The Progressive Revolution: From Democratic to Liberal to Progressive to Socialist

[Bobref]

16 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Bari Weiss Resigns from New York Times Due To ‘Constant Bullying’ By Colleagues: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bari-weiss-resigns-from-new-york-times-due-to-constant-bullying-by-colleagues/

 

“a newconsensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

In a nutshell...

[Muda69]

About Those Spooky Federal Cops in Portland

https://mises.org/power-market/about-those-spooky-federal-cops-portland

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Dear Portlandia progressives: a federal government big enough to take care of you is a federal government big enough to "take care of  you."

Scary unidentifiable police, federal black sites, and procedureless snatching of individuals from the streets are the wholly predictable and natural consequences of the very policies you advocated for decades. Why do you imagine a big government with lots of power will restrict itself to the cozy "social issues" and economic takings you support? Government can seize the means of production, but not seize you? You wanted everything run from DC, and you got what you wanted. Plus you certainly would be every bit as outraged if federal agents concerned about the undermining of America surreptitiously snatched up a few "white supremacists," right? 

Progressives of all parties have cheered the relentless centralization of state matters—and rejection of the Tenth Amendment—for nearly 150 years. The shaky and infirm Incorporation Doctrine federalized the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court federalized social and economic issues, and the the alphabet soup of federal agencies created by progressive administrations federalized the regulatory state. Foreign policy was ripped away from Congress and commandeered by bureaucratic Deep State actors at the DOD, CIA, NSA, and the State Department. Thousands of new federal crimes were created by statute. These statutes in turn created a vast federal police state, one heavily influenced and provisioned by the residual weaponry and machinery of our overseas wars. 

So now you wonder why the Feds are sent in to quell an uprising in Portland? 

Who wanted to make the world safe for democracy? Remember Woodrow Wilson, suddenly a bad guy because of racism? At least Truman had the honesty to admit regrets about creating the CIA. Who wanted federal control over the retrograde Southern states? Who dismissed the Ninth and Tenth Amendments as relics? Who derided states' rights and nullification as legal cover for bigotry? And for the millionth time, "states' rights" does not mean states have "rights" relative to their citizens; it refers to their retained powers in a federal system—so enough with the dishonest smears.

Who shrugged at Waco and Guantanamo Bay, for that matter? Or when Obama signed the NDAA?

At this writing, federal agents operating in the City of Roses appear to be from the Department of Homeland Security (sic). Here is what Ron Paul, a true man of peace yet despised by progressives, had to say back in 2002, shortly after the DHS was created with overwhelming support in Congress:

The Homeland Security department, like all federal agencies, will increase in size exponentially over the coming decades. Its budget, number of employees, and the scope of its mission will EXPAND. Congress has no idea what it will have created twenty or fifty years hence, when less popular presidents have the full power of a domestic spying agency at their disposal. The frightening details of the Homeland Security bill, which authorizes an unprecedented level of warrantless spying on American citizens, are still emerging. Those who still care about the Bill of Rights, particularly the 4th amendment, have every reason to be alarmed. But the process by which Congress created the bill is every bit as reprehensible as its contents. Of course the Homeland Security bill did receive some opposition from the President’s critics. Yet did they attack the legislation because it threatens to debase the 4th amendment and create an Orwellian surveillance society? Did they attack it because it will chill political dissent or expand the drug war? No, they attacked it on the grounds that it failed to secure enough high-paying federal union jobs, thus angering one of Washington’s most powerful special interest groups. Ultimately, however, even the most prominent critics voted for the bill.

Similarly, Dr. Paul was scorned and attacked by progressives of all parties in the early 2000s for labeling the Bush/Ashcroft/Yoo junta as a "police state." He was dismissed for opposing TSA at the airport, for opposing FISA warrants, for his Fourth Amendment absolutism, and especially for warning how American forays in the Middle East would come home in a multitude of ways.  

Constitutionally, there are only three federal crimes: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. No standing federal police agencies or apparatus are required to enforce these; in fact the latter appears to be the express policy of our central bank. There should not be federal agents, overt or covert, in Portland. The riots taking place there are criminal matters for local authorities and local authorities alone. If residents and local politicians prefer to give the mob freedom to run amok over both public (taxpayer) and private property, while also threatening the physical safety of ordinary citizens, Uncle Sam has nothing to say about it. But the same people who demanded endless growth in the federal police and regulatory state ought to be more circumspect today. A cynic might call them hypocrites.

They are hypocrites, that much is true.

 

[TheStatGuy]

On 7/15/2020 at 2:15 AM, Howe said:

 

Again.

Most Democrat's don't want to defund the police and the ones that do.. Mean not get rid of all cops..but keep pushing that right wing propaganda...and keep being uneducated about the situation, Republican's are banking on it.

12 hours ago, TrojanDad said:

Again, their brand of socialism is different than the socialist countries the right wing propaganda machine says... But yes keep being uneducated about the situation...its what the Republican party is banking on.

Edited July 29, 2020 by TheStatGuy

[Muda69]

AOC Calls Statue of Priest Who Ministered to Leper Colony an Example of ‘White Supremacist Culture’

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-calls-statue-of-priest-who-ministered-to-leper-colony-an-example-of-white-supremacist-culture/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.”

Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, arrived in Hawaii in 1864 when the islands were an independent kingdom. The priest conducted missionary work on the islands and for the last 16 years of his life ministered to a leper colony, until he died after contracting leprosy himself. A statue of Father Damien stands in the U.S. Capitol.

. @AOC calls the statue in the US capitol building of Father Damien, a canonized saint in the Catholic Church, a part of “white supremacist culture.”

Father Damien died of leprosy after spending his life serving others who had the disease. pic.twitter.com/NVnfCN7EVK

— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) July 31, 2020

 

“It’s not Queen Lili’uokalani…the only Queen Regnant of Hawaii, who is immortalized and whose story is told. It is Father Damien,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Facebook story in which she lamented the absence of statues of female figures in the Capitol. “This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like!” In addition to Father Damien, the Capitol houses a statue of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian islands under one kingdom by 1810.

While still a princess, Lili’uokalani visited Father Damien at the colony to present him with honors from the Hawaiian royal government. In 2009, then-governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle proclaimed October 11 Saint Damien Day.

“In Hawai‘i, Damien remains a spiritual hero and an icon of love, compassion, courage, humility and humanitarian service,” Lingle said at the time.

The U.S. has seen a series of attempts to remove statues considered offensive following the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers. These statues have included Confederate leaders such as Robert E. Lee, while other statues that have been vandalized include likenesses of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, and in one case, Frederick Douglass.

 

[Howe]

 

[Muda69]

Democrats Promise to Bring California-Style Blackouts to Everyone

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democrats-promise-to-bring-california-style-blackouts-to-everyone/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=second

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Gotta say, it was bold of Democratic Party convention organizers to let voters know they plan on passing federal energy policies that would transform the rest of the country into California. The Golden State is experiencing rolling blackouts even as the Democrats speak. Millions of people are having their electrical power turned off in the middle of a heat wave — more specifically, their air conditioners. Blackouts aren’t merely an inconvenience, it is an economic drag and dangerous to vulnerable populations.

 

California doesn’t have enough reliable power — which is to say fossil-fuel and nuclear energy – because it depends on intermittent sources like solar and windmills. California is what happens when quixotic political aspirations smother economic reality. I’m skeptical that most Americans – even Californians – will be willingly to roll back modernity for long. We’ll see.

California governor Gavin Newsom was forced to admit the state’s “transition” away from fossil fuels was one of the contributing factors in rolling blackouts, so you can imagine how serious it is. For context, renewable energy is now responsible for approximately 36 percent of the state’s energy generation, and it’s already putting a tremendous strain on the state. It has to nearly double that number within a decade, and go 100 percent fossil-fuel free by 2045.

Just a reminder: To keep up with IPCC recommendations on carbon emission cut and meet the Paris treaty goals that Democrats promise, Americans would be compelled to shut down virtually the entire economy. The only time we’ve kept pace with those numbers was during the lockdown.

Both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden support the Green New Deal, which calls for the elimination of all fossil fuels within a decade – not to mention cars and planes and entire industries. To be fair, Democrats often treat “The Green New Deal” as some amorphous catch-all slogan. But Biden’s plan calling for “clean energy revolution and environmental justice” not only ostensibly relies on the Green New Deal, it promises to make the plan the “framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.” That means “a 100 percent clean energy economy and net-zero emissions no later than 2050.”

Or, in other words, welcome to California!

 

[swordfish]

I think back to when I grew up.....in a house......with no air conditioning......

[DanteEstonia]

1 hour ago, swordfish said:

I think back to when I grew up.....in a house......with no air conditioning......

In the Mojave Desert? 

[swordfish]

No - In Indiana......

In case your too young to know, A/C wasn't a standard fixture in most homes until the 1980's........until then, a fan and the shade was your A/C....

Even in the Mojave Desert.....

[Muda69]

2 minutes ago, swordfish said:

No - In Indiana......

In case your too young to know, A/C wasn't a standard fixture in most homes until the 1980's........until then, a fan and the shade was your A/C....

Even in the Mojave Desert.....

My parents didn't install A/C in their house until I went away to college.  🙂

And at ISU most of the dorms didn't have A/C either.  After moving off campus the house I and some buddies rented didn't have A/C and the landlord forbid window units (heck I only payed like $150 a month, utilities included.  Went down to $100 a month during the summer when ISU and Rose weren't in session).  

Somehow we all survived unscathed.

 

[DanteEstonia]

6 hours ago, swordfish said:

No - In Indiana......

In case your too young to know, A/C wasn't a standard fixture in most homes until the 1980's........until then, a fan and the shade was your A/C....

Even in the Mojave Desert.....

There were swamp coolers in the Mojave prior to A/C.

[swordfish]

On 8/20/2020 at 5:51 PM, DanteEstonia said:

There were swamp coolers in the Mojave prior to A/C.

OK - good for them.  Here in Indiana, in the 70's and 80's - we (my family and the majority of  our neighbors) didn't have one of those luxuries......(BTW - that's what they were called back then - Luxuries)

Edited August 24, 2020 by swordfish

[Muda69]

12 minutes ago, swordfish said:

OK - good for them.  Here in Indiana, in the 70's and 80's - we (my family and the majority of  our neighbors) didn't have one of those luxuries......(BTW - that's what they were called back then - Luxuries)

A/C is still a luxury today.