“They think they have
a better idea for what you need, as far as health insurance, than you do. That’s
the root of it, this is Progressive Liberalism.” –Dana Perino
That’s true. And here’s the reason. Progressives look to
those who are downtrodden as their army. They see them as those they can rally
to their cause. Progressives tell them that THEY are their cause, but that is
not true. Socialism’s rallying cry of “Power to the people” is alluring, but
historically speaking- the first thing that is discarded once Socialism is
implemented is “Power to the people”. Progressives (socialists, communists) don’t
want people to have the power. They want to hand out power as they see fit.
They want to hand out resources as they see fit. Prosperity as they see fit. Life
as they see fit.
Progressives see themselves as the intellectual elite. No
one is smarter than them. They can’t be wrong. It’s inconceivable to consider
error associated with their ideology. So they deflect logic with cognitive dissonance
(See MSNBC). Cognitive Dissonance is the excessive mental stress and discomfort
experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs,
ideas, or values at the same time. Perhaps you’d like an example? Sure… happy
to help. The left is anti-Israel/pro-Palestine. They are also pro-gay.
Palestine ain’t pro-gay. They string them up from cranes. Get it? “tonight on
the TSA channel- 2 policies enter the death cage and only one will emerge
victorious… Foreign V. Domestic!”
Now… don’t call progressives on this. #1 – they aren’t
wrong. And #2 – you’re a racist.
Can you hear me now?
Don’t take my word
for it. You can ask my friend. He knows all about this stuff. He’s called
History.
I hated history in school. Now I love it. Not because
history agrees with my world view- on the contrary it shapes it. No I love
history because I can learn lessons from it without having to go through the
same trials other have gone through to learn. There have been many test beds
for Socialism and Communism. If you THINK you are a socialist because its NEW and HIP, think again. Socialism is old news. It's as old as the Pharoahs. But time and time again it's implemented-- "this time it will be different"! It is always an abject failure. They try to dress it
up… but in the end, reality kicks you in the teeth.
Russians thought
they were seeing Potemkin villages—the term derives from Prince Gregory
Potemkin, said to have built model villages to impress Catherine the Great on
tours of her overextended domain—because that is how they prepared to receive
important visitors in their own country: Clean up everything, put
undesirable elements out of sight, show the best, and persuade visitors that what they were
seeing was typical. Such suspicions reached to the highest levels of the
Soviet government. When Soviet president Nikolai Podgorny visited Austria in
1966 and saw the bounty of Viennese markets, he remarked, "Look how well
they set things up for my visit."
Boris Yeltsin reacted
somewhat differently to a Houston supermarket in 1989. He expressed
astonishment at the abundance and variety of the products he saw, but in his
autobiography Against the Grain
he describes the experience as "shattering": "When I saw those
shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons, and goods of every
possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for
the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been
brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it."
After Yeltsin visited
that Houston supermarket, says Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, "he became a
reformer." Bill Keller, a former New York Times Moscow correspondent and now the Times's executive editor, sees
Yeltsin's visit to the United States in even broader perspective: "The
prosperity, the rule of law, the freedom and efficiency [Yeltsin] witnessed in
America, catalyzed his notions about
the fraud of communism."
Communism, Socialism, Progressivism. They are all frauds.
They never lead to prosperity. Except for the elites.
Capitalism has the power to raise people above their station
to greater prosperity.
Don’t take my word for it. Ask my friend.
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