Progressives Not Interested in the Good of the Country

American Thinker ^ | 15 Apr, 2023 | Steve Feinstein

[MtnClimber]

Every public utterance, every policy move, every new regulation from today’s progressives is designed to further their ability to obtain and hold power and control the American populace.

Progressives, be they politicians, the rabid rank-and-file voter or the embarrassingly biased legacy media, are light-years removed from caring about the overriding good of the country. They care only about grabbing and retaining power, by any means necessary. Whether it’s rigging elections, pandering to fringe voting blocs, lying outright about economic and foreign policy issues, rewriting history, turning every single negative domestic occurrence (train derailments, school shootings, severe weather, product shortages, etc.) into an anti-Republican cudgel, progressives always look to gain political advantage and put their opposition in a negative light. What’s best for the country as a whole is never a consideration for them.

Some recent examples:

The Norfolk Southern Ohio Train Derailment

The recent train derailment and subsequent release of toxic gases in East Palestine, Ohio was a truly disastrous event. Innocent people had their health impacted and their lives upended. But progressives stayed away from this event like the plague. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg avoided visiting for as long as he could. When the enormity of the disaster couldn’t be denied any longer, the entire progressive machine -- politicians and legacy media alike -- did their best to blame the accident on Republicans’ dismantling of Obama-era safety regulations.

That was an outright lie, of course, but it succeeded in making an impact on some of the casually attentive public. Progressives weren’t interested in helping the residents of East Palestine. Progressives were only interested in leveraging the accident to gain political advantage over Republicans.

[MtnClimber]

The democRATs are great at manipulating public opinion. The Republicans are terrible at it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course they're not.And if you listen carefully they'll admit it. They're on record as planning to “fundamentally transform” this country.

[sauropod]

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[virgil]

They have a massive propaganda apparatus. The public discourse is saturated with its messaging. It has worked its way into the smallest threads of the fabric of our civil society.

[HighSierra5]

In the dictionary, progressive refers to disease.

[escapefromboston]

Clinton and Bush were both pretty crummy presidents but I don’t think America can recover from Obama’s reign of terror. He’s still running things now.
The founding fathers were right about not allowing foreigners to hold the office.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

The voters didn’t elect the Biden Administration so the Biden Administration is not beholden to them.

The Soros/Big Tech crowd placed the Administration in office. The Administration is beholden to them only.

[Spok]

The leftists think they will be the elite beneficiaries when America becomes a banana republic, ignoring the lessons of Mao and Stalin and what happened to their inner circles. Of course, if they were historians they wouldn’t be socialists.

[Mark17]

They're on record as planning to “fundamentally transform” this country.

I cringed when I heard jug ears say that. I knew it wasn’t good.

[DejaJude]

They say it all with the, “Build Back Better” slogan. They mean to tear it all down and replace it with socialism/communism.