Progressivism is the pied piper of tyranny

America is a unique and fantastic society, and the only one of its kind in the world.  This great nation was brought about with the intention of escaping the sting of European tyranny felt by the founders and the colonies. The founders wanted to create a self governing society which would allow ultimate freedom from the tyranny of the ruling class; a society in which men were ruled by the law of the land instead of the inconsistent whims of some ruler or king. The founders knew that freedom and liberty were a prized possession that all men dreamed of; yet they come with great personal responsibility and most people of today`s America seem unwilling to bear the load.

This society was built with the idea of local governments having the power to set agenda`s based on local populations and their traditions.  The founders knew that a local state, county, or township, knows its people best and therefore can best legislate for their citizens.  The all powerful central governments in Europe treated their citizens as numbers or statistics because they knew nothing of the people they ruled in general.  The founders knew that if the people could responsibly govern themselves that this was the best form of government.

Freedom has many risks as a byproduct of its lack of control.  The early citizens of this country knew that America was not perfect but compared to the tyranny of European societies, freedom was worth the risk.  The local and state governments began to see issues which needed to be addressed by government in those days such as schools, hospitals, and roads. There are problems which can be best handled by government at the local, state, and federal level; and the constitution is designed to allow those powers and also limit them from harming liberty. There are channels which can be followed that can change the constitution and they are very difficult to enact such as a constitutional convention; this was the intention of the founders to protect the new republic from wholesale democracy. Today we see activist judges changing the law of the land from the bench; a judge should never legislate from the bench as this usurps power from the legislature and the people who elect them.

The progressive movement in America began to have legs under the Woodrow Wilson administration, and has grown every since the turn of the 20^th century.  Progressive ideals are not new; they are in fact the same old tyranny that we left behind in Europe two centuries ago. The ruling class mentality of; “we know better than you how you should live your life”, is alive and well in the democrat party as it has become the home of the progressive. In Europe the progressive mentality is the norm and the citizens of those societies never seem to have the intestinal fortitude to change their governments.  They simply criticize from afar and yet look to America to bail them out at every turn.  Immigrants from all over the world, who speak as though they hate America on one hand, scramble to come here on the other. When they come to America they works hard as they can to change America into the same third world hell they left behind; and the democrat party is a willing accomplice to this act in trade for a vote.

The point of all this is to say; you care more about you than government ever will. Those who vote for the politician that says” vote for me and you will have free this and guaranteed that” seem unable to see that the tyranny they unleash on the rich will someday turn on them.  When you chose to give power to the federal government to accomplish your own selfish political goals in the name of class equality; this same government will one day come to you to be fed when it runs out of rich people to steal from. The progressive holds on to the failed ideal that all men can be equal on an economic level; American`s know that all men are created equal with the freedom to be as rich or poor as they so choose. No society in human history has ever been able to maintain economic equality without police power and tyranny.

The American dream of freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, and private property, is at enormous risk.  The future citizens of our country, our children, are being taught to have no personal responsibility by our schools and political leaders.  The citizens of today are so busy making sure that they get theirs, whether by voting or working for it, that they care nothing of the danger signs we all see.  The politicians continue to turn one American against another with the same old Marxist class warfare tactics used by progressive around the globe.  They promise the useful idiot that it is ok to steal as long as the government does the stealing. The useful idiot then stands back with salivating lips awaiting his reward that comes in return for his vote.  Uneducated, fearful, dependant, useful idiots have been the tool of tyrants for the entire span of human history. Freedom and liberty have been achieved by the brave, self educated, fearless, independent patriots of all free nations. Freedom is never free and neither is tyranny; both come at a cost yet produce a different fruit.