[ProgressingAmerica]

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

Summary: Tyranny never sleeps. It just puts shiny new packaging on the box and develops new methods for coercion.

[P.O.E.]

For issues, as they are stated by a partisan, almost always consist of an intricate series of facts, as he has observed them, surrounded by a large fatty mass of stereotyped phrases charged with his emotion

In other words, a con game. Three-Card Monte with a multi-trillion dollar price tag.

[reasonisfaith]

“It is the Socratic dialogue, with all of Socrates’s energy for breaking through words to meanings, and something more than that, because the dialectic in modern life must be done by men who have explored the environment as well as the human mind.”

As always, progressivism refutes itself. If exploring the human mind brings an expertise giving license to running “the dialectic,” it should start with exploring one’s own mind.

But if the progressive were truly to know his own mind, or heart, he would abandon progressivism.

[JayAr36]

An expert is defined as a person that has carefully selected data to prove every misconception he can come up with and back that misconception with that same data.

[JoeFromSidney]

I can't recall who said it, but someone once defined an expert as someone who can do better than average in making bets in his alleged field of expertise. That is, he should be right more often than the average person. If he can't do that, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I might take advice from an expert, but I don't want him running my life even if he does know what he's talking about

[Little Ray]

Nuthin’ new about it. “Experts” as dictators date to the Wilson administration in this country.