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   From: matttelles@sprynet.com   
      
   JohnJohnsn  wrote in news:dc5cbce2-1291-4041-878b-   
   2ffcf6482525@k8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Feb 24, 6:30 pm, Kurt Nicklas  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> So just what is so "progressive" about the Left? Seems to me their   
   >> ideology is aimed at one thing and one thing alone: increasing the   
   >> power of central government at the expense of personal liberty.   
   >> Everything they advocate has that as the motivation and greater   
   >> government control of our lives as the end.   
   >>   
   >> So what is so progressive about that? Government control over   
   people's   
   >> lives has been around for thousands of years. Escaping that sort of   
   >> control is why most of us, or our parents or our grandparents or   
   great-   
   >> grandparents came here to get away from.   
   >>   
   >> Why do "progressives" favor that sort of imperial control over   
   >> people's lives rather than letting people have the liberty for which   
   >> this country was founded?   
   >>   
   >> What sort of progress does the Left have in mind for us?   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Know The Enemy   
      
   We do. We call them "Republicans".   
      
   Or, really, Republican'ts. Because they CAN'T do much of anything.   
      
   Matt   
      
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