By Ben Shapiro
Progressivism in America has always been
a thuggish ideology. It rests on the notion that laws require no evidence to
support their implementation, that intentions are all that matter and that
those who oppose "change" of the sort progressives like are morally
deficient. Progressivism requires Americans to separate off certain groups in
American life as evil -- the rich ("greedy!"), gun owners
("hooligans!"), traditionally religious people
("sexists!"), Constitutional government advocates
("bigots!"). It requires that certain Americans be cast as good --
racial and ethnic minorities, low income earners and women
("victimized!"), irreligious people ("rationalists!") and
big government advocates ("experts!").
Progressivism in America is actually
regressivism. Progressivism sends us back to a time when philosophical
differences were seen as rebellion against God-given monarchic authority. It
sends us back to a time when the law of the community invariably outweighed the
rights of the individual, rather than building government on the basis of
protection of individual rights.
And most of all, progressivism prevents
any possibility of real progress. The goal of the progressive agenda isn't to
allow people to live more prosperously, more happily, better. Progressivism has
achieved none of that. In capitalist countries, today's poor live better than
yesterday's rich; tomorrow's poor will live better than today's rich. In
progressive countries, the goal is to obliterate the very categories of rich and
poor. In practice, today's poor aren't as poor as yesterday's poor, but they
live no better than yesterday's middle class. And the next generation's…
Source: Town Hall
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