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15 Wins for the Progressive Movement in 2013
Bill Moyers & Company ^ | December 27, 2013 | Joshua Holland

Posted on 12/28/2013 3:52:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/28/2013 3:52:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Take confort! 2014 is coming! The glass is half full.


2 posted on 12/28/2013 3:56:21 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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Progressives can’t take all of the credit for blocking the Obama administration’s path to entering Syria’s bloody civil war, but they deserve a good amount of it. Highly energetic opposition from the American left let Democrats in Congress know that they would pay a price if they uncritically supported the president’s planned attack.

Well once they were eventually shamed into it by the right.


3 posted on 12/28/2013 4:05:50 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The House isn’t under the control of the Tea Party—I wish it was. We have two vocal leaders Ted Cruz and Mike Lee (with some help from Rand Paul)but the speaker is firmly in the hands of the GOP Old dogs. Liberalism has seen its best days and is destined to be pushed out of office and back into the wings of politics.


4 posted on 12/28/2013 4:06:36 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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Moyers described our headlong dive into tyranny better than any recent conservative.

Semiannual elections have not, and will not arrest the trend.

5 posted on 12/28/2013 4:10:14 AM PST by Jacquerie (To restore the 9th & 10th Amendments, repeal the 17th.)
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Also see...

45 Communist Goals

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals [1963]:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

6 posted on 12/28/2013 4:10:32 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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NEW YORK CITY hasn’t felt the result of what they’ve done yet.....if you thought Bloominidiot was bad...you ain’t seen nothing yet


7 posted on 12/28/2013 4:20:32 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Moyers.....hate that pinko leftist. I always hoped when he was out doing his lies about America programs on the road, he’d meet up with a semi at a crossroads.


8 posted on 12/28/2013 4:24:15 AM PST by Gaffer
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I wonder why taking credit for bankrupting Detroit isn’t on the list?


9 posted on 12/28/2013 4:31:38 AM PST by clearcarbon
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3. Progressive cities …

They left out Detroit and Chicago.

10 posted on 12/28/2013 4:31:54 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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Or the hugely successful roll-out of Obamacare....


11 posted on 12/28/2013 4:33:38 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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“...as Mother Jones reported, “41 new laws in 22 states made it harder for people to own guns, hard for people to carry them in public and enhanced the government’s ability to track guns.”

Moyers is a hateful arrogant pr*ck and we already knew that, but look how approvingly he cites the MJ quote.

“Making it harder for people who disagree with liberals to own guns” is his real message & a bit of a Freudian slip.

Let’s hear from Moyers about Duck Dynasty, or would that be too predictable? What a jerk!


12 posted on 12/28/2013 4:45:44 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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Moyers is a hateful arrogant pr*ck and we already knew that,

I was going to post pretty much those exact words. Can't stand the smarmy, arrogant little buck tooth girly man.

13 posted on 12/28/2013 4:58:41 AM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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What is and will be the end results of these progressive victories? What will be the consequences of these actions? That is what matters here. For example:

“In New York City and Los Angeles – two of the most influential cities in the world – unapologetically populist candidates backed by grass-roots community groups organized labor and scored decisive wins over more centrist rivals.”

Lets see how well those cities have fared after 4 years after electing socialist mayors. I’ll bet the results wont be pretty.


14 posted on 12/28/2013 5:21:43 AM PST by lowbridge
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4. Stop-and-Frisk checked …

In NY. Meanwhile in Detroit its been restarted for the first time since Chairman Young stopped it years ago.
15 posted on 12/28/2013 6:03:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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one marked by the painful cuts of sequestration and austerity’s continued drag on an already anemic recovery

Lost me in the first paragraph with a false premise

16 posted on 12/28/2013 6:19:57 AM PST by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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The author joshua holland is usually promising good times ahead whenever progressive politicians get their way. Here is a 2009 article by him promising us such wonderful things if health reform gets passed.

10 Awesome Things That Would Happen If Health Reform Passes

17 posted on 12/28/2013 6:37:24 AM PST by lowbridge
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I just have one comment. Bill Moyers is a complete fool.


18 posted on 12/28/2013 7:47:22 AM PST by jstaff
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Comments?

Forward. (puke)

19 posted on 12/28/2013 7:49:14 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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bkmk


20 posted on 12/28/2013 11:26:22 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 (Wishing all a very Merry Christmas)
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