paradigm, we can speak to our hearts content, though only to people within shouting range. But dont worry. The official, approved mainstream media would be exempt and unofficial, unapproved media, well, not so much. Fake news and all that fake being defined as critical of liberals. Fortunately, wed have such unbiased, nonpartisan, objective outlets like the New York Times and CNN (starring noted free speech scholar Fredo Cuomo) to provide us open forums to air our conservative views. Also, we could get unicorns to skywrite our opinions for free using rainbows spewing from beneath their fluffy tails.

Whats still unclear is what prison sentence Democrats would impose upon someone who breaks the law by exhibiting a film or writing a book critical of Hillary Clinton. One year? Five years? Life in SuperMax? Come on Democrats, how long would you imprison someone for illegal speech?

And what should the penalty be for climate change denial? Since rejecting their weird climate religion is Earth-murder, or something, you would think theyd want to burn you at the stake or is that too carbony?

Then theres that clinical moron Howard Dean, who is ironically famous for his own bizarre exercise of the First Amendment. Leveraging all his intellectual fire power, he recently unloaded his mental squirt gun upon those of us who think the First Amendment means what it actually says. Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment, he announced on Twitter, apparently having discovered a constitutional exception that would allow Democrats to stifle any speech they choose to stick the hate speech label on. Which would, of course, be anything and everything we normals want to say.

This I dont like what you are saying so its hate speech now shut-up footnote to the First Amendment is well-known at our colleges and universities. These bastions of free thinking freely admit thinking that we normals have no right to think freely at all. The fact that California law enforcement is regularly ordered to stand back and allow conservative speakers and their audiences to be intimidated and beaten in order to silence them is just a preview of the new America that liberals dream of. If you imagine the unholy love child of the economic basket case/police state of Venezuela and the grim intolerance of your local campus, you have a pretty good idea of the new, fascist America the Democrats seek to breed.

Think that analysis is wrong? Well, heres a complete list of all prominent Democrats standing up against these free speech abominations:

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Liberals should be ashamed of themselves, but then they wouldnt be liberal if they were born with shame genes. So, since we patriots are the only ones who actually support free speech, what do we patriots do to protect it?

Whatever it takes.

We fight peacefully in the political arena, in the courts, and in the shrinking marketplace of ideas while we can, but we must also be ready to fight in the streets when those punky puffboys try to shut us up. No quarter, no compromise, no surrender we fight and win, or they shut us up forever.

Look, the left has told us what it wants the power to force us to be silent and submit. Thats not wacky supposition; thats not fevered imagination. They are open about their agenda, and its happening before our eyes. To pretend that our republic is not facing an existential threat from progressives who would use violence to silence their political opponents is to willfully ignore the evidence, just like a climate cultist ignores cold weather. And the violence has already begun: in fact, it is key to their plan for a free speech-free future. Today its gangs of masked thugs attacking us. Tomorrow, its uniformed men with guns or at least those few spineless cowards among our security forces will ignore their oaths to defend the Constitution in exchange for a paycheck and a pension dragging us off to jail for illegal speech. Or worse.

We patriots face a stark choice. We could choose the easy path of submission and hope that the left will leave us be if we just give in to their demands and give up on our right to participate in our own governance. But that wont ever work the true joy of leftism comes from imposing the leftists collective will upon its designated villains, and one guess as to the identity of those designated villains.

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No, they dont want to leave us alone that misses the whole point of being a leftist. A leftist yearns to be the one doing the bullying and dominating. If we give in, we will spend the rest of our lives with their soft, girly hands around our necks.

And if we are so gutless as to give up our God-given rights in exchange for peace, we deserve that pathetic, dishonorable fate.

But we wont give up. We wont surrender. No matter how hard they punch, as Instapundit urges, well punch back twice as hard.

It was funny seeing those antifa dorks get wedgies in Berkeley, but our enemies are serious about stripping us of the rights that our Creator endowed upon all men and women. Many of us are veterans or law enforcement, and our oaths to defend the Constitution even at the cost of our lives did not come with an expiration date. Millions more who did not take one of those oaths subscribe to them nonetheless. We promised not to let a fascist regime take hold, and we intend to keep our promise.

The First Amendment is followed by the Second Amendment for just this reason history will record that our peoples unique refusal to be disarmed by those who seek to steal our liberties was a key factor why we will never be Venezuela II: The Revenge.

Our only chance of avoiding a catastrophe is if our would-be progressive overlords understand that for us normal Americans, there are only two possible outcomes. And living at their mercy as their serfs is not one of them.

The outcome we want is that we normals live free in a democratic republic exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution, whether because leftists choose to respect our civil rights, or because we force them to respect our civil rights.

The other alternative is that we die on piles of spent brass surrounded by the bodies of our enemies. Either ones cool but submission to slavery is not an option.

That un-American, wannabe fascist Howard Dean need only look at a license plate from neighboring New Hampshire to understand how this is going to end. Well either live free or die.

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