Progressives Don't Grasp the Constitution

Jewish World Review ^ | April 12th, 2014 | George Will

[Jacquerie]

Mark Levin is discussing this article. Nice analysis.

[Billthedrill]

It may be that the totalitarian streak was always in progressive political aspirations, that used to give such strident lip service to freedom and human rights. Once in power, it's all about power and nothing else. And that isn't just in the United States.

Things start to get a little scary when one wakes up to find oneself in a class that is accused of every sin imaginable and whose members have forfeited equal protection under the law merely for being in the class. "Social justice" that is nominally about redistribution of political rights between groups inevitably acts as a cover for the relentless oppression of one or more of them. That is why political rights should not reside in groups, or classes, but in individual citizens. Social activists have discarded that basic principle. Perhaps that's where the totalitarian streak comes from.