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"Progressivism" has a long and shameful history of OPPOSING progress in the United States. Woodrow Wilson, the 1st progressive, opposed women's rights, segregated the federal government and screened KKK recruitment film "Birth of a Nation" in the White House. FDR rounded up Asian Americans and put them in concentration camps. The only progress "progressives" have ever stood for is progressively more powerful government.

 

 

Progressives began their "long march through the institutions" in America with this ideology as its foundation. Their attempts to help society "progress" in a state of expert-led administration (like Plato's philosopher kings - or President Obama's "czars" today) were initially frustrated by obstacles such as the veneration of the United States Constitution, the success of free market capitalism in raising the standard of living, and the strong ethic of American individualism. Progressives soon realized that to be successful, your program authoritarian redistribution needed to be disguised in non-threatening terminology of "justice", "democracy" and "social justice."

 

Stealth transformation requires also that American culture, encoding and supported the principles of self-determination, autonomy, individual freedom, belief in God, etc had to be undermined by criticism and ridicule. The Constitution had to be marginalized. Capitalism had to be demonized and blamed. Victims need to be identified, and the crusades undertaken against their oppressors, which often could not be identified directly but conveniently, blame greed or generic discrimination should be eradicated. The rule of law had to be bent in favor of groups of victims identified to level the playing field and make peace. All these goals are mission critical in the implementation of collectivist ethics ("you did not build it") and egalitarian redistribution.

 

It took almost a century, but through gradual infiltration of the education system and the media, have succeeded in controlling the public by instilling groups of liberal-progressive political correctness mentality protected groups by allowing them to undermine our culture and our economy and political systems through the electoral process. Now they are firmly in control of our corrupt government.

 

Lenin said: "Communism is socialism in a hurry." Socialism, therefore, is Communism by gradualism rather than by revolution. The socialist "Fabian Society," forerunner of most socialist groups in America, had as its motto "Make Haste Slowly."

 

"Democratic socialism" became the battle cry for socializing the United States. The goal was to "permeate and penetrate," then control from within. The socialists' first target was education, and they attacked with deceitful language. There were no badges or socialist labels; followers described themselves as "liberal," "progressive," and even "moderate." Words were the weapon of choice in this new war. By changing the meanings of words, socialists concealed their true purpose.

 

This massive social engineering was carried out under the banners of "reform" and "social justice." These innovations are in the public interest, Americans were told. They promote true democracy, humanitarianism, and, of course are "for the children." The buzzwords of socialism were and still are "social" and "democracy" (i.e. social science, social studies and socialization of the child).

 

The core of liberalism is the radical egalitarianism, a utopian version, immature, idealistic and impractical for equality popularized today as "justice". It is the ideal liberal / progressives most respected above all others. It is possible that among many of this group, which is its only ideal and is often pursued with religious zeal. Liberal / Progressives demonstrable value in equality rather than freedom. They argue that it is acceptable to give a little freedom for "the good of society", for justice and security. A population is met gradually conditioned as the loss of liberty takes place in small steps. Modern progressivism is indeed ‘Regressivism’. Through the pursuit of radical egalitarian equality are undermining the true progress of centuries of Western civilization and threaten its very existence.

 

Like it or not, we are all being taken along for this ride. The question is: What are we willing to do about it?

 

This immature sense of equality or fairness also has a visceral appeal to many adults, especially those dictated primarily by emotion and "feelings" and not by reason. For example, we've all seen the celebrity interviews ultraliberal emphatically say in justification of his views radical egalitarian, "All people are equal it said in our Declaration of Independence!" (Falsely name only when it is convenient for the liberals point of view.) However, people are not the same, obviously. If you bothered to read carefully our founding documents and the writings of the men who created them, people are equal in one respect only - are equally endowed unalienable rights and should be treated equally under the rule of law in protection of these rights.

