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Nov. 9, 2012 11:09am

Tiffany Gabbay has been a writer and communications specialist for the past decade. Her passion for politics was fostered at an early age by her father, a […]

Tiffany Gabbay has been a writer and communications specialist for the past decade. Her passion for politics was fostered at an early age by her father, a successful entrepreneur and war hero. Tiffany worked as a Journalist on Capitol Hill where she interviewed some of the Beltway's biggest names, and also served as Deputy Director of a Republican Women’s advocacy group. Prior to her time in the beltway, Tiffany spent a number of years in the U.K. where she began her career in publishing. She started out in London's insurance and risk management industry as associate publisher for a popular trade publication, and later served as global communications manager for an international insurance trade body based in Manchester. She is a graduate of the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. and studied communications at the London Institute.

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As expected, the days following a U.S. presidential election are filled with Monday-morning quarterbacking, when pundits and strategists alike opine what went wrong for the losing team. Often, it’s simply that the other side had a winning formula: The correct strategy. The Left has it. The Right doesn’t.

Politicos have become masters of manipulation, perfecting the divisive art of segregating Americans into polarized minority blocs, then coalescing them into a new majority that has the power to effect change through the ballot box. And while Obama stood before his loyal fans to deliver a victory speech based on the unity of these United States, the irony is that he conquered specifically through division.

He won by dividing the country according to race, gender, sexual orientation and above all, income bracket.

He won by spending nearly six years fomenting hatred — literal hatred — among countrymen for their wealthier counterparts. And guess who was most loathsome of all?

Sadly, Obama and his camp successfully managed to convince enough voters that Mitt Romney was not simply out of touch, but that he was someone to actually be reviled. Nevermind that he created employment for tens of thousands over his years in the private sector. Nevermind his charitable contributions. The total sum of a man and his life’s work was reduced to nothing more than the weight of his wallet.

Now tell me: Who, exactly, is money-obsessed here?

In 2008, just prior to Obama’s first coronation, a gift from the heavens was bestowed upon him. On the heels of the market crash, executives at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae and AIG became embroiled in a very public outing for their abuse of power and in helping to spur an economic disaster from which the nation has yet to recover.

They were men who, by hook or crook, achieved the pinnacle of financial success and when the bottom gave out, benefited from golden parachutes while their employees, shareholders and the American tax-payer took the fall. They served as obvious poster children for the catch-phrase “corporate greed” and were the linchpin of Obama’s crusade to “cut taxes on 95 percent of Americans,” by way of increasing it on the “other five.”

When an entire demographic is painted only as the privileged few – the bourgeois – faceless aside from a handful of its few disgraced members, it is not so difficult to see how the rhetoric of class warfare gains a foothold in our nation’s dialogue and creeps into the collective psyche. Then spreads like cancer.

While many associate the Obama campaign with slogans like “hope” and “change,” his most effective mantra of all hinged on the concept of “fair share.” Tax the wealthy and demand they give more. More than what? Is giving away over half of your hard-earned income to inept bureaucrats who will only put a match to it, still not enough?

The weight of the nation is carried on the backs of those who produce and contribute, and those of us fortunate enough to be gainfully employed in this dismal economic climate still have our paychecks signed each and every month by such evildoers.

Is it “fair” to bite the hand that feeds you? Obama taught Americans that it is.

The “wealthy,” who by Barack Obama’s standards are individuals, including small business owners earning $250,000 a year or more, already contribute the most in taxes. It is conveniently never mentioned that 50 percent of the population pay no income tax at all and that the top five percent of society bears well over half of the nation’s tax burden.

Liberals claim these “fat cats” could not exist without the working and middle class. But could the working and middle class exist without the upper? After all, it is the entrepreneurs who invent, the investors who fund the development, the scientists who shape and perfect, the doctors who contribute not just in tax dollars but in truly humanitarian ways. Both small and large business owners employ everyday Americans to market and sell the goods and services we need, enjoy, and take for granted each and every day, yet the producers who move our economy forward are considered the villains.

The United States is the single most generous nation on earth in terms of individual giving, yet the Left paints its country as the greedy, capitalist pig that kicks its poor to the curb. But nowhere else on earth do those at the poverty-line own their own flatscreen televisions, cars, microwaves ovens, refrigerators, stereos, and have heating and cooling units for their homes. That is not to say there aren’t people struggling. That is not to say there isn’t inequity. There is and there always will be, but that plight is not unique to the United States and those less fortunate are still better off here than anywhere else.

