Posted on 09/07/2014 12:17:25 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
I accidentally discovered why we have so-called "progressives" (actually, they're communists!) in our midst. In the interest of preserving and expanding my reputation as being something of a Renaissance Man, I periodically surf the Net and YouTube for new terms and subjects.
As a member of my cat's "staff" (if you didn't know, dogs have owners and cats have staff), a few years ago, I investigated a strange little parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. It causes toxoplasmosis and scientists tell us that it affects up to half the population. Once infected, a human will live with it for his or her entire life. While relatively benign in adults, it lives in just about every area of the body but has a preference for the human brain where it can and does cause aberrant and puzzling zombie-like behavior.
If you wish to know more, here's the link to one of the more interesting You Tube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__K104jSGzs. It's 10 minutes long. If you can't watch the whole thing, pick it up at around the 4 minute mark.
I just watched it again and then it hit me! T. gondii has infested the brains of every member of the left. When you encounter one of them, be kind as they probably cannot help themselves. But if you see any of them heading to the polls in November (you'll recognize them by their "Walking Dead" foot dragging shuffle and the slobbering), offer them a ride. Take as many as your car will hold about 20 miles out of town, relieve them of their cell phones and tell them that abandoned gas station over there is the polling place but hasn't yet opened. Since they believe every lie they hear from their "leaders" (especially obama), they'll believe you. Even if they DID know the way back to town, at 1 MPH, they'd never get back in time to vote.
And, if there's time, haul several loads. Think of it as a public service!
WORKING LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__K104jSGzs
It is amazing to me that “progressives” can function in society since everything they believe seems to be backwards.
They don’t offer PROGRESS, call them incrementalists. They incrementally push for Communism.
Just as Ronald Reagan once told us they would:
Back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
There are many ways in which our government has invaded the precincts of private citizens, method of earning a living; our government is in business to the extent of owning more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 different lines of activity. This amounts to a fifth of the total industrial capacity of the United States.
But at the moment I would like to talk about another way because this threat is with us, and at the moment, is more imminent.
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it...
Now , Congressman Ferrand, brought the program out on that idea out , on just for that particular group of people. But Congressman Ferrand was subscribing to this foot-in-the door philosophy, because he said, “If we can only break through and get our foot inside the door, then we can expand the program after that.
Walter Ruther said, “It’s no secret that the United Automobile Workers is officially on record of backing a program of national health insurance. And by national health insurance, he meant socialized medicine for every American.
Well, let us see what the socialists themselves have to say about it. They say once the Ferrand bill is passed this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population. Now we can’t say we haven’t been warned...
James Madison in 1788 speaking to the Virginia convention said, “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”...
In this country of ours, took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world’s history; the only true revolution. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. But here, for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relations to man, a little group of men, the founding fathers, for the first time, established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God given right and ability to determine our own destiny. This freedom was built into our government with safeguards. We talk democracy today, and strangely, we let democracy begin to assume the aspect of majority rule is all that is needed. The “majority rule” is a fine aspect of democracy provided there are guarantees written in to our government concerning the rights of the individual and of the minorities...
If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Normal Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism, and if you don’t do this and I don’t do this, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.
(from Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine)
Liberals always have to hide behind euphemisms. They call themselves: Progressives, Centrists, Moderates or any thing else. Conservatives are proud of what they are. Seems Liberals are anything but ....
Progressives are a nasty lot Their brains are diseased.
Pinochet killed his country’s Leftists, and Chile consequentially increased its prosperity and freedom. Why don’t conservatives elect politicians who advocate trying and executing Leftists under due process?
“Progressive” is just one one the many names for ‘collectivist.”
They also go by names such as Democrat, Republican, communist, Stalinist, environmentalist, Maoist, Marxist, Socialist, Fabianist, statist, and any other word that indicates that the group is more important than the individual.
They damn sure are communists and it’s high time we start calling them out on it and educating the dimwits who don’t realize it.
Dickie, this is ridiculous!
People who own cats are not threatened or afraid of independence demonstrated by others.
Dog lovers crave the slavish, non-thinking adoration of their dogs. LBJ, FDR, and Hitler are examples of men who preferred dogs. Yes, dogs!
