Progressivism is a Disease

Progressivism is a deadly disease, which is killing America. It was incubated, protected, and strengthened behind the backs of Americans for the past century. The progressive movement comes out in the open occasionally and then goes underground when it is discovered. This movement never goes away; it just stays hidden until progressives believe it is safe to operate in the open again. It does damage whether hidden or exposed Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat, and Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican. They both endorsed progressive ways. Other Presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson gave us more progressive programs, which are currently threatening to bankrupt our nation and overcome our constitutional way of life. Barack Obama is a progressive who is trying to outperform all previous progressive Presidents combined. On September 9, 2009, he said, "to my progressive friends, I would remind you that for decades, the driving idea behind reform has been to end insurance company abuses and make coverage available for those without it. The public option - the public option is only a means to that end. And we should remain open to other ideas that accomplish our ultimate goal. And to my Republican friends, I say that rather than making wild claims about a government takeover of healthcare, we should work together to address any legitimate concerns you may have." Did you notice that he addressed "progressive friends" and "Republican friends" - not Democrats and Republicans? Other statements from this progressive president are: "You will carry on the best progressive forward-looking values of this proud commonwealth" (Jan. 17). "Change has always come from places like Wisconsin, the state where the progressive movement was born" (Sept. 22, 2008). Where better to affirm our ideals than here in Wisconsin, where a century ago, the progressive movement was born" (Feb 12, 2008). The progressive movement has been using members of both parties to destroy our Republic. Some of the progressive programs, which are now so hard to overthrow are: 1) Federal Reserve System, created in the early 1900s as a response to repeated bank runs; 2) "Progressive" income tax, which is simply a means to redistribute wealth. Woodrow Wilson led the way to pass the Revenue Act in 1913. It was supposed to lower tariffs and be a tax on the wealthy only. Within four years, all Americans were being taxed. The bottom tax bracket hasn't been lower than 10 percent in over 60 years. 3) Prohibition was a progressive plan to ban drinking - because the government always knows what is best for its people! 4) The League of Nations (now United Nations) was a progressive idea to end world conflict. Since we are currently involved in two different wars, how is that working now? 5) Social Security was simply a progressive idea to retire older workers in order that younger people could have jobs back in the Great Depression. It redistributes wealth by taking money from the young and working people to pay for the old and sick people; 6) Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare are all progressive programs that take money from those who have it and give it to those who don't - while returning very little to the victims. We now have a Progressive Caucus in our Congress with more than 80 members. Members of the Progressive Caucus currently chair 11 of the 20 standing committees in Congress. How can we expect this Congress to have anything but progressive ideas? If our Republic is going to throw off the great disease of progressivism, Americans must wake up and realize what is happening in our nation. There are secret combinations working inside our government and trying to overthrow our Constitution. We must identify the progressives among our leadership and vote them out of office as soon as possible!

God versus Progressives

Isn't it interesting how a snowstorm can do so much to show the real agenda of the progressive movement? If you remember, the big conference on weather change was shortened for many American representatives by a big snowstorm because they had to get back to Washington before a storm hit. Now another big storm is hitting Washington that has basically shut down the federal government. One of the reasons why people can't get to work is because 25 percent of the snowplows in the city are not working; therefore, the streets are not being cleared as quickly as they need to be to keep the traffic flowing. Specifically, it is keeping Congress out of session where they would shove the Jobs bill down our throats. This example shows how well government works! If the snowplows belonged to a private business whose income depended on being ready for storms, that company would be out of business! When the government runs the business, it just keeps collecting taxes even though it doesn't do the job. Another example is Social Security, which is now paying out more than it is taking in because so many people are out of work. Medicare and Medicaid are forcing doctors to turn patients away. How can we believe that Obamacare would work any better? We keep hearing about all the money that goes to pay for the wars we are fighting. Apparently, these people do not know that "providing common defense" is a basic duty of the government. The bigger our government grows, the more "cogs" there are to turn. A smaller government would cost less in taxes and would work better if it were doing only those jobs that it is supposed to be doing. The best thing this country can do is to get the government out of every area of our lives except those areas that are specifically noted in the Constitution.

"The Soviet Story"

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about progressives and how they want to change our history and traditions. Since then I have learned a little more about how socialists change history and traditions. Edvins Snore, a Latvian filmmaker, wrote and directed a documentary entitled "The Soviet Story". After his film was released in Russia, this man was burned in effigy on the streets of Moscow by young hoodlums who blamed him for rewriting the nation's history. He wrote a special article for Glenn Beck's newsletter, from which the following information came. He made his documentary film because he wanted "to show the world the history of those nations, millions of people, who lived behind the Iron Curtain, under Soviet occupation." The current Russian text books apparently depict Stalin as a successful manager, but they fail to note that under his "successful management" there were 7 million Ukrainians who were "intentionally starved to death." Under his management "whole nations and ethnic groups were wiped off the map." In 1940 the Soviets invaded the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and deported all the people to Siberia. Then millions of settler from Russia moved into the Baltic States. The Soviets did much the same thing in the Ukraine. In 1944 the Soviets deported the whole Chechen nation - men, women and children - to Central Asia. The people were loaded into cattle trucks and moved in one day - February 23, 1944. Only 80 percent of the people survived the move. The impact of the Soviet actions in these nations is evident today. The former Soviet republics are free democracies now, but their societies are divided in both their ethics and ideals. These divisions increase the risks of conflict and instability. This documentary shows footage of the renowned British playwright Bernard Shaw calling for extermination of "parasite classes" in the 1930s. It also includes footage of the Soviet-Nazi friendship during the early part of World War II.

