Immoral Progressivism Failing Miserably

[ArlJim78]

Good write-up, make sure to read the whole thing at the link.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40314


Only an utter fool—or a dedicated progressive—would riot or strike because someone else can no longer afford to underwrite your lifestyle.
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It is where moral relativism, the cornerstone of progressive thinking, inevitably leads. Decades of teaching people that the state is their bottomless benefactor hasn't just ruined economies around the globe. It has ruined the people themselves. Economies eventually recover.

Can people recover their dignity and character?

Mankind has always been corrupt. We are, by nature, fallen creatures for whom doing the right thing will always be more difficult than taking the path of least resistance. Yet such difficulty is exponentially compounded by a progressive ideology that constantly encourages people to abandon character for comfort and worry about the moral ramifications after the fact. It is compounded by the siren song of perpetual victimhood that relieves the individual of personal responsibility and personal ambition. It is compounded by playing one group of people off another, without regard to individual achievement—or a lack thereof. It is not hard for people to be seduced by "we will take care of you," or maybe even more accurately, "we will do your thinking for you," once the moral component of the seduction has been calculatingly obscured.

[boxcar]

Bottom line: A predominantly moral populace has little need for expansive government—and progressives know it. That is precisely why one of their principal targets is religion and their ongoing determination to remove it from the public square whenever and wherever possible. The codified morality religion represents is the ultimate distraction away from the progressive agenda—which is why it must also be belittled as well.

Karl Marx understood this very well, didn't he -- calling religion the "opium of the people"? So, he derides that "opium" because he had a goal to provide another variety of the drug called communism -- a system of governance that requires indoctrination of the masses. :bang: :bang: :bang:

Boxcar

[JustRalph]

great piece

[mostpost]

Only an utter fool—or a dedicated progressive—would riot or strike because someone else can no longer afford to underwrite your lifestyle.
Underwrite your lifestyle!! This makes it sound like someone else is paying for someone's vacation on the Riviera or for their Porsche. What we have here are people who are eating hamburger five days a week, and skimping on medicine for mom or dad so the kids can have an extra helping of oatmeal on sunday.
Immorality? The immorality lies in asking the middle class and the poor to underwrite the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
The people are rioting not because of a misplaced sense of entitlement They are rioting because they know the government is in kahoots with the rich and famous, and they are fed up with it.

[bigmack]

The people are rioting not because of a misplaced sense of entitlement They are rioting because they know the government is in kahoots with the rich and famous, and they are fed up with it.
Ever hear of the well running dry? Dispute this paragraph.

A substantial portion of their population has been infantilized into believing the government gravy train never runs out of gravy, and taking to the to the streets demanding the impossible is becoming routine. Such demonstrations are a deadly combination of hubris and ignorance, egged on by those promoting "social justice," which is nothing more than a pleasant slogan attempting to rationalize many things, all of which can be reduced to one idea: Inter-generational theft is morally acceptable.

[Native Texan III]

From the link:
"As the four recent examples, along with others occurring all over the world illustrate, a group of like-minded "thinkers" is emerging. It is a group composed in equal parts of economic illiteracy and pathological self-entitlement. Only an utter fool—or a dedicated progressive—would riot or strike because someone else can no longer afford to underwrite your lifestyle"

What total garbage! The demonstrations are nothing to do with the Governments underwriting people's lifestyles. Also there are no other cases "all over the world". The "riots" are because normal hardworking, tax paying families and their children are being forced to pay for the collapse of the free market banking system that takes all the profits but shoves all the risks onto people that had nothing to do with their management or regulation.

In Europe, they have stopped printing money and now have severe austerity programs to get the populations to pay for the banking collapses (in essence what the Tea Partyists advocate). Here we are still printing money and are under the economically illiterate delusion that voting either right or left will magically make the nasty debts go away. They won't and you have seen nothing yet for the riots that will take place here, once China stops bailing out USA.

[JustRalph]

From the link:

What total garbage! The demonstrations are nothing to do with the Governments underwriting people's lifestyles. Also there are no other cases "all over the world". The "riots" are because normal hardworking, tax paying families and their children are being forced to pay for the collapse of the free market banking system that takes all the profits but shoves all the risks onto people that had nothing to do with their management or regulation.

sure they do. In France they were rioting because they raised the retirement age. A retirement that is guaranteed by the government, after working 35 hours a week for the last ten years and receiving a mandatory 5 weeks a year of vacation. If that isn't underwriting a lifestyle, I don't know what is?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/files/imagecache/cartoon_listing/blog_images/101022beelertoon_c.jpg

[boxcar]

Underwrite your lifestyle!! This makes it sound like someone else is paying for someone's vacation on the Riviera or for their Porsche. What we have here are people who are eating hamburger five days a week, and skimping on medicine for mom or dad so the kids can have an extra helping of oatmeal on sunday.
Immorality? The immorality lies in asking the middle class and the poor to underwrite the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
The people are rioting not because of a misplaced sense of entitlement They are rioting because they know the government is in kahoots with the rich and famous, and they are fed up with it.

The same ol' tired Marxist line. :rolleyes: You have it backwards. The immorality lies in socialist governments pretending to care for the "middle class" when wanting to tax the middle and upper classes to give to the "poor". All these years the lying, dishonest, deceitful, corrupt, morally-impoverished liberals in D.C. have incessantly insisted that the Bush Tax Cuts were for the "rich". We never ceased hearing about the "Bush tax cuts for the rich', the "Bush tax cuts for the rich" ad nauseam. Now, all of a sudden after all these years, the liberals are talking about extending those Bush tax cuts for most of the classes of taxpayers. So, what are the liberals advocating here with their 180 degree turnabout: Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich? Must be because all these years those cuts were ONLY FOR THE RICH, remember? :bang: :bang:

Morally depraved liberals' only interest is to create a welfare state. They want to create a class of chronically dependent welfare recipients who will vote for libs in exchange for being fed some crumbs from the table of the elitist class. Even animals have more ethics, class and common sense than most liberals! At least animals instinctively know they must do two things for themselves if they want to survive in this life: Hunt (as in WORK) for their own food and protect themselves! But what do liberals teach us? Government will protect you and feed you! No need to knock yourself out working when there are taxpayers out there to be had! :bang: :bang:

Liberalism is truly a sick mental disorder that even Nature itself must abhor and find revolting because of its anti-Natural Law doctrines.

Boxcar

[GameTheory]

In the end it doesn't matter what you are underwriting if it can't be paid for.

[boxcar]

sure they do. In France they were rioting because they raised the retirement age. A retirement that is guaranteed by the government, after working 35 hours a week for the last ten years and receiving a mandatory 5 weeks a year of vacation. If that isn't underwriting a lifestyle, I don't know what is?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/files/imagecache/cartoon_listing/blog_images/101022beelertoon_c.jpg

And so is education, too, I suppose. The Brits were very unhappy campers because college tuitions were increased sharply. So, I guess they think that education is a birthright, too! Nothing, according to these socialists, needs to EARNED. Everything should be GIVEN to them on a silver platter! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Boxcar