I have two gun dogs, an English Springer Spaniel and a Golden Retriever, and five cats (used to be eleven cats fifteen years ago but death-due-to-old-age has crept in.) The dogs do what I tell them, well, sort of do. And the cats, well, they’re really adept at taking messages and going back to snooze!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the country experienced severe left-right political polarization and turmoil. This development culminated with the 1973 Chilean coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende’s left-wing government and instituted a 16-year-long right-wing military dictatorship that left more than 3,000 people dead or missing.[10] The dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet ended in 1990 after it lost a referendum in 1988 and was succeeded by a centre-left coalition which ruled through four presidencies until 2010.
Chile is today one of South America’s most stable and prosperous nations.[10] It leads Latin American nations in rankings of human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, state of peace, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption.[11] It also ranks high regionally in sustainability of the state, and democratic development.[12] Chile is a founding member of the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
20th century
The Chilean economy partially degenerated into a system protecting the interests of a ruling oligarchy. By the 1920s, the emerging middle and working classes were powerful enough to elect a reformist president, Arturo Alessandri, whose program was frustrated by a conservative congress. In the 1920s, Marxist groups with strong popular support arose.[24]
A military coup led by General Luis Altamirano in 1924 set off a period of political instability that lasted until 1932. Of the ten governments that held power in that period, the longest lasting was that of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship (although not really comparable in harshness or corruption to the type of military dictatorship that has often bedeviled the rest of Latin America).[27][28]
By relinquishing power to a democratically elected successor, Ibáñez del Campo retained the respect of a large enough segment of the population to remain a viable politician for more than thirty years, in spite of the vague and shifting nature of his ideology. When constitutional rule was restored in 1932, a strong middle-class party, the Radicals, emerged. It became the key force in coalition governments for the next 20 years. During the period of Radical Party dominance (1932–52), the state increased its role in the economy. In 1952, voters returned Ibáñez del Campo to office for another six years. Jorge Alessandri succeeded Ibáñez del Campo in 1958, bringing Chilean conservatism back into power democratically for another term.
The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform. Under the slogan “Revolution in Liberty”, the Frei administration embarked on far-reaching social and economic programs, particularly in education, housing, and agrarian reform, including rural unionization of agricultural workers. By 1967, however, Frei encountered increasing opposition from leftists, who charged that his reforms were inadequate, and from conservatives, who found them excessive. At the end of his term, Frei had not fully achieved his party’s ambitious goals.[24]
In the 1970 election, Senator Salvador Allende of the Socialist Party of Chile (then part of the “Popular Unity” coalition which included the Communists, Radicals, Social-Democrats, dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement, and the Independent Popular Action),[24] achieved a partial majority in a plurality of votes in a three-way contest, followed by candidates Radomiro Tomic for the Christian Democrat Party and Jorge Alessandri for the Conservative Party. Allende was not elected with an absolute majority, receiving fewer than 35 percent of votes.
The Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri and keeping with tradition, chose Allende by a vote of 153 to 35. Frei refused to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende, on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers party and could not make common cause with the right-wing.[29][30]
An economic depression that began in 1972 was exacerbated by capital flight, plummeting private investment, and withdrawal of bank deposits in response to Allende’s socialist program. Production fell and unemployment rose. Allende adopted measures including price freezes, wage increases, and tax reforms, to increase consumer spending and redistribute income downward.[31] Joint public-private public works projects helped reduce unemployment.[32][page needed] Much of the banking sector was nationalized. Many enterprises within the copper, coal, iron, nitrate, and steel industries were expropriated, nationalized, or subjected to state intervention. Industrial output increased sharply and unemployment fell during the Allende administration’s first year.[32]
Allende’s program included advancement of workers’ interests,[32][33] replacing the judicial system with “socialist legality”,[34] nationalization of banks and forcing others to bankruptcy,[34] and strengthening “popular militias” known as MIR.[34] Started under former President Frei, the Popular Unity platform also called for nationalization of Chile’s major copper mines in the form of a constitutional amendment. The measure was passed unanimously by Congress.
