What is a Progressive?

Progressives like to say that to be progressive means they are looking for progress. They never say what they want to progress to. Do they even know? Progressives are a sneaky bunch, they will only tell you what you want to hear and they have overtaken the democratic party. While they have not entirely taken over the republican party, there are some RINO's creeping around. The first openly progressive president was Theodore Roosevelt followed by Taft, who was actually a progressive light, and the worst of the bunch (possibly worse than FDR) Woodrow Wilson. I'll post about the best and worst Presidents in a later blog. This is about the progressives as a whole, their party platform.

There have always been dark periods of history, even in the United States. One of those dark periods in United States history was the Progressive Era. The progressive movement has been around for a long time, the Progressive Party surfaces and disappears once the American people catch on to the real agenda. Now the Progressives are using Rules for Radicals to pass their agenda. The Progressives have slowly over time, chipped away at our liberties, slowly so Americans don't realize what's happening.

The first problem with the Progressive agenda appears in the first line of the platform, talking about a "sense of justice". At the end of the declaration, it tries to hide it's real agenda "This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Its resources, its business, its institutions and its laws should be utilized, maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general interest." It states right there clearly that the government should control everything within the country in the name of the general interest. The second item on the agenda is to amend the constitution to make it easier to amend to fit "progressive" needs. The progressive agenda also attempts to destroy state identity in favor of federal collectivism, consolidate federal power in a central location. Again the main interest of the progressive's is to create social and industrial justice. Progressive's also believe that profits from business should be sent to the people, not kept, destroying any profit motive business might have. Progressives called for strong federal control of business and business trade. Progressives believe that government bureaucrats can run lives better than the person themselves. Farmers don't know how to farm, businessmen don't know how to run business and laborers don't know how to labor; the government must step in and show them the way. Progressive also believe that all land and water should be controlled by the government because left in the hands of settlers, they would be wasted because the settler doesn't know how to use the land, only the government does. Progressive don't believe in the court system, the government knows better than judges. Progressives want everything decided by the people, the reason being they were creating a nation of dependents, if the government controlled everything the citizens are dependent on the government to provide them with everything they need to survive. The progressives also wanted to destroy patents, the inventor had no right to his invention; the government would know how to better utilize his invention. Progressives believe that the government should oversee private investment and establish a bureaucracy to streamline federal agencies to eliminate duplication (abolish state agencies in favor of federal).

I included most of the beliefs of the progressives, the ones I left out have already been adopted through legislation and the handful of progressive Presidents. Among these is popular election of Senators, a direct attack on states rights. The states, who created the federal government, lost their voice in federal affairs. Progressive tax rates and inheritance taxes. The department of Labor to look out for the "worker" at the expense of the business, EPA, SEC, Dept of Education, Dept of Interior and the tons of other federal bureaucracies that now exist.

The goal of the Progressives is complete control, they have been slowly centralizing power and with health care and cap & trade now being pushed they are closer than ever. The progressive agenda closely resembles the ideas and goals of communism, which I will briefly get into next.

Karl Marx, the "founder" of communism established the 10 planks of communism as a test to determine whether a country was practicing communism. The first is the abolition of private property for public purposes (progressives feel the land should go to the "greater" good). The second plank is a heavy, graduated income tax (this has already been implemented in the United States and is a big favorite of progressives). The third is abolition of inheritances (progressives have implemented this under social justice, those that die with more than they needed shouldn't be able to give it who they want). Fourth is confiscation of property of immigrants and rebels (look at the terrorist laws, eminent domain, IRS confiscation, RICO laws). The fifth plank is a central bank (we call it the federal reserve, another progressive item shoved through because the government knows best). Sixth on the list is control of communications (although not officially a progressive party platform, this has been done through the FCC, USDOT, etc.). Next is factories and farmland under state control (I think the progressives just straight borrowed that one from Marx). Eighth is equal labor for all (just like the heavily union supported progressive party). Ninth plank is combining agriculture with industrial to eliminate town and country (progressives feel the same way, balance out the population). Finally is free education (another one take directly from Marx, I think). Education should be readily available but not sponsored and regulated by a bureaucrat thousands of miles away.

Comparing the progressive party side by side with the communist party and it's pretty obvious that the two are interchangeable. Americans have been rejecting the progressive agenda for nearly 100 years, they keep changing their name but the platform remains the same. Total control. I wonder if they will come back as the Populist Party.

The progressive agenda isn't about progressing with the changing times, it's about progressing towards communism.