Pay attention, Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress - this condemns the entire Progressive movement - Granite Grok

Pay attention, Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress – this condemns the entire Progressive movement

… and shows that you represent just another form of Tyranny.  From Jonah Goldberg of The Corner (emphasis mine):

It’s a little bizarre how the Left has always conflated statism with modernity and progress. The idea that rulers — be they chieftains, kings, priests, politburos, or wonkish bureaucrats — are enlightened or smart enough to tell others how to live is older than the written word. And the idea that someone stronger, with better weapons, has the right to take what is yours predates man’s discovery of fire by millennia. And yet, we’re always told that the latest rationalization for increased state power is the “wave of the future.”

That phrase, “the wave of the future,” became famous thanks to a 1940 essay by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She argued that the time of liberal democratic capitalism was drawing to a close and the smart money was on statism of one flavor or another — fascism, Communism, socialism, etc. What was lost on her, and millions of others, was that this wasn’t progress toward the new, but regression to the past. These “waves of the future” were simply gussied-up tribalisms, anachronisms made gaudy with the trappings of modernity, like a gibbon in a spacesuit.

Statism – the idea that “The State” (e.g., the Government as opposed to Civil Society and individuals) should play more and more of a role in determining the choices that individuals can make.  Yes, Zandra, this is why you were sent to New Hampshire and why you are paid by out of state folks – your self-proclaimed mantra of “social justice” is just a phrase for the rubes to think they are getting from others for nothing (and feeling good about reclassifying “stealing” as “it’s owed me” via the point of a pen); you know full well that you are working towards the end point of the Progressive movement: the Administrative State – stocked with all those non-partisan experts who are only concerned in being our benevolent rulers.

Sorta like what we’ve seeing lately in the IRS – lots of those non-partisan types there, treating every one equally with regard sex, color, national origin, economic class, sexual orientation, religion, and political outlook.

Oh wait!

Scratch religion; the Administrative State of the IRS went after even Billy Graham – America’s Pastor!  A man of God who has counseled Presidents since the 1950s.

Oh wait – scratch political outlook; the Administrative State of the IRS went after ordinary Americans simply because they believed in the Constitution, limited Government, and fiscal responsibility.  You know, the folks that actually believe in the views of the Founding Fathers (instead of Karl Marx)  and went after financial donors to different Conservative causes.

Never mind about the non-partisan part.

Sorta like what we’ve seeing lately in the Dept of Labor –  another oversized department of our burgeoning Administrative State – lots of those non-partisan types there, treating every one equally with regard sex, color, national origin, economic class, sexual orientation, religion, and political outlook.

Oh wait – scratch political outlook.  If you are the head honcho of a small manufacturing firm that started a TEA Party, you get audited.  Or a large donor to the Romney campaign (there were two of those) that got audited.

Never mind about the non-partisan part.

Sorta like what we’ve seeing lately at the EPA –  another oversized department of our burgeoning Administrative State – lots of those non-partisan types there, treating every one equally with regard sex, color, national origin, economic class, sexual orientation, religion, political outlook, and environmental persuasion.

Oh wait – scratch political outlook, as it seems that they have been giving FOIA info to liberal (and pretty much extreme environmental groups that would be happy to let the animals roam free and pen humans into virtual zoos (“urban zoning, only public transportation, and extremely limited energy usage”) groups and charging mega-bucks to conservative type groups.

Never mind about the non-partisan part.

Sorta like what we’ve seeing lately at the Dept of Justice-  another oversized department of our burgeoning Administrative State – lots of those non-partisan types there, treating every one equally with regard sex, color, national origin, economic class, sexual orientation, religion, political outlook, and environmental persuasion.

Aw, screw it – they practice discrimination on almost all those things, especial skin color (you’re toast if you’re white and not knees down from white guilt), conservative political outlook, and Evangelical / Catholic / Jewish by profession of faith (and not an enviro-wacko too).

So Zandra  – how’s that vaunted Administrative State that does away with our Republic treating, oh, 50% of the American people?

Kinda jives with the way that you treat us in private – with an overbearing sense of disdain.  After all, those of us who merely wish to be left alone are EVIL and therefore – subhuman and deserve to be ruled over as in times of yore.  Progressives – no better than the Court of King George, as that is pretty much their end point, truth be told and all of their “soft words” aside.  Same result – for us be it old George or the “new” Progressives. They rule and we are supposed to kneel upon command.

Just remember that the “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” in Concord and Lexington was when King George’s troops were trying disarm the Patriots and take away their guns and ammo.

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