A Party Unraveled: How the Modern Left Has Imploded

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   Sharlee01posted 3 weeks ago

   
   
   Today's Democratic Party appears to be a shell of what it once was, a party that claimed to champion the working class, support American families, and value freedom of thought. Today, it's becoming increasingly difficult to recognize those foundational principles in its platform. What we’re seeing now is a political movement spinning out of control, pulled by fringe voices and driven by an ideology that seems determined to flip traditional American values on their head. Right is now wrong. Good is treated as evil. Patriotism is labeled as extremism, and faith, family, and personal responsibility have been traded for dependency, division, and outrage.
   
   In this new version of the Democratic Party, criminals are often shown more compassion than their victims. Illegal entry into the country is excused and subsidized, while law-abiding citizens are taxed and lectured about their so-called privilege. Identity politics has overtaken common sense, where what someone feels is treated as more valid than what is true. Once, children were shielded from confusion and harmful ideology, now, it’s being pushed into classrooms and protected by the same politicians who campaign on “trusting the science.” But that trust only seems to apply selectively, depending on the political agenda.
   
   In my view, supporters of the current Democratic movement increasingly resemble activists first and Americans second. Many seem less concerned with building a strong country and more focused on tearing down what’s left of its moral and cultural foundation. Statues come down, history is rewritten, and traditional virtues, discipline, sacrifice, faith, and self-reliance, are mocked or labeled as oppressive. It's as if the loudest voices on the left believe that the very things that made America stable and successful are now the things that must be dismantled. And in doing so, they’ve not only alienated half the country, they’ve begun alienating their own base.
   
   There was once room in the Democratic Party for rational debate, blue-collar grit, and shared love for country despite policy differences. That space has shrunk. In its place, a radical echo chamber has grown, where outrage is currency and allegiance is measured by how loudly one conforms to the latest narrative. Dissenting voices, even among moderates within the party, are shut down and shamed into silence. The party that once preached tolerance has become one of the most intolerant political movements of our time.
   
   At the end of the day, most Americans still believe in fairness, hard work, secure borders, strong families, and national pride. The problem is, many no longer see those values represented in today’s Democratic Party. The farther the party strays from these principles, the more it risks collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. What we are witnessing is not just a party in decline, but a movement that has lost its way, turning against the very country that gave it the freedom to speak in the first place.

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      Kyler J Falkposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

      One of my biggest problems with the left, meaning those who openly identify with the left in my daily life (personal life, not internet or scholarly endeavors), is that they base most things on this unrealistic moralism.
      
      "Support XYZ because it's the right thing to do!"
      "Support XYZ or you're [insert buzzphrase]!"
      "Support XYZ because [insert politcian here] said it's the right thing to do!"
      "You can't criticize XYZ, they said it promotes [insert DEI-esque ideological movement here] and that makes you evil if you do!"
      
      This isn't to say that the right doesn't have its share of dummies with blinders on, only to say that it is not reflected that way in my personal life.
      
      I'm mostly against loosely-regulated immigration, and avidly against illegal immigration. I want strong borders, with the caveat of more funding for assimilation and efficiency programs for minimizing the issue. This is considered by the left to be ignorant, racist, and white supremacist.
      
      I'm absolutely against educating children on gender/race/political/religious studies prior to high school, and by extension I am against teachers being allowed to, "express their identity," outside of individual cases where its relevant to assist the student in assimilating to the educational environment. This is considered discrimination, racism, and homophobia by the left.
      
      I'm pro-unity in the gender wars, and I believe wholeheartedly that unity of the genders comes from respecting and in rare cases enforcing traditional gender roles and spaces in society. This is misogyny/misandry according to the left, or at worst it is whining and being less of a man because I'm concerned about the demoralization of young men and women by way of divide and conquer tactics veiled as DEI ideologies.
      
      Interestingly enough, I get hate from both sides for stating that politicians should be made to resign from their positions if they hold any dual-loyalty citizenship. Dual-loyalty citizenship should disbar an American from elected political positions. Just as we cannot elect a foreign actor to the Presidential office, it should be so for any public elected position within the United States with the extension to any other citizenship held elsewhere.
      
      I get hate from the left when I say identitarian holidays should be disbarred as nationally/state-recognized holidays. It creates an HR nightmare at the professional level, and people seek to separate themselves based on identity while calling for DEI. These holidays promote more hate than they do inclusion, and further promotes an incoherent and incongruent set of cultures among the American people.
      
      It bothers me that the left calls for diversity, equity, and inclusion, while being the main antagonist in the division within American people through their endeavors to raise every aberrant minority into the spotlight at all times. They sit and claim we are all one race, the human race, yet all of their initiatives divide and conquer based on identity. The left has no coherent set of ideas, and the infighting is more volatile than that I find on the right though the right does seem to be losing any sense of coherency it still had.
      
      I don't know, the left just feels like the serpent in the Garden of Eden to me. They want me to eat the apple, but I just don't fricken want it. I want the Garden.

