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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: Watch the language. Always watch the language.

Socialism does not account for the shiftless, lazy and greedy.

Limit (social-taxes) help to only those that have a verifiable disability that makes them dependent on social assistance.

Spend the savings on elimination of the genes that make them dependent. Jail and sterilize the filth propagating misery and ill and the reduction in evil will be obvious.

from Cole's article: "...people who assume that just because a person is against communism, and against the revolutionaries, that somehow, this is a good person.
No, not really.
Not all socialists believe that communism is the final stage of socialism.
This problem exists with Theodore Roosevelt.
No, TR was not a communist, yes, he was a statist.
He hated both communists and socialists, yet he was just as bad as they were."

What a crock of hooey!
Putting TR in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence as communists and socialists (unless separated by a capital "NOT") is a travesty of real history.

Today Teddy Roosevelt is best known for regulating commerce, conservation, the Panama Canal, "speak softly and carry a big stick" & trust busting.
Of course, Roosevelt loved the United States, but "statism" in his case is in the eyes of the beholder -- nothing Teddy Roosevelt did or advocated approached the all encompassing statism of today's Big Government progressive-liberals.

Consider: during Teddy Roosevelt's administration, federal spending averaged around 2.5% of GDP (most on defense) while the national debt fell from 10% (1900) to 7% (1907) of GDP.
Those are far from the numbers of a Big Government "statist".
Compare today, federal spending runs 21% of GDP while the national debt rose from around 50% in 2001 to over 100% of GDP under President Obama.

Can anybody name even one nationally known "Neanderthal" politician who today advocates returning Federal government to its very limited scope under President Teddy Roosevelt?

Now Franklin Roosevelt, he's a different matter altogether.