…quick: which legendary figure from American history is Obama planning to ‘channel’ there?

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…quick: which legendary figure from American history is Obama planning to ‘channel’ there?

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I’ve been studying the Progressives the last few months, and I think this post will be the beginning of a series, or at least a conversation starter for another post or two. It’s struck me in my studies that the Progressives and America’s Founding Fathers are on the polar extremes of two very important issues: the nature of man and the role of government. And if you’re coming from two diametrically opposite worldviews, it of course leads to opposite conclusions. The problemswe face today are a direct result of the fact that Progressive beliefs and the Founders’ beliefs, as found in the Declaration and Constitution, are like oil and water: they will never mix.

Progressives view man as perfectable, essentially good, and see centralizing power in national government as necessary for the advancement of society. You might even say the Progressives thought the state in the hands of an educated elite was, and is, a benevolent force for good. Because of their views on man, and government, the Progressives were, and are, utopian statists. By that I mean they believe in the goodness of the state for the advancement of society; but such beliefs, and the belief that man is essentially good, are utopian: such beliefs are not rooted in reality. For empirical evidence, look no further than the 20th century, which is full of evidence as to why virtually every form of statism attempted not only did not work, but also eventually resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions. The word “utopia” literally means “nowhere,” and utopian statism has never worked anywhere.It never will because those who hold to such ideas fail each time to understand the actual nature of man and the proper role of government.

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I’ve been studying the Progressives the last few months, and I think this post will be the beginning of a series, or at least a conversation starter for another post or two. It’s struck me in my studies that the Progressives and America’s Founding Fathers are on the polar extremes of two very important issues: the nature of man and the role of government. And if you’re coming from two diametrically opposite worldviews, it of course leads to opposite conclusions. The problemswe face today are a direct result of the fact that Progressive beliefs and the Founders’ beliefs, as found in the Declaration and Constitution, are like oil and water: they will never mix.

Progressives view man as perfectable, essentially good, and see centralizing power in national government as necessary for the advancement of society. You might even say the Progressives thought the state in the hands of an educated elite was, and is, a benevolent force for good. Because of their views on man, and government, the Progressives were, and are, utopian statists. By that I mean they believe in the goodness of the state for the advancement of society; but such beliefs, and the belief that man is essentially good, are utopian: such beliefs are not rooted in reality. For empirical evidence, look no further than the 20th century, which is full of evidence as to why virtually every form of statism attempted not only did not work, but also eventually resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions. The word “utopia” literally means “nowhere,” and utopian statism has never worked anywhere.It never will because those who hold to such ideas fail each time to understand the actual nature of man and the proper role of government.

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As we spiral towards 2010, something has become vividly clear to many of us on the Right. The days of compromise are over. The decades of “Moderate”, Elitist Country Club Republicans like Lindsay Graham, John McCain and Olympia Snowe working with the Progressives in a spirit of “bi partisanship” have gotten us to where we are. My neighbor likens it to taking a glass of clean water and mixing it with half a glass of dirty water. You get dirty water. I prefer to say, compromise with evil gets you nothing but evil in smaller amounts, but evil none the less.

We must no longer compromise with the Progressives and their agenda. Simply, we must defeat them, and extinguish Progressivism and it’s manifestations at every single opportunity. I suggest we look to the Boers, and how they reclaimed South Africa from the British. Every single small government position at a time, no matter how lowly or insignificant, until the Brits didn’t know what hit them. We should (and are) starting with the GOP precinct executive positions here in Cincinnati, but it should expand to every political opportunity offered.

It’s no longer possible to debate with the Left. They no longer have ears. They must be beaten. And any Republican who doesn’t understand this, must be reckoned with, until we save our constitutional republic.