Despite their heavy tax-burden, by and large, the independently wealthy of this country contribute the most to the economy, to the job market, and through philanthropy. They donate more to charities and causes than entire nations do. The “evil rich” build educational facilities, libraries, hospitals, shelters, museums, community centers, treatment centers for every ailment and addiction in the book – they contribute to veterans’ causes, humanitarian causes, disease research, disaster relief. The list goes on.

Why would we ever wish to penalize them? What would happen if they moved overseas? Or, worse, evaporated into the ether? Who would replace them? A member of Occupy Wall Street?

The Left perceives the other five percent only as caricatures like those depicted in Oliver Stone’s famed movie, “Wall Street,” and not as most of them truly are: The pioneers and wealth-producers of an entire world. And in classic all-heart-no-head fashion, the Left petitions to take what was earned by others and give it those who won’t (not can’t) give it to themselves.

The re-election of Barack Obama beatified the welfare state and solidified the collective belief that the world owes each and every person, irrespective of their worthiness, a living. His re-election elevated hand-outs over self-reliance, pity over dignity, mediocrity over meritocracy.

Jealousy and resentment are the easiest weaknesses to exploit and prey upon, and in that, the Obama campaign found its winning strategy. It’s called class warfare. And apparently, it works.

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GIVEMEGIVEMEGIVEME
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:10pm
Cheer up, word has it Obama and Boehner will cut a deal to give every Republican 40 acres and a mule.

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- MadAsHeII
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Come On!! The reason Romney lost is he did not have a true base from the beginning! His campaign broke rules through the entire primary, including violating federal law in some instances. His campaign and the RNC basically told the youth, who should be the future of the Party, that they were not welcome, lambasted Paul supporters, telling them they did not care about Constitutional principles, and then changed the rules at the convention to ensure those pesky young Paul supporters will never be able to have a voice in future elections! That is what happened, nothing else. If the GOP does not learn from this, they will slowly fade into the sunset of time and the youth will start looking at another party, like the Libertarian Party. Wise up Republicans.
  
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- MadAsHeII
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:36pm
  In fact, Ron Paul agrees: http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul/posts/10152139410646686
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:47am
  I will never trust Obama..only a fool would. The Republicans should never give in to the left. Stand up Obama is weak …he is a theif and a liar.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:06am
  Even the ones who are against the left cannot get along. We need something to agree on, that is why Obama won he has his enemies divided into smaller groups while the left is united. We must come together. We must out play them to save the minds of the next generation.
  
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- backpews
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:04am
  Hell I’ll take that. I’ll take forty acres and a mule, and my freedom, you keep your faux militarist, globalist illusion and your chains.
  
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- michael48
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 11:24am
  the Oblamer/ALINSKY divide worked…dem-wits need not apply…now they can live with it..or whatever…and either be a part of the “part timer nation”…or get a buss. lic……I welcome them to he!!….enjoy serfdom , comrades..you earned it…..
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:36pm
  Hey, Blazers, theBlaze staff DO censor posts. Not because of any racist comments (calling Iranians racial epithets is apparently a-ok) or because of any threats of violence, but because of the content of the IDEAS. The “Blaze of Truth” Glenn Beck promised is simply NOT HERE. If your comment follows the drum beat that Glenn and his friends have been putting out about Obama, namely that “Obama HATES rich people!” or “Obama got elected by promising to punish RICH PEOPLE” then your post is BLAZE APPROVED. However, if your post states or even suggests that “Obama hates WHITE PEOPLE!” or “Obama got elected by promising to punish WHITE PEOPLE” Well, then the “socially responsible” Blaze Censors will make certain THAT message never sees the light of day.
  
  Gee, why would Glenn, who is a nine-figure millionaire and only hangs out with erudite, wealthy, fiscally conservative but liberally decadent, er uh, I mean “socially liberal” people wish to beat a drum of sympathy for RICH PEOPLE but never allow a drum beat for WHITE PEOPLE. Hmmm? Now why would THAT be?
  
