04 October 2013

On being Progressive.

While breakfasting in a hotel earlier this week, I got a dose of CNN as they bemoaned the government shutdown and blamed it wholly on the Republicans and especially the Tea Party candidates, as if by magic the Democrats were saints and the Republicans evil sinners.
Knowledge and information are what form people. We must have accurate information to properly evaluate our decisions. Yet here are ‘news reporters’ voicing their ready-made opinions for us, judging the situation so that in order for us to determine for ourselves we must turn to other sources perhaps also tainted by some agenda, or we must perform our own investigations with resources not readily available to us. We don’t have the time to do this and perform all the other roles that life has given us. This is the danger and power of media. It is also the power of education. With education steeped in political propaganda, information will always be ignored if it fails to meet the agenda. Today’s children are taught not to question Global warming, gay ‘rights’ and are offered revisionist histories designed to inflame racial tensions and don’t forget to throw in some ‘scientific’ realities. Progressive reality.
Prepackaged Spin is the new progressive media.
Forgotten in the CNN reporting were the reasons for this obstructed process. Forgotten was the fact that the vast majority of the people had openly opposed the Affordable Health Care Act that the Democrats forced upon the Nation. The Democratic legislators didn't read the Bill, claiming there was no time, as if the jaws of Hell were going to open up and swallow the nation if they didn't pass it right then.
Why the hurry? The media failed to ask. They didn't need to. They are progressives.
Why would they push such an unpopular law into existence? It was politically stupid. Many that voted for it secretly hoped that the Supreme Court would take the fall and declare it dead in the water. When that didn't happen, then the end game became clear: Blame all subsequent failures onto the Republicans!
But why do it at all? It is because the Democrats are progressives.
Political progressives are only slow socialist. Socialism relies upon capitalism for survival, like a cancer upon a body. Much like cancer, the more aggressive the socialism, the harder it is for the capitalist to survive. If Capitalism dies so also dies incentive, innovation, and opportunity, in other words, Freedom. Socialism relies on the efforts and abilities of the successful to provide for those with none of their own. Take away freedom, and whatever else is left will not spell success, it will only spell disaster. We now know that there are power seekers who exploit failure for ever more power. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” What does that spell? Tyranny.
This emerging tyranny will be more dangerous and pervasive than any other in history. Never before had a tyrant had more information than what our government has available to it now. It has complete access to phone, fax, e-mail, internet usage, medical and financial records, including your age, weight and height. It can monitor your personal and vehicle movement, family and social contacts, photos, work information, housing status, marital status, educational proficiency, religious preference, skills and any other fact that it wants. Instantly, starting with now and going back for years, building a case built upon whatever prejudice they want to produce. Give me several years of your records and I can make whatever you are into whatever I want you to be, using selective editing. It won’t be hard. Then I can come for you. If you are white, I’ll shop a black jury. If you are a Republican, I’ll shop for a partisan Democratic jury. If you are Jewish, I’ll use Muslims; for Catholics, anti-Catholics. Christian Protestants, Atheists. They have already divided us into factions, making it all the easier to ply racial and demographic prejudices into the judicial system.
Once you have been identified as a less desirable character, as defined by the ruling elite, they can seize your property and/or incarcerate you. It is only another baby step for these to end your life or hold hostage the life of your loved ones, or use their new found control to your health access to ensure your cooperation. I am not being wild-eyed alarmist or even cynical. 
Slavery is only the next ‘progression.’ What did you think being progressive really meant?