Posted on 06/03/2021 6:08:39 AM PDT by SJackson
When I hear prominent conservative media commentators and brainy columnists call America-haters bent on destroying our noble Constitutional Republic “progressives” I feel the top of my head may fly up and stick on the ceiling. They should know better. The sickening behavior of these tyrannical anarchists are the very opposite of progressive which Webster defines as “continuous improvement; the development of an individual or group in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.” There’s nothing beneficial for us as citizens or our nation about lawlessness, destruction of private property by black-masked Antifa terrorists, attacks on the First and Second Amendments, cancelling the voices of those who disagree with WOKE dogma, and shrill Maxine Waters-esque calls for personal attacks. Yet as long as we let them get away with calling themselves progressives, they can claim moral and intellectual superiority over the rest of us.
Call them radical leftists, fascists, socialists, Marxists…or Democrats. But anointing them progressives automatically makes those of us on the flip side “regressives” – backward-thinking, slack-jawed, snaggle-toothed, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. Which gives know-nothings like Joe Biden carte blanche to label the governors of Texas and Mississippi lifting Covid mask mandates “Neanderthal thinking…” Of course, the governors were vindicated when disease cases and deaths in both states dropped dramatically after masks were gone.
For the radical left, deceptive language is a kind of performance art. They cynically use shiny, promising words to convince the uniformed to line up behind their latest fraud. For example, Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” was a lie from the jump, leading as it did to higher premiums and astronomical deductibles that left millions of suffering Americans paying more but ending up literally without any healthcare insurance at all. Similarly, the “For the People Act” (HB1) in reality allows the gorilla of the federal government to crush the peoples’ voice that the Constitution gives to individual state legislatures in creating election law.
Rather than advancing progress, the “progressive” credo hearkens back to the bad old days of dictators Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot and the moldy stink of their failed ideas: oppressive government control and stealing from productive citizens under the guise of “leveling the playing field” and “equality.” How curious that the innocents on the receiving end of these marvelous systems, variously known as socialism, Communism, or Marxism, have died in the millions at the hands of their governments rather than enter the earthly utopia they were promised. According to historians, those gullible believers in progressivism amount to between 100 and 120 million lost souls.
And yet here it comes again, bolting upright from its pool of blood with new life like a horror film villain we thought was slain. This new form of class struggle isn’t the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie of traditional Marxist cant; now all white people are the oppressors and black and brown minorities are cast as the victims. Mix into this ugly lie the social stresses of the China virus which has allowed clueless bureaucrats to paralyze the producers of the richest economy in the world for over a year, plus anarchy and violence in our cities increasing as police presence fades, and we have an unsettled and bewildered people the like of which we have never seen in America.
What to do? First, fight back against the “progressive” racism that demonizes people for the color of their skin. Organize with other parents and citizens to forbid your local school board to impose “critical race theory” and “gender fluidity,” including the promotion of transgenderism, on children’s education curricula. Help Trump’s prosperous economy return by pressuring politicians to stop sending fat government checks that amount to more than a paycheck for many Americans.
Economists say people earning less than $32,000 can potentially make more from unemployment aid than from their previous jobs, and that stark fact is delaying the return of a normal healthy economy. Under Biden’s recently enacted $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, workers who lost their jobs to the pandemic shutdowns are now making more in unemployment benefits than they did in wages. And that is stopping people from returning to work — just when employers are trying to reopen across the nation. Combined federal and state unemployment benefits add up to an average of $638 per week, encouraging people accustomed to staying home for the last year to keep staying home. That’s why, with 7.4 million jobs available nationwide, the anemic 266,000 jobs added in April were a dismaying indicator of a real problem with the government’s misplaced generosity.
The year-plus of no work has robbed Americans of their sense of purpose and added to the malaise depressing so many of us. The satisfaction of work, almost any kind of work, is essential for a healthy sense of self-worth in humans. Even FDR, the Democrat president who created the New Deal to aid the jobless in the Great Depression, warned against the habit of welfare; “relief” as it was called then. “The lessons of history show that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber,” he said in 1935. “To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief.”
Yes it must – and it must now for us to reclaim our national character: industriousness, personal responsibility, and eagerness for future achievement that have made us the most dynamic and successful nation on earth.