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- Despiser25
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Republicans lost because they continue the War on Drugs and consider it a success. It gets twisted into a lot of knots from both sides but the reality is if youre arguing for smaller Govt and lower Taxes then turn around and say you support the DEA and the idea what you put into your own body is the Govts responsibility then you are a hypocrite.
  
  We got Romney as the candidate when we really needed George Washington…
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 1:45am
  “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
  
  -Chosen People “Marxist Media”
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 1:31pm
  I’ll take the 40 acres and the mule. Then I can work hard, grow my own food, and maybe survive this Obama-spawned mess that is our poisoned Country. God Bless America!!
  
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strats
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:02pm
When you come to my house looking for food don’t be afraid of the gun I have on my side.
Your friendly, I am to. I’ll give what I can.
If you try to steal…?
Don’t ask.

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Advection
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:57pm
The offer of “compromise” came immediately and from every liberal. Do not believe them. They do not want compromise but submission.

In I Samuel, the Ammonites offered the Israelites a peace treaty if they would simply put out one eye. It was a ruse. If they had complied, they would have been wiped out.

Don’t forget who these people are. Moments ago they were screaming that Mitt Romney was a cold man, a murderer, a thief, a felon, a torturer of animals, a misogynist, a cultist. Don’t forget they won the election by lying about everything, constantly.

And now they offer a treaty if we must put one eye out?

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- Wolf
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:33am
  “…Moments ago they were screaming that Mitt Romney was a cold man, a murderer, a thief, a felon, a torturer of animals, a misogynist, a cultist…”
  And now both are considering a Romneycare position on the Turd’s cabiinet.
  
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Stelex
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:26pm
There is only one group of people who can fix this problem. Americans. True Americans. And I don’t mean old angry white guys…..I mean people of every ethnic group that came here to be American. Whats going on now is a take over and occupation by persons of every ethnic group that wants to change America into there old country just without the bad stuff they left. Won’t work. America wasn’t about just white people it was about being American. We lost that when the radicals of the 60′s started teaching and its been “Progressing” ever since. We may just have to let it all collapse to get it back, the needy and those sucking the Gov teet will be the first to die off. Callous …..maybe but something needs to happen…….WE are now an OCCUPIED NATION. AND WE AMERICANS are losing the battle.

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- Old Ogre
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:15pm
  I am so sick of this “Old angry white guy” ****! Us old angry white guys are the same fuc@#ing old angry white guys that have been keeping this country afloat for over 200 years *******. Us “old angry white guys” are the ones that gave you your Constitution and Bill of rights that you so friggin despise. You look in any military cemetery anywhere in this country and take a count; us old angry white guys will outnumber any other race at least two to one!
  This is one “old angry white guy’ that won’t ever help or encourage anther one of you “younger and wiser and more righteous” liberals ever again. When they come to take what you have I will spit in your face and unlock your gate.
  Is that old and angry and white enough for you?
  
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- chucksue351
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:46pm
  the native americans must have had the same thought, we are a occupied nation, what goes around comes around
  
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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:24pm
  Old Ogre, LOVED YOUR POST !!!!! You’ve made my day. Thank you.
  
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- Satandrivesaprius
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Old angry white guys built this country. Young angry white guys died for it. Whats the big deal? We have a black president who is the worst president in history..but they will not stop until they have completly destroyed the constitution..
  
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- DisposableWorker
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:19pm
  Bravo! Old Ogre has it. Since when did any other “group” ever do anything positive of productive for this country? ToYoung Stelex ,Unctuous Self- Righteousness isn a becomming persona.
  
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- Despiser25
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:26pm
  Someone that is so obsessive over skin color has a name… What is it again? Oh yea, a RACIST… The problem really arises from “merit” and “ignorance”. For some reason the ignorant left can ignore merit over sin color.
  
  To any Conservatives it’s all about Content of Character. Who was the other republican Civil rights leader and Minister that said something similar?
  
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- Rockapine
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:39am
  OldOgre…you just made my day.
  
  Angry old white guys are the backbone of this country. They haven’t been “metrosexual’ed”, they are MEN. And of course, MEN are despised and denigrated by all things left of center.
  
  This country needs MORE angry old white guys, not fewer. God willing, my son will grow up to be just exactly that.
  
  Keep on keepin’ on, sir.
  
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crusaderx9
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:24pm
A pall has been cast across the land. The righteous will now turn to protect their families as they know the government assault on their liberty and values will be unfettered.

