Recently Daniel Henninger wrote an article in the Wall
Street Journal that really hit the nail on the head not only about this
administration but about the whole progressive movement in general. Mr. Henninger labeled it “the politics of
cram down”. Whether it is forcing people
to purchase a product they don’t want, like Obamcare, or suing Boeing for
opening a plant in South Carolina, that will employee thousands of workers, the
progressives motto appears to be “you will do as you are told”.
The article also points out that unlike the liberal policies
in the past that merely attempted to redistribute wealth through a host of
taxes and social programs, the progressive policy is the government knows
better and you will like it no matter how much it hurts. Mandates are for you
own good say the progressives, but I wonder, if it is such a good idea, why it
would need to be mandatory in the first place?.
The true progressive is so arrogant that he truly believes
that he knows better. They also believe they must force change on us
non-progressives because we are just too ignorant to make our own decisions or
know what is for our own good. Their underlying belief is some people will just
have to be sacrificed for the common good with common good defined by them. One
of the statistics used by the progressives to force Obamcare down our throats
is the fact that the United States spends more on health care than the rest of
the world. Well, we also spend more on housing, cars, food, and TV sets. Are
they all in a crisis also? So the fact
that Americans have access to more medical care than the rest of the world and
are wealthy enough to take advantage of this benefit, has now become a problem to
the progressives. Who do these self-appointed saviors think they are to tell me
when I have spent too much? And what is
too much? If I want to have an MRI done
every day and I can pay for it, who are they to say this is a problem?
Progressives feel the need to control every aspect of your
life and Obamcare is just the biggest example. Progressives are waging a war
against ever American who works in the coal industry. They believe that coal
miners and workers must be sacrificed on the altar of global warming, The same
policy not only cost the workers who would build and operate XL pipeline but
cost Americans in the form of higher energy cost. None of this is a concern for
the progressives for they know what is best.
Progressives, supporting the failed public school system in
New York State, needed to kill the school voucher program. This lead to thousands of parents protesting
on the Brooklyn bridge because it was a chance for their children to escape the
failed schools, “sorry folks, you just think your children being able to go
to a better school is a good idea”. In Louisiana the federal administration is
actually suing the state for providing vouchers that help poor families escape
their failed progressive schools. In the progressive mind it’s better to have predominately
minority children go to run down, crime ridden, underperforming schools than
let the racial mix of the progressive schools change, the progressives will
desire what is really important.
Of course, it might be hard for the progressives to force
all the changes you “need” on a well armed populace. So now, nothing is more important to a
progressive that seizing your weapons. Removing a citizen’s ability to defend
themself is for their own good and only the people in the government can be
trusted with firearms. I recently heard the ambassador from Australia point out
that one of the main points of their gun confiscation law was to make sure “the
police are never out gunned”, he forgot to add the average citizen always will
be. Self-protection is another thing that needs to be removed to promote “the common
good”
The IRS, FDA, SEC, EPA, DHS, Department of Education and Department
of Commerce are attacking Americans at record rates all under of the guise of “for
the common good”. And the parameters of what classifies as the common good will
once again be defined by the progressives. The founding father’s ideas of
individual liberty limited not only the federal government’s ability to hurt
the individual citizen but also to help the individual citizen. In the
progressive version of America, it is difficult to tell the difference and the
progressive helping looks an awful lot like hurting to most Americans.
But then again, how would we know without a progressive
telling us?
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