There's a bit of a Facebook discussion going on over my "Red Flag" piece.
A point that should be clarified-- the term "progressive" is not exclusively synonymous with "Democrat." There are plenty of "progressives" calling themselves "Republicans" that I define as something else.
True progressives, without quotation marks, stand for human progress, especially as it pertains to freedom, because nothing else that's good is really possible without it. As with "liberal," the word has been hijacked.
War is peace 'n all that...
And don't get me started on "conservative."
So yes, there are plenty in the GOP leadership sharing culpability for these Intolerable Acts. Case in point...
"Progress" isn't what it used to be. It's anyone's guess when the locusts will decide that they've despoiled the word enough to move on to another one, as they did to "liberal" and "socialist" previously. In fact, they're on their second run with "progressive" -- maybe they left some old marrow in the bone last time.
ReplyDeleteRemember General Electric's old motto? "Progress is our most important product." Now GE is circling the drain, waiting for Sears to clear it.
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it's pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”
--C. S. LEWIS