If a progressive wrote it, it is automatically garbage. The point isn't to be genuine. The point is to make you defend progressivism, the point is to get you to bring the camel into the tent willingly. See, it has its nose under the tent. It's cold outside! Won't you just bring the camel in?
You'll like the camel. You'll see.
One of the worst mistakes was to give up on the fight against communism. Fighting against it involves seeing it where it hides.
And hiding is always the first thing communism does. It’s a virus, a cancerous blight on society.
Posture and perception is everything, promises are cheap.
The trick is to do the sale on one thing, then upon the closing, simply not live up to the implied or even stated terms. Since the purchaser is already under obligation, continue to employ that compelling factor as a club over the buyer’s head, as a means to enforce current and future collection of the obligation.
There was a reason that “lemon laws” for purchasers of defective physical products have been written and are now on the books. The same should be applied to philosophies and intellectual properties. Even intangibles are subject to serious internal defects not necessarily visible at first.
“Bait and switch” is one of the more pernicious of human activities, but usually it does not rise to the point of widespread revolt with torches and pitchforks. The poison may not be immediate, but it accrues over time, and the insidious harm that results can prove more devastating than outright confrontation.
I believe that all conservatives have progressive ideals within them.
We care about others, we care about the environment etc..
The difference is that unlike the “progressives” we have matured beyond that ideology to also include common sense, logic and the understanding of human nature.
The left has not, they are like stunted children.
Stalinists lie. Always