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Can Progressivism Be Reversed?
The Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal ^ | Oct 17, 2021 | John C. Chalberg

Posted on 01/07/2023 6:26:00 PM PST by TBP

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To: TBP
disinterested experts

Cough, spit, curse................

21 posted on 01/07/2023 9:05:29 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: TBP

Fed.gov is completely malformed due to the cancer of progressivism/wokism/statism

It needs to be completely desconstructed.

Progressives and the deep state will never allow that. Indeed, change or reform is impossible.

So where does that leave us?

Continuing on the present path, until only a recognition of total failure, and collapse, occurs. think of the Soviet Union in 1991


22 posted on 01/07/2023 9:18:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: 2CAVTrooper

That’s kind of what I was thinking.


23 posted on 01/07/2023 9:48:31 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: C210N

Yes, this communism thing, has been going on for a TON of years. I just hope it doesn’t take as long to collapse, as it did in the Soviet Union, if it even ever did collapse.


24 posted on 01/07/2023 9:52:33 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Rowdyone

“Start by not calling it Progressivism.”
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Why do we do that? We are called “far right” “extremists” etc etc. Yet we call them Progressives.

I’ve noticed that Conservatives have gone back to referring to the media as mainstream media instead of fake news which Trump called them.

The Left has a plan, such as rules for radicals, and knows how to implement it. The Right does not.....and we are losing.


25 posted on 01/08/2023 4:22:20 AM PST by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: TBP

Agusto Pinochet reversed it but it took a lot of lead
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26 posted on 01/08/2023 5:41:13 AM PST by Cowman
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To: TBP; ProgressingAmerica

Short answer, no. The federal government will never be as small as it was before Wilson.


27 posted on 01/08/2023 6:06:03 AM PST by x
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To: TBP

The change has to start in the primary and secondary education.

That has been where progressives have been focused for over 100 years.

Conservatives have blindly let it happen


28 posted on 01/08/2023 6:48:44 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: SuperLuminal

We lost this nation when the Ten Commandments were removed from the Town Square. There is no moral code to tether society, no values shared. Thus our Constitution, the tie that binds, is not valued either.


29 posted on 01/08/2023 7:12:36 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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I agree. We were winning with the Tea Party when we were following the model as set forth by the Founding Fathers, but we see every day how active everybody wants to be. Nobody actually wants to win. They know the formula, they know what it takes (activity), they’ve rejected it.

I really miss Rush, but I also really miss Andrew Breitbart. Andrew made everybody want to go out and get involved in culture and be more like and act like the Founders. That’s the missing piece - a desire to engage in culture.


30 posted on 01/08/2023 7:23:07 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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To: TBP

2) make government more efficient by making it more and more reliant on the expertise of disinterested professional bureaucrats.


You do not want an efficient government. Our Founding Fathers put in checks and balances, so things moved SLOWLY AND AND GREAT COST.


31 posted on 01/08/2023 8:40:04 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: griswold3

Excellent point!


32 posted on 01/08/2023 11:10:44 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: TBP

....yes....

But it ain’t gonna be pretty.


33 posted on 01/08/2023 12:02:56 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.” ― Barry Goldwater


34 posted on 01/08/2023 12:48:46 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: SuperLuminal; marktwain

“The Marxist conquest of the United States followed the strategies laid down in the late 1880s & 1890s and was fully implemented by the communists by the 1980s...”

Yes. The communist goals were read into the congressional record back in 1963, and posted on here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595013/posts


35 posted on 01/09/2023 1:21:07 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: Cowman

“Agusto Pinochet reversed it but it took a lot of lead”

And JP-4.🚁🚁😁


36 posted on 01/09/2023 1:27:33 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
"The communist goals were read into the congressional record back in 1963, and posted on here:
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 ^ | January 10, 1963

Good point...

37 posted on 01/09/2023 1:33:15 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: x
Short answer, no. The federal government will never be as small as it was before Wilson.

President Coolidge came after President Wilson.

Coolidge reduced the size of the federal government by half.

Then the Progressive Republican President Hoover came in and started increasing the size of government again. It dropped a bit after WWII, but then started up again. Since the 1960's there has been no looking back.

38 posted on 01/09/2023 1:34:22 PM PST by marktwain
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