Epic Liberal Failure
More recently, during the administration of America's first black president, a 2011 report from the Pew Research Center has the headline, "Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics." -Thomas Sowell
Public officials and activists cried, “crisis” and got everything that they wanted. But they were the ones who created the crisis. And every taxpayer dollar that they got was dedicated to making the crisis worse.
All the plans to fight homelessness only attracted more homeless. That’s the reality behind the mysterious massive increase in the homeless population. Whether it’s in Los Angeles or New York, when lefties begin a major campaign to fight homelessness, the number of homeless suddenly increases.
-Daniel Greenfield 
[Jul 2016]: The incomes of the 1 percent grew 37 percent between 2009 and 2015. They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country over that period, leaving just 48 percent to spread out among the bottom 99 percent of families. The top 10 percent of American earners took home more than half of all income last year, the highest share ever except for 2012.
And in fact, income inequality is now at the highest level the country has ever recorded in its entire history. -Bryce Covert
In 1968, government transfer payments totaled $53 billion or roughly 7% of personal income. By 2014, these had climbed to $2.5 trillion—about 17% of personal income. Despite the redistribution of a sixth of all income, inequality measured by all three of the Census Bureau’s indexes is far higher today than in 1968. -Lawrence Lindsey
The Men of the Left
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— Garbage Human ?? (@GarbageHuman_) August 16, 2018
Feminists of the World, Unite!
Hey Conservatives
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— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) April 22, 2017
We do appreciate your expertise on the subject of sad, miserable failures.
She No Longer Even Feels the Need to
Pay Attention to the Republican Nominee
October, 2016
. @HillaryClinton is so far ahead in the polls that she "doesn't even think about" @realDonaldTrump anymore https://t.co/zFSMqXzBdS
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton is so far ahead of Donald Trump in the race for the presidency that she no longer even feels the need to pay attention to the Republican nominee.
Buoyed by a double digit lead in some national polls, Mrs Clinton has said she is now looking past Mr Trump entirely, and will no longer counter allegations made by her rival.
It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
... there is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong.
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?'
When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"
Progressivism Is Failure Writ Large
The Blue Model
San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed appears to have reversed course on her support for defunding the police, a far-left movement that is well outside the mainstream, and is now calling those same progressive policies "the bullshit that has destroyed our city." - Ryan Saavedra
Head Start
For 48 years, liberals have used the Head Start education program for low income kids as the shining example of how the federal government can make a difference to the lives of people. But a new study suggests otherwise.
Liberal, Tax, Government, Incompetence, Waste, Regulation
San Francisco's much-heralded "social justice" requirements for city contracts are costing local taxpayers millions of dollars a year in overcharges, according to workers in departments ranging from the Municipal Transportation Agency to the Department of Emergency Management.
In one case, a Muni worker said the city paid $3,000 for a vehicle battery tray. Such parts can be found online for $12 to $300, depending on the type of vehicle.
Government: Is It Ever Big Enough?
“When was the last time you heard a liberal politician say, ‘Yeah, we solved that social ill?'”
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Financial, Economy, Debt
WASHINGTON – The soaring national debt has reached a symbolic tipping point: It's now as big as the entire U.S. economy. The amount of money the federal government owes to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retirement and other programs, now tops $15.23 trillion. That's roughly equal to the value of all goods and services the U.S. economy produces in one year: $15.17 trillion as of September, the latest estimate.
Liberal Bankruptcy Realized: Detroit
"Detroit is an outlier only in the sense that it got to where it is now first. It is the logical endpoint of Democratic left wing social and economic policy." -Mark Steyn
Obamacare: The Collapse of Cover Oregon
This is pretty close to what the Obama administration dreams of: Insurance plans looking to woo millions of new customers—and slashing their rates in the process.
Editorial, Liberal, Tax, Incompetence, Oops, Regulation
“Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so,” the report said. “California earns the dubious honor of being ranked dead last for the eighth consecutive year.” California “appears to slip deeper into the ninth circle of business hell,” the report said. “Each year, the evidence that businesses are leaving California or avoid locating there because of the high cost of doing business due to excessive state taxes and stringent regulations, grows.”
