Posted on 03/15/2018 5:45:16 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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“progressive” is a relative term, depending on what the goal is. To the modern day progressive, it’s socialism. The trading of individual liberty for economic security, enforced by an all-powerful yet benign government. The last is the tricky part, since it’s a general rule that power corrupts. Insanity always emerges when socialism and communism are put into practice, because it simply cannot work in the real world, even after killing the millions of people who dissent.
The progressives' history is quite useful when used against them, the progressives.
If you read Barzun’s Dawn to Decadence, you will see that this filth has tried to erupt time and again over the last 500 years.
I don’t believe it as ever before grown to this extent, though.
Specifically, progressives care that government must be big, all powerful, and controlling. It drives their every move and you can see it in their every action. It's the only thing that is consistent. Progressives have fought for bigger government ever since before they first gained the presidency in 1901.
Woodrow Wilson expressed a good bit of bitterness against blacks.
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself." - Dostoevsky"If there is no God, everything is possible." - Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky
They are not progressives, they are leftists.
Use the correct terms
Inside the head of every libtard resides a fascist trying to get out.
Very good. They can’t stand it when it is done.
Does anyone have a decent list of the nations that Leftism destroyed in the 20th Century, using roughly the same slogans, timelines, methods, and end results?
Progressives are ALWAYS hostile. And if they seize power, they are quite murderous.
And having seized power they begin to eat their own....whether Robespierre types, Kronstadt sailors, or the Red Guard.
Definitely a satanic lot.
Thanks for posting.
Putrid socialists, progressives, punks, PsOS, deceivers, thugs, inchoates, internationalists, malcontents, marxists, scumbags, criminals, collectivists, conmen totalitarians, tyrants etc., etc., hate America. They are more emboldened than ever. They have one thing in common. They are sick in the head.
Occam’s Razor says that the simplest theory that fits the facts is probably best. I’ll go with satanic hatred over this psychological stuff.
Your quote from Dostoevsky is spot on. The problem for the progressives is not 1920. It is now. It is cognitive dissonance, the belief in things which conflict with observed reality. It is rejection, that is true, but not rejection by others. It is inner rejection. They turn their anger toward others in the hope that if they can make everyone disappear who disagrees with them, that their belief system will work. They cling to a failed belief system, and they are so completely vested in it that they would rather see the world destroyed than to reconsider their premises.
“They are not progressives, they are leftists.”
Yes, I say that to people all the time. They are not progressives, or liberals, or socialists, or social democrats. They are leftists which means Marxism which is totalitarian. Americans need to start understand what “the Left” means. It is Marxism heading into totalitarianism. “Progressive” implies something good- Marxism/totalitarianism is not good.
Unable to Recognize Truth.
Well said.
The truth to Progressives is whatever they want it to be.
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