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Progressivism: An Arrogant and Deadly Worldview
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2024 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 09/26/2024 4:25:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Anything the government touches turns into a poorly run enterprise.

Call me crazy, but I don’t trust government officials who believe that population growth (AKA “our carbon footprint”) is the most pressing problem on the planet. If we had bureaucrats who were encouraging us to get married early and have lots of children, I might listen to what they have to say. If we had politicians who spoke endlessly of cheap energy, rising wages, higher standards of living, and the potential for all hard workers to become wealthy, I’d probably throw an attaboy in their general direction. But why would I follow anyone who wants to control what I eat, confiscate what I earn, regulate how I live, and leave me with nothing? When “authorities” tell us that too many people are alive today, we should probably see their words as a threat worth taking seriously.

That’s why I don’t trust the experimental “vaccines” that the government’s favorite pharmaceutical companies managed to manufacture in record time (shortening a process that normally takes fifteen or more years into a miraculously innovative seven or eight months). “Here, take this injection. It will save your life.” Uh, you first. Why don’t we see how your health fares before we start playing Russian roulette with the global population?

It’s nothing personal. Maybe there are some good, decent scientists out there who actually want to fight disease. But there are a whole lot of other scientists who talk quite openly about why humanity must cull the herd. “Sustainable growth” sounds hunky-dory until you realize that you are the unsustainable growth that the “experts” want to stem. Once a person has that epiphany, the magic juice in those COVID syringes looks a little less magical.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: marxism

1 posted on 09/26/2024 4:25:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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So you’re saying you want to save my friends and me today, so that you can depopulate the planet tomorrow?
2 posted on 09/26/2024 4:25:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Thomas Sowell wrote The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy in the 90s, it came out in 1996. He NAILED IT on this 30 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/046508995X


3 posted on 09/26/2024 4:33:31 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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ask a progressive who owns all of the natural resources on planet earth and they say “Everyone” but ask them who can USE those natural resources and they say “NO ONE!”. my one question to any and every progressive is simple...Who put YOU in control? remember friends, “conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star


4 posted on 09/26/2024 4:34:40 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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Uh, you first. Why don’t we see how your health fares before we start playing Russian roulette with the global population?

Yes! You first. And your kids. And your spouse...

5 posted on 09/26/2024 4:56:27 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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OUTSTANDING article by J.B. Shurk. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 09/26/2024 4:59:27 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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7 posted on 09/26/2024 5:00:31 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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ANY ideology, system of government, or world view that makes it harder for people to direct their own lives, benefit from their own ambitions and efforts, and self determine is regressive, NOT progressive.


8 posted on 09/26/2024 5:03:52 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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The Big Three for the commies are still: Overpopulation, Nationalism and Organized Religion.


9 posted on 09/26/2024 5:07:46 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Thomas Sowell wrote The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy in the 90s, it came out in 1996. He NAILED IT on this 30 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/046508995X


bkmrk


10 posted on 09/26/2024 5:45:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Last century’s so-called “experts” believed in eugenics. Today’s so-called experts believe in mandatory injections with experimental “vaccines,” anthropogenic “climate change,” and the “virtues” of depopulation. “Progressive” government is inefficient folly; “progressive” science, however, is just plain deadly.

The money quote

The book that the author is discussing is 'American Leviathan'

The Leviathan (monster) being the US Government.

And the people we send to congress think that they can only be productive in their job if they help to make the monster BIGGER.

11 posted on 09/26/2024 5:47:48 AM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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BTTT


12 posted on 09/26/2024 5:52:26 AM PDT by nopardons
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“Anything the government touches turns into a poorly run enterprise.”
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“Everything the government touches turns into shit.”

- Ringo Starr


13 posted on 09/26/2024 6:05:09 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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He's a great and prolific writer, economist, historian.

I wish he would get a Nobel prize in economics before he crosses the Rainbow Bridge.

Someone eligible ought to nominate him.

14 posted on 09/26/2024 6:16:16 AM PDT by caddie
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