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Progressives on the Brink
American Thinker ^ | May 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Folks

Posted on 05/24/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by Kaslin

Because they view President Trump in these extreme terms, progressives view themselves not as violent extremists, but as "the resistance."  But resistance implies that there exists something worthy of resisting.  The progressive resistance began just seconds after Trump was declared the victor on election night.  The resistance was not engendered by anything Trump had actually done.  It was just a refusal to accept any candidate who varied from the left's own line of thinking.

That sort of reaction, reminiscent of what happened with the election of George W. Bush, is a dangerous turn in American politics.  It implies that the left refuses to accept any political action that does not accord with their own ideology.  The left now demands the right to govern permanently and without opposition, regardless of the outcome of elections.  This is evidence that the left today has lost respect for democratic institutions and that, if they were ever to find themselves firmly in control of government, leftists would not willingly relinquish power, even if voted out in a fair election. The Trump era has exposed the dark, vindictive, and oppressive side of liberalism, but that side has always existed.  "Progressives," as they prefer to be known, have a long history of extremism going back to Woodrow Wilson's Sedition Act of 1918 and FDR's many power-grabbing activities, including the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court.  Progressive thinking, because it attempts to impose an extreme vision of society on a public that resists its measures, is by its very nature authoritarian, antidemocratic, and elitist.  Liberalism is not the "party of the people," as it has long claimed to be: it is, rather, a despotic philosophy that because of its intention of imposing "advanced" thinking on the masses can govern only through deceit and force. 

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KEYWORDS: leftism; progressives; progressivism; resistance; theleft; totalitarianism; tyranny
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To: Kaslin
Progressives on the Brink

Is that like Donkey's on the edge?


41 posted on 05/25/2018 7:46:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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We kill them or they enslave and kill us.

Before it gets to that, lets see if we can just drug them and neuter them while they are under sedation. That would suffice...

42 posted on 05/25/2018 7:51:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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>>Before it gets to that, lets see if we can just drug them and neuter them while they are under sedation. That would suffice...

The Democrat Alternative to “just kill the bad people” has produced pretty poor results in the past.


43 posted on 05/25/2018 9:42:55 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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