Knights must rise even if they fall as wave after wave of government intrusion interjects its unholy character into the lives of those who will not be captive.

The obvious signs of a failed obama regime could not hold back the wicked from anointing an evil man to a second watch as a dictator without limit in his second term.

In the end everyone will suffer – even those who supported evil will not achieve peace. Their pursuit was power and worldly items; such shallow pursuits will not end well. As for the holy, the comfort of peace will be in your soul but will not be present on earth as this tragic turn for America will ripple throughout our once united nation as well as the world.

America has committed suicide…

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Bruha76
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:16pm
Politics and demographics in politics are changing. The GOP will be extinct. Conservatives need to evolve with the times. Progressives paint conservatives as bigoted, racist, and homophobic. Sadly, it has worked. The RNC looked old, white, tired, and uncool. There was stand up comedy by Clint Eastwood for Gods sakes! Progressives have the youth, the blacks, and the latinos. Quite frankly I am sick of it. We have the winning formula which is freedom. However, they beat us out cause politics has become a popularity contest. Let me throw this question out….If the GOP came out tomorrow and said they are pro choice (which i am against), and pro gay marriage (which i am against). They would never lose another election. They got the stupid vote yet again and convinced the average ignorant voter, that Mitt Romney was going to be hanging out at Walgreens confiscating birth control pills. And that Latinos will be deported and blacks would be put back into slavery. People actually believed this stuff. And conservatives are to blame. Why? Because we are doing a piss poor job of getting these voters. Obama got 95% of the blacks and 75% of the latinos. Those numbers are crazy! Look the political map. The U.S. is practically all red. Where is the blue? All of the urban cities. Blacks and Latinos will be the majority soon, and whites will be the minority. If you love your constitution and freedom, you need minorities to be on your side. We need to go to their communities and preach.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:52pm
  Romney was not a freedom/Constitution candidate. Romney was nothing but a weather vane.
  
  Low income and independents supported Ron Paul in the primary. If you want the republican party to survive without going progressive – that is your only option.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Bru…..may I call you Bru? Bru…….conservatives are not chameleons, True Americans not chameleons…..We used to be the melting pot….people would come here and become American. Now whats going on is people are coming here and asking Americans to be globalists. F That. Diversity is bullsht. If you love your freakin culture so much why come to America. Federal Gov. is bad enough……at least when the states make the rules I can find one I like, the feds make that impossible…….lets take that to a global scale. The UN makes the rules for the world…….where the hell can anyone go if they don’t like the rules. ZERO OPTIONS……..get the picture of us all holding hands and singing out of your head, and get your head out of your A%%hole
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:03pm
  F the republican party…….the party days are over. We need to worry about the big picture. If we lose soverienty as a nation ……and we will on the current course. Then we lose it all. F the party’s its time for free thinking Americans to wake up and see whats going on, RP would not be able to stop the NWO anymore than MR. Snap out of it……..we have been over run so stop thinking elections will fix it. Good God people……..we are in deep and your screaming status quo.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:21pm
  My husband is on that ;-). It’s his mission after law school to bring black people back over to the conservative side again. I say AGAIN, because 100 years ago black people wouldn’t dare vote democrat, because they were the party of the KKK; they knew that the democrats hated them. The site’s not ready yet, or I’d post it. I think he’s going to put up a guest post on my blog tonight.
  
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- nuthrdumkinsrvativ
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:19pm
  WE must solve this ourselves. We need to volunteer and donate. We need to help our neighbor. We need to be willing to talk politics. We need to offer solutions that are better than government can offer. We need to stop tolerating name calling, profanity and insults in support of our beliefs (COUYON64 and STELEX). We need to realize that NOW is the time to lend our support to the parties that will stand for our ideas. We need to agree that, when our ideas do not win it is our fault for weak arguments and it is time to support the best remaining choice. We need to insist on representation that stands for and articulates our ideals even when our side doesn’t like it. We need to remember that asking our government what it can do for us is a loosing game. For everything our representative “wins” there are 434 other representatives being asked to “win” from us. Most of all, we need to remember that The Constitution is ideas and ideals that have relevence to all equally and it cannot be unwritten.
  
