A policy isn’t good, simply because it is new.
Fascism and Naziism were new once, too.
No. I want a reactionary pre-1960’s America, hold the instituional racisim.
There is nothing “progressive” (or “charismatic” in the case of the Obama mythology), about stealing money from the most productive members of the economy in order to support those unwilling to pay their own way.
McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!!
"Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them"
We are doomed.
We have a choice of three panderers for president.
America cannot survive another 8 years of an administration bent on destroying our heritage but that is what we will get.
Today's progressives still share many of the core assumptions of the progressives of yore. It may be gauche to talk about patriotism too much in liberal circles, but what is Barack Obama's obsession with unity other than patriotism by another name? Indeed, he champions unity for its own sake, as a good in and of itself. But unity can be quite amoral. Mobs and gangs are dangerous because of their unblinking unity.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, often insists that we must move "beyond" ideology, labels, partisanship, etc. The sentiment is a direct echo of the Pragmatists who felt that dogma needed to be jettisoned to give social planners a free hand. Of course, then as now, the "beyond ideology" refrain is itself an ideological position favoring whatever state intervention social planners prefer.
Call it what it is, Communism,, the end goal.
When one looks back at what has been shoved down the throats of legal US residents and supporters OF the Constitution the last 75 years, especially the last couple, it would seem the chunks of incremental progressivism have gotten larger and larger.
No wonder so many here are oft choking as this sorry saga unfolds. It’ll be illegal soon enough.. enjoy it while you can.
Thought this was good, ping.
At some point the breaking takes on a life of its own and it is merely assumed that it will lead ineluctably to the glowing future. That is class warfare. Such classes can be ethnic - Jews and Tutsis, for two grim examples - economic, religious, or political.
It isn't that one cannot be politically progressive without descending into class warfare but nearly all of the worst abuses in the arena have come from progressivism. One is so accustomed to hearing the Nazis dismissed as "right-wing" that one sometimes forgets that they were politically progressive to a fault, that fault taking form in a few tens of millions of corpses. Hitler most certainly had a vision of a beautiful future world (assuming one were sufficiently Aryan). The devil turned out to be in the details.
This is, unfortunately, far from academic with respect to American politics. Where that imagined future involves equality of material possessions, some must lose a great deal so that others gain a little. "We're going to take things away from you for the common good." That "common good" is an illusory progressive future. The only real part is the taking.
Ping to an article I’m bookmarking.
I say screw it. Give the people what they want and let them face their reality. Democracy was a great experiment; maybe in another 1000 years, we’ll try it again and get it right that time. But for now, the masses are just too ignorant and emotional to make critical decisions.