Authored by William Robert Barber
I do wish that I could express myself without seeming so accusatory or self-righteous when speaking of liberal progressives and their beliefs. But despite my aspiration to speak with temperance even respect my partiality and outright disdain for these progressive beliefs overwhelm all such sensibility. As a consequence I am stirring and enflaming instead of attempting to understand or explain-very insensible.
After all knowing that tolerance is a mainstay of societal interface I cannot claim ignorance. I understand that if one is not open to discussion and civil debate one has forsaken the principles engrained within a democratically inspired republic. Nevertheless, I cannot, so it seems, refrain from aggressively voicing my disagreements with the policies and ideology of liberal progressivism.
Of course, examples of leftist who espouse progressive vituperation of, about, and for persons’ of conservative ideology is plenteous. Regardless, of their scurrilous behavior toward conservatives I realize that I should not justify or act in a like or tit for tat manner.
Yes, ok, I should not. But here, with the helpful guidance of Peter Berkowitz of Stanford’s Hoover Institution are a few reasons why I have developed a serious attitude of intolerance for the ideology of liberal progressivism: -Progressives see themselves as the only legitimate representative of ordinary people-they believe that perfection can be attained through the rule of experts and that diversity of opinion distracts from the policies demanded by impartial reason-democratic pretensions and the pretensions of non-authoritarianism create a transparent conflict that hamper the implementation of their political philosophy-
True believers of progressivism must reside in an Apocryphal bubble. They can only flourish in academic vacuums wherein scholarly apparatchik’s can ponder over concepts, possibilities, and quixotic wish-it-was-so. But in the world of behaviorally dysfunctional humankind power is the weapon of choice not rationality, reason, or sensibility. Indeed if one is not the most powerful compromise of sovereignty is the only alternative to destruction.
President Obama preaches that he and his political brethren is the Vox populi; that the Democratic Party is the party for the quotidian. Hum…all I behold from this progressive administration is depredations not just to this nation’s economy but to our sense of American exceptionalism, to our belief that individualism is righteous and simply put collectivism is sinful; this is the contaminating result of Obama’s progressively inspired presidency.
I suppose I have revalidated (for myself) the why fore of my utter lack of tolerance for progressive thought and policy. 2012 will be a seminal election; this election will determine the trajectory of this government of ours. If Obama wins…damn I got to get such negative thoughts out of my head.
Dumb. Why don’t you read the news once in a while.
Benny HUFF-MAN…did you preface your post to William Barber by using the term “dumb”? Really…seriously? Why do you stop by an obviously intellectual discourse written by such obvious “intellect” and do a drive by by saying READ THE NEWS? Hey DIPSHIT…we READ the news hourly! Do you…lowest consumer confidence in decades, highest unemployment, record deficits…do you have a clue? Hows that HOPE AND CHANGE workin out for ya? Got any CHANGE left in your pocket?
Stick to the HUFFPO while they are still online. THEY have only lost $60M since the merger…but at least you can “understand” those writers. No words with more than two syllables so you should be quite comfortable…
Spare us with your pithy flame throwers. You are outmatched, and unarmed! Heres one you can understand…go FUCK yourself!
I second that emotion! I’ve debated many times over liberal progressives and one day realized I had become the very definition of insanity. I would try reasoning along with some Verbal Judo and then I’d get in return, kindergarten logic. And I would try reasoning again to get more kindergarten logic with arrogance added in. I realized I’m doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results; man, I’ve been a fool for arguing with fools.
I’m right there with you, but I would go further, progressives seem to be child-like in their ability to reason, analyze policy and measure consequences. Also seems their ‘fight or flight response’ does not trigger as it should when threaten, in this case America. Either progressives have no clue that a massive deficit, unchecked government spending, waste, a horrible economy, stock market on verge of collapse, will bring great harm to America; or they see the problem but only can solve it as a kindergarten would, with small logic.