Monday, March 20, 2017

Pilgrim's Progress


Progressivism has been a proud, aggressive and often successful political movement since the time of President Teddy Roosevelt and Wisconsin's Senator Bob LaFollett. However, one of the flaws of progressivism is, at least in the arena of social justice, eventually the progress being made gets more and more rarefied. Yes, progressives have swept away many of the discriminatory laws and mores in the United States, but their follow-on targets represent smaller and smaller slices of our population (e.g., gender fluid rights) and, thus, the political payoffs get more problematic.

After all how many voters want to marry animals? But, this doesn't seem to slow progressives down. Soon it will be more bizarre rights being advocated ... man-boy love, human rights for simians and group marriages. Don't doubt me. To progressives, the social equality agenda seems never to run out.

Yet Progressives often keep their prejudices quite private while championing exactly the opposite in public. The Kennedys, the Clintons and many in the black movements (Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton) come immediately to mind. Somehow, the general public chooses to ignore these inconsistencies.

Progressives are also often drawn into conundrums ... like embracing people who often violently oppose many of their other basic public tenets. For instance, many fundamental Muslims lethally oppose free love, homosexuality and religious tolerance ... yet are supported by progressives in a stunning display of hypocrisy. Even worse, progressives will not tolerate fundamental Christians with far less onerous strictures. I scratch my head over these inconsistent progressive notions.

Will progressives run out of paved road? Will they have fewer social equity causes to champion in the future? Or will the notion of more social justice ... or injustice ... as utilized by progressives begin to peter out? I hope so ... but I don't expect so.

11 comments:

  1. I'm sure the notions that you claim for progressives may exist on one of your dark internet fringe sites, but I don't know anyone who is advocating marriage to non-humans or siblings. Most of the "inconsistencies" you allude to are defined by conflating extreme opinions and presenting them as mainstream. No one I know supports honor killings or unequal treatment for women or violence towards gays. On the other hand, we should not paint All conservatives as fascists, just because they elected one.

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    1. Den, the GOP is providing a chance to reconsider past follies in the name of progress such as clean air and water, support of arts, and universal healthcare. It is truly rallying people to give a damn... unless they are connected to the military.

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    2. Chill, with GOP fighting to allow more coal dust in our drinking water, less regulation on unscrupulous Drug companies and roll back of human rights advances...because those steps will make us great again. Can't wait for midterm elections.

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    3. Guys, Get a room ...

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    4. Don't doubt me ... see: http://www.oddee.com/item_98774.aspx

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    5. Notably a global phenomenon. Few of your examples are American. Plus these are not progresssives, these people are simply nuts.

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  2. Anonymous2:13 PM

    Please use English in this country.

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  3. As to your positing "
    Yet Progressives often keep their prejudices quite private while championing exactly the opposite in public. ", conservatives are far more hypocritical in hiring illegals to do dirty, dangerous jobs at low straight cash because it works so much better on the bottom line, buy low price food and Walmart goods, and then rail that we should make it in America with American labor so round the illegals up and ship them home. Hypocrites of the first order.

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  4. Locked and loaded...

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