Not your imagination. Beck has lit several subconscious fuses that are in the process of setting off slow motion awareness explosions...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 05/28/2010 8:29:48 AM PDT by Lorianne
Five years ago, the European Union’s account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism. In organic fashion, democratic socialism would spread eastward and southward, recivilizing the old Warsaw Pact and the Balkans through cradle-to-grave entitlements, state unionism, radical environmentalism, and utopian pacifism. No wonder that Turkey begged — and often humiliated itself in the process — to get inside this more perfect union.
Over here, we were often lectured by “progressives” that almost everything Europe did was better — subsidized mass transit, free college tuition, extended maternity leave, early retirement, and “soft-power” diplomacy. Indeed, Obama’s presidential campaign was in some senses a stealthy referendum on Europeanization. And once he was elected, his moves to raise taxes, expand government, expropriate some private industries, run up exponentially increasing deficits, subsidize environmentalism, and triangulate with enemies and allies abroad were European Union to the core.
Few wanted to listen when it was pointed out — well before the Greek meltdown — that on key questions of demography and immigration, the future of the European Union was bleak. The very idea that, in historical terms, socialism, agnosticism, pacifism, and hedonism were not only interrelated and synergistic, but also suicidal for civilization, was considered crackpot.
And the Euro-peon-ization of America continues unabated!
And even if the Eu collapses, Obama and his allies will forge ahead, because they have a religious faith in socialist ideas. Never minds thwt the USSR collapsed under the weight of these ideas, or that India and China are prospering because they have abandoned them. THEY will do it right. They will make them work.
At the cost of many human lives...
Is it my imagination or does Glenn Beck have everyone now identifying the lunatic left as progressives rather than just the leftists themselves??
It could come to that. If the national economy does not come back, the gang of zero will take desperate measures. I am fearful that it will improve just enough before November to save to Democratic majorities in Congress. They would then be emboldened to forge ahead with their “reforms.”
Not your imagination. Beck has lit several subconscious fuses that are in the process of setting off slow motion awareness explosions...
Define ‘progress.’
Progress: The condition of moving forward, especially in the contexts of personal liberty or technical capability, made possible by the forcible restraint of removal of "Progressives", a mis-named genus of semi-sentient parasites who masquerade as human beings and tend to infest otherwise healthy human enclaves.
You,re such a comedian! LOL!
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