Posted on 01/13/2017 8:14:54 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Good post...thank you.
PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE
Good find. A lot of this stuff has been available; but progressives have been very good at their policy of not showing it to the masses.
Wow. Great find. It is called The Fourth Power, not the Forth Estate, although the fourth estate today does consider itself a power. I think here of the Powers and the Principalities in the New Testament. I will have to pour a glass or two of brandy and read this meditatively later tonight. Much thanks.
Progressives/Communists cannot be honest because if they were, they would be rejected.
Political Correctness was designed to control the narrative and it has worked.
Bkmk
Try "The Civil War." That is a much better place to start. All the particulars were in place; Wealthy, Liberal power blocks trying to force their morality on everyone else and use the power of government to do it.
Others have pointed out that Progressivism started with the Puritans in Massachusetts, who were also arrogant and insistent that everyone conform to their moral opinions.
But for our modern understanding of the phenomena, the Civil War is a better point from which to project it's origin.
https://archive.org/stream/planningcivilcom05washrich#page/n101/mode/2up
"The Fourth Power", by Rexford G. Tugwell, in Planning and Civic Comment, April - June, 1939.
"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, [Banksters], writers and schoolmasters?If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola’s.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum."
--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816
Care to expand on what morality was being forced on others during the Civil War, and how it kicked off the Progressive Era?
Sure. The Liberals were objecting to the Southern manner of wearing hats and suits. They believed that it was an affront to God.
This is what started the great clothing war of 1861.
There’s a huge delta between bad policies and ideological drive.
There’s plenty of bad policies during the civil war, but there is no drumbeat during that time period that aims at big government simply for the existence of big government. That’s all progressivism, and doesn’t appear until the age of Theodore and Woodrow at the turn of the century.
bfl
That is why it is the origin of big government. After tasting it, some found it to their liking, and the government simply grew larger and more intrusive thereafter.
That’s all progressivism, and doesn’t appear until the age of Theodore and Woodrow at the turn of the century.
On our national scale, it started with a race obsessed Liberal Lawyer from Illinois. Lincoln grew the Federal government into a monster. Woodrow Wilson simply nourished the little monster that Lincoln had birthed.
Uh huh, sure.
The point I made is that morality was imposed, not whether we approve of it.
Currently they are trying to shove Homosexuality down our throats. Most of us do not agree with it, though I expect some do.
Is it the job of the government to shove morality down the throats of people who do not agree with it?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. You object to anyone having combated slavery, and derisively call that effort “progressive.” Southrons are so easy to spot, and such an embarrassment to this forum.
All law is legislating morality, so get over it.
Nice work. Thank you.
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