Posted on 09/22/2022 5:40:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America’s progressives, led by Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden, have established an agenda and have sanctioned a strategy that harkens back to a much earlier day: the Inquisition that started in the 12th century.
The Inquisition was part of the Catholic church’s effort to identify and punish heresy. Heresy was any opinion contrary to the canons of the Church. Heretics were harshly punished, and their lives were often “cancelled” (terminated). The earliest prosecutions seem to have been against Catholic splinter groups and later spread to Jews, Muslims, and Protestants, although Catholics who dared to deviate from the Church’s dictates were also subject to persecution.
America’s progressives have their own “religion” and impose punishment on heretics as well. The progressives excommunicate, “cancel,” heretics, banning them from jobs and access to the media. The primary targets for the progressive inquisition are citizens who desire limiting government control over their lives; support the Constitution (to include freedom of religion); support law and order, want schools to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic; or, gasp! voted for Donald Trump. Dissenters from the progressive religion are not labeled heretics since the similarity to the Inquisition would become too obvious. Instead, they are labelled “deplorables,” “destroyers of democracy,” and “semi-fascists.”
Progressives eschew economics: cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, and opportunity costs are irrelevant to their values and “logic.” Once they determine a policy they like, it matters not how much it costs or how wasteful it is. The Green New Deal and the tuition debt-forgiveness programs are cases in point. Asking if the money might be put to better use will mark the questioner as “selfish.” Progressives raise illogic to a new level.
Progressives are also destroyers of history that they do not like.
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Progressive is a terrible name for these creatures.
I wasn’t expecting that.
Perhaps Regressive Commie is more appropriate.
They also want to get rid of the filibuster so they can ram through any legislation they want.
Leftist inquisitors is better.
What a terrible misrepresentation of the Catholic Church during the Spanish Inquisition. Shame on that author for such trash.
In truth LeftWokeazi “Progressives” are only progressive in the terms of a disease, like cancer, ALS, or Alzheimer’s, as it progresses it slowly strangles, paralyzes and eventually painfully kills its’ victims and societies. Biden/Democrats and their RINO Quislings intend to bring this dystopian insanity to the whole country. An agenda that has total disregard for the well being of the citizenry and is the pinnacle of tyrannical political greed! #WannabeTyrants!
As we plainly see from recent history in “Blue” states and cities, as they descend into drug and crime ravaged dystopias, any society that adopts their toxic ideologies will suffer similar results.
Some years ago a friend and I agreed to always place political “progressives” in quotes. Anyone with a functioning brain knows progress is not possible with such “progressives” in charge.
“ Progressive is a terrible name for these creatures.”
They are Marxist. Their goal is progression to communist control rather than a bloody revolution, but they are no different than Stalin.
“Progressive” is another one of those meaningless words they use to flatter themselves. It’s meaningless because it lacks context, as in what they’re progressing toward. The reason it lacks context is because they don’t want you to know. It’s the same as when they call themselves tolerant, inclusive, or when calling themselves pro-choice. Tolerant of what, inclusive to what, and what kind of choice? The words are just a sugary veneer to hide the crap that’s underneath.
collectivists
state is primary
individual serves the state
the ruling elite get filthy rich
the masses starve
all done in the name of compassion
They are Totalitarians and should be called that. They cleverly use words and adjectives.... and we go along with it.
We aren’t called Conservatives by them...no, its right wing extremists, ultra right, white supremist etc.
Yet we dutifully call them progressives and now are going back to calling fake news the mainstream media. And we wonder why we keep losing.
Progressing to hell.
Agree.
Exactly.
I like the term Statist Goons.
Context for the Spanish Inquisition is that Spain was, from the 800s to the 1500s, a very polyglot country with 3 religions and multiple regional ethnicities. Thus Galicia was very touchy about Andalusia and the basic ties for a national unity ran strongly with a national religion, Catholicos.
Given the Muslims and Jewish communities and their wealth, the Spanish Inquisition was a government strong-arm against these groups. The term 'auto-da-fe' originated there as the ritual burning of a condemned heretic became a bit of a street fair. An aspect of the conviction of a heretic was that the victim's wealth was 'surrendered' to the authorities, thus there was little motivation for a fair trial under those guidelines. For the prisoner, the attraction of confessing and 'recanting' was that, at that point, there was no escaping death and there was a frequent promise of a quick neck break at the stake, preferable to the death by bonfire!
FYI: for both Inquisitions, a major target was the Protestants. Indeed, in post-Conquista Spain, there was a sizable population of Protestant house churches in the seaports and merchant cities. Most were closely related, in doctrine, to the French Calvinists, and were 'tolerated' while the battles were raging against the Moors / Islamists of the 14-16th centuries.
"No one ever expects the ..."
Could the Monty Python get anywhere in our modern 'cancel culture'?
Agree filthy stinking dangerous destructive progressive sounds closer to the truth.
At least some people in the commentariat are getting it.
What is happening now is the Counter Reformation. The shock troops are the Spanish Catholics flooding into the country from South and Central America. The vanguard of the counter revolution are the Irish Catholics mainly from the upper Northeast but symbolized now by the greaseball Gavin Newsom and his NorCal Catolico mafia. Biden is merely a jester, and apparently not even a real Irish Catholic. Maybe even - gasp - Anglo Irish.
Their fellow travelers are oddly the Jewish Marxists, who appear to be the intellectual spear of this counter revolution. Being a tiny minority as usual, maybe they think that by siding with Los Catolicos they won’t get fried this time like they did back in the 16th century.
But that is what is happening.
The success of the United States came from its Protestant egalitarian roots and our willingness to question self serving European Catholic precepts. Even the edicts of the Archbishop of Canterbury were not law in a land where Anabaptists and Presbyterians co-existed with Anglicans.
But the herd like masses of dimbulb Mestizos rant only what their Papist overlords tell them. And that is, shout down any opposing viewpoint, persecute it with arrogant and arbitrary pre-emption, ‘cancelling’ and muzzling all who deviate from the Party Line.
That it serves the interests of areligous stone faced Marxist madmen merely shows the similarity of the two rabidly conformist ideologies: one’s god lives in outer space and the others god is a grungy Jewish grad student who wrote idiot screeds in the Royal Library in London.
But they agree on one thing: no dissent allowed, and the State Uber Alles.
Welcome to the New Feudalism, same as the old boss as Pete Townshend once said.
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