Posted on 04/30/2013 6:43:39 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
A few days ago in the Senate, Harry Reid gave a small speech in which he called tea partiers "non-violent anarchists". Most people will probably either debate the merits of his points or refute them, I want to point out that historically, he is in line with what earlier progressives believed. Before I give you the quotes, my reason for doing this is to highlight one single thing: Progressives do not change. They change the outside; they wear different suits, they use different language and key words, they even call themselves by different titles. "I'm a liberal", or "I'm a moderate", thus masking their true beliefs and intent. But if you know their history you will always be able to nail 'em, which is why I do what I do, the way I do it.
Harry Reid says:
When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists. Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that. They don't say they're against government, but that is what it all amounts to.
Woodrow Wilson says: (full synopsis)
Such a commission would be in fact a commission to discover, amidst our present economic chaos, a common interest, so that we might legislate for the whole country instead of for this, that, or the other interest, one by one.
John Dewey says:
Peoples who have learned that billions are available for public needs when the occasion presses will not forget the lesson, and having seen that portions of these billions are necessarily diverted into physical training, industrial education, better housing, and the setting up of agencies for securing a public service and function from private industries will ask why in the future the main stream should not be directed in the same channels.In short, we shall have a better organized world internally as well as externally, a more integrated, less anarchic, system.
FDR's Fabian advisor, Stuart Chase, says:
Political democracy can remain if it confines itself to all but economic matters; democracy in consumption will make enormous strides as standards of living are leveled upward; industrial individualism - anarchy is a better term - in the sense of each businessman for himself, each corporation for itself, must be disallowed.
FDR says, Raymond Moley tells us: (I had to use multiple links to put this together)
The beliefs that economic bigness was here to stay; that the problem of government was to enable the whole people to enjoy the benefits of mass production and distribution (economy and security); and that it was the duty of government to devise, with business, the means of social and individual adjustment to the facts of the industrial age—these were the heart and soul of the New Deal.Its fundamental purpose was an effort to modify the characteristics of a chaotic competitive system that could and did produce sweatshops, child labor, rackets, ruinous price cutting, a devastated agriculture, and a score of other blights even in the peak year of 1928. Its chief objective was the initiation of preliminary steps toward a balanced and dynamic economic system.
So as you can see, Harry Reid's belief is nothing new. Progressives have been confusing free markets with anarchy for 100 years. It's a short-coming of the central planner, he believes that if he or government is not the one controlling it, then nobody must be controlling it, ergo, it's anarchic. The idea of limited government and the rule of law is a false narrative to the statist.
Reid needs to follow in his fathers foot steps
I say Hairy is an Antichrist.
Sorry, no idea who Reid’s father was... I am guessing a Communist?
Killed himself.
I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and crap a sentence that make more sense than what you're saying.
When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists. Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that. They don't say they're against government, but that is what it all amounts to.
No Harry, we believe in LOCAL Government, then a small state government then a even smaller Federal Government!!
Go back to your government class and read about Obamaism (American Marxism).
a burly brown sloth inches forth from his mouth every time it opens
If Harry Reid is to be the poster boy for government, we should all be happy to be anarchists.
“When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists.”
And when I was in college and law school, I studied politics and how easy it is to get obscenely rich through a little harmless graft and corruption, and decided that was for me.
Yep.
Mr. Reid is pretty bold in displaying his ignorance of history.
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