Editorial, Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Oops, Media
Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it's had some difficulty. Now, it's up for sale. -Robert Laurie
Sowell: Patterns of Failure
A very distinct pattern has emerged repeatedly when policies favored by the anointed (those in power) turn out to fail. This pattern typically has four stages.
STAGE 1. THE "CRISIS": Some situation exists, whose negative aspects the anointed propose to eliminate. Such a situation is routinely characterized as a "crisis," even though all human situations have negative aspects, and even though evidence is seldom asked or given to show how the situation at hand is either uniquely bad or threatening to get worse. Sometimes the situation described as a "crisis" has in fact already been getting better for years.
STAGE 2. THE "SOLUTION": Policies to end the "crisis" are advocated by the anointed, who say that these policies will lead to beneficial result A. Critics say that these policies will lead to detrimental result Z. The anointed dismiss these latter claims as absurd and "simplistic," if not dishonest.
STAGE 3. THE RESULTS: The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z.
STAGE 4. THE RESPONSE: Those who attribute detrimental result Z to the policies instituted, are dismissed as "simplistic" for ignoring the "complexities" involved, as "many factors" went into determining the outcome. The burden of proof is put on the critics to demonstrate to a certainty that these policies alone were the only possible cause of the worsening that occurred. No burden of proof whatever is put on those who had so confidently predicted improvement. Indeed, it is often asserted that things would have been even worse, were it not for the wonderful programs that mitigated the inevitable damage from other factors.
"One of the most dangerous trends of our times is that increasing numbers of people have a vested interest in the helplessness of other people."
But not so long ago, the left's big bugbear was poverty, not inequality. Then a funny thing happened: The left had to de-emphasize poverty because, as measured by the World Bank and others, absolute poverty is disappearing fast, thanks to capitalism and the collapse of communism.
That's right. Capitalism — not big government — is killing poverty. -Terry Jones, IBD
Hypocrisy, Editorial, Liberal, Hate, Violence, Degeneracy, Sexism
Because the GA [General Aseembly] had no way to reject force, over time it fell to force. Proposals won by intimidation; bullies carried the day. What began as a way to let people reform and remake themselves had no mechanism for dealing with them when they didn’t. It had no way to deal with parasites and predators. It became a diseased process, pushing out the weak and quiet it had meant to enfranchise until it finally collapsed when nothing was left but predators trying to rip out each other’s throats. By the time I returned to NY from visiting the camp in DC, exhausted with the pain of six evictions, the NYC GA was a place where women were threatened with beatings, and street kids with calls to the police... It was the tiny, brutal, and bitter politics of failed people. -Quinn Norton's Eulogy for #Occupy
Cue the Jeopardy Music...
Here’s a fun test: can you name something – anything – major in the last two decades that our best and brightest have not screwed up?
California Bullet Train
California talks a big game on climate change, but even with billions of dollars in federal funding, it couldn’t build high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. -Ezra Klein
Liberal environmentel policies hit pay dirt...
By 2030, the eastern German town of Poedelwitz will likely be razed to get at the rich veins of coal beneath its half-timbered houses.
The reason: Chancellor Angela Merkel's effort to steer Germany toward greener energy, which has unexpectedly meant booming demand for dirty coal...
"This is unparalleled destruction of the environment," says Jens Hausner, a farmer who has seen 17 of his 20 hectares consumed by digging equipment that looks like something out of a Mad Max movie.
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
"Ignorance is never any bar to certitude in the progressive dreamworld."
Liberal, Incompetence, Financial, Funny, Oops, Press
After purchasing the Boston Globe in 1993 for a then-record $1.1 billion, the financially troubled New York Times just announced it sold the 141 year-old paper to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for a mere $70 million. That's a straight 93% loss. Figuring in two decades of inflation would only make it worse -- as does the fact the Times retains the Globe's pension liabilities, estimated at over $100 million.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Government, Incompetence, Degeneracy, Oops
A Progressive Admits: We Ruin Cities...
And progressives—I count myself as one of them—do ruin cities. Or, at least, they put in place policies that cause profound harm to the people living in them. An obvious case-in-point is the call to defund the police. It’s a slogan that fits nicely on a bumper sticker, but what are its consequences in practice?
Great Society: The Ultimate Domestic Failure...