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- Bruha76
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:38pm
  Stelex, you can call me whatever you want. Your missing the point. Brooke sees what I’m talking about. Let me ask you something. What do you think the make up of this country will be in 2016? In 2020? 2024? and so on? After you answer that question. Ask yourself this….how does conservatism and the constitution thrive going forward?
  
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- rickroland
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 3:21am
  Frankly, after the past 20 plus years of Democrat or Republican party control of the Federal government, at all levels, we should just outlaw both parties and bar anyone that has ever been a member of either of them, from ever serving in any public elected or appointed Federal government office forever. Both of the two major parties are responsible for astronomical national debt, astronomical deficits, slow but sure increases in Federal government intrusion and finger on private individual citizens and on and on. Unless and until neither of the two major parties are the majority party in both chambers of Congress, *nothing* will change for the better.
  
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- DisposableWorker
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:27pm
  WOW!!! Mr.STELEX, … conservatives are not chameleons, True Americans not chameleons… That was beautifully said. May I quote that? P.S Sorry for getting snotty earlier.
  
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- TERossi
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 6:29pm
  “Conservatives need to change with the times…”
  
  Change into what? Anti-white racism is the hallmark of the times. Once whites leave America they will have no one else to blame for their collapse. There’s nothing I’m going to change about me. If so-called “minorities” are too stupid from indoctrination to understand then there’s nothing I can do. I’m not going to convince North Koreans that Kim Jong Il isn’t still running their country from a Magic Mountain anymore than I can convince a Leftist, Liberal Jew that Obama will hand them over to the Muslim Brotherhood the moment he has the power to do so. What I can do is rally the fence-sitters. Find people who are able and willing to fight back.
  
  Clearly you’re of no help!
  
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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:04pm
From article “Obama campaign found its winning strategy. It is the bedrock of Socialism. It’s called class warfare. And apparently, it works.”

CORRECTION: it always fails. For example – every single communist/socialist state in history. It may be popular, it may win elections, but it does NOT work.

After the blood and treasure America has spent in the past 6 decades fighting communism around the globe – I am stunned to see it take root in this nation that once championed liberty, individualism, capitalism, and limited government.

America has been transformed. May God help those of us who still stand with the Constitution.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:42pm
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With the sham re-election of Obama, it will now always be an “us and them” society.
Mitt Romney was going to pull Americans back together. He was going to put God, and love of country, and love of thy fellow man, back into our lives.

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Couyon64
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:33pm
I say “they” can go _uk themselves.

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ShruggingAtlas
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:30pm
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

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- DisposableWorker
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:43pm
  Dude! We aren’t a Democracy. We (were) a Federal Republic. Really different in some key ways. One stresses the majority and one stresses the individual.
  
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- Despiser25
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:14pm
  The circle jerk that is the Democrat/Union/Pravda union is insurmountable as this election proves.
  
  No ID requirement, absentee ballots and electronic voting machines have undermined American democracy. Which party insists on this nonsense again?
  
  Joe McCarthy was right all along. The American progressive left are the “useful idiots” of which Marx spoke lovingly.
  
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- Rockapine
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:42am
  In other words, a democracy chooses Barrabas over Jesus, and a Republic is the first 200years of America.
  
  See this difference?
  
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Alex Kirby
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:01pm
It just needs to be said. Thanks Tiffany. Hang in there!

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offbrat56
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:18pm
Well, let’s see. I found the article neither too long, nor too enlightening. She is, after all, preaching to the choir on this site. I agree with her. I didn’t glean any useful practical solutions, however. While I agree that control of the education of our youth is a major key, I don’t see that as something that can help us at this junction.

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:53pm
  The education system was corrupted YEARS ago. It has become a ‘baby sitter’ for the ‘welfare class’ that was created by the ‘war on poverty; and the ‘great society’. The illigetimate off-spring of blacks and soon the ‘highspanics’ will be nothing but full emplooyment pawns for law enforcement and the criminal justice system. The system is out of $$$ and needs to collapse. It can’t be ‘saved’ and it won’t be pretty but the welfare class will finally be defeated. The Democrats will NEVER stop using class warefare, because it works; and the Republicans don’t have the balls to fight dirty…cuz that is what it willl take.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:35pm
  G.W. Bush greatly expanded federal government education with No Child Left Behind. Romney campaigned on expanding the federal government’s role in education. You guys will have to square with that one way or another
  
