Liberal Forum

Someone needs to tell the 38-40% of Americans that indentify as conservatives (almost twice as much as liberal) that their ideology is dead. Nothing to see here folks, just the old meme of repeating a lie until it becomes the truth,...

Uh, not to bother you with actual reality, but conservatism has been sweeping across the country at the state level. And Liberalism is going to get crushed in November....

Ignoring the fact that Nixon governed as a liberal, especially on economic policy. Which is why he was a failure on domestic policy and why public sentiment allowed Dems to unethically drive him from office. Daddy, we miss you. Please come home. Oh, he'll be back in November, trust me....

Hi misty, I hope all is well....

Of course, we have not simply seen an unbroken, level descent of The Conservative in popular entertainment. Burns himself was replaced with a Bostonian named Winchester, who seemed to hearken from a past era. He was silly, of course, but he was presented with comparative sympathy....

Yes, our rejection of conservatism was cheered by the television - by the programming and especially by the commercials.I remember looking at M.A.S.H. as rather offensively ham-handed propaganda. Hawk Eye and BJ always got the clever lines and the moral lines - whereas Frank Burn and Hotlips Houliha...

Good OP. However, another thing to consider: Credible conservatism went out with the Nixon era--but I personally believe TV to be the biggest culprit, for reasons I think should be obvious. I don't think it's coming back. Quite the contrary--in fact it's an increasing problem not only at the fede...

Conservatism lost it's party in Watergate. Nixon was the last American president that conservatives voted into office. Conservatism had already taken some hard blows. There was Vietnam, an unfortunate tendency toward jingo-patriotism, civil rights, rock music and an energetic counter culture which g...

Twisted Sister and her Old man; ! Here it is...

What is the definition of insanity again?...