• Lawn care • Toyota Priuses • Little House on the Prairie • Babysitting • Cake decoration
to be made political. Progressives are more interested in controlling politics itself than they are in any of the political issues they put forth. This is obvious from the way Progressives behave. When Progressives, with their failed socialism, are thrown out the door of free market economics, they come climbing back over the transom of wealth distribution. Pitch them out the window of equal opportunity, and they’ll crawl down the chimney of climate change. Send them up the flue of scientific rationalism, and they’ll shinny onto the porch roof of racial discrimination. Drop them off the airing deck of equality-before- the-law, and they’ll burrow into the cellar of gender inequality. And after you flush them down that basement drain, they’ll figure out some other way to get into your national household. Any issue will do, so long as it can be made into a political issue. But why are Progressives so interested in controlling politics? There are two reasons. The first is selfish greed. “Selfishly greedy” is what the Progressives are always condemning the rest of us for being. But there are all kinds of greed. We not-so- progressives are mostly greedy for money. We may be slightly embarrassed by this. When asked “What would make you happy?” we think we’re supposed to answer, “Peace, love, and understanding,” not, “More money.” But in fact, money is morally neutral. Money
• Grade-school grades • Statues in the park • Rude language • Watching House of Cards reruns • The price of tea in China Answer: Progressives have – in one way or another – politicized them all. Progressive candidates claim to have a platform addressing social and economic issues – a platform to create a more just, fair, and equitable America. Which is a nice thought... But the Progressive platform is really to create a more political America... to create an America where everything, no matter how intimate and private, is decided by the political process. “The Personal Is the Political” has been a leftist slogan for 50 years. Why would anyone want that as a slogan? The idea is completely totalitarian. But the completeness, the totalness of the idea – the “inclusiveness,” as Progressives would say – is the point. When politics encompasses not only public life but private life as well, then there’s a lot more politics... politics without end. And Progressives think they can control politics in a way they can’t control private enterprise or private opinion. Everything must be made public in order for everything
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