Progressives speak of the discredited ideology of unregulated capitalism and globalization. Its hard to fault them for getting it so wrong. Tin Ear Syndrome has become the hallmark of liberals lately.
What is plainly apparent to those who care to uncover their eyes is the repudiation of liberal concepts. The failure of the liberal class is not a failure of execution, but rather a rejection of liberal goals and ideals.The left would have us believe that those who have succeeded have done so at the expense of those who haven’t. That success , being unevenly attained, must be evil and those who dare to succeed must be torn down. The left would have us believe that we will suffer grievously unless we surrender ourselves to a union, to a political party, an extreme environmental ethos, an extreme social ethos or some other social collective that frees us from responsibility for ourselves.
The left encourages us to take the handouts dangled in front of us via the fiscal insanity of corrupt government masters, that we may all the quicker forget we were ever able to succeed on our own. Liberal class warfare strategies are formulated to appeal to the desire for revenge on those who have more of anything. Revenge seems to be a much harder sell these days.
The rise of the right is underpinned by one simple word. That word is "yet". You haven’t succeeded .. yet, but you can succeed if you try, if you persevere, if you live honorably amongst your neighbors, if you don’t covet when others have and focus on self, if you don’t abide the sirens song from the left telling you were never good enough to succeed because you are the wrong color, the wrong religion or speak with the wrong accent.
The failure of the left is accelerating as Americans realize their message of helplessness and victimhood is just so much social heroin. And like the real drug, you either get off it, or it kills you.
