Another's observation about "Progressivism" - Granite Grok

Another’s observation about “Progressivism”

progressivism-the-foundation-vik-battaile-politics-1354017999From Big Government:

…The term came into (re)use just as there was a concurrent (what I perceive as) negative shift on the Left. The politically correct generation came on the scene. A brand of leftism associated with political conformity, with hardcore statism, with an antipathy toward a Constitution written by a bunch of white, land-owning, gun-toting, in some cases slave-holding dead guys even though it was a flower of the enlightenment and a break from centuries of rule by monarch, took hold. The “progressives” were not interested in making a better America. They were interested in “fundamentally transforming” the United States as Barack Obama said in the run up to the 2008 election. They were and are about power. The were and are about shutting off debate. They were and are about intolerance of any thing or person which challenges the statist worldview. They see the Constitution as impediment to change, something which should be marginalized and certainly not celebrated.

Not only do they hold that the Constitution is an impediment, but organized religion as well as it is seen as merely another “power center” that must be overcome.  To Statists (“All for the State, nothing outside of the State”), religion is a source of competing loyalties and they brook no God before Government.  Else, how could their entire policy set be implemented?

The perfect example of this is the Hobby Lobby decision of Monday – the Lefties, the Statists, and the Progressives are ALL howling over it.  No, it was not primarily because someone objected to having to buy abortion enabling drugs for all their employees.  No, it was all about religious people having the temerity of challenging the State and not bowing down to Government.  No one or no other institution should even think about challenging what The State has decreed and all other religious beliefs must give way to The State.

Instead, the Progressives got “Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego” ‘d on Monday.  By the Constitution, as it was.  I given the “oft unchurched” a hint – look in the Old Testament for my reference.

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