Conservatives, Forever Angry

EACH TIME A PROGRESSIVE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., the conservatives go ballistic. If one didn't know better, one might suspect that conservatives fear change, or the very thought that change might actually occur. The very prospect of change seems to anger traditionalists. When Abraham Lincoln took office, almost half the country walked out, and started their own country. We had to fight like hell to bring them back in, and I still don't think it was worth it. When Franklin Roosevelt was elected, conservatives across the fruited plain cried "communism!", and "socialism!" until their throats hurt. World War Two stopped all that nonsense, and FDR went right ahead with his socialism. When Bill Clinton was elected, right wingers gathered up their bibles, camping gear, and assault rifles, and headed out into the woods for a bit of militia training. That came to an abrupt end in 1995, when a couple for these fruitcakes bombed the Federal Bldg in Oklahoma city. Barack Hussein Obama was the inspiration for the TEA party - whatever happened to that bunch? Look for something equally as weird if Hillary becomes president. Already their is a nascent movement, something called "alt right", which at first glance appears t be nothing other than the same song, fifth verse; disgruntled right wingers expressing their aversion to change. What hard core conservatives fail or refuse to recognize is that liberalism, which is essentially the ideology of change, is inevitable. Donald Trump's base of support is among white men, angry that other ethnic groups seem to be making progress while they go nowhere. Trump's every speech exudes anger, as he feeds off the emotions of his constituents. The America we know today is a vastly liberalized monstrosity compared to the one I knew fifty yeas ago, when women and other minorities were second class, it was still a country of white dudes, and only weirdos smoked marijuana. Consider the changes of the past several years. We now have socialized health insurance, although in watered down form, gay marriage, and recognition that transgenders are actually human beings. The very fact that we have a black president and seem destined to have a woman president is further proof that the tide of liberalism can only be slowed by traditional conservative society, but not stopped from coming into existence. for liberals, whether we call them "liberals" or "progressives", its merely a matter of time. For conservatives, its a desperate futile attempt to keep the world thew way it was and is, an attempt they must know is doomed. No wonder conservatives always seem to be so angry. They are.--------PLEASE TELL A FRIEND ABOUT THIS WEBSITE OF PROGRESSIVE THINKING. THANKS!