Progressivism really is Totalitarianism - Granite Grok

Progressivism really is Totalitarianism

Like I said:  DCE’s (Weekend Pundit)  “Thoughts on a Sunday” is a mandatory read for me every week; this week was one of his best.  Next – he does a riff on what Tom Perkins said that today’s 1% are the new Jews facing a Kristallnact, given all of the class warfare that Obama, Occupy Wall Street, and others attacking them for their success – as if they had stolen it from the “less fortunate”.  DCE picks up on THE defining word (emphasis mine):

Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.”

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?

I have come to redefine the term “Progressive” to mean “totalitarian”. After all, so many of them are pushing for a totalitarian state where everyone except them will have to submit to the will of The State. Oh, they won’t come right out and say it, but when you take all of the programs, propaganda, and push towards ever more restrictive laws that make everyone a criminal, it all leads to one outcome: destruction of freedom and a complete takeover of everyone’s lives by a self-proclaimed elite.

Indeed – we hear the calls that OUR choice of energy is wrong, OUR choice of cars are wrong, OUR choice of food and diet is wrong, OUR choice of religious beliefs is wrong, OUR choice of political outlook is wrong, our choice of housing is wrong, OUR choice of water usage is wrong, OUR choice of morality is wrong, OUR choice of transportation is wrong, OUR choice of….you get the idea.  WE are the Progressives’s problem – and we must be correct.  After all, unless we are corrected by THEIR choices for us, none of us can share their Vision of Utopia for us all.  And make no mistake, Progressives want us ALL to “progress” to some [nebulous] idea of Nirvana – they are just unwilling to be open and transparent on what that end point would be or the means to get there.

Because most of the rest of us would be irate – and probably quite rebellious.  Thus, their dependence on never being truthful and their dependence on redefining the common language.    They just lie – and they are selfish.  They can’t convince enough of the public to buy into their philosophy otherwise.

Doubt me (and DCE), Progressives?  Go ahead, be COMPLETELY honest with us – and just WATCH those election results come in.

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