In America, I suppose the names Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Margaret Sanger would appear on the "great" progressive list, correct? Current names are Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanual (Chicago Mayor and former Obama staff member), Eric Holder, Elizabeth Warren, oh and now maybe Jonathan Gruber, architect of ObamaCare. No real harm has come from any of them, right? Well, there is Benghazi (4 DEAD), Fast and Furious (Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and countless Mexican nationals DEAD)....need I say more? How about the rising murder rate in Chicago? But, Elizabeth Warren hasn't harmed anyone, as far as we know. I'll give you that. Lying about your heritage to get tax-payer funded education preferences, no harm in that right? No, to a "Progressive" that is admirable behavior. Jonathan Gruber is responsible for Obamacare. There's no telling, yet, how many have already died because they lost their medical insurance and have no ability to pay for their cancer or heart condition treatments. Then there's the infamous "death panels" in the law, but, not really (according to "Progressives").
Let's go back further. There is that bankrupt Social Security Ponzi scheme which will, eventually, take down the whole of the American economy. No real harm in that, right? And, Wilson? Blame for the continuation of the first great war, setting up the conditions for the second world war, and the loss of 118 million Americans (not counting the loss of life in the second great war) goes to him. And, Margaret Sanger's favorite "Progressive" idea? Oh, yeah, that would be eugenics. The founder of Planned Parenthood set in motion the elimination of that pesky, inconvenient tissue that, if nurtured and allowed to grow would have resulted in the lives of about 56 million Americans to date. Gee, I wonder if one of those 56 million could have been the one to discover the cure for cancer? We will never know. Other than that though, what did they do that was really great?
I suppose, since "Progressives" hang their hats on abortion, from their perspective, Margaret Sanger is one of their "greats". I just don't think most normal Americans would agree. They do also hang their hat on the "New Deal" from FDR. However, it's an unconstitutional mess that Roosevelt himself knew was problematic. Or, he wouldn't have threatened to pack the Supreme Court with like-minded judges in order to coerce the crop on the bench at the time to look the other way on it, right? Kind of like recent times. History may someday tell us what pressure was applied to Chief Justice John Roberts to re-write the ObamaCare law to make it a little more palatable, if not actually more Constitutional. So, I'm sure we can blame the precedent of threatening Supreme Court judges on FDR, a progressive democrat. Lovely. "Great" progressive ideals in action!
In other countries and in history, one can find many more examples of the kind of people the progressive movement hold up as ideal. Just look at who our current crop of "progressives" highlight and revere.....Mao (45 million dead), Stalin (34 to 49 million dead), Che (rumored responsible for 4,000 deaths), and Castro (30,000 dead). Sterling characters all, right?
Please, tell me what is so attractive about "Progressive" ideas? If you are taking the word at it's definition, you must then look at who we are labeling as a person for "progress". Is communism associated with progress? Really? I believe the ideology was if not begun, but given a boost in 1848 by a man by the name of Karl Marx who wrote the "Communist Manifesto". This is PROGRESS? How many times, in how many countries has communism been tried since that time? WHERE has it succeeded in making life a Utopia for those inflicted? No, I believe the MILLIONS killed while striving for the perfect "Progressive" Utopia are an indication that they have no idea HOW to eliminate their "Progressive" penchant for barbarism.
Progressives in our country like to make fun of conservative ideals and point out how we wish to go back to the 1950's. Well, if you pay attention to history, you would know that the 1950's were actually one of the most prosperous and happy times in this country. You really don't have a leg to stand on if you're going to use that as an example of "bad" times.
NO. With a person of the left, up is down, left is right, and their use of the word "Progressive" is just an indication that they know that the results of their "ideals" is just the opposite.
