Posted on 07/09/2015 7:29:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Today’s “progressive” ideas are nothing but retreads of the notorious 19th and 20th century command-and-control tyrannies that killed about 120 million of their own citizens. Variously known as socialism, Communism, and Marxism, their chief practitioners were Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. That’s why hearing modern militant liberals called “progressives” induces brain bleed in this particular brain.
As long as we allow reality-denying liberals to call themselves “progressives” we are telling the world their tired, failed ideas are the smartest, most forward-thinking of mindsets. And we’re handing them a critical public relations victory. If they are progressives, by default we who oppose them must be hopelessly backward “regressives.” How do you sell a philosophy with that label?
Words define ideas; he who controls the language controls the argument. We need Scott Walker or Ted Cruz or Ben Carson or Jeb Bush, actually all of the Republican contenders, to loudly expose “progressives” as cheerleaders for the most destructive ideas of all time. Stop calling them progressives! Otherwise, the lib mind-myth of being on the “right side of history” could prevail in yet another election.
You’d think that the disastrous history of what really happens when governments put their citizens in ideological chains would be enough to turn voters against the modern day incarnation of “progressivism.” But luckily for libs, many today know nothing of history. In random street interviews people voice sorrow that FDR just died; they say Lincoln was the first president; that America declared independence from France, and that event happened in 1946. Or maybe 1973.
These victims of historical amnesia embrace Barack Obama’s diktat that government is their bff, entitled to regulate our lives because they are so benevolently concerned about our welfare. And so very much smarter than we are.
So smart they can control nature by turning back the “warming” of the planet and the rise of the seas; all we have to do is give up our spoiled-brat modern conveniences like electricity and gasoline. Similarly, Mao Zedong insisted he could control China’s agricultural output via collectives, forced labor, and shooting sparrows; all his people had to do was starve to death.
Modern-day “progressives” bred in the old mold have given us control-freak government that tells us what kind of healthcare we must have (the kind that triples our premiums and deductibles meanwhile denying us our preferred doctors and hospitals); what kind of gas we must use (ethanol, causing corn product prices to go sky-high and escalating world-wide hunger); what kind of light bulbs we must buy (bulbs eliminating American jobs because they’re now made in China, plus stuffed with lots of toxic mercury -- thanks Greenies); what kind of food we should eat (banning sugar and trans fats; what kind of car we must drive (whatever green vehicle the government will pay us to buy), and so on.
“Progressive thinking” derived from the old killer empires includes these wildly preposterous notions:
· Capitalism and free enterprise, which have lifted more people out of poverty than any other system in the world, is actually evil and oppressive
· Differences in class, wealth and race put humanity eternally at each others’ throats
· Humans are responsible for global warming because of our selfish use of planet-killing carbon-based energy, even though carbon dioxide is only a miniscule .038 % of greenhouse gases according to the U.S. Geological Survey
· Gas-powered cars are bad; electric cars good because they run on the fuel that lives in the walls of Millennials’’ garages (nothing to do with coal or other carbon energy)
· Giving millions of illegals green cards won’t steal jobs from citizens who work in landscaping, construction, maintenance, restaurants and hotels because these are jobs “Americans won’t do”
· The government is more responsible for your success than you are: “You didn’t build that!”
· ISIS is not in fact Islamic and is certainly not the Islamic State it proclaims to be, even as it conquers vast swathes of the Middle East and murders tens of thousands
If irrationality were progressive, we would all be progressives. It shouldn’t be that difficult for the Republican presidential candidates to dismantle this ridiculousness piece by piece. And the first piece would be to call the “progressives” who they are really are: the retro belligerents of a ruinous and obsolete ideology that aims to enslave the personal liberties uniquely enshrined in America’s Constitution.
What should we call them, leftists? Will read later.
The left always plays the name game to put a warm fuzzy name to their sick agenda.
Gay , homosexuals
undocumented illegals
dream act amnesty
Progressive became a bad word after Pres Wilson and so the changed to liberals, now they want back to progressive because the word liberal is getting a bad name.
The fact is we should not abide by their words and use the words which correctly describes them or their agenda.
Why our side just folds and uses words like gay and undocumented is beyond me , because all one ss doing is helping their cause
Self-flattery seems to be one of their chief interests. Always thinking of new things to call themselves to make them seem other than what they really are.
Commie pinko leftist nazi scum. The democrat party is the NSDAP. Their footsoldiers the Gaystapo. None of it is hyperbole. Call them exactly what they are.
Amazing how the media calls liberals progressives and then turn around and call conservatives neocons. They want to make conservatives sound like Neanderthals. They do this and then pretend to be unbiased.
The media has done as much as any group to destroy this nation.
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They are Regressives. They want us to live in caves in Stone Age style communities.
Progs, Proggies, Proglodytes ...
This article suggested ‘regressives.’ Sounds good to me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3309640/posts
Amen to that!!!
We let them redefine the language all the time.
Every time they say the word “progressive” we should correct them and say “you mean Socialist?”
Dare them to say no...
If they try ask them “whats the difference between ‘progressive’ and ‘socialist’?” - put them on the defensive for a change
They are The Qumeer Rouge
They should properly be identified as recessive. One of the definition of the word recessive is to recede, go back or retreat.
"In Evan Sayet's book The Kindergarten of Eden, he explains why they should be called regressives."
I have always advocated calling them Leftists.
They are not liberal, they are reframing themselves as “progressives” to a new generation.
We need to take hold of the language and call them what they are totalitarian leftists.
It started with RINO Theodore Roosevelt. His breakaway party.....often called the Bull Moose Party was officially the Progressive Party.
“Progressive” has long been a synonym for “Commie”.
Whom are you addressing? People who know never call them that, and people who do call them so - will never listen.
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