Posted on 07/30/2017 4:46:22 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
So it is, where countless articles have been written now about McCain's recent betrayal on the Obamacare repeal vote, but none of them looks at the issue historically. McCain is being true to his hero Theodore Roosevelt here. This is a high-school boy-crush on McCain's part, and it is pure progressive ideology on display for all to see who wish to see it in its raw ugliness. They all want government to control your healthcare, the progressives, and they've wanted it this way since 1912.
One of the planks of the 1912 Progressive Party Platform, written by Roosevelt himself, says the following:
HEALTH
We favor the union of all the existing agencies of the Federal Government dealing with the public health into a single national health service without discrimination against or for any one set of therapeutic methods, school of medicine, or school of healing with such additional powers as may be necessary to enable it to perform efficiently such duties in the protection of the public from preventable diseases as may be properly undertaken by the Federal authorities, including the executing of existing laws regarding pure food, quarantine and cognate subjects, the promotion of vital statistics and the extension of the registration area of such statistics, and co-operation with the health activities of the various States and cities of the Nation.
Single national health service - yes, you read that right. Theodore Roosevelt favored universal, single payer healthcare. It's right there for all of us to read. And this isn't the only time Roosevelt called for government intervention into the medical situation of private individuals. In his "Confessions of Faith" speech, TR stated the following:
What Germany has done in the way of old-age pensions or insurance should be studied by us, and the system adapted to our uses, with whatever modifications are rendered necessary by our different ways of life and habits of thought.
Germany was the first country on the planet to nationalize its healthcare. That's his model!
This is big government folks, this is progressivism. And nobody in the senate loves Theodore Roosevelt more than John McCain. The square deal, the new deal, the better deal, what a big deal!
Here is video of McCain from 2000 lauding TR, here is McCain calling himself a "TR Republican", and here is a McCain campaign ad titled "the man in the arena", which is a well known TR quote.(Including TR video clips)
Every time he mentions Theodore Roosevelt, McCain is signaling to his other friends in the senate that he stands on the side with big government. That's why every time you turn around, McCain is always attacking conservatives. That's what Progressive Theodore Roosevelt did too. Big government is as big government does.
I believe in reincarnation because I see it in action. Theodore Roosevelt was reincarnated after he passed. He's now a senator from Arizona.
Progressivism ping
Any similarity between John McCain and Teddy Roosevelt is grossly distorted.
Oh, pul....leered! Bletch!
Teddy was a commie too.
“what a big deal!”
BFD. Just sayin’.
That is nuts. You have been listening to Glenn Beck too much.
I hope that he gets to meet his hero in person, real soon.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, McCain is from Pluto.
Theodore Roosevelt hated communists, as most of the progressives did.
That doesn’t make him a good person, and it does not absolve progressive ideology of its destructiveness.
No.
McCain was paid.
“Well paid for his efforts.”
Correction: I typed that a little hastily. Constitutionally, TR was a nightmare. He was probably a good father/good person and else in private life, away from the levers of power and abuse of authority.
I meant my comment solely in the context of the United States Constitution and paper shredders.(which progressives are want to do)
He may have hated communist at the time but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens policies are firmly rooted in Teddy’s Square Deal.
What about the people who elected him?
What do THEY want?
Yeah actually TR, while not as bad as McShame or his cousin Satan, was no great shakes.
No, I’m pretty sure McStain is from Uranus, judging from the smell.
Teddy Roosevelt who I loved for somethings(his personal rugged individualism and Americanism ) and loathed for others (his misguided progressivism ) was a believer in the worst practices of eugenics.
How bout you Juan?
Calling the enemy by its name is the very first step.
What do THEY want?
Sad thing is, they probably voted for him because of what he did 45 years ago, not what he did in the last 6/12//18. Either that, or they just voted for him because he had an R behind his name. Or out of force of habit, stupidity, or gullibility. Or all of the above.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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