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How Progressives Are Dismantling America's Foundation
American Thinker ^ | 24 Dec, 2020 | William DiPuccio

Posted on 12/24/2020 4:32:03 AM PST by MtnClimber

Progressivism seeks to replace the U.S.'s founding principles with a new set of doctrines.

Undergirding the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is a set of philosophical principles that are under assault by Progressives. These founding principles, derived mostly from the Federalist Papers, provide the lens through which we read and understand the Constitution. Without this lens, the meaning of the Constitution and American law becomes putty in the hands of every special interest group.

Progressivism seeks to replace the founding principles with a new set of doctrines based on the tenets of social justice — a system which elevate the rights of "protected classes" (non-whites, LGBTQ, women, etc.) by subordinating the rest of society. This so-called "just society" is not the kinder, gentler America that Progressives promise, but a dystopia where the rights of the many are trampled, dissenters are punished, and government has nearly unlimited power and scope. The examples that follow are selected from my recent eBook, The War on America's Founding Principles: How Progressives Are Dismantling America One Plank at a Time.

Inalienable Rights. The assault on America's Founding Principles begins by dismantling the inalienable rights upon which our nation is built. An attack on these rights, which are endowed by God rather than the state, is an attack on our entire constitutional system. The first inalienable right, according to the Declaration of Independence, is the right to life — the right to exist.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; communism

1 posted on 12/24/2020 4:32:03 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The totalitarian left, like totalitarian islam must destroy the nonbelievers.


2 posted on 12/24/2020 4:32:15 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

PSYCHOPATHS...anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life.


3 posted on 12/24/2020 4:34:35 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

we witnessed this past week.. no one wants to stop socialism or the destruction.

they are pushing biden.. with all his baggage and waiting in the wings are the troubles.

SC bowed out.. media dont care as long as Trump goes.. justice is deep.

there is no one who cares

...but Trump


4 posted on 12/24/2020 4:39:48 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: PGalt

SOCIOPATHS - someone who has antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). People with ASPD can’t understand others’ feelings. They’ll often break rules or make impulsive decisions without feeling guilty for the harm they cause.

People with ASPD may also use “mind games” to control friends, family members, co-workers, and even strangers. They may also be perceived as charismatic or charming.


5 posted on 12/24/2020 4:40:25 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

So true. More here...

Some say brain issues. Lots of studies on that. CAT scans...brain wave frequencies...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2otx0j

“Without Conscience” - Dr. Robert Hare
“Inside the Criminal Mind” - Stanton Samenow


6 posted on 12/24/2020 4:42:53 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Either we salvage some form of freedom by dividing the country or we all perish.


7 posted on 12/24/2020 4:44:00 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now.)
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To: frnewsjunkie; All

Interesting goings on...

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Did anyone see Rudy’s podcast yesterday. Was he dropping hints?

https://thedonald.win/p/11RNk2drrc/youre-going-to-find-it-out-all-a/c/

And this...

https://consparty.com/2020/12/23/breaking-rudy-giuliani-drops-a-bomb-on-the-war-room-says-arizona-lawmakers-will-likely-vote-wednesday-to-certify-president-trump-as-winner-2/

Well...there’s this too...

https://thedonald.win/p/11RNk4vktq/pence-card-i-have-the-constituti/c/

and this...

https://tass.com/society/1236661

What’s going on is beyond my understanding.

Merry Christmas


8 posted on 12/24/2020 4:47:57 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

I looked up the meaning of doctrine, sure enough it is a nice way or saying one group of people inflicting their political beliefs through rules that everyone shall abide by.

Very popular term used throughout history to describe the efforts by elites to rule the masses.

Regards...


9 posted on 12/24/2020 4:48:45 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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My take is that our Founding principles are what built the greatest most stable and free society in current human history.

Sorry for add-on, I hit send too soon.


10 posted on 12/24/2020 4:51:28 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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The left craves power. And you don’t really have power unless you are using it.


11 posted on 12/24/2020 4:51:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Thought police, speech police, taxes, levies, fees, surcharges, regulate every damn thing, lock downs, social justice, LGBTQRSTLMNOP, erase history, revise history, white Christian male bad, hood rats good, racism racism, yeah socialism boo capitalism, crisis after crisis, In a state of fear, 20 year wars, monumental fiscal mismanagement...good grief!

The more I thunk, the more I discovered how stupid the leftist really are. Our country has so many enemies.

Our society is so broken. Evil being called good and good being called evil.


12 posted on 12/24/2020 4:53:12 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: MtnClimber
Our children have been specifically targeted a century by our pubic schools, news, media, churches and now social media.

We had John Dewey’s early 1900’s Progressive (Marxist) anti-home schooling influence, followed by The Frankfurt School’s mid-1900’s social Marxist plan for children, then Hollywood’s 1950’s communist influences, then NEA’s No God push in our schools.

Then, the 1960’s CPUSA push of college youts for war protests, drug use and wanton fornication, then the 1980’s sitcoms ridiculing parents, then the 1990’s queer push, then the 2000’s self-esteem facade.

Now, MSM, SJW groups and social media are pushing "social justice" and stirring them to riot and destroy -- the anarchy needed before stepping in as heros to "save America".

13 posted on 12/24/2020 4:54:59 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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Progressives

Ruin

Everything


14 posted on 12/24/2020 4:56:09 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: MtnClimber

The use of power for good is far better the use of such power for evil, the left and their minions are fully exposed now, they used their power, it is now our turn to use it for good.

That sounds about how I see it.

Respects.


15 posted on 12/24/2020 5:30:11 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: MtnClimber

Fack that sh1t. Stop foreign aid and give me free health care.

Yeah, we need tax cuts for the ultra rich.

That’s really why we lost, asshat.

KMA.


16 posted on 12/24/2020 6:02:18 AM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. )
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To: MtnClimber

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17 posted on 12/24/2020 6:33:49 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: PGalt

Only for you. Not for them.


18 posted on 12/24/2020 7:03:17 AM PST by RedwM
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