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Progressives are the Cause for American Decline
American Thinker ^ | 16 Sep, 2022 | Paul Krause

Posted on 09/16/2022 4:12:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

For the left, it's all about changing the entire American 'narrative.

Two of the greatest insights from the philosopher Plato are that societies are structured around symbols of justice and unity. and that societies need stories to function in an orderly way without the chaos of tyranny.

For most of American history, those symbols of justice and unity were the Declaration, Constitution, flag, and churches. These symbols combined for a powerful unifying story: the story of American liberty and equality that was also inspiring the advance of liberty and equality around the world.

In the maelstrom of the chaos of 24/7 news, societal decay and violence, and media and political platitudes, it must be recognized that conservatives are not guilty of American decline. Conservatives are the ones defending, and conserving, the symbols and story of American unity. Progressives, on the other hand, have been demolishing these symbols and assaulting the traditional story and opting for a new one—one that is meant to destroy those symbols which had previously unified American life.

At least since the 1960s, American progressives have been taking a battering ram to the symbols of justice that served as the unifying force for American society. The Declaration is considered a fraud and the revolution it inspired equally fraudulent. The Constitution is belittled as “a piece of crap.” The American flag is said to be a force for evil and division. American churches are now assailed as pillars of white supremacy and racism.

Rinse and repeat.

In place of these symbols of justice and unity, progressives offer new ones. They have their martyrs, their documents, and their flags to which they can rally around. We know what they are. One need not look further than the little symbols pushed in Hollywood, or corporate advertising,

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; progressives
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1 posted on 09/16/2022 4:12:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left never builds anything except make believe movies. They want to tear down our system, but they are not going to Build Back Anything.


2 posted on 09/16/2022 4:12:58 AM PDT 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

The left never builds anything except make believe movies.

Because they live in a chaotic make-believe world. Their movies are just a reflection for all to see.


3 posted on 09/16/2022 4:16:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

they’re not progressives. They are communists. Entrenched in our society long ago and they have marched through the institutions.

Because Sen. McCarthy bad.... so the communists got to go free and infest our society.


4 posted on 09/16/2022 4:20:09 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MtnClimber
Progressives are the cause of every country's decline that declined, including the Soviet Union, East Germany etc etc.
5 posted on 09/16/2022 4:20:34 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: PIF

All democrat useful idiot voters are at fault for the decline because they vote for and support the communists.


6 posted on 09/16/2022 4:22:29 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber
Progressives are the Cause for American Decline

They instigated it, but GOPe betrayed us and went all in.

7 posted on 09/16/2022 4:35:43 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

“Cause of the American decline ...”

... of the productive, self sufficient and the rise of the unproductive, dependent.

If it’s happening it’s the fault of the first category.


8 posted on 09/16/2022 4:38:22 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: MtnClimber

US progressives are Soviet Bolsheviki with better marketing.


9 posted on 09/16/2022 4:38:59 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: MtnClimber
"Progressives Traitorous Demonicrats and RINOcrats are the Cause for American Decline"

There. Fixed it.

10 posted on 09/16/2022 4:42:22 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: PIF

Marx never had an understanding of capitalism, its roots in Christianity, it’s heritage in patent law, the relationships between Idea, profit thusly income, wealth and then capital.

His myopic view was simple. I have less, you have more, give me some.

Thats the basis for social justice
Do like everyone in Russia did so everyone con be equally poor.
And we see in Russia, not everyone is equally poor, they have billionaire oligarchs

And Marxism was rejectd

Yet Obama aligned himself with the Marxist Muslimcoalition explicitly for the downfall of America

F/N paperbook Marxists


11 posted on 09/16/2022 4:47:17 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: MtnClimber

Correct.


12 posted on 09/16/2022 4:52:42 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: MtnClimber

American churches are now assailed as pillars of white supremacy and racism.
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My impression is that the mainstream denominations have caved to leftist pressure and are now mostly sidelined in the culture war. The church once had highly visible culture warriors like Pat Robertson but they’re gone and haven’t been replaced as far as I can tell. I don’t know that there’s much still standing for the left to assail at this point.


13 posted on 09/16/2022 5:06:50 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Carl Vehse

Suburban Karens (many Republican) who didn’t like mean tweets and p@@@@y grabbing. They gotta go.


14 posted on 09/16/2022 5:15:14 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: MtnClimber

The left has been attacking our civil society for decades. Now they are using the armed force and power of the federal government to accelerate it.


15 posted on 09/16/2022 5:25:54 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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The primary cause of America’s decline is the lack of new generations of children instilled with their parents’ and grandparents’ values; the WASP culture (into which many non-WASPs assimilated decades ago) is gone - and with it are such concepts as self-reliance (of any kind)/personal responsibility, work ethics, rights to free speech and self-defense, property rights, etc.. These were all the things that made this country a refuge for those seeking a better life through hard work - and they’re out the window.


16 posted on 09/16/2022 5:57:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s why Hillary pledges allegiance “to the America that could be”


17 posted on 09/16/2022 5:58:12 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: himno hero

Basically, Marx wrote an intellectual fairy tale for intellectual fairies to make movies about their intellectual fantasies which they want everyone else to live in.


18 posted on 09/16/2022 6:50:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: oblomov

100%


19 posted on 09/16/2022 6:51:34 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: MtnClimber

the LEFT is why we cannot have nice things


20 posted on 09/16/2022 7:28:21 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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