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- red1
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:52pm
  The best advice I have for those of you with kids is to pull them out of the public schools. I realize it is impossible for many people to homeschool because both parents work. I have no idea what the laws are on homeschooling. Can someone tell me if homeschooling cooperatives are allowable under current laws? If they aren’t, I think parents need to start fighting for that. I don’t have kids but if I did, I would not trust them to the public school system any longer. Conservatives need to take back control of their children’s education or this country is doomed.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:09pm
the only way to beat socialism is with libertarianism….We’re still waiting for you guys to join the fight

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- OlefromMN
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:25pm
  I love you “Libertarians” that think you deserve a Super Bowl win (Presidency) without ever having a winning season at any level. Conservatism beats Libertarianism and Liberalism and Socialism every day of the week. Unfortunately the GOP “establishment” has a difficult time understanding that.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:46pm
  conservatism and liberalism result in debt, war, and loss of freedom
  
  libertarianism is the reason this country got off the ground. I would love to see how this country would be right now if the founders wanted to get into everyone’s bedroom, be the world’s policeman, kill all the muslims, and allow the government to detain americans without trial. I am guessing we would have been communist Russia by now
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:06pm
  @soybomb315_II
  
  If we apply your logic to libertarianism and the founding fathers, libertarians achieved this great country because they loved to enslave Africans, oppress women, genocidal murder of indigenous people, theft of land from indigenous people, religious oppression (Mormons didn’t settle the West because they were treated great in the East), voter suppression on a grand scale, and oppression of the working class. I am a conservative, but you have to know your history before you start talking smack. All those amendments to the Constitution are there for a reason.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:14pm
  @RabidPatriot
  Sounds like you just want to argue. I support the amendments and that is the proper way to deal with deficiencies in the Constitution. But conservatives would rather do it by coercion and force rather than amending the Constitution – so you are making my point.
  
  With regard to slavery, oppression, native americans, etc – those things were common to most countries at the time. What made america different was the free market and a Constitutional republic. You should know better than to make a silly argument like that
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:58am
  SOY
  Both the Democrats an Republicans
  are Heading us towards a Financial Cliff
  an It’s going to be UGLY.
  Not sure what the Answer is But It’s NOT
  Taxing the Rich More That just Lays Off more
  Middle Class Workers an puts them on
  Foodstamps an Unemployment.
  The Rich are the ones that Employ the
  Middle Class.
  The Rich will be Fine in a Depression
  in fact they will be the ones buying up
  Houses an Businesses.
  It’s the Middle Class an Poor that Suffer.
  Just My thoughts but I’ve Studied History
  an it Coming Again !
  
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RufusEdinwhirl
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:47pm
Suppose the moron looters got their way and took all the money the “rich” have away from them and blew it on choom and cheetos. What would they do when it was all gone? Right, they’d go after you and me and everyone else who has a dime more than they have until that too was gone. Welcome to hell.

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- GuardianoftheWolves
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:13pm
  Exactly ! And when the ones they call the 1% finally say screw it and give up , it will only be our Government that has what everybody wants , we all know where that one is gonna lead !
  
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- strats
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:10pm
  I want to be a one percenter but they keep on charging me money to join the club.
  Am I missing something? I slept in this morning so forgive me.
  
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- DisposableWorker
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:48pm
  GuardianoftheWolves…. we all know where that one is gonna lead !.. Yeah- North Korea.
  
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MyLaborIsNotYourRight
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:20pm
The 2012 election may have been a tipping point in America. It is no wonder that “they” hate “us” . . . they were told lies about conservatives every day by the liberal media for 6+ years.

The liberal media set the image of the party and candidates. The liberal media decided on the issues and told their viewers/readers what to think. The liberal media made sure that conservatives did not have access to viewers/readers to get their message out. The liberal media is responsible for the Us vs Them tone in America.

Whoever controls the media controls the message.

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- TheTruthLovesLight
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:48pm
  The left is winning by following Lenin’s advice. If you can’t take your kids out of school you have to mobilize your community to take back the schools.
  
  You do this by surrounding the school board. Mobilize the masses and show up to every school board meeting and demand you will not leave them alone until they agree to get rid of textbooks that are biased towards socialism.
  
  Our military spilled their blood and gave their lives so their children would not be enslaved by tyranny.
  
