The Craziness Continues
Published in Marietta Daily Journal (GA), Nov. 26, 2022
How
today’s progressives ever came to be called progressives need not be a mystery.
Just a few reminders of American and European history can inform us of the
reason for their name change.
The Progressive Party of 1912 was founded by
former President Teddy Roosevelt. But that third party effort dissolved in
1920. Formed after Roosevelt lost the Republican nomination to William Howard
Taft, it gathered up liberals, labor leaders, and left-leaning Republicans. It
embraced and advocated women’s suffrage and a minimum wage for women. Also
called the Bull Moose Party, a caricature of the toughness and unquestionable
physical strength of Teddy Roosevelt, the newly formed party actually was
forward looking, thus the term Progressive.
But
contrast this early 20th century political effort to the
progressives of today. Today’s progressives are yesterday’s liberals and
liberal they still are. After William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald
Reagan pounded liberalism and revealed it for what it is, which is
communism-lite, liberals eventually sought a different name. But their hearts
never changed. Their core belief is still the sanctity of a strong national
government – not a federal one - and the requirement that individual citizens
get used to it. Hanging their hat on the same rack as TR doesn’t work because
TR, for all his big government ideas, never put the village above the villager.
Socialism could never fit on a rugged cowboy like TR.
Purporting to look forward, progressives are
actually throwbacks. Their love of Big Brother and their belief in the
necessity of his power is as old as the Asian and Persian tyrants. Their war
against the natural order – males and females, husband and wife, biological
sexuality, masculinity and femininity, family life – is as old as licentious
Rome and Greece. Let us say then that progressives are actually reactionaries,
a tag they have always applied to conservatives.
Consider
the progressives’ affinity for Rome. Outside of three or four so-called “good
emperors,” the Roman Empire was ruled by rank sensualists, Caligula being the
prime example. Sexually, it was “anything goes.” Harems were ubiquitous.
Homosexuality was rank. Although Epicurus was Greek, his philosophical argument
that pleasure was the highest good spread to Rome where it took root and
flourished. During the first century the Christian gospel, via multiple
translations of the Bible, began to push back the prevailing Roman and Greek
emphasis on sensuality and kept it at bay for centuries. By the time of
America’s founding, Europe was essentially a Christian continent. So became the
New World. By the 1960s the kind but strong Billy Graham was declaring that the
New Morality was nothing more than the Old Immorality. Graham was apparently a
student of ancient history and its top down licentiousness and rebellion
against nature.
One wonders what progressives love
more, abortion or sexual chaos. Confusing freedom with license, they resist
natural order, arguing that gender depends upon personal choice or “the way we
present” ourselves. One can “identify” as he or she (or is it “shem”?) wishes.
Who, I ask, needs a
college course in “gender studies” when the facts of the matter are all around
us, clear as day? Yet most universities today are awash in such nonsense. Lay
aside separation of church and state for a moment. What the world needs now is
separation of science and state. Until recently scientists worked independently
in labs. They meticulously reported their findings which they never considered
“settled.” Nowadays many “scientists” are agents of the government. (Everybody
say “Fauci.”) Progressives and their fake scientists have set their faces against
anything permanent. Consequently, transgenderism and the insistence that there
is another gender beside male and female.
Progressives
argue that they support policies that progress the nation toward social
justice. But simultaneously they defend barbaric abortion. How is this
different from ancient child sacrifice?
Consider
the following illustrations of progressive craziness. NBC reporter Ben Collins
recently argued that taking children to drag queen shows would teach them that
transgendered people are human beings. The ACLU and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation) continue to discredit and badger Focus on the
Family, one of the nation’s most respected family support organizations. Disney
can no longer be trusted with our children, having joined the sexualization of
children bandwagon. Virginia’s Fairfax County Public School system is revising
its standards in order to make them “gender combined.”
Truth
is that so-called progressivism has infected the nation’s brain. What else explains
the huge political successes that the progressive left enjoys? Our only hope is
to keep fighting, voting, and declaring boldly that our children belong to us,
not to the deniers of the natural order.
Roger Hines
11/25/2022
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