GenSeneca
Well-Known Member
Classical Liberalism emphasizes:
Strangely enough, those are all things Conservatives and Libertarians also believe and strive for, yet the Progressives in both parties (known as Neocons or Moderate Republicans on the Right) would like to pretend that Liberals, Libertarians and Conservatives are ideologically in opposition to one another. The old divide and conquer tactic. If Liberals, Libertarians and Conservatives united around their common principles, they would constitute a super majority that would make the progressives in both parties totally irrelevent in matters of politics and policy.
Progressives don't support any of the things listed for Liberalism... although they do pay lip service to many of them for the purpose of garnering support from those who do. I'm sure some of the proud Progressives here will beg to differ, so I welcome any challenger to prove me wrong through an intelligent debate... but I know that's not how they operate. Watch for drive-by postings in response, one liners filled with sarcasm, derision and assertions backed by nothing more than links to other assertions from those who agree with their position.
Progressives are nothing more than an angry mob, functioning with a mobs mentality of might makes right and fueled by discontentment with never a moment of sober independent thought. Because they need their angry mobs to stay angry, lest they lose support, Progressive go out of their way to manufacture outrage and crisis whenever possible through exploitation of short attention spans and the ignorance of the mob they control.
As we know, Liberals are tolerant and open minded individuals with a "to each his own" mentality but Progressives are the polar opposite. Progressives are narrow minded individuals who do not tolerate anything counter to progressive thought. If you don't agree with them, you are seen as an enemy that must be destroyed. Even dissension among their own ranks is strictly limited to complaints about whether the approved policy is too soft or too harsh while complaints that the approved policy is wrong is simply not tolerated.
To destroy their enemies, Progressives start with attempts to discredit and destroy the character of those they disagree with, hence the reason they are so quick to level charges of racism, sexism, bigotry and homophobia.... anything to make their enemies sound like the intolerant ones. Progressives want to shut down all opposition and putting their opposition on the defensive by attacking their character has become a preferred tactic. That way progressives won't have to deal with the substance of the message they disagree with and others won't hear the message either but instead will be distracted into hearing only the defense of the messengers character.
Progressives have no intelligent defense of their positions so if attacking the character of those who oppose them fails, they move onto emotional arguments, straw men, red herrings and other logical fallacies to keep from dealing with reality. They also don't hold their positions as a matter of deeply held personal opinion but rather their opinions are du jur and manufactured by the party intelligentsia.
All of this will be proven accurate and on full display should one or more progressive take me up on the challenge and attempt to mount a defense of their Progressive philosophy as being something other than anti-liberal in practice and application.
As a great man often says, "Don't doubt me... I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body."
- support for individual rights
- support for equality of opportunity
- support for freedom of thought
- support for freedom of speech
- support for limitations on the power of government
- support for the rule of law
- support for an individual's right to private property
- support for a transparent system of government
- support for open and fair elections
- support for Free Markets and Capitalism
- Belief that all citizens have equal rights by law
Strangely enough, those are all things Conservatives and Libertarians also believe and strive for, yet the Progressives in both parties (known as Neocons or Moderate Republicans on the Right) would like to pretend that Liberals, Libertarians and Conservatives are ideologically in opposition to one another. The old divide and conquer tactic. If Liberals, Libertarians and Conservatives united around their common principles, they would constitute a super majority that would make the progressives in both parties totally irrelevent in matters of politics and policy.
Progressives don't support any of the things listed for Liberalism... although they do pay lip service to many of them for the purpose of garnering support from those who do. I'm sure some of the proud Progressives here will beg to differ, so I welcome any challenger to prove me wrong through an intelligent debate... but I know that's not how they operate. Watch for drive-by postings in response, one liners filled with sarcasm, derision and assertions backed by nothing more than links to other assertions from those who agree with their position.
Progressives are nothing more than an angry mob, functioning with a mobs mentality of might makes right and fueled by discontentment with never a moment of sober independent thought. Because they need their angry mobs to stay angry, lest they lose support, Progressive go out of their way to manufacture outrage and crisis whenever possible through exploitation of short attention spans and the ignorance of the mob they control.
As we know, Liberals are tolerant and open minded individuals with a "to each his own" mentality but Progressives are the polar opposite. Progressives are narrow minded individuals who do not tolerate anything counter to progressive thought. If you don't agree with them, you are seen as an enemy that must be destroyed. Even dissension among their own ranks is strictly limited to complaints about whether the approved policy is too soft or too harsh while complaints that the approved policy is wrong is simply not tolerated.
To destroy their enemies, Progressives start with attempts to discredit and destroy the character of those they disagree with, hence the reason they are so quick to level charges of racism, sexism, bigotry and homophobia.... anything to make their enemies sound like the intolerant ones. Progressives want to shut down all opposition and putting their opposition on the defensive by attacking their character has become a preferred tactic. That way progressives won't have to deal with the substance of the message they disagree with and others won't hear the message either but instead will be distracted into hearing only the defense of the messengers character.
Progressives have no intelligent defense of their positions so if attacking the character of those who oppose them fails, they move onto emotional arguments, straw men, red herrings and other logical fallacies to keep from dealing with reality. They also don't hold their positions as a matter of deeply held personal opinion but rather their opinions are du jur and manufactured by the party intelligentsia.
All of this will be proven accurate and on full display should one or more progressive take me up on the challenge and attempt to mount a defense of their Progressive philosophy as being something other than anti-liberal in practice and application.
As a great man often says, "Don't doubt me... I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body."
