Progressives divide the world into
victims and exploiters, and see themselves as saviors of the underdogs
who are incapable of fending for themselves. And that requires greater
government power in their hands, to vanquish the exploiters. This perspective
explains much of what President Obama is doing with the vast powers at
his disposal.
This administration has big business
in its sights. While there are a couple of corporations like G.E. who are
court favorites because they do the Progressives' bidding...the current
government's attitude toward commerce is that they exploit the masses as
labor or consumer, are run by fat-cats who don't pay their "fair share",
and should be regulated by the government which is working in "the best
interests of the People".
Only one thing matters to the Progressives-in
the Oval Office and in Congress-and that is growing the central government
and its power.
Illegal immigration, like abortion is
a cause celebre...and Progressives will resist the smallest limitation
on the grounds that it might lead to the idea that there are legitimate
reasons to control borders.
They use the same "logic" with abortion:
Letting live babies die unattended in broom closets after botched abortions
must not be outlawed because it might lead to the further limitation of
a woman's right to "choose".
Progressives offer all sorts of explanations
for their bizarre, inefficient, ineffective, illogical, irrational, contradictory,
and demonstrably failed theories and policies. But that's just their puppet
show; their circuses for public consumption.
There is one goal, and one goal only
for Progressives...Government growth and its intrusion into every aspect
of our lives. When you understand that, all their apparently idiotic policies
make perfect sense.
During the swine flu scare, the administration
did not refuse to close the border because of "commerce", or because the
"horses are already out of the barn" as Obama so creatively suggested.
They refused to close the border, regardless of consequences to the citizens
and our medical system, because the more illegals in America, the bigger
the government required to take care of them. And the higher the likelihood
they will re-elect the Progressives who provide them with myriad free government
services and promise more, more, more.
That's the reason for in-state tuition
rates, sanctuary cities, social security payments, housing, welfare, food-stamps,
and free medical care for illegals. They don't give a damn about the education,
safety, health or financial security of illegal aliens.
Haven't we all been astonished at the
seemingly indulgent care the government shows to illegals but withholds
from citizens?
Progressives don't care about illegals
any more than about citizens, They just know their addition to the population
and their dependence on government puts a huge sector of the population,
immediately and relatively painlessly under their direct control. It would
be harder to force tens of millions of relatively self-sustaining and resistant
Americans to become dependent on government. Exploiting ignorant peasants
is so much faster and easier.
Growing government is the real reason
Progressives are pushing socialized medicine. They know perfectly well
it doesn't work. They are neither blind nor stupid. They don't care about
your health, or what healthcare costs you now, or about rationing or low
quality care. No arguments about the inadequacy of government-run healthcare
will move them. Socialized Medicine grows government, and gives it total
power over our bodies. They will literally, with the stroke of a pen, have
life and death power over every single person in the country. It doesn't
get more totalitarian than that.
The reason for gun registration is not
the safety of citizens, they know perfectly well that most legal gun owners
are responsible and, in fact, have fewer accidents with firearms than most
police departments. They don't care if you get shot by a criminal. They
don't care if criminals are the only people with guns. They don't care
if the streets are safe or not. They don't care if criminals get brazen
and bold like they are now in England ? Australia where they have confiscated
legal guns. What they do care about is that registering guns gives government
more power over more people in more ways. And they know guns in the hands
of citizens is a direct threat to their power-lust ambitions.
They don't care about the "Earth". Controlling
energy gives them total control of the means of production. Which translates
as total control over food, shelter, goods and services. It's the perfect,
undercover communist/fascist coup...as they wrap themselves in virtue for
"saving the planet." Hitler was an "environmentalist" too.
They don't care about endangered species.
They care about being able to control private property, the single most
important bulwark against government tyranny.
Progressives don't care about children.
They care about growing the next generation of zombies believe in, support
and trust Big Government. Does anyone aware of the education system in
America believe that those who run it care about "the children" when it
graduates illiterates, indoctrinates rather than informs, and literally
requires that children not think for themselves, that punished "diverse"
thought, that discourages excellence and achievement and competition?
Progressives don't care about women.
The only 'liberation' they want for mothers, is from husbands who could
keep them from being dependent on the state.
They don't care about blacks. They only
want to keep them on the plantation, voting for Progressives en masse while
receiving just enough to keep them ignorant, broken, hungry and angry,
so they'll believe they need their masters, the Federal Government, to
eat, and despise and fear any path that would make them independent...like
God, good marriages, children with fathers, pride of accomplishment, respect
for education, or a focus beyond race.
Progressives don't care about gays.
They only want to break marriage, damage the culture, hurt the morals,
virtues and culture of a strong and prosperous middle class...which so
undermines totalitarianism.
They don't care about "social justice"
or "fairness". They just want cover to loot and cripple the productive,
the independent, the individualists, the entrepreneurs. A strong industrial/businessclass
is dangerous to authoritarians. Free-Marketeers are the enemies of tyranny.
The government Progressives' arguments,
excuses, reasons and explanations seem stupid and irrational because they
are false. It's why Obama so often sounds like an idiot, contradicting
himself regularly, and why Pelosi keeps getting caught in outright lies.
There is just one goal for Progressives'.
No matter what nonsense they spew, bigger government is the real objective. |