‘Mean’ wokeness is creating ‘cranky liberals’ like Bill Maher

DemocratsPatriots4Life – Fox News contributor and Democratic pundit Jessica Tarlov has just about had it with the left’s woke mob — and she wants her party to understand that if they keep following the uber-liberal throng, they are going to make loyal voters “cranky” and turn them into “disenchanted Democrats.” Which, she believes, will cost her party electorally.

In an op-ed for The Hill this week, Tarlov began by citing HBO’s Bill Maher who has become known of late for his criticism of the woke left and the Democratic Party. She admitted that she hasn’t been a Maher fan, having often been offended by things he says about race and Islam, but now, she said, he is hitting “all the right notes.”

And she has “been loving it” — especially the focus on “mean woke” people who are turning leftists like Maher into “cranky liberals” and “cranky Democrats.” Continue reading

Democrats Blame Everyone but Themselves

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This seal now has new meaning

Dr. Brian C Joondeph –  An old expression notes that when you point one finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you. This aphorism may have originated in the Bible when Jesus said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

Modern Democrats and the left embody this sentiment, quick to blame anyone and anything for problems that they largely created. They offer no thoughtful consideration of their own roles in starting the never-ending dumpster fires that they blame on their political enemies.

The psychologists call this projection, “unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else.” In the case of the left, I doubt this is unconscious; more likely, a deliberate Alinsky-style approach to winning the war of ideas, something the Republican Party remains clueless about. Continue reading