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Exactly correct.
They look backward at the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and so on, and think, “If only they’d done communism right...”
It’s an immensely common form of self-delusion.
Regressives.
Burn the heretic! I know personally at least a half-dozen fervent liberals who actually do imagine that we can turn back the clock and make up for injustice with other injustice. That is, after all, the formative assumption of all schemes of redistribution. Social justice is theft; the only question is whether it is justified theft. "Justified theft" - if there is such a thing it ought to have a very high bar, higher than the current murky emotionalism of social reformers.
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claiming to be for equality of opportunity is just another excuse for libtards to increase the size of government and to increase control of individuals and the economy
Citizen Gonzo: Oh, Ok! {LOL. Is she serious? What the heck - I smell Charles Fox doo doo, but it'll an interesting salvage job.}
The funny thing about "progressives" is they're always delusional enough to believe they're smart enough to lie - when the self-evident fact is, they're NOT; and their work-product demonstrates how buzzwords and BS are better for hiding behind than for building anything functional upon.
Got Peter Principle?
PROGRESSIVE = REPRESSIVE/REGRESSIVE
Progressives are only interested in power, money, and sex, not necessarily in that order, and they have no concern or compassion for any other person on the face of the Earth. Their continued pretense that they do offends me.
Trains. But faster trains.
Progressive politics is really communism with different clothes and maybe stripped of the more hard core Marxist ideology. More like a sentimentality of Marxism.
America's leaders need to read early histories of the founding of America and of the seedbed of ideas from which its Constitutional government structure arose.
"Rise of the Republic of the United States" - Richard Frothingham.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
In 2016, we must remember that the ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
Leftists are German romanticists in proletarian drag.