The crucible of challenge and conflict has a way of reducing things to their basics. When “the chips are down” people instinctively reach for their “go to” reactions, tactics, and attitudes. It is just so for ideologies.
Barack Hussein Obama – the most ideologically rigid President in living memory – proved it this week with his desperate campaign message of the week (only approximately 16 weeks more to go, thankfully). He is in the electoral battle of his political life, and this week he trotted out the tired old “soak the rich” Progressive pitch.
American Progressivism is first and foremost the ideology of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Progressives require demons to demonize, in order to mobilize their constituents into virtual mobs (and sometimes even physical mobs on the street – see OWS) willing to engage in extortion in order to claw wealth and power away from their fellow citizens (assuming the mob consists of citizens, that is - sometimes the documentation is not so obvious).
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The running rhetorical gun battle I had with my house troll Ema Nymton, on the comment thread to my April 25 post (“We’re All Mittens Men Now”) is instructive.
Click the two images to embiggen. Note: the Peter and Paul roles are reversed, but that kinda makes my point, doesn't it?
As Ema stipulates, the Progressive has a very regressive view of wealth. To them, it’s all something stuffed inside somebody else’s mattress, and it can only be acquired by breaking into the bedrooms of those who possess it, whatever ‘it’ is, and slicing open their mattresses.
What a bunch of barbarians. ‘It’ is what you do and create. You just need to find out how to barter ‘it.’
Btw - Somehow, I don’t think Ema is this dedicated Progressive’s real name. Maybe I should hold her name up to a mirror, or something, I don’t know.
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When Progressive policies inevitably produce no economic growth, and the Progressive politician has no record of economic growth on which to run, the Progressive instinctively seeks to stay in power by collecting the votes of the mob of Pauls - by bribing them with Peter’s confiscated wealth. Trust me, Peter knows how to protect his wealth. After all, he acquired it in the first place. Any effort to confiscate it through coercion is wasted. Memo to all you Pauls – Peter is perfectly happy to pay you to do something useful. Learn how to do that, and the possibility of you becoming Peter yourself, or your children becoming Peter, is as real as the Progressive lie is false.
Footnote
Astute readers of this blog have surely noticed it has been 17 days since I last clicked on “publish” button. 17 whole days. Wow.
Well, I am beginning to feel like I’m coming through to the other side of that little personal issue I alluded to in my June 24 post. Also, the two professional rescues I described in the same post are settling into a reasonably predictable state of managed chaos. Making me feel right at home.
So, all fifty or so (Fifty
“Because the only good Progressive is a failed Progressive.” That's why.
Logging you in...
Ema Nymton · 663 weeks ago
It truly is a joy to watch as people desperately whistle past the grave-yard at midnight.
You do know, don't cha, that Mr Rmoney will have release more of his tax returns, right? And when he does the secrets will come out.
And when Rmoney opens up, are you really expecting the rest of the RepublicanT Party are going to stand with Rmoney? Are you??
Keeping the popcorn going.
Ema Nymton
~@:o?
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LibertyAtStake 87p · 663 weeks ago
:)
Ema Nymton · 663 weeks ago
"Tax returns for transcripts." Humor ark ark.
A few points; Ema Nymton speaks for Ema Nymton.
Ema Nymton would never deem to speak for Liberals, Progressives, and/or Democrats. Ema Nymton does not assume Liberty At Stake with its simple, simplistic, silly and shallow backward ideological analysis, would deign to try to speak to the compassionate, the thoughtful, or the intelligent human beings.
Facts are facts; Liberals/Progressives got women the right to vote. Liberals/Progressives ended legal segregation. Liberals/Progressives created Social Security and Medicare, Liberals/Progressives passed the Civil Rights Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Each of these liberal/progressive actions have expanded economic opportunity, development and growth for vast numbers of people in USA over extended periods of time.
You see this as failure? Only because you cannot bring yourself to acknowledge the strength of USA rests in its people working together for the benefits of all.
“Because the only good Progressive is a failed Progressive.”
Opinions are like a$$holes, everybody has one.
Ema Nymton
~@:o?
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LibertyAtStake · 663 weeks ago
Stipulating your points for the sake of argument (actually it was the federal gub'ment under the constitution, with an assist from constant progressive agitation, that produced all these things) ... let's examine the progressive record closer, complete with unintended consequences.
The same early 20th century crowd that passed women's suffarage also passed prohibition, which yielded the bootlegging crime wave.
LBJ could not have passed the Civil Rights Act without northern Republican votes. The rest of his "war on on poverty" agenda was an abject failure as far as its stated objectives - and is responsible for creating a permanent black underclass that aborts half its babies, has the highest rates of out-of-wedlock birth, and the highest unemployment rates, especially among males.
Clean Air, Water, etc. was signed into law by Nixon's administration. Social Security and Medicare are bankrupting the nation, and progressives refuse to have an adult conversation around reforming entitlement programs. Instead they are peddling another entitlement that will seal the bankruptcy deal - ObamaCare.
What have you done for me lately, "Ema"?
“Because the only good Progressive is a failed Progressive.”
Ema Nymton · 663 weeks ago
It must really gall you to know you are backing a true LOSER (Rmoney) against a progressive in a street fight. How long before your man, Rmoney, suspends his campaign for President?
Ema Nymton
~@:o?
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LibertyAtStake · 663 weeks ago
Scotia · 661 weeks ago
wants america to fail. The left is just wonderful, the american people better wake up before it is to late to recover. The beginning or
the end is near.
LibertyAtStake 87p · 661 weeks ago