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Three Great Progressive Lies
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2015 | Ken Blackwell

Posted on 07/11/2015 5:58:45 AM PDT by Kaslin

Conservative leader Morton Blackwell keeps a picture of Leonardo’s model of a bicycle on the wall of his Leadership Institute. It’s his site gag--and a sight gag.

Leonardo’s bike is a reminder that the great conservative philosophical insight—Ideas Have Consequences—is true only if people act upon it. You can sketch a bicycle and perhaps even build a working model. But we know it took four hundred years for people to start riding bicycles.

Progressives don’t ever wait that long. They start acting upon their ideas immediately. The only trouble is: the ideas they believe in are not true.rogre Among the lies they believe, here are three of the most prominent:

Progressive Lie Number One: We do not know when human life begins. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote this in his infamous Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973. That was a lie when he wrote it. We all knew that human life begins at conception. We had known this incontrovertible scientific truth since the 1850s. That was the reason the states were urged to bring their homicide codes into conformity with science’s indisputable findings.

Justice Blackmun lied about all of this. TIME Magazine’s columnist Joe Klein was honest enough to admit this truth. He noted that the pro-life movement (he didn’t call it that. of course) had “gotten a major boost from science, ironically, as sonograms have made it impossible to deny that from a very early stage, that thing in the womb is a human life.” Fifty-seven million innocent human lives have been taken in this country as a result of this liberal lie.

Progressive Lie Number Two: Sexual intimacy between two men is equal to the union of man and woman. The 7.2billion human beings who live today are each the fruit of the union of a man and a woman. Zero human lives have issued from the sexual intimacy of man and man. Is there marriage equality? Yes, marriage is for every race and nation, for every class and people. But each marriage, which has always been about procreation and child-rearing as well as complementarity of the sexes, is possible only for a man and a woman.

Progressive Lie Number Three: With enough cream, you can tame a tiger. Since 1989, our State Department has been feeding cream in the form of U.S. foreign aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). State Department liberals hope they can change that man-eating tiger’s stripes.

The PLO has never ceased to be a terrorist outfit. All the monies that the UN, the European Union, and the long-suffering U.S. taxpayers have been dunned to pay out have served only to strengthen this gang of mass murderers. All formulas for a “Two-State Solution” to the perennially turbulent Mideast that are based on a peace settlement between a legitimate, democratic, and free Israel and a bloody regime of killers in the PLO are failing. They are a house built on sand. They should fail. Ditto Iran.

So it is not surprising that our foreign and domestic policies are in turmoil. They are each premised on untruth. We strive to base our principles on truth. We do not always succeed, but we do believe we can know the truth. And the truth will set us free.

Before we can discern the truth, we must be able to speak. That’s why I have written this essay. We invite—and will doubtless receive—intelligent criticism. What I do not invite is threats of violence, a gag order, or a crushing out of our dissent by the forces of political correctness.

Russian dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote that man is distinguished from the beasts by thought and speech. Where these are not free, man ceases to be human. We do have a cause worth striving for. The cause is mankind.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Israel
KEYWORDS: liarberals; liberals; lies; prolive

1 posted on 07/11/2015 5:58:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The number of lies required to put leftist dogma into law should tell anyone from whom the beliefs of liberal leftist liars arise. But then it requires being awake and not slogged down in the laodicean attitudes which seem to be the zeitgeist of our age.


2 posted on 07/11/2015 6:03:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Kaslin

To list all the lies liberals spout would consume the bandwidth of the internet. Their entire philosophical framework is built on the Grand Lie that all men are equal. The truth is, they are all CREATED equal. What they do from there is up to them. And is decidedly NOT equal.


3 posted on 07/11/2015 6:09:11 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: MHGinTN

Ping for later reading


4 posted on 07/11/2015 6:10:25 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Kaslin

ABSOLUTE PROOF LIBERALS & DEMOCRATS ARE MENTALLY ILL
LIBERALS: ... Abortion is GOOD, Executing convicted Murderers is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Getting Robbed & Murdered is GOOD, Owning a Gun is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... High Energy Prices are GOOD, Drilling for Oil and Gas is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Islam is GOOD, Christianity is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Higher Taxes are GOOD, Lower Taxes are BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Communism is GOOD, Capitalism is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Protecting minnows is GOOD, Giving Farmers Water is BAD!
LIBERALS: ... Gay ‘Marriage’ is GOOD, Traditional Marriage is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Black People are GOOD, White People are BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Welfare is GOOD, Working for a living is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... illegal Aliens are GOOD, Americans are BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Sharia Law is GOOD, The U.S. Constitution is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Homosexuals are GOOD, Christians are BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Teaching Kids about Sex is GOOD, Teaching about God is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Teaching Evolution is GOOD, Teaching Creationism is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Atheism is GOOD, Believing in God is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... The Mutant Federal Government is GOOD, Freedom is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Traitors are GOOD, Patriotic Veterans are BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Anti-American Commie Muslim Obama is GOOD, Bush is BAD!!
LIBERALS: ... Burning Aborted Babies to produce Electicity is GOOD, Coal is BAD!!
Isaiah 5:20 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20


5 posted on 07/11/2015 6:11:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Kaslin
The number # 1 lie is progressives are for progress...

In fact they are totalitarians...bent on building a ruling class.

"The issue is never the issue, the issue is the revolution"

6 posted on 07/11/2015 6:19:14 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Kaslin

Q. What is the opposite of Pro-gress?
A. Con-gress.


7 posted on 07/11/2015 6:22:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SkyDancer

BTTT


8 posted on 07/11/2015 6:24:41 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23; Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat


9 posted on 07/11/2015 6:25:20 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: MHGinTN
Nicely done, FRiend!

(But I wonder how many FReepers -- admittedly one of the more intellectually capable subgroups in America -- got your "Laodicean" reference...)

'-)

10 posted on 07/11/2015 6:34:27 AM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: SkyDancer

All totalitarians rely on lies. And weak people to buy them.


11 posted on 07/11/2015 7:01:03 AM PDT by uncitizen (PC is lying, any way you look at it)
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To: IronJack

But that’s not fair!


12 posted on 07/11/2015 8:22:16 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Kaslin

This list doesn’t scratch the surface of the worst liberal lies. All 3 are true, but call this a teaser. How about the 50 worst liberal lies?


13 posted on 07/11/2015 8:32:35 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Writing such a list might incite the soul to lock and load. Perhaps we best not go there ... just yet.


14 posted on 07/11/2015 9:57:26 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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