Gorsuch warning Liberals to Senate Democrats: Reject Trump's Supreme Court pick or else

[Hortensis]

17. Many who feel your way are honest and sensible.

I'm a very strong liberal who wanted a candidate (not a leader!) who was committed to destroying the billionaire class and restoring a proper balance of power for the people. But I reluctantly concluded the one who promised that was not..the right stuff.

Those who felt differently really, really need to understand who and what kind of leaders would be the actual beneficiaries of a transfer of power from liberal leaders to farther left. And to understand that many on the far left are much more extreme than them. I do very seriously doubt the ability of the currently best known leader to keep control from being wrested away as a lot of very fickle and volatile followers excited by "revolution" and promise of taking over from the moderate-liberal Democratic Party are lured away by someone else.

I also know most supporters here on DU have not even considered that possibility, much less wondered what the ideology, goals and competence of those people might be and just what kind of person the shiny, charismatic new leader presented to them might be.

But feel free to examine the history of far-left movements that did succeed in gaining national power and what they did with it. You really should. Google left-wing "authoritarianism" while you're at it.

Btw, the ultraconservative Koch brothers, and others like them, are actively working to assist the far left's efforts in this regard. One guess why.