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   Kurt Nicklas to pers...@gmail.com   
   Re: #What's so progressive?   
   25 Feb 13 03:38:54   
   
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   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.guns, alt.atheism   
   From: kurtnicklas@gmail.com   
      
   On Feb 24, 9:36 pm, "%"  wrote:   
   > Kurt Nicklas wrote:   
   > > On Feb 24, 9:07 pm, "%"  wrote:   
   > >> Kurt Nicklas wrote:   
   > >>> 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?   
   >   
   > >> not likely its not something that happens where i live   
   >   
   > > And do speakers of English where you live not know that the first word   
   > > of sentences is capitalized as is the first person singular pronoun   
   > > and sentences normally end with some sort of punctuation?   
   >   
   > >    
   >   
   > a grammar flame , LOL , are you ever out of your league kiddo ,   
   > the last resort of the kicked ass second only to a spelling lame   
      
   Hey, if you can't find the uppercase button on the keyboard it's your   
   ignorance not mine.   
      
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