Progressive Movement

The progressive movement is destroying our freedoms and liberties. This movement started around the turn of last century and is very strong today. Progressives gave us the Federal Reserve. They brought redistribution of wealth through the progressive income tax. They brought us the League of Nations, then the United Nations. They brought in Prohibition to force people into better health by denying them alcohol. They brought in the idea that our Constitution is a flawed, living, breathing document and that our Founding Fathers were a bunch of rich racists.

Progressives today speak a different language. When they say "economic justice" they really mean "taking from the halves and giving to the have nots." When they speak of "social justice" they want "someone to step down so that someone else can have a turn." When then-Presidential Nominee Barack Obama said, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" he really meant that he was on the verge of "collapsing the state as we know it and rebooting it as a progressive utopia."

What most people call socialism, progressives call social justice. They seem to really believe that they are making things better. There have been numerous attempts by progressives to take over the government of the United States, and the modern-day progressives have learned from the earlier attempts to transform America. The speed with which government has taken over private industry in the past year shows that there was a plan in place long before the election was held.

Progressives now live by these rules: 1) No debate is allowed. People like Al Gore have said things like, "The discussion is over." They know that truth will prevail if it is allowed out in the open. Look what happened at the climate change conference in December. 2) This transformation cannot be conducted in the open. Health reform is a good example of this. The leaders of both the House and the Senate denied all proposals that were not part of their plan to take over our health care system. Obama and the other elected stooges are now meeting in secret to determine the future of Americans' health care. 3) They never let a good crisis go to waste. They are just waiting for something really bad to happen in order to take over our country.

Those people who are truly listening to the words of the progressives and watching their actions recognize that these rules are in place and are being used. The people who are basically responsible for the overwhelming and possible collapse of our economic system are Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven, authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy. They wrote about collapsing the economy and how to do it in an article they wrote in the 1960's called, "Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done." It was published in The Nation, under the title "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." Cloward and Piven were radical professors at Columbia in the 1960's. They believed in "change" and "social justice." They wrote a plan to put Saul Alinsky's social change for America into effect. Their plan was to overwhelm the system and cause capitalism to fail. To do this, they would overload the government bureaucracy and bring on economic collapse by impossible demands. In a ten-year period, from 1964 until 1974, the total number of people on welfare rose from 4.3 million to 10.8 million. New York City alone had 1 million welfare recipients in 1975 and declared bankruptcy.

More than twenty years later, Mayor Rudy Giuliani was still trying to deal with some of the problems. He referred to the Cloward and Piven strategy while describing the economic sabotage. He said, "This wasn't an accident; it wasn't an atmospheric thing; it wasn't supernatural. It was the result of policies, choices and a philosophy that was embraced in the 1960's and then enthusiastically endorsed in the City of New York." He went on to say, "This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare" (Video Clip dated July 20, 1998).

Hard-working American taxpayers grew tired of providing money to able-bodied welfare recipients generation after generation, and welfare reform was begun. After the welfare reform bill was signed by Bill Clinton in 1996, millions of people were taken off the welfare rolls. Meanwhile, the progressives turned to other means to overwhelm the system. One way was to register all the dead-beats to vote. Bill Clinton signed the Motor Voter Bill into law in 1993 and invited Richard Cloward and his wife, Frances Fox Piven to the signing. Now they are working on a plan to provide amnesty to all undocumented workers who are in our country illegally.

Numerous Presidents of the United States have been progressives, including Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. John McCain is a progressive and would have taken us down the same path that Obama is taking us but at a slower pace. Obama's speed has caused many people, including myself, to wake up to what is happening.

Progressives have become part of the system of our national government. Hilary Clinton wrote her college thesis on Saul Alinsky and has proclaimed herself to be a "modern progressive." I encourage everyone to study and learn more about how progressivism started and where it wants to take our country. A good place to start is by listening to Glenn Beck interview Matthew Spalding, director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for American Studies. This interview explains a lot about progressivism.

Today I was listening to an address given by Ronald Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention. He was talking about Russia and the threat of communism, but I was shocked by how much his words apply to our nation right now. I really recommend that you listen to the entire speech. Here is just one quote from it: "This is the issue of the election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."

The freedoms and liberties that we enjoy are being threatened right now. Our economic system is on the verge of collapse due to the massive national debt. Each American citizen - man, woman and child - now owes more than $340,000! Americans must wake up and realize what is happening or it will be too late to stop the progressive program before it destroys our nation.