‘Progressive’ Is a Misnomer: Leftists Drive Society Backwards and Downwards
By: Jerry Newcombe
This is exactly right. Progressivism is socialism. It is an all out assault upon our constitution and constitutional government and liberty.
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Leftists like to style themselves “progressives” – but in reality, the fall-out of so much of their ideology is to drive individuals and society backwards and downwards into darkness and degradation.
by Jerry Newcombe, D.Min.
It has been said that he who frames the debate wins the debate. I think the “progressives” were brilliant to coin this term. But in reality, it’s one big lie.
Progress is a good thing, but many of the policies of the so-called “progressives” is anti-progress. “Progressive” is a misnomer.
As my boss, Dr. Frank Wright notes , “Using the fraudulent manipulation of language, Leftist progressives aim to advance their political, environmental, quasi-scientific, and socialistic agenda.”
And the Bible says in Isaiah 5, “Woe to those who call evil good” and vice versa.
Here are seven reasons I believe that “progressive” is indeed a “fraudulent” term and should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
1) Is it progress when babies are killed in utero in the name of choice, when the majority of the women who abort didn’t want to choose abortion, but actually had it forced on them? Even if they did want it, how it is progress for a mother to kill her own child ? It’s not progress; it’s barbarism—but because it is hidden from view, we don’t see it that way.
2) Is it progress to curb free speech in the name of political correctness? It’s not progress to allow only one view to be spoken. But this has become the norm on our college campuses today when it comes to the social issues. It’s as if the conservative side has lost—but has it even gotten a hearing? I always remember a conversation with the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, a walking-expert on the impact of welfare on society. I asked him one time how he became a conservative. He said it was by hearing Phyllis Schlafly once speak at a campus event. Just one person arguing on behalf of the truth in one setting changed the trajectory of the man’s life.
3) Is it progress to softly subjugate tens of millions of Americans by seducing them to receive government money (paid by other taxpayers) to do nothing—so that they will always vote for the so-called “progressives”? They are born, they live, they die. They never fulfill their God-given vocational destiny, for which they will one day given an account to Him—and yet, they expand the progressives’ power base by voting them in time after time. And that’s progress?
4) Is it progress to hamstring the police? To defund them? To humiliate and shame them as if all cops are like the one convicted of murdering George Floyd? We have seen “ACAB” spray-painted all over the place during riots in the last year. That stands for “All Cops Are B——-.” But are they? I thought the whole point of not being prejudiced is to not pre-judge. There are bad apples among cops. There are bad apples among politicians and preachers and movie actors, etc. But to indict all cops is nuts. Furthermore, is it progress to turn our once-great cities into virtual war zones? Just about all our major cities are run by corrupt political machines. All are on the left and implement the so-called “progressive” agenda. Writing in the Wall Street Journal (5/19/21) , Jason L. Riley notes, “The limp progressive response to rising crime and disorder has benefitted Texas and Florida.” Violent crime has shot up dramatically in those places where the left has moved to “defund the police.” The worst hit is the urban poor. No wonder Gallup found that 81 percent of Black Americans do not support defunding the police.
5) Is it progress to spend gazillions of dollars which we do not have—thus, bankrupting our children and children’s children, possibly one day forcing the dollar into hyperinflation? In the Weimar Republic of Germany (which collapsed, helping to lead to Nazi rule), it was said that bringing a wheelbarrow full of cash could only purchase a loaf of bread. The cart itself was worth more than the millions in paper money it contained.
6) Is it progress to jettison Constitutional government? No government system has brought so much stability for so long in world history as has the American system. But the “progressives” claim the Constitution is allegedly racist and must go.
7) Is it progress to indoctrinate America’s school children and teach them a bunch of lies so that they will grow up to hate their own country? Where’s the progress in that? As one critic put it, “Marxism in the classroom, riots in the streets.”
“Progressives” don’t promote real progress. They promote socialism. So why not just call them that? “Progressive” is false advertising.
“Conservatives,” in contrast, have something to conserve.
I believe Patrick Henry put his finger on why we have fallen for the “progressive” myth. He declared, “It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.”
