Technology allows progressives to exist. A friend of mine coined the phrase “the Thin Chrome Line” to denote the thin veneer of tech that gives us our comforts that we take for granted. Progressives don’t exist in a world where people have to work to eat on a daily basis, but a world with refrigerators, supermarkets, dishwashers, etc can handle a certain amount of people who survive on the labors of others because there is so much abundance due to technology.
Of course, being dumb progs, they hate some technologies: power, transportation, weapons while mindlessly turning on the lights, hopping in the SUV for a trip to the store, or living peacefully under the umbrella of men with guns.
Progs are parasites on a technological civilization because the only way to make them see the truth is to turn off the conveniences, and those of us who understand and work to make that tech civilization happen aren’t ready to go back to the pre-industrial world just to make some juvenile crybabies wake up and see reality.
Its too bad that we can’t make them put their money where their mouth is. If they don’t like burning fossil fuels for power, pull their power meter. If they don’t like treated sewage (aka water) dumped into the river, turn off their water. If they don’t like gasoline, take the tags off their cars. Let them live in the dark, drink rain water, and bicycle everywhere for a month and there will be no more progs.
Lol, I’ve always thought the as,e. Ironically, liberals exist because of capitalism.
Good points, bump for late reading.
Indeed, progs hate their own families because you have to either take care of them or show that you can take care of yourself without them taking care of you. As a results the self hate that progs cultivate goes not only against the family but against the very technology and science they claim they love. Thus, as atheists, only them are allowed to reject science and practice susperstition.
Interesting points. Progressivism was born out of the success of the Industrial Revolution. It is abundance and surplus that breed the modern liberal.
What irony and what a counter-intuitive result: plenty breeds resentment and unhappiness instead of gratitude and joy. Such madness...only from the mind of man.