I’ve had enough of the progressives.\u00a0 Consider their accomplishments.<\/p>\n
At the turn of the progressive century, in the name of civilization Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft gave us brutal repression in Cuba and the Philippines, hundreds of thousands killed, conditions that led to Japanese militarization and World War II, war on the Korean peninsula, war in Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and Viet Nam.\u00a0 The progressive body count in the Pacific Rim runs into the millions.\u00a0 To the dead, a progressive bullet and a communist bullet are a distinction without much of a difference.<\/p>\n
While saving the poor people outside of America from themselves, which basically involved hastening them en mass to their Christian afterlife, progressive domestic accomplishments have been similarly effective.<\/p>\n
They’ve turned a robust amalgam of the world’s immigrants who came to America seeking nothing but an opportunity to create, to earn, to do something to better themselves and their families, into a dumbed down dependent population on federal subsidies, handouts, protections, special rights, social programs, welfare programs, healthcare programs, and bureaucratic regulatory monstrosities at every level of government, all operated by lawyerly overlords.<\/p>\n
And as I write this little complaint, the president is in his castle putting his foot down to demand that elected representatives from the people’s house of Congress give him unlimited debt financing so he can “give” the American people more such progressive solutions which don’t work, never have worked, and never will work.<\/p>\n
The progressive can’t see past her intentions to the negative outcomes she actually creates.\u00a0 The progressive never lets himself acknowledge the horrible consequences each one of his interventions in our lives actually causes.\u00a0 Progressives look forward, but when they look back, they never look at their own trail.\u00a0 They see the failings of other people and ignore their own.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I should just shut up and be grateful God gave us these progressive perfect beings incapable of mistake to guide us.\u00a0 Scientifically, however, we’ve never had any reasonable grounds to expect better results from the progressive system because it has no reality feedback capacity.\u00a0 Progressivism is a one way train to the future conducted by good intentions.<\/p>\n
The better the intention, the happier the progressive feels.\u00a0 And if they’re happy, we’re good to go.\u00a0 Historians can worry about the trail of destruction, but don’t trouble the progressive while she’s busy breakin’ trail.<\/p>\n
As for outcomes, progressives’ effect on our international neighbors has been deadly.\u00a0 They’ve given us an unbroken chain of horrible messes abroad.\u00a0 Domestically they’ve given us an underclass of dependent American citizens, a business class of dependent bureaucratic functionaries, a governing class of unimpeachable overlords, a ceaselessly propagandizing media class, ghettos and wastelands in our formerly productive cities.\u00a0 They’ve walled off our natural resources, crushed many of our productive sectors and made the concept of American ingenuity into a quaint anachronism.<\/p>\n
Whenever you hear a progressive spouting off about what some collective of Americans should do, or spend, here or abroad, look around for the body count they’ve ignored.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I’ve had quite enough of progressive “solutions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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