

"Ruling Class Progs" cited
During the last two decades liberals have created a secular, politically-correct equivalent of sharia in America. The electoral mechanics necessary to accomplish this mischief are simple. The Oval Office confers coveted victim status on strategically selected groups and then dispenses special indulgences and taxpayer alms in exchange for their support. This creates a very durable political base willing to give their elected representatives carte blanche as long as they don’t mess with the gravy train.
Like its religious counterpart, America’s secular version of sharia is enforced by true believers, who after demonstrating fealty by going deep into debt during college to acquire the proper indoctrination, go forth as credentialed liberal evangelists, trained to call in media strikes launched against rebel conservative positions by ruling class progressives from the safety of their gated coastal enclaves.
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On This Progressive Day: July 17
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all who chose to accompany them into exile – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov – are executed in Yekaterinburg; as ordered by the Supreme Soviet (1918)
An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government starts the Spanish Civil War (1936)
Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (1979)
TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 is exploded by terrorists, killing all 230 on board; FBI blames Boeing (1996)
President B. Hussein Obama gives a big teleprompted speech concerning the Progressive government-run health insurance scheme of edicts known as Obamacare (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama praises the confirmation of leftwing corruptocrat Richard Cordray as director of the newly-minted, Progressive Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2013)
d: Ernst Busch (1945), Katherine Graham (2001)

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