  And now without firing a shot we are allowing the schools to convince our children to give up their liberty for a socialistic utopia that has failed everywhere it has been tried.
  
  Demand that we have a freedom week and let the students listen to immigrants from communist countries explain what life is really like when you allow your government to take away your freedom in the name of “equality, security, and fairness.”
  
  We just lost a major battle but if we continue to lose our children we will lose the war.
  
  The time to take a stand is now.
  
  Recruit as many as you can and start at the local level with the school boards.
  
  Glenn needs to help mobilize the masses. If enough of us contact him, we can make it happen on a national level.
  
  Glenn’s email address is me@glennbeck.com, stu@glennbeck.com Scott Editor of the blaze sbaker@theblaze.com
  
  The blaze can write articles that follow our progress and distribute ideas of what is working around the US.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:28pm
  you guys act as if the most watched media station is not a republican shill organization. Fox beats the snot out of the other news networks every single night. And then there is radio, which is dominated by republicans. Internet is anyone’s game. So what is there to really complain about?
  
  You got to get the message out yourselves. Be a beacon of light to those you meet and those around you.
  
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matinva
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:18pm
Let the liberals celebrate their victory. We have a fickle electorate and when the fit hits the shan, they will turn on them with a vengeance. Obama has no one to blame now. The state of our country is owned entirely by him. He inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression from…himself. When all is said and done, his fingerprints will be all over this mess.

Liberal policies have never worked. Period. Anywhere. Period. I give you “The War on Poverty”. Started in 1965 and funded with TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS of OUR dollars, poverty is HIGHER THAN EVER IN HISTORY!!! The hand-wringing liberals were hell-bent on wiping it out. FAIL!! The problem liberals don’t understand is that ‘you are where you are because that’s exactly where you’ve chosen to be’. Once you become an adult and complete whatever education you experience, the world is your oyster, so to speak. You can become or do anything you put your mind to. Is that what we have today? Sadly, no. If you succeed, a liberal will tear you down. Not because you succeeded, but because THEY DIDN’T! Liberalism thrives on envy and class warfare. You just witnessed an election that had class envy at its foundation.

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cordovamx
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:09pm
Superb article!!!

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- TheTruthLovesLight
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:26pm
  Her very first quote explains why we lost this last election and will continue to lose future presidential elections.
  
  We have to take our kids back.
  
  Glenn said pull your kids out of school.
  
  I have and the most widely used option K12 is still teaching them that socialism is the best option. According to my sons textbook it will bring about “equality, security, and fairness.”
  
  Here is a solution that Glenn needs to explore.
  
  We need to help him create TheBlaze Academy.
  
  Collectively we could make it happen this year.
  
  It would be based on the framework of the Kahn Academy. Look it up it is a great free resource for learning math.
  
  The idea is to ask the best conservative teachers in the world to create short videos of them teaching all of the subjects K-12. Then we allow the community to vote on the videos. The best teachers would rise to the top.
  
  That would be the free version.
  
  The paid version would include professional videos of the best lectures, the opportunity for the students to interact and ask questions from the best teachers, tutoring, etc.
  
  Help me get this idea to Glenn and email him, stu, the blaze editor so they can make it happen.
  
  Glenn’s email address is me@glennbeck.com, stu@glennbeck.com Scott Editor of the blaze sbaker@theblaze.com
  
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- Tmvannoy
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:28pm
  THETRUTHLOVESLIGHT … awesome idea, one whose time has come. I’d like to jump aboard as one of the first teachers to get involved in this “Blaze version of the Khan Academy”. I am a former classroom math teacher and now work as an educational entrepreneur. That means that I work as an online tutor and connect live with my students from all over the USA. Home school families, especially conservative ones, need teachers like me in all curriculum areas to help teach their children. I’m emailing Glen, Stu, and Scott about this idea, but you get the credit. I’d love to work with other like-minded teachers out there who love their country and want to do something about it. Let’s keep the conversation going!
  
