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   Message 797 of 2,612   
   Gray Guest to MarkA   
   Re: #What's so progressive?   
   03 Mar 13 17:21:56   
   
   XPost: alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.guns, alt.atheism   
   From: No_email_for_you@wahoo.com   
      
   MarkA  wrote in   
   news:pan.2013.03.02.21.47.42.104227@somewhere.invalid:   
      
   > On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:37:11 -0800, Oglethorpe wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "Don Kresch"  wrote in message   
   >> news:9nb2j8p2gtl1mffv68rlh1d9sfipglohfu@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:45:48 -0500, MarkA    
   >>> scrawled in blood:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:36:18 -0800, JohnJohnsn wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> 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 - Communism   
   >>>>> Time for school.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Today boys and girls, we will discuss communism, and why it remains   
   as   
   >>>>> the   
   >>>>> greatest threat to humanity.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>Communism has been tried.  It failed.  It is no longer a viable   
   >>>>political/economic system.  It is no longer the greatest threat to   
   >>>>anyone. In America, capitalism is a much bigger threat.   
   >>>   
   >>> We don't have capitalism. Never have.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>Capitalism is in the process of failing,   
   >>>   
   >>> Prove it. Prove that we have capitalism and that it is failing.   
   >>>   
   >>> Make sure that when you do, you don't confuse capitalism with   
   >>> mercantilism, cronyism, interventionism, fascism, welfare-warefare   
   state   
   >>> socialism, and other such.   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh, I know you will anyway; it's just fun to point that out in the   
   first   
   >>> place just so that you know that I know that you'll fail.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> We have capitalism. We'd have more and better were it not for government   
   >> interference.   
   >   
   > Spoken like a true plutocrat.   
   >   
      
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