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"Darkness and degradation." The hallmark of right wing conservatism. Note, I said 'right wing' conservatism. Conservatism is dead. Murdered by the right wing in the same manner the right wing dishonored and soiled what ever honor, chivalry and respectful historical significance of the olde Southern Antebellum Confederacy.
Thank you right wing for dirtying every American historical event.
The left brought back segregation (housing at colleges) and that does seem kind of backwards.
You can construct liberty and privacy for White Evangelical Christian male and female gun-ownership: Is it possible you can construct liberty and privacy in-utero for a girl or woman?
GO!
I'm curious as to who these women are that are being forced to have abortions. I personally don't know anyone that's been forced.
The writer of this article gives what I will refer to as a "glossy" fly-over explanation of what causes give girls and women the will to abort. It's all so "fluffy" and explanation lite. It does not deal with any of the seediness, desperation, and crisis of conscience a girl or woman is faced with in the moment.
But that is the point, is it not? These are meddles people who make money (and survive for decades) off the misery of others and the swell they get trying to control others not themselves.
What sounds like a high moral group of people is really some obnoxious set of bottom-feeders who crowd themselves into the heads of girls and women in an effort to get them to live an conservative-experience of obedience to group-think.
I do not have a personal position on abortion, per se. (Exception: Partial birth abortion which is outlawed now. And to be clear, I don't overrule women on even that, because it is not something I have to judge.) But, I do accept that science and medicine are helping women have the freedom they need to decide how to live, have liberty, and at a "right" time accept the responsibility of raising a child/ren.
Link to the quote @ 4.1.1 :
Of course, but that is not the sense I commented in is it? I address the college industry of pro-life institutions. Of course, some conservatives 'fight' for the life of the unborn, because it is a cause that survives off donations which feeds its program officers and managers and garners repeat votes for conservatives in Washington, D.C. and in states. Cha-ching!
It is not that some conservatives don't understand privacy and liberty; it is that some conservatives don't value privacy (of the womb) and liberty for girls and women. Sarcastically, some conservatives can understand gun-toting liberties up the 'ying-yang'!
So conspicuous. So obvious. So meddlesome.
And don't get me started on the inconsistency of some conservatives supporting the 'birthin' of every baby, while they don't want girls and women to have equal pay in order to feed them properly, and don't wish black women to prosper like their white counterparts, and we can all see what is happening to black men on the streets through the hands of "state-controlled" police departments.
Just because my mother thought I should have an abortion, certainly didn't mean I had to listen to her! My son is here because I have my own mind and thoughts.
There are situations I believe abortion is a choice to make; I however, have never been in one of those situations. I still very much believe it's the individual woman's / girl's choice to abort or not.
In that situation, the dude would likely just beat the crap out of the woman if she choose to go through with the birth of the child.
Women also have the ability to flee those situations. Personally, if I'd have been raped / incest, I don't think I could go through with the pregnancy. Abusive men that women find themselves with... if the woman WANTS to abort, it's perfectly understandable to me why she would not want to bring a baby into an abusive relationship. If the woman does NOT want to abort, she can find support through women's shelters, family, friends, etc. she can get away and keep that child if she chooses to.
Indeed. It is not that some conservatives don't understand privacy and liberty; it is that some conservatives don't value privacy (of the womb) and liberty for girls and women.
Let me show you just how inconsistent logically and LITTLE emotionally some conservatives care about children :
The Pro-life big-mouthed conservatives who SAY they want more life to "issue forth" as a statement from man to God's creation; did not do anything for the dead children of New Town's Sandy Hook Elementary (2012).
Those surviving children in the picture above are nearly grown in 2021, are they still tramautized?
And what of assault weapons? Did any conservative come to their agency "for LIFE sake?
Abortion is an issue some conservatives use to get their constituents to haul out to vote and 'own the libs.'
The gun-ridden dead everywhere in our soil cry out to a deceptive congress to tell them: 'Go To Hell'!
I'm a gun advocate as well CB. Sorry if that upsets you.
Do I believe that ALL guns should require a background check for the purchaser? ABSO-FRIGGEN-LOUTELY!
Do I believe that gun owners should be held responsible when someone that is NOT registered to that gun uses it? ABSO-FRIGGEN-LOUTELY!
Do I believe that current laws for gun ownership need to be upheld? ABSO-FRIGGEN-LOUTELY!