What the 1960s experiment and its 1970s results suggest is that social democratic compromise comes close enough to socialism to cause economic tragedy…
In the pain of the 1970s and early 1980s, many Americans came to recognize that the ultimate executive-led expert-driven social project of the 1960s, the White House application of Keynesian economic doctrine, was also the ultimate domestic failure.
Urban Degeneracy And Failure
As cities slowly fall to pieces, they are increasingly becoming no-go zones for investors and business, except for those who see opportunity investing in suddenly distressed properties; barely ten per cent of US companies are interested in investing in large urban areas. -Joel Kotkin
Black Share Of Murder Victims
Hope And Change under Barack Obama
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Obama, Oops, Jobs
Black unemployment, which at the end of the Bush administration broke a decades-long pattern of being twice white unemployment, has resumed its disturbing and prolonged trend under President Obama, with the rate among African Americans now at 13.4 percent, according to a new Pew Research report.
Obama Decries Income Inequality
In the Clinton era expansion, 45 percent of the total income gains went to the top 1 percent; in the Bush recovery, the figure was 65 percent; now it is 93 percent.
Indeed, the five states with the highest out-migration have Democratic governors, while the five states attracting the most new taxpayers are run by GOP governors. -New York Post Editorial Board, September 8, 2015
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Obama, Oops, Economy
Under President Obama, the richest 10 percent were the only income group of Americans to see their median incomes rise, according to a survey released this week by the Federal Reserve. The Fed data covered the years 2010-2013, during which period Mr. Obama constantly campaigned against income inequality and won re-election by painting his Republican rival as a tool of Wall Street plutocrats.
Voting With Their Feet
The so-called "progressives" love to talk about how their policies will create a worker’s paradise, but then why is it that day after day, month after month, year after year, people are fleeing liberal blue states for conservative red states? -Stephen Moore
Blue States: Ruining The Lives Of Minorities
"African American communities throughout the country are doing horribly under Democratic-run cities, and that’s why I want to put an end to it." -Garry Cobb, Retired NFL linebacker
The Failure of American Liberalism
The 2015 Baltimore Riots
Obamacare
No one intended for premium prices to skyrocket and for millions of people to lose their policies or for the majority of the American public to be unhappy with the program and its results, but that is what happened. -Kevin D. Williamson
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Obama, Financial, Oops, Economy
[Dec 2015]: The nation's middle class, long a pillar of the American economy, has shrunk to the point where it no longer constitutes the majority of the adult population, according to a new major study.
Rapid growth of upper-income households, coupled with an increase in less-educated, low earners, has driven the decline of the middle-income population to a hair below 50% of the total this year, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.
Center of the American Experiment:
Parent's Basement
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Financial, Oops
Hillary Clinton and her supporters spent a record $1.2 billion for her losing presidential campaign — twice as much as the winner, Donald Trump, according to the latest records... Clinton’s expensive machine tore through $131.8 million in just the final weeks, finishing with about $839,000 on hand as of Nov. 28.
Epic Failure: Afghanistan
It's the five-alarm dumpster fire that is Team Biden’s response to the chaos in Kabul. You’ve seen the images by now. The Taliban took over the Afghan capital of Kabul in about the time it takes to deliver a pizza, catching the Biden administration utterly off guard. -Joe Concha
Leftist Protester Defies Police
Gets Blasted in His Private Parts
Protester kicks tear gas back at police. Police shoot him with a rubber bullet on live TV. VIDEO: pic.twitter.com/5qyHDZlpNF
— Tim Ring (@timringTV) August 23, 2017
Kudos to Phoenix PD for hitting such a small target.
Leftists In 2020: "Defund The Police!"
Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday that some funding should "absolutely" be redirected from police, amid calls from some in his party to "defund the police" in the wake of the protests across the country.
Public Housing Demolition
The great advantage of being a liberal/progressive in America is that you are always judged on your intentions (or stated intentions) and not on results. -Mona Charen
Failed Communes
Collectivism violates the iron laws of human nature. It has always failed. It is always failing, and it will always fail. -Jerry Bowyer
The last eight months have battered the Obama administration. From the botched rollout of the health-care website to the VA scandal, events are now cementing certain impressions about Mr. Obama. Among the most damaging is this: He is unusually, even epically, incompetent. -Peter Wehner