What do we call the “progressives” in R jerseys who are assisting them?
I suggest Assistant Democrats or TransRepublicans.
On the contrary. Their self-description as “progressive” is completely accurate ... as in cancer is a “progressive” disease; a political diseases that spreads rapidly and infects a healthy populace ... unless, of course, it is eradicated ... completely in all of its ugly forms.
I call them Red Fascists. So should you, dear friends. It is accurate and powerful
Sounds mighty white.
Totalitarians
Marx decided (according to Marxists once and forever!) from where is society coming and where it is going.
From slavery to communism.
If you look at the society from the Marxists perspective, then, yes, Progressives are progressives.
I realty, “Progressives” are regressing us back to stone age. The so called communism is really return to prehistoric eras of no money, no industry, no division of work, no regards for contributions. Where everybody was starving, and despot chieftains were ruling over the life and the death of the people.
They should be called “Stone ageists?”
Maybe somebody here comes with better term?
Considering what they really are, they should be called OPPRESSIVES!
Communism sounds good until you realize everything you might be given by “comrades” can be quickly taken away by comrades.
There are always those elite comrades who will live better than you and have stuff you are not permitted to have.
Communism - Work hard so the state will give the fruits of your labor to others who don’t want to lift a finger.
Give me that house you built. Give me the car you drive. Give me the food you grow and harvest. I deserve it and it is your duty to hand these things over to me, comrade.
At bottom, the use of "progressive" is distractive wordsmanship. IMO, the word "evil" fits more accurately than "disease".
See the USSR 1917-1956/57 for example. A political movement that, among other crimes against humanity, exercised the murder of the children of its political critics ("socially dangerous individuals") including even those merely suspected of being critics (by the 10's of millions).
Add to that, charging starving children age 12 and above as adults for their "capital crimes" and executing them.
How many in our current admin regard Mao as a role model?
The right always capitulates and uses the terminology of the left. The only exception is in the area of abortion. The right successfully stayed with the term “pro life”.
Unfortunately, both Marxists and Progressives have adopted each others political arguments, policy positions stated as “solutions” to issues claimed by both, and public campaign approaches against conservatives - even while a Progressive may claim to not be a Marxist and vice versa.
Also, this:
“...... progressive which Webster defines as “continuous improvement; the development of an individual or group in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.”
Is really most of all just “Progressives” own definition of themselves, which in practices is not who they are.
That definition attempts to mask all “change” as “progress” to the “Progressive”, no matter what it tramples on to achieve that change. And it attempts to project that “change” MUST BE CONSTANT, CONTINUOUS and ONGOING. (without THAT, “progress” cannot said to be “needed”).
Where have the Marxists and Progressives joined forces most?
They have obtained the same or similar approaches most of all to the use of and importance of not “democracy” but rule by the administrative state and a heavily, politically biased judiciary that goes along with a supremacy of the administrative state.
“Democracy” has one use by the Marxists and Progressives - to obtain a law or laws that remove democracy from ruling on things and assigning that determination more and more to a growing administrative state where Progressive “experts” and Leftist political apparatchiks make the rules and regulations the people must legally conform to. While the Progressive is most concerned about rule by the “experts”, and the Leftists are most concerned about those decisions fulfilling or conforming to a Leftist political agenda, you will not find the two arguing over the results - its a win, win to both of them as long as the supremacy of the administrative state, and THEIR AGENDAS IN IT’S USE are maintained.
Yes we call Marxists “Progressives” and we call many “Progressives” Leftists, because in aim and practice they are so often in sync with each other. The vast majority of common folks who take a Leftist or Progressive position, most of the time, do not do so with knowledge of the philosophical provenance from where the base of the position comes from. And because of that point, we call many people Leftists or Progressives because they are often at best the ignorant fellow travelers of the Leftists and Progressives.
How about “regressives”
Yup. Perfect description.
There already was a Progressive Party and these Marxists are New Democrats of 1968.
They’re globalist communists, Jim ...
Eugenics was once considered a “progressive” movement, just sayin’.
Regressive pinko communists.
That works for me.
“Communist Demon Enablers”
Progressives!-Leftists = 1984 Adjustment Division.
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