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Top 5 Liberal FAILS Throughout History!

We’re going to go through the top five examples that are not up for debate that the left has gotten it verifiably false.  You see that they’re always wrong.  And of course, we try to source everything and provide overlays.  But in this case, we’re going to go through some very very specific examples.

Recently, they said that Trump was not spied on by the Obama administration. They claimed the FBI was not spying on Trump.  And now they’re saying, “Well, there weren’t so much spies…but there were spies, we just call them ‘informants’.”  Here they are in their own words.

And this has happened for a long time. Let me run you through some examples.

#5 – Peak Oil

Remember this?  I don’t know how many bumper stickers that the term “peak oil” was on.  So many that now they don’t use that term.  Since the 1950s, the left has repeatedly claimed that we will reach a point of maximum extraction of oil.  It specifically applies to petroleum, but generally they kind of apply it to overall resources.  We’re going to reach this terminal decline.  As recently as 2010, Paul Krugman claimed that “peak oil has arrived.”

Oops.

So what’s the truth?  This is proven verifiably false.  The US is at a record high in oil production alone in November last year.  They had an even higher record in February.  We have arguably more access today to natural resources – such as oil and natural gas – than ever in recorded history.  And we’re finding new ways to extract it.

Imagine if we had enacted the policies that the left claimed we needed.

#4 – AIDS

I’ve talked about this before, but I think it’s pretty important still.  The left claimed that AIDS was already an epidemic.  Oprah said about AIDs, in 1987, “AIDS

has both sexes running scared. Research studies now project that one in five–listen to me, hard to believe–one if five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That’s by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me.”

No.  It’s verifiably false.

AIDS became the single most research-funded diseases ever in modern American history, despite being a statistical non-risk.  Money could have been better spent on cancer or on diabetes.  If don’t want to catch AIDS in the United States?  It’s not a 1-in-5 stat.  If you are not having gay anal sex at a truckstop with complete strangers or using hypodermic needles that you are sharing with other people, guess what? The statistical odds of getting AIDS in North America is 0%. 

More money than any disease in modern America.  Thanks, Oprah.

#3 – The Star Wars Missile Defense System

You’ve probably heard this term and even think that it was Ronald Reagan’s term.  It’s not. Everyone mocked President Reagan and said it would never work. 

Here’s the truth.  They mocked the defense system, which Ronald Reagan had. They coined it the “Star Wars Missile Defense System”.  The ensuing arms race helped bankrupt the Soviet Union.  And the system, by the way, is used today.  It works perfectly well in Israel.  It’s used in cities across the globe today.  We know that it works.  Reagan never used the term, he called it “Strategic Defense Initiative”. Then an author named Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote science fiction books, apparently used the term in front of Congress, and then all the media latched onto that because they thought it was genius to just call it “Star Wars.” 

This is actually one of those deals where if you try to Google it, all the articles say: “Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Missile Defense System.”  They all actually attribute it to him, because they wanted people to think that he was a dumb actor – a dumb actor who stared down on the Soviet Union by the way, and won.

You were wrong about that.  You’re wrong about the Missile Defense Initiative. And you were wrong about nuclear disarmament. 

#2 – The Model Cities Program (And All Subsequent Welfare Gov’t Designed Programs)

We don’t want to sit here and debate social with you on a philosophical level, whether you think it’s a moral imperative to share or not.  But can we admit that the War on Poverty in the United States hasn’t worked?  Can we admit that? 

It hasn’t worked statistically.  The Model Cities Program – if we look back at Lyndon Johnson  – Detroit was one of the models.  They took a city that was one of the wealthiest cities in the country and said, “now we’re going to put in some welfare incentives, we’re going to piggyback off of the success of Detroit, and claim credit for it…and there goes Detroit. Wow.”   The welfare state destroyed families, it incentivized single motherhood.  Since launching the War on Poverty, out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed, poverty has been nearly completely unaffected.  The War on Poverty, the Model Cities Program, they said was going to solve the problem.  And of course if you look at it, not only did the Model Cities not solve the problem but then neither did the other programs.  You end up putting band-aids on to of the tourniquet that you initially put on there when there you couldn’t you couldn’t fix the wound. 

I get the spirit of it.  Yeah, you don’t want poverty.  Neither do we. The difference is historically you were wrong.

#1 – Venezuela

It obviously points to socialism at large, but the left consistently – and now they’re trying to distance themselves – praises Venezuela, and other South American socialist countries ad nauseum.  This is one of those things where again they just praise and they move on to the next thing.  “Well, they didn’t do socialism properly.”  Bernie was praising Castro by the way.  You can also find Michael Moore claiming that Cuba’s health care system was better than the United States as recently as Sicko.  The Canadian Press praised it.  Only now are they trying to distance themselves from it. 

Here’s something else that’s really telling to me when you look at Bernie when he says he forgets that he said, “Castro gave them great health care”: What does that mean about Bernie?  Okay, listen Bernie Bros, you love him, you think “Oh, socialism is working.”  What does that tell you about Bernie?  It tells you that Bernie believes Castro has the authority to grant you health care.  Which also means he has the authority to take away your rights, to take away the rights from private companies.  Look at what happened in Venezuela.  You saw John Oliver praising the fact that Chavez took control over the banks.  And when they decided to fire executives they cheered.  That should tell you if Bernie Sanders is ever elected to office, he believes that he can grant you rights like free health care, like free internet, like free [insert whatever it is you want].  And he also believes that he will have the authority to take those away.  That is bone-chillingly scary.  

Spoiler alert: everyone’s starving in Venezuela.  It looks like the Karate Kid bullies in their skeleton costumes.  It is an absolute horror show in Venezuela.  Everybody now acknowledges that it sucks.  And I think that we can all agree that Cuba didn’t do so well under Castro.  Did Bernie Sanders come out and apologize for Cuba, let alone Venezuela?  Did Sean Penn come out and say, “Ooh, wow.  You know what I was wrong.  Maybe he’s not the most beautiful human being alive.”  They never get called on it.  Joe Biden makes up stories about meeting people that he’s never met in places that don’t even exist.  Right now, they’re telling us today: “We’re not spying on Trump.”  Hey, what about this spy?  "Well, yeah, we do have informants on Trump.”  You just said you didn’t.  “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”  

We haven’t even mentioned some of the more current topics. This doesn’t even include Obamacare claiming that it would lower premiums, deductibles, and that you could keep your doctor if you like your doctor;  Dodd-Frank; and of course the fact that Donald Trump “would never ever ever be President.”