Do I believe that gun owners should be held to a high level of responsibility overall? ABSO-FRIGGEN-LOUTELY!
Do I believe that gun owners should be required to take classes to own said guns? ABSO-FRIGGEN-LOUTELY!
I took classes to obtain my concealed pistol license (CPL), which requires federal-level background checks. I didn't purchase any guns until after I took those CPL courses. My son (who is currently 12) has taken firearm safety courses in Scouts. My husband is an Eagle Scout and a CPL holder. My 18 year old daughter took a class at the local gun range with me present... she was 14 when she took that course. Neither of my children have been curious about firearms, because they've been taught respect for them. They were taught that they're not toys. I personally don't care what others think of our methods; they work for us. Any time someone brings their child over to hang out with one of mine [at least my son now, because 18 year old's don't generally have parents meet], I tell the parent that we have pistols in our home, but that they're in safes [and they are] that only my husband and I have access to. I have yet to find a parent that has an issue with that, but they still have a right to know. That's part of gun ownership responsibility.
The problem with children getting a hold of guns is usually on the adults in whatever home they're in... they leave them in places where kids can get to them. Most of the mass shootings, like in Sandy Hook, a KID [yes, he was 20, but he was a KID] had access to firearms that he shouldn't have had access to in the first place. Moreover, as a parent with 3 kids in the house, a 19 [nearly 20] year old, an 18 year old, and a 12 [nearly 13] year old in the house, if I notice one of them is acting differently than usual or seems down in any way, I TALK TO THEM. I ask if they need someone to talk to and if they don't want to talk to me, I ask them if they want to talk to a professional. Most of the time, they talk to me... they talk to me about EVERYTHING, sometimes it's stuff that's a bit difficult to hear as a parent, but nonetheless, at least I know.
It does NOT upset me. I am glad you are a responsible gun owner. I applaud you. However, that was not the point of my comment. Abortion privacy and liberty are.
Pro-Life groups, by extrapolation, present tense, support the gun deaths at New Town, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary through conservative lawmakers in Congress who do absolutely nothing to limit guns in this country. Indeed, some states, red states specifically, are 'throwing their doors' open to no limits on who/what/how many guns can enter. Pro-life groups are mute!
So when Pro-life groups SAY they care about the life of a child, I call: Bull Patty! Sandy Hook Elementary School @4.1.8 clearly establishes they do not. Pro-life groups both intentionally and unintentionally (meaning there are some well-meaning people who participate in the 'program' there are always are in this types of programs) use abortion as a wedge-issue to raise funds and help conservatives win so-called, "culture wars."
Thanks. And I agree.
I think complete banning is simply naïve. Rifles owned by US citizens are used mainly for hunting. I am someone that thinks there should be background checks should be in place for rifles, just as they are for pistols. Honestly, I think I'm in the majority for that thought. I don't see why someone needs the ability to walk into any place that sells a rifle or shotgun and purchase it that specific day. Once I did my CPL courses, it was very easy to purchase a pistol, because all of the necessary background checks were performed and that CPL proved that fact. My fingerprints are on file with the Federal Government, State Government, and Local Government [all for different reasons]. Federal was because I worked for a DoD contractor. State was for my CPL. Local was for being a chaperone for my kid's school activities... I believe that they had the ability to see that I'd had other checks as well, but didn't dig deeper for that.
I figure that if one has nothing to hide, there should be no reason that a person would not want background checks on ALL firearms.
If they only had a brain
Hyperbole and fear-mongering. Why don't these silly-ass writers stop penning fear and loathing stories (of Others-ness) for why the U. S. A. can't cope, and get on with a positive set of outcomes supporting and helping lift all the citizenry? It has been decided that we can accomplish more working together than we can pulling out whole segments of the citizenry for bigotry, prejudice, and political demonization.
We waste dollars and sense having these stupid, pathetic, societal and cultural wars. Our frenemies are eating our national lunch! And, here we are the greatest national experiment in democracy playing lying games, and games of delusion to fill the time.
Weak, weak, weak.
Because this is a certain group of people who want to rule everyone else. They use fear and loathing and perhaps the feeling of being less than others to control the lemmings of the group.