Theodore's World

Why don't these gutless bastards just come out and join CPUSA and declare to the world they are really communists. Hiding behind the "Progressive" label is spineless. Everybody knows, you can't stop progressivism once its started, you wind up with either nazism or some perverted form of communism.

They'd like everyone to believe there is a huge difference between communism and fascism but they are not two opposites but two rival gangs fighting for the same territory both variants of Statism. Based on the collective principle that man is the Rightless slave of the State.

In obama's rant talking about Negative Rights this is what he was getting at, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence get in the way of the government taking power and Liberty away from the People. This is why Health Care was so important to these communists. It takes Liberty away from the people and forces them with fear of penalty for not complying. We have NEVER been forced to buy anything, it was up to us, therefore a Liberty to do as we please as long as we don't violate the same right of others.

When you are forced to do something by Law you are not free and have no liberty. In fact, you are a slave. When you have to ask permission you are not free, when they say you can't get Health Care because you are too old, You are not free and shortly youi'll probably be dead anyway either because you couldn't get the help needed or they sent you to a death panel. This is not FREEDOM.

Franken is a very greasy character. He makes me wince whenever I see or hear him.

We must remember that obama has attacked The Constitution as an obstacle in the way of Progressivism. In truth he means The Constitution's protection of individual freedoms is in the way of government's control of the populace. As Mark states, progressivism is really communism.

I concur with you, TomR, Mark's observation and comment is right on. Call them on the carpet for what they really are.

Instead of thinking them extreme in their thinking back in the day, we should have listened to our East German friends and our Venezuelan and Cuban friends in exile here in America when they would tell us and well warn us of how American Democrats will slowly undermine our country and freedom in the world.

How long before the tyrants from Caracas and Havana walk through the front door of the White House ?

Progressives aren't anything new, forward looking, or really part of any progress at all.

They're really regressive and part of something quite old, tested and failed from the dust bin of history.

Read William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" from 1646 and how the Mayflower settlement failed famished and miserable until they dropped the central planning collectivist farm system and started dividing individual private property farms that suddenly produced bountiful harvests.

Or how Ronald Reagan showed the world that the collectivist central planners in the Politburos of Moscow were indeed an Evil Empire, defeated them, and ended the Cold War liberating tens of millions of Eastern Europeans, all for Freedom and Freedom's sake without firing a single shot.

These Progressives portend to be smarter and better educated with their enlightened educations so as to better perceive things, when they really can't see much at all, or even read into and learn from history.

Our Democrats in 2010 are collectivists, central planners; yes, as Mark has well concluded,

precisely,

Communists.

I was thinking the term, Idiot Locker, is a bit more appropriate when describing an event like this.

Awesome input thank you so much.