Liberalism
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Kind of Progressive Liberals Have Been Begging For
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing everything liberals have been begging progressives to do for years. She working with the party. She's staying respectful instead of throwing bombs all day. She's pushing the party to the left without doing her level best to divide it. But ...read more
The Left Needs to Acknowledge Its Sexism, Part Two: Kamala Harris Edition
Note: the following is the second in an ongoing series about the sexism problem on the left. To read the first of these pieces, click here. I’ve been dissatisfied with Bernie Sanders’ supporters since he announced his campaign back in June of 2015, not because I was angry that ...read more
Hillary's Unapologetic Defense Of Abortion Was A Thing Of Progressive Beauty
It's a long-standing political trope that politicians have to appeal to their base during the primary by heading towards the fringe and then tack back towards the center in the general. Jeb Bush even made a stink about it before getting Trumped: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made ...read more
This is What Insane Liberalism Looks Like
If you've been following events here at the Banter over the past couple of days, you will have noticed an epic bust up between myself and some people in the #BlackLivesMatter movement over the behavior of Marissa Janae Johnson and Mara Jacqeline Willaford, the women who stormed ...read more
When ‘Lesser-Evil’ Misses the Point
By Ted Lieverman: I get uneasy when I see liberals and progressives complaining so vigorously about President Barack Obama’s lack of accomplishments. Sure, the last four years have seen many mistakes and disappointments by the White House. But when I think about the realistic ...read more
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Chris Hedges on Liberal Sell Outs
In response to the liberal media's hostile reaction to Cornel West's tirade against Obama, Chris Hedges counters with a withering critique of what he sees as the dissipating left in America: The liberal class, by allowing radical movements to be dismembered through Red baiting ...read more