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         Sharlee01posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

         Kyler,   Thanks for joining in.   We very much agree with your thoughtful and candid assessment. The overreliance on moralistic imperatives from the left, as you describe, often feels unrealistic and divisive, more about enforcing ideology than fostering genuine unity or practical solutions. Your points about immigration, education, and the culture wars resonate deeply. As a conservative who loves America and respects what we’ve built through our Constitution, I share your desire to preserve and strengthen this great experiment in democracy rather than tear it down. We want to continue building on our foundation, promoting strong borders with effective assimilation, protecting the integrity of education without ideological overreach, and encouraging unity through respect for traditional values and roles, not through forced division. The push to prioritize identity politics in ways that fracture rather than unite us is troubling, and I stand with you in wanting to keep America’s focus on the principles that have made it exceptional: freedom, individual responsibility, and a commitment to a shared democratic vision. Like you, I’m cautious of anything that threatens to undermine that unity or our constitutional framework. The Garden is what we must preserve.

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   Ken Burgessposted 3 weeks ago

   It hasn't imploded... it has been exposed.
   
   There are still millions of brainwashed zealots that will push the ideology they have been programmed with for decades, by the media, by the education system (University level), etc.
   
   For them it is a cause and they are no less dedicated to it than the Hamas or Taliban are to their beliefs.
   
   Some States are long gone, entrapped by the extremes of the Left... look at NY City... on the verge of electing a non-American until 2018 Muslim Socialist... cities in these loony leftwing States are going to become places no sane American will want to live.
   
   In other words... they will become more violent, lawless, pockets of un-American sentiment and ideals.
   
   Top Democrats' Response to Muslim Socialist's NYC Win Shows Exactly Where the Party Is Headed
   https://www.westernjournal.com/top-demo … ty-headed/

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      Sharlee01posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

      It hasn't imploded... it has been exposed."
      
      True, exposed, and now exploded...Yeah, I totally agree with you. A lot of people have been so deeply conditioned by the media, the school system, especially colleges, that they just can’t see things anymore. It’s like they’ve been programmed to push this far-left agenda no matter what, and for them, it’s almost like a religion. They’re all-in.
      
      And you’re right about some of these states and cities. Places like New York have gone so far off the rails, it’s hard to believe. Now they’re cheering on a socialist who wasn’t even a citizen until a few years ago? That’s just wild. These areas are turning into lawless, unstable pockets where it feels like American values don’t even exist anymore. And the way top Democrats are reacting, like this is a big win, just shows how far gone the party really is.
      
      Ken, thanks for commenting.

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         Credence2posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

         On the contrary the Democrats needs to get rid of the members in our party that accommodate Trump and his policies without a fight. The means the moderate Chuck Smoozers and others like him in Congress. We need a more strident approach, Trump will, himself, give us our opening….
         
         Such is my opinion….

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            Sharlee01posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

            Thanks for joining in----Yes, that's the ticket- maybe rethink that. I mean, why do you think you lost the election?  It was very much noted that the party had fallen into something Americans don't like, many finding it offensive, illogical, and yes, silly.  But I hope your party goes down the path you suggested.

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   Sharlee01posted 2 weeks ago

   A Party Unraveled: How the Modern Left Has Imploded
   
   Rep. Maxwell Frost’s statement during the House Rules Committee hearing is a stunning example of just how detached from reality and basic decency some members of Congress have become. His assertion that pro-life Republicans want babies to be born only to “go to school and get shot” is not just hyperbolic; it’s offensive, reckless, and devoid of common sense. To claim that an entire group of lawmakers, many of whom have devoted their careers to protecting life from conception to natural death, somehow support or are indifferent to children being gunned down in schools is both intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. It reveals a disturbing mindset, one that thrives on demonizing opponents instead of debating with integrity.
   
   This kind of rhetoric is exactly what’s wrong with today’s political discourse. Rather than building consensus or offering solutions, Frost chooses to inflame and divide by lobbing outrageous accusations. It’s a juvenile, emotionally manipulative tactic that plays well with social media activists but contributes nothing to serious policy discussions. If anything, it reflects an anti-social, destructive mindset that prioritizes ideological performance over the well-being of society. There is no room in Congress for this type of demagoguery, and it’s time we start calling it what it is: absurd, dangerous, and completely unbefitting a lawmaker who claims to care about the public. Frost’s words deserve to be left in the record as a warning about the level of extremism some are willing to sink to to score political points.
   
   However,  I believe Rep. Maxwell Frost’s outburst was handled appropriately, perhaps even wisely, by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and others in the room. When Frost made his incendiary comment claiming Republicans want babies to be born "so they can get shot in school," Foxx immediately stepped in, firmly slamming her gavel and declaring, “You’ve gone over the cliff.” That wasn’t just a procedural interruption; it was a necessary boundary-setting moment that let him (and everyone watching) know there are limits to the kind of inflammatory, accusatory language that can be tolerated in a serious legislative hearing.
   
   What made the response even MORE effective was the decision not to strike his comments from the record. Rep. Austin Scott originally moved to do so, but Foxx overruled that, essentially saying, let the public see this for what it is. In my view, that was a smart move. Instead of burying it or letting Frost play martyr to censorship, the committee allowed his words to stand, revealing to voters the kind of rhetoric and nonsensical statements some in Congress are willing to resort to. It also allowed Republicans to contrast his remarks with their own measured and values-based response.

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