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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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To: MtnClimber

the belief in collectivism has killed more people than war disease and famine combined

it is the world’s worst idea that refuses to die no matter how many lives it destroys


21 posted on 09/16/2022 7:32:06 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

We all know the progs are responsible but this article explains it very well.


22 posted on 09/16/2022 7:36:16 AM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: MtnClimber

they will build a tyrannical police state based on the green new deal

you wont be able to fart without govt permission


23 posted on 09/16/2022 9:17:48 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrat party is run by greedy thieves.


24 posted on 09/16/2022 9:19:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: MtnClimber

we know the problem

whats the solution?


25 posted on 09/16/2022 9:19:22 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: blueunicorn6

So is the Republican Party.


26 posted on 09/16/2022 9:20:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

You write like an 8 year old.


27 posted on 09/16/2022 9:23:53 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: MtnClimber

Who’s at fault for a failed marriage? Both. If one did more bad than the other, the other did bad enough by not challenging the one full frontal.

The bad win when the good do not enough. Good times...weak men.


28 posted on 09/16/2022 9:29:43 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: joshua c

“ whats the solution?”

Every day I am more convinced that a break up is the only solution. A national divorce…secession…whatever we call it. There are NO common bonds keeping the two camps together.

I don’t think a break up is in the cards, but I do now think it might be the only way in the relative near term to avoid either tremendous violence or Marxist dictatorship…which are the two other end-results facing us.


29 posted on 09/16/2022 9:40:17 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: blueunicorn6

Well, it’s hard to deny, however, that Mitch McConnell all by himself makes his point.


30 posted on 09/16/2022 9:43:31 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: MtnClimber
" Progressives are the Cause for American Decline"

And in other news, ... water is wet.

31 posted on 09/16/2022 10:12:34 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

What’s happened is the left has intentionally pulled apart the social fabric of America. It’s the cultural Marxism which has generated the common confusion and chaos to destroy America.

Remember the old addage, divide and conquer?

This is what the Marxist Muslim coalition has done

That’s why I say the greatest single attack on America was HUSSEIN Obama


32 posted on 09/17/2022 2:57:42 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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