“I was not aware of any Communists
at Fort Roach*, although there were several gentleman of the extreme
left … who called themselves 'progressives', a term I subsequently
learned was the Party's code word for true believers.” –
Edmund Morris, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “Dutch: A Memoir
of Ronald Reagan”
*The
First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) during
World War II (installed at the dormant Hal Roach Studios in Culver
City, California) in the 1940s
As
disclosed by biographer Morris, the label progressive
is leftist code for an adherent of communism. Yet, communism's
collectivism diametrically opposes American principles embodied by
individual liberty. In short, such oil and water philosophies don't
mix. What's misleading is the root word of progressive happens to be
“progress”. So, it's easy to assume that both terms mean the
same good something. (After all, in this technologically
driven age, who's not in favor of advancement?) Yet,
progressivism is destructive in its practice, and backward in its
orientation. In reality, it fails everywhere it's tried. By almost
every objective measure (with the anomaly of a flourishing Wall
Street), President Obama's progressivism was ruinous for America.
Specifically, the economic albatross of a record-shattering 9.3
trillion added to the national debt was no accident. Likewise,
leftist leadership turned oil and diamond rich Venezuela into a
hellhole where basic necessities, like toilet
paper, are scarce. Democrats typically use such nebulous, good
sounding language to conceal their real anti-American intentions.
For example, their knee-jerk
advocacy of “investment” in some fashionable cause. That's
just doublespeak for raising taxes and growing government. Such
poison pills only undermine our nation's solvency, and future
prospects. For these
wastrels, it's better to rule in a leftist hell—propagated by
their political pandering and cultural divisiveness—then serve in
heaven as pro-American constitutionalists.
In
the same vein, political movements with the word “Democrat” in
them are usually totalitarian: as the Democratic People's Republic of
(North) Korea. Certainly, no lover of civil rights, and human
freedoms, are they. For proof of Kim Jong-Un's liberalism, who can
forget the tragic fate of American student 22-year-old Otto Warmbier?
For the college prank of foolishly attempting to steal a propaganda
poster this future ivy leaguer was sentenced to 15 years of hard
labor. Fifteen months later he was returned to the United States in
a vegetative state. This coma—the result of likely torture—led
to his premature demise; a young man in full flower cut down. What a
waste of potential, what a senseless loss of life.
Speaking
of destroying life of accused agitators on foreign soil, how about
Barack Obama's Orwellian-style
“disposition matrix”? This was the former president's secret
kill list:
a database of suspected terrorists to be dispensed with, either
targeted in drone strikes, or captured and interrogated. How is that
nihilistic system not equivalent to the barbarity of the Kim regime?
In fact, some of Mr. Obama's quarry were even American citizens! The
horror is that guilt or innocence didn't matter. The accused were
deprived of their lives without due process: that means no right to
legal representation and a fair trial, and no judgment by a jury of
one's peers. From on high, what a megalomaniac thrill to play God!
That's
not the only similarity between the leadership in North Korea and
today's
Democrats.
Both groups use demonizing rhetoric against their perceived
adversaries. Specifically, reported by FoxNews.com on March 7th,
the former instruct their people to call Americans
bastards.
How is Hillary Clinton's repudiation of Trump supporters as a basket
of deplorables
any less hateful and derogatory? The 2016 presidential election
ended over 16 months ago, but she's still spewing venomous blame. In
India, this foul-mouthed
“feminist icon” smeared the married, white women who didn't
support her. Outrageously, she implied they
were mindless
chattel: incapable of acting independently of their husbands, bosses
or sons. So much for this skin-deep “champion
of women”.
With
all leftists, freedom of thought is vehemently suppressed because it
departs from the Party's official position. On every issue under the
sun, conformity
of perception
is paramount. What liberals say is “right” in this moment can be
completely the opposite of what they stood for yesterday. Even
writers David Nakamura and Ed O'Keefe of the highly partisan
Washington Post acknowledged:
“In
2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act,
a bill that authorized the construction of hundreds of miles of
fencing along the border. That legislation was approved with broad
bipartisan support, including, in the Senate, by such Democratic
luminaries as Barack Obama (Ill.), Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), Joe Biden
(Del.) and Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), now the Senate minority
leader.”
In
2018, that's The Donald's border wall. Yet, so afflicted with Trump
Derangement Syndrome
are they, progressives automatically oppose what they previously
supported—under the previous two administrations. As masters of
the political flip-flop, hypocrisy and self-interest define them
(read: Crooked
Hillary).
Thus,
proponents of the left—regardless of their particular
stripe—demonstrate a jackbooted impulse to dominate others. In
common, each ruling class controls via a herd mentality. Unchecked,
the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) can govern by overt force.
Meanwhile, dissembling
Democrats
weaponize their words to incite protests. Sometimes these “social
justice” movements metastasize into mob violence (read: Black
Lives Matter).
Yet, either by force or by fearmongering the left advances its
un-American notions. These exploitative elites preach inclusivity
while repressing and actively
dividing.
These
true believers, as Hillary
and Obama,
are oblivious to patriotic Americans' views or problems. They're
insulated creatures of the Washington establishment; buoyed by their
hard left extremism and access to governmental influence. In truth,
they
care nothing
for their fellow citizens' freedoms (particularly the Second
Amendment),
and actively work to subvert them. As a parallel, their mindset is
epitomized in “Star
Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith” (2005) when the Republic
becomes a dictatorial galactic empire:
“So
this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.” – Padmé
Amidala (played by Natalie Portman)
As
“Democratic” leader Kim Jong-Un is a
scourge upon the world stage, progressives are a cancer upon the
American body politic. Acting and speaking with the same anti-U.S.
malevolence is clear—regardless of what commonality their fuzzy
labels are designed to obscure.
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