Posted on 11/30/2013 10:04:50 AM PST by Dick Bachert
We simply must refuse to allow libtards to continue their nefarious and dangerous practice of hijacking and twisting our language, the most pernicious example of which is their application of the term “progressive” to themselves.
Here's a question for those of you who somehow escaped the government school indoctrination process with your critical thinking skills intact: When these people say “progressive”, to where or to what do they propose to progress?
Among America's founding documents is the Declaration of Independence. Because many of you younger readers may not have been exposed to the Declaration in school (or, worse, were exposed to an altered or redacted version of that document), allow me to remind you of THE key principles upon which the Founders established this nation:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Read those words until you fully grasp their meaning.
Let me again ask the question: To where or to what do those who call themselves “progressives” propose to progress? How IS IT POSSIBLE to “progress” beyond those beautifully stated and, at that time as today, seldom articulated truths?
Back when a “journalist” respected truth and honesty, the Baltimore journalist Henry Louis Mencken declared “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
And, that, my friends is another truth of which we all must be mindful as these so-called “progressives”, by their tendentious torturing and twisting of the language, seek to move us AWAY from our founding principles. Their agenda seeks to take us BACK to some form of the same dictatorial RULE under which nearly all men who walked the earth before those American ideals were set to parchment lived as SLAVES!
If these people wish to wear a label, let it be an honest one. My suggestion would be “REGRESSIVES”.
Nobody in the GOPe. It's up to us, and we have to kick the GOPe out of office if we are to have a chance. They counter us with more lies every time we try to set things right, calling us "Hobbits" and "Wacko-Birds." They undermine our candidates in the Generals after we successfully defeat their clowns in the Primaries. IOW, they prefer Rats to Tea Partiers!
The current crop of Pubbies in DeeCee spend tons more money and effort trashing our side than they do fighting the progs. This shit has got to stop.
(Sorry if I got any spittle on the inside of your computer screen. I'm POed. Click Here!)
Progressive is a lot like the doublespeak of 1984. For example; The Ministry of Truth. Progressive means ‘regressive.’ The results of Progressive policies make that very clear.
...and only then, grantrights?authority to government.
Limited authority. Rights are unalienable, meaning that they cannot be taken or given away. We can't give rights to government any more than government can give us rights. Government is an artifice created by man and by artifice we grant it authority in order to serve our ends and when it ceases to serve us we can withdraw its authority.
Yep. I call them socialists now. To hell with politeness.
Nice post. “Progressing” to what ? That’s the question they can’t answer.
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