It was more than the IRS. The IRS is just what the common masses were told was the issue. But they weren’t the primary issue even.

If IRS shenanigans are enough to stop a social movement, then it wasn’t genuinely activist to begin with.

It’s competition, like any real, raw competition. If you can’t win one way, then learn what’s there and find other ways. Failure teaches.

This recruitment has skewed the narrative ever further to the LEFT. (Ivory Tower Elites — actually residing back at the JOURNALISM SCHOOLS )

You can’t get a J-school degree without passing through the Leftist gauntlet.

It’s not for nothing that Rush, et. al. in the center never were vetted by America’s J-schools.

Most J-school profs are OUT OF THE CLOSET Marxists.

They are totally into the Social Justice Warrior schtick.

Tikkun olan motivates them all — atheist to Orthodox.

The result is the CONSTANT re-tweaking of social ‘norms’ — which SJW see as PLASTIC.

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And we are right back with the Leftist insult of the First Commandment: with the Left, as ever, placing themselves in God’s stead.

There is also the self-infatuation of those living in their own generation — as if God had crafted the entire universe so that they could be…

And now it’s high time for them to fix things the way God should want it if He knew what He was doing.

Children too good for their parents are now adults too smart for God.

The ever self-indulgent Tom Friedman immediately comes to mind. This genius made a small fortune — out of an immense fortune. And that took some doing.

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The end result of the SJW wind-up dolls populating the world’s microphones is an endless sequence of over torqued plaints about the anti-Puritanical nature of man…

And the need for Big Men/ Towery Thinkers to put the right thoughts in our heads.

Very much like they really do on the broad cast stage:

“Broadcast News”

William Hurt gets his utterances from Holly Hunter and crew.

With enough of this “out of brain” reality you’re left with the puddle that is …

Brain/ Brain Williams.

The boy how lives half-lives. He just can’t separate his dream moments (Walter Mitty) from reality.

My position concerning Eric’s strategy is that the Left won’t allow you to use the same tricks that they used to get into power. They’ll stop. And the IRS has proven my strategic assessment more right than wrong.

Parker & Eric: A lively and spirited exchange, Guys!!

Elections – even winning elections, even winning the White House – won’t alone win the activist game. But it is an important and visible element that’s a place to start an activist campaign.

The key is to continue seeing the whole forest of the activist game, not just the tree of electoral politics. Appreciate that winning elections is not the game that counts over all. Elections are only a piece, though a key piece, of the larger activist game.

In my opinion, what tripped up the Tea Party movement, which started right and promising, was they couldn’t see the forest of the activist game for fixating on the tree of electoral politics.

Winning elections was fine, but the Tea Party needed to be bigger than elected offices. They needed to be an activist movement growing and spreading with full social scope, bigger and even eventually subsuming the GOP, and the Dems for that matter, not whittled down to a nagging faction within the GOP.

More material:

About Saddam’s regime was terrorist with a global terrorist network that included jihadists, including affiliates of al Qaeda.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-lacey

http://thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com/2015/05/creationist-thinking.html

UN Commission on Human Rights situation report that Saddam ruled with “widespread terror”:
http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/CHR/resolutions/E-CN_4-RES-2002-15.doc

The Left claim is the de-Ba’athification turned Saddam’s followers into terrorists. In fact, the de-Ba’athification was considered necessary because Saddam’s followers were terrorists allied with all manner of terrorists, including jihadists, and ruled Iraq with terror.

Saddam Hussein was their ally. They were supporting him, up until he got hanged at least.

The Left’s previous pattern of behavior in Vietnam was their SOP now. The Left has more than enough power to collapse Iraq, and with the Presidency under their control, that end was almost fated to occur soon afterwards.

So no, they weren’t un American. They were on the payroll of the enemy. Or they were paying the enemy to kill Americans. They were using Iraq and Afghanistan to get rid of people who wouldn’t vote for them.

Is that an easy truth to accept? No. But it is the one people will have to accept, whether they like it or not.

The Left has killed many cultures and nations in the past century and this one. Americans allowed the Left to do so using American power.

Did people rally think the karma cycle would not turn around and bite them sooner or later?