Is it possible that progressives have gone completely insane? “Their new position is that it is immoral to restrict any kind of immigration, from any country, in any amount, for any reason ever,” Tucker Carlson said recently on his Fox News show.
But Progressives haven’t lost their minds. They haven’t gone further out on the left-wing of American politics. In fact they haven’t changed at all. They’re simply being honest about what they believe, always have believed, and now cannot believe that the rest of America disagrees.
When Donald Trump became our 45th president, Progressives found “patriotism” in the foxhole. The public has been informed, by the same people who built their careers deconstructing Americanism, that the #Resist movement is akin to our foundational rebellion, against the closest thing to George III this country has ever produced—or so we are told.
Americans were presented with a Muslim woman draped in an American flag hijab, to remind them of what real progress in the West looks like—even as women in the Middle East burn veils in their struggle for liberty. It might not be a coincidence that wherever Islamic regimes establish themselves, the first thing enforced is the dress code.
Illegal immigrants were used as props and placed before the cameras, characterized as the embodiments of civic virtue. “America is a nation of immigrants,” and we must accept an endless inflow of such “immigrants,” even as they partner with Democrats in an attempt to hold ransom the pay for over 2 million American troops and healthcare for 9 million children, in exchange for their citizenship.
Little by little, the façade crumbled, and the patrioteering subsided. Progressives who insisted they were for America gradually resumed chanting the good Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s favorite hymnal, “God damn America!” That’s Obama’s old pastor, by the way. Rev. Wright does a wonderful job of candidly summarizing how the political left views, and always had viewed this nation:
[The United States] government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth is they believed that all white men were created equal. The truth is they did not even believe that white women were created equal, in creation nor civilization.
No, the founding fathers did not lie. They believed, in accordance with the precepts of natural law in which our nation’s principles are rooted, that all men are equal in the sense of their creation in the image of the God, and unlike any other species, humans are equipped with the faculty to reason as much. This fact makes us boundlessly precious in our being, and it means that we are meant, therefore, to govern ourselves without asking leave of any expert who, by his nature, is somehow supposed to be our natural and sovereign superior. But it certainly does not mean we are equal in the contemporary progressive sense, complete with wealth redistribution and endlessly reductive egalitarianism.
It might come as a surprise to some that the “white men” in Rev. Wright’s scintillating sermon purchased slaves from African slavers, who enslaved their African kinsmen. This customarily took place in breezy little coastal slave markets and made African slavers immensely wealthy. Indeed, the greed of African slavers was such that, “[w]hen France and Britain outlawed slavery in their territories in the early 19th Century, African chiefs who had grown rich and powerful off the slave trade sent protest delegations to Paris and London,” Martin Henry writes for the Jamaica Gleaner. Finally, to quote Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson:
[America] is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protections of minorities than any other society, white or black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all of those of Africa.
It is not for nothing that when Muhammed Ali returned from his first visit to Africa and a reporter asked him what he thought of it, Ali replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
The principles enshrined in our Constitution also provided the framework for early women’s rights advocates, and they have always been compatible with women’s rights on the basis that sex is not a prerequisite for individual or political rights in our Constitution. In fact, women voted in America, as early as 1790, long before they voted anywhere else. By 1913, women were voting in nine states. The 19th Amendment was not ratified in spite of American foundational principles; it was realized because of this nation’s principles. For a taste of real women’s inequality, take a trip to one of many Islamic nations—and be sure to pack a veil.
“Trump’s America is a shithole country,” Danielle Campoamor writes for Newsweek. To the contrary, Trump’s America is America; it’s struggling to be itself once more, or at least it offers us a chance to reaffirm the real America, against the pernicious narrative that has marched through our institutions since the 1960s under the guise of progress.
The march for progress today finds itself characterized by the “liberating tolerance” called for by Brandeis sociologist Herbert Marcuse in his 1965 book, A Critique of Pure Tolerance, wherein Marcuse demands tolerance for all things from the left, and intolerance for all things coming from the right. When the progressives and those aligned with them call for “progress” or “tolerance,” this is what they mean.
