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   Kurt Nicklas to pers...@gmail.com   
   Re: #What's so progressive?   
   24 Feb 13 17:14:35   
   
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   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.guns, alt.atheism   
   From: kurtnicklas@gmail.com   
      
   On Feb 24, 8:14 pm, "%"  wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > who cares about US politics they're just a third world country now   
      
   Maybe you can tell us about "progressivism" from the point of view of   
   one of it's many victims?   
      
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