 

Our founders were wise men that understood that as societies grew and evolved, humans discovered that a collectivist and egalitarian organization was not a viable option to support larger and more diverse populations. Because people are different in almost every way, the different talent, intellect, physical strength, desires, motivation levels and biology (male/female), gravitated to certain tasks. The divisions of labor, a critical evolutionary leap forward, developed spontaneously, enabling societies to be larger, more complex and more efficient and prosperous developed.

 

Furthermore, differences in pay for these orders will be advanced civilization as infinitely variable as the differences in people and the tasks they perform. Some will be more able or fit to do certain things better than others. Some will be more laborious than others. Some will be more successful than others. As a result, some will have "more" than others. Some even have a little more than others. This is neither good nor bad. This is truly the "beautiful" possible distribution method in large complex societies and specialized. 

 

Society, or the collective, or more specifically the "market" decides which tasks are highly rated or higher demand and rewards them proportionally. What could be more democratic than that of serving the best interests of society? The people who perform these tasks high value with the highest level of competition will be awarded the most of all. This "system" encourages people to do their best. To aspire to higher levels of achievement, as they are encouraged to do so by the "collective", or society that progresses because of it.

 

The only documented cases ever in the world where the masses have escaped from grinding poverty have been through capitalism and free trade. ~ Milton Friedman 

 

There is only one kind of equality that is compatible with freedom, and that is the equal treatment of all persons by fellow society. Each equally gifted as part of his humanity to enjoy the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (which includes the right to property and the right to protect their lives and property, among others.) Requires radical egalitarian redistribution unequal treatment by force and a subordination of the rights of some of the dictates of the community. Mob rule. Arbitrary application of the law. Tax is servitude.

 

Nevertheless, I've yet to see a poor man create one job!  For Progressive-Democrats, this strategy of using lies to control the political dialogue has had some degree of success - especially when they don’t have any kind of successful record to brag about. And they know that if they revealed the real truth about their political ambitions, nobody with a normal functioning brain would ever vote them into office. Consequently, they must shift the voter’s attention away from their Socialist-Communist beliefs by branding Conservatives as liars, racists, and cold blooded, self-serving millionaires.

 

It's called "Bread and Circus". This is how every nation keeps their population quiet. I suspect the level of misery in socialist communist countries is because of not enough bread and circus. Notice how a country in complete chaos will quiet down completely when there's a soccer game? Suddenly overthrowing the government can wait. people with no priorities, here or there.

 

Bread and circuses (or bread and games) is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public or public policy but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace, as an offered palliative. Juvenal decried it as a simplistic motivation of common people. The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of 'Civic Duty' amongst the concerns of the commoner.

 

Moreover, after watching ‘Democratic National Convention’, I was surprised to see just how far the Liberal-Democrats have drifted away with an opposing vote to remove God off the 'DNC' platform, three times to vote to deny God. Under the Obama’s administration, from our traditional American values. It seems that in the last five years the Democrats replaced Jesus Christ with Obama, and Jerusalem with Mecca.

 

But then, some of the brightest Liberal minds realized this shuffle could cause the Party lots of votes, and they took a vote to reverse the platform. However, this did not happen without some great pain. I saw the vote on television, and it certainly did not seem unanimous. In the end, there were a lot of unhappy people (Democratic-Muslims). The voting results seemed bogus. The outcome did not convince me at all. The progressive Democrats desperately wanted to put Jesus Christ and the Jews back into their political platform (Watch For Yourself Below VIDEO).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Democrats, Liberals, Progressive or whatever name they want to call themselves'. They have to lie because, simply put, their political ideology goes against the very fabric of our culture. Their beliefs violate the basic American principles that our forefathers fought for and died to establish, and that ‘We The People’, inherited. Simply stated, Liberal-Democrats-progressives' want to steal our freedoms.

 

My point being, WHAT HAS ANYONE HERE DONE TO STOP EVIL?! Most people in America are afraid to call out evil for what it is. It's been years since any American leader has called out any other country for its evil ways. (Remember the Axis of evil?)

 

By Joseph A. Gallant Sr.