I have become a firm believer that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a misnomer, because I think TDS is more of a truth serum than Mad Cow disease. It has revealed what progressives—and progressively tendentious “conservatives”—want America to become, that is, a geographical expression utterly divorced from the foundational principles of the nation it once was.
President Trump is a giant searchlight shining on the left. They can not hide, and the light reveals how truly despicable they have always been.
“Progressives” supposedly, according to the first paragraph of the article, now have the position that it is “immoral to restrict any kind of immigration, from any country, in any amount, for any reason ever.” But somehow there’s literally nothing in the entire article to support that assertion.
Because they shout it from the treetops everyday, hold rallies and are on news programs 24/7 espousing these views. As such, its self evident to the nominally aware. They brought illegal aliens to the SOTU. Nancy Pelosi gave an 8 hour speech on the floor of the House today. Just because you have been living under a rock for 5 years doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t recognize the truth when we read it based on the statements of the people with these well stated views that you are ostensibly trying to protect through that silly statement.
I’ll go WAY out on a limb and opine that you can’t possibly be that unaware.
It is just trolling. It doesn’t even believe the things it says.
Nevermind.
I’ll go way out on a limb and opine that you live in a “sanctuary city” that prohibits any enforcement action against an illegal alien. But probably a city that does permit enforcement against public expressions of Christian morality.
Since everyone is “out on a limb” about my statement, I’ll join you on that limb and guess that your definition of “public expressions of Christian morality” is the right to shame homosexuals and refuse to accept their business.
I’ve read the Bible. Do you honestly think that Jesus would have shunned homosexuals or insisted on deporting people who were doing no more than trying to work for a better life? I’m not trying to win an argument – I’m really interested if you understand Christ’s teachings differently than I do.
My definition of Christian morality is allowing a Christian to observe their beliefs. Your definition of morality is forcing the entire world to observe your beliefs. In other words, you are a totalitarian. We are not compatible with you. So, we should just agree to live separately. I notice you and yours all love Cuba and Venezuela and other regimes which have your view of individual rights. You should go there and achieve full happiness.
You sure “know” many things about me.
Yep. Your words speak volumes.
45’s election and first year… a lot of masks have dropped. Good essay. Pedro is correct… the left has always believed these things.. but they’ve hidden them. Now emboldened and angry, they spew their ideology; without shame or pretense.
Thanks for reading, Max!
Among themselves Progressives have always been open in their loathing of America and Americans. Take a look at Woodrow Wilson’s 10 volumes on America written before he became a politician. What is new is the media openly covering what progressives are saying. The media has been a progressive propaganda machine for over a century letting only “positive” views of the ruling class through the filter. Now they feel safe coming out in the open and for good reason. They have the big cities, the universities and still have the media viewed by a majority of Americans. We who recognize them for the dictators they are may well be a minority. The elections in November will tell.
The left’s unhinged hatred of President Trump has driven them to reveal their own ugliness and duplicity (and their fellow travelers on the Establishment right have been flushed out, too). By forcing the scoundrels into the open, Trump has performed another invaluable service to our Republic. God bless him.
One of the ironies of President Trump’s SOTU was the picture of the Black caucus attired in Kente cloth. The cloth of the kings of Western Africa. These kings became rich selling slaves. The Black caucus illustrating they’re still lording it over black communities throughout America. Selling out their people.
They’re simply being honest about what they believe, always have believed”
Which they can’t possibly run on because it’s evil. Normal people sense evil. That’s why they accuse us of being them: Evil only knows what evil does. You can quote me on that.
This one is really very good!!
Thanks Mr. Gonzalez & thanks Am. Greatness.
For another on this line & also from A.G.:
https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/01/goodbye-america/
Don’t forget the complete meltdown the left had over the “selection” of Bush over Gore. Their bitterness over the 2000 election has turned to rage over Hillary winning the 2016 popular vote yet being shown the door. They cannot accept the things they cannot change, especially rejection.