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- shizam
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 1:20am
  @thetruthloveslight. When I returned to college in the early 80′s for recertification as an elementary school teacher I discovered the socialistic bent of the professors and texts. The 1st night of class the professor asked us what the purpose of the elementary school was. I was the only one in the class that got the answer wrong – the basics. The correct answer was 1. Humanism; 2. Social relavance and social reconstructionist ideas – the belief that the child should give up his own basic needs for the good of society; 3. Technology and 4. The ‘basics”. I about feel off my chair in the back of the classroom. He then laughed and asked the student teachers what would the parents say was the correct answer. They all laughed along with him and answered in unison “the basics.” I went home in tears and felt I needed to drop out of the course – Curriculum and Instruction which also required I do student teaching in a local school. I was encouraged by some to stay in and write about my experience because this indoctrination is not just in Florida – it’s throughout the country. In addition to contributing to a Wisconsin publication my testimony was compiled in a book entitled “Child Abuse in the Classroom.” I made sure my children went to a private, Christian school so they could learn the basics, as well as love of God and country.The Change Agents have spent more than 4 years to brainwash America’s youth for the 11/6 election results. Get your kids out of Publi
  
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- shizam
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 1:44am
  Get your kids out of Public School! Check out the Principle Approach to learning America’s Christian History, Education and Government. Website: principleapproach.org Also the Abeka program has a homeschool program. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.
  
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Freefromyou
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:07pm
Pondering….What does everyone think will be the first thing Obama tackles.

A) Amnesty
B) Fiscal Cliff
C) Gun Control

Did I miss anything.

I vote A

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- arty6164
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:21pm
  You forgot “D”, A ” well-earned” vacation.
  I vote D.
  
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- Carol1955
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:57pm
  A or C but a big one that will come soon is a squeeze on agriculture. As the dollar dives, commodities rise and farmers who have surrvived natural diasters and higher inputs are doing well. They can not allow private ownership of something as essential as the nation’s food supply. Something will be coming down soon.
  
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- DSTSS2010
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:55am
  Almost the very first thing the Obama administration did after the election was to push for
  the U.N. Small Arms Treaty. The answer to your question is C. Gun Control. They need gun control
  to be able to take control of evrything else!
  
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Twobyfour
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:01pm
HarpyHarriet, interesting that you don’t point out any instances where the writer may have erred, instead you use a thinly veiled name-calling. Hmmmm.

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Tractorboy
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:36pm
The way I see it, It is palm Sunday for lady liberty, she has her cross slung over her shoulder as she lumbers up the hill to her crucifixion, all along the way being kicked and spat upon by those who seek lives free from want……..Many of us though, weep for her, and are saddened by the sight of the once mighty lady in her beaten and broken state……helpless to help her at this point, all we can do is watch in horror for what is to come……..God bless you fellow lovers of Liberty…..for many of those who are bent on her destruction know not what they are doing.

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P8riot
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:23pm
great article!

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
  ….with no solutions or ideas
  
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:14pm
Lenin had it wrong though, because when the whole world is Communist it will uproot itself.

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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Sort of like it is being uprooted in North Korea? Yea, that works.
  
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Ken2
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:05pm
Interesting choice of word: “worthiness”. In Obamaland, is that even a thing anymore?

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HappyHarriet
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:14pm
I really do not like to be reading long commentary from a contributing writer who appears to be 12 years old and is mimicking ideas of others while offering no thoughtful or new solutions. The Blaze – is it slipping downhill? I thought I’d seen it all when I found Obama ads here. Maybe I was wrong.

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- Sickandtiredofextremists
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:36pm
  I don’t know, Harriet, but I think the young lady hit the nail on the head. (or should I say “Called a Marxist a Marxist?!)
  
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- PutAFatWadOnYou
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:39pm
  Whoa there, dirty Harriet, it’s called an Op Ed. Haters gonna hate.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:42pm
  “I really do not like to be reading long commentary…”
  
  Then DON’T, and spare the rest of us your bile.
  
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- DawgBreath
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:07pm
  Poor baby, Harriet. All worn out after reading that “long” commentary.
  Possibly being read to… some Obama pablum perhaps, would be easier for you.
  
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- cordovamx
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:11pm
  What she said is undeniable truth. The only possible way that you could not believe this article is if you didn’t watch a single second of the entire Presidential campaign. It was almost entirely class welfare. If you are blinded by the rose-colored glasses, please benefit yourself by removing them.
  
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- Proud Stray Dog
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:12pm
  See that little red “X” in the upper right corner? Click it. Problem solved.
  
  Stupid sheep.
  
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caleejr
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:34pm
You just mirrored my thoughts – thank you for putting it into words!!!!

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