As a result,[35] the Richard Nixon administration organized and inserted secret operatives in Chile, in order to swiftly destabilize Allende’s government.[36] In addition, US financial pressure restricted international economic credit to Chile.[37]
The economic problems were also exacerbated by Allende’s public spending which was financed mostly by printing money and poor credit ratings given by commercial banks.[38] Simultaneously, opposition media, politicians, business guilds and other organizations helped to accelerate a campaign of domestic political and economical destabilization, some of which was backed by the United States.[37][39] By early 1973, inflation was out of control. The crippled economy was further battered by prolonged and sometimes simultaneous strikes by physicians, teachers, students, truck owners, copper workers, and the small business class. On 26 May 1973, Chile’s Supreme Court, which was opposed to Allende’s government, unanimously denounced the Allende disruption of the legality of the nation. Although illegal under the Chilean constitution, the court supported and strengthened Pinochet’s seizure of power.[34][40]
Pinochet Era (1973–1990)
A military coup overthrew Allende on 11 September 1973. As the armed forces bombarded the presidential palace, Allende apparently committed suicide.[41][page needed][42][page needed] After the coup, Henry Kissinger told U.S. president Richard Nixon that the United States had “helped” the coup.[43]
A military junta, led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, took control of the country. The first years of the regime were marked by human rights violations. On October 1973, at least 72 people were murdered by the Caravan of Death.[44] According to the Rettig Report and Valech Commission, at least 2,115 were killed,[45] and at least 27,265[46] were tortured (including 88 children younger than 12 years old).[46] At the national stadium, filled with detainees, one of those tortured and killed was internationally known poet-singer Victor Jara (see “Music and Dance”, below). The stadium was renamed for Jara in 2003. In September 2013, Pedro Barrientos, Pinochet’s commander at the stadium and now a resident of Florida, was sued in a United States federal court by the Center for Justice and Accountability, on behalf of Jara’s widow and children.
A new Constitution was approved by a controversial plebiscite on 11 September 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term. After Pinochet obtained rule of the country, several hundred committed Chilean revolutionaries joined the Sandinista army in Nicaragua, guerrilla forces in Argentina or training camps in Cuba, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa.[47]
In the late 1980s, largely as a result of events such as the 1982 economic collapse[48] and mass civil resistance in 1983–88, the government gradually permitted greater freedom of assembly, speech, and association, to include trade union and political activity.[49] The government launched market-oriented reforms with Hernán Büchi as Minister of Finance. Chile moved toward a free market economy that saw an increase in domestic and foreign private investment, although the copper industry and other important mineral resources were not opened for competition. In a plebiscite on 5 October 1988, General Pinochet was denied a second 8-year term as president (56% against 44%). Chileans elected a new president and the majority of members of a two-chamber congress on 14 December 1989. Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin, the candidate of a coalition of 17 political parties called the Concertación, received an absolute majority of votes (55%).[50] President Aylwin served from 1990 to 1994, in what was considered a transition period.
In December 1993, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva, led the Concertación coalition to victory with an absolute majority of votes (58%).[51]
Why don’t conservatives elect politicians who advocate trying and executing Leftists under due process?
Because there aren’t enough conservatives in the District of Criminals to do so.
If you read Whitaker Chambers book “Witness”,you would see that during the Red Scare in the United States ,Chambers explains that when he was a member of the American Communist party participating in subversion,the communists decided to call themselves Progressives because the American people were so fearful of the communists,notice that Hillary describes herself openly as a turn of the century progressive,CASE CLOSED FOLKS
So all republicans are progressive socialists? I know democrats are, but i didnt know all the republicans were too. Thanks!
Only a few conservatives within the Pubbie camp.
>>It is amazing to me that “progressives” can function in society since everything they believe seems to be backwards.
They can only function as parasites on a society that is majority non-Progressive. I work in the utility business and we have no Progressives where I work, because Progs don’t do useful things like make electricity, purify water, or treat sewage. But they do like talk about the people that do as the destroyers of the planet.
>>They don’t offer PROGRESS, call them incrementalists.
By their own admission, they are pushing for Progress towards a humanist future where everyone can get what they need in exchange for doing what they want, free from superstition and tradition. Yes, that is incrementalism, but almost all progress is incremental. The actual Communist (who claims the name) believes in progress through revolution. In a nation like ours, the progress they want through revolution is virtually impossible, so they invented Progressivism.
Actually, “progressives” are quite regressive....they want a return to feudalism, where those of us who work and are productive are merely serfs serving them, the enlightened nobility.
Calling it “progress” or “a better mouse trap” doesn’t make it so. The RESULTS determine if it is actually progress or not.
Communism/Socialism is slavery to the State. That is NOT an improvement.
Prophetic and past-tense.
I'm already telling my kids what it once was like when I was growing up, back when we were really free.
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