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Liberalism

Today the term Progressive is being used as the label of the political left to escape the negative baggage that Liberal carries with it. There actually was a political party named the Progressive Party all the way back in 1948, which had ties, as would be expected, with the Socialist movement. As time went by Progressivism and Communism/Fascism became synonymous.  So the term Liberal was adopted to hide their past history in order to have a new hearing of their beliefs and politics. Who could be against liberty after all? The term Progressive was used originally by the Socialists to give them a new beginning politically after WWII. Who could be against progress after all? Well the term Liberal has been successfully exposed as nothing more than a Socialist by any other name. Now the switch back to a term that very few people have memory of, Progressive.

First, let us understand that the two party system we have today both advocate to some extent modern Liberalism. It seems that the argument is over how much and how fast. Why the Republican Party is able to escape the criticism of being Socialist would be a bit mystifying if you didn't understand that the education system has failed in studies like Government, Social Studies and the like. There is of late some push back in the Republic Party to return to a Constitutional Republic with free market principles.

So why is Liberalism/Progressivism/Socialism such a bad thing? Results!

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Redistribution of wealth is probably the single biggest harm to the human spirit we have. Equal protection under the Law indeed. When you punish those that produce, you achieve discontent and animosity toward those that do the confiscating as well as those that are being handed the producers hard earned gains. You also reduce the desire to produce by those that do produce. The attitude of "what's the point" sets in. This is known as depressing the human spirit.

Not only do the producers have issues but the takers do as well. The takers take for granted that the receipt of funds will continue indefinitely resulting in a dependency mentality. The destruction of a person's self worth and value to society sets in and crushes their spirit.

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Racial disparity is another major effect that liberal policies have exacerbated. Affirmative Action (read discrimination) being the main culprit of animosity between whites and blacks.  When anti-discrimination laws were passed the vast majority of whites supported people being treated equally. After finding out that their kids may not get into college because of the color of some else's skin with lesser qualifications, whites lost some of the passion. After their kids lost jobs because of the color of some else's skin with lesser qualifications, more passion was lost. The idea was suppose to be no discrimination not discriminate against me.  Whites as a whole have tired of this unfair ideology.

Blacks on the other hand are resentful of whites because blacks and other minorities that were in college and had good jobs were never thought of has having earned it, so the respect that usually accompanied such positions never came. Unlike before the time of affirmative action policies when a black or other minority held their position, they not only where respected because they had earned their place, but had to overcome discrimination to get there. This also is unfair to all those minorities that did work hard and earned all the awards and rewards that accompany such industry. A broad brush has been applied to all minorities because of Affirmative Action.

So has the Affirmative Action policies worked over the past 35-40 years? Blacks have a two to one chance of being illegitimate. Blacks have a better chance as a whole of being imprisoned or killed before the age of 21 than graduating high school. The majority of those that did graduate high school will be less educated than their grandparents.

Yes, there are improvements in that more blacks are reaching the middle class. Yes, blacks can live in any neighborhood that they can afford. But, blacks as a whole still live in the poorest and the most crime ridden neighborhoods. Blacks have the highest percent of unemployment, welfare, and high school dropout rate of any group in the country as well.

Liberal education policies have contributed as well to the detriment of our society and minorities in particular. At one point, an education in America was rated the best in the world. Today we are over taken by countries like Poland and Estonia. It would be surprising that a high school graduate in the U.S. has even heard of Estonia.

The worst education you could get in this country will be found in the cities that have been in liberal control for a half century or more. This affects minorities and the poor disproportionately. When there are lotteries to select students to attend Charter or Private Schools from the poorest of the poor there are lines of 100 or more for every single opening. Why would they want to escape the liberal education system that they themselves voted for? Why do the Liberal elites have their children in the most expensive and segregated private schools in the country? Don't they truly believe in diversity? Don't they believe in the quality education that they force on others?

When liberalism has had the strongest influence, it has been an utter failure. Its citizenry are standing in lines for hand outs, jobs exported to foreign lands and housing for the poor the most despicable one can find. With little relief in sight and complaining that they haven't taken enough from producers to fix the problems we can say with confidence that things will get worse and more will be required to join the failure. The worst of it all is that we have done this to ourselves and come back election after election asking for more.

While these issues have been only touched on we hadn't even brought up fatty foods, the gay agenda, abortion, property rights, anti-Christianity, Global Warming, and more that Liberals have infected. More to come.

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