Progressivism Has Been “Outed”

Many Americans, perhaps for the first time in their lives, are beginning to recognize the contemptible nature of progressivism. How does one defend the total abandonment of the democratic process, occurring first in Wisconsin and then in Indiana, where Democrats legislators have literally run away from their responsibilities? One can’t—without revealing the bankruptcy of one’s own convictions. The most satisfying aspect of it all? Americans are getting a daily dose of progressivism’s only unalterable tenet: the ends justify the means.

For those of us who have long been paying attention, this isn’t news. Yet plenty of Americans scoffed at the idea that those who have long engaged in class warfare, stoked racial divisiveness, and fanned the flames of national self-loathing were anything more than people expressing a different viewpoint. When push came to shove, the Constitutionally-founded restraints of the rule of law would eventually prevail, right?

I agree with you.

Another way of looking at is that SLAVERY always, eventually leads to a revolution, peaceful or not.

Socialism, including the U.S.-type of entitlement socialism, is a form of slavery. If someone has a “right” to stuff that costs money, that means that someone must be forced (i.e., enslaved) to pay for it.

This is why socialism is unsustainable from both the point-of-view of the taker (the government eventually runs out of other people’s money) and the producer (at some point slavery just becomes utterly intolerable).

As for oil, if the Middle East cut it off completely, while it would destabilizing for a while, I believe that within a year or two -— so long as our government gets the hell out of the way -— American scientists and engineers would have a work-around that the market would accept and soon thereafter thrive on.

The Middle East, however, would then go back to the STone Age, at least for a while. Which is not necessarily a bad thing if it keeps extremism there while the rest of the world resets.

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