The Dumbacrats and Progressives Progressing Toward Nothing

several weeks ago (on AM radio- go figure!) dennis prager (one of my favorie hosts) interviewed the owner/founder/CEO (whichever) of Air America Radio. on a side note, i laugh every time someone refers to it as Scare America Radio, since it's got all these slogan-quoting, sound-biting liberals wetting themselves over imminent threats like the melting of the polar ice caps and the extinction of native owls if we drill in alaska...

anyway, the only thing noteworthy or quoteworthy the AA guy said the entire interview was that he kept referring to the dems as dumb-a-crats. now, i'm sure he didn't actually mean to cast them in such a light. i'm sure it was just an accent or speech impediment or something, but it absolutely cracked me up. (i know, i obviously need more humour in my life...). he said lots of random things, mostly non-sequitors, but literally the only thing i remember clearly is the dumb-a-crats.

but, for the sake of actually having something to say in this post, i'm going to discuss the progessives. many seem to wear this moniker proudly, as if the sheer act of progressing is in and of itself utterly fabulous. yes, sometimes progress is great, like air conditioning and cars (unless you're a global warmingite) or antibiotics. but some progress, like that of the herd of lemmings progressing over a cliff, must only be characterized as underwhelming in the least, and downright dangerous if we want to be honest. some progress toward change, while others progress toward a recapturing of values, cherished, but lost. so, what's the inherent contradiction about progressives? they seem to value progress only in the direction of the dangerous or obscene. let me illustrate by a few examples:

while conservatives want parents to have school choice for their children, "progressives" want to keep everyone (especially the poor, who suffer inordinately for not having any viable educational options) lockied into a failing system of outdated public education.

while conservatives want to provide incentives and training for able-bodied welafre recipients to go to work, "progressives" want them to sit and rot on welfare, under some misguided and paternalistic notion of "helping" those less fortunate.

conservatives want to try new and innovative ways to help the truly needy (like funding church, or faith-based programs) while the "progressives" are so intimidated by the idea of anyone believeing in G-d that they would rather just let people stay on heroin or live in filth.

conservatives want justice for victims, while progressives want to let the most barabric and sick of society's criminals live out their lives on our tax money.

progressives want to do away with profiling (which used to just be called 'good police work') for terrorists, under the complete delusion that political correctness is more vital to a successful society than safety.

progressives push an agenda of belittling the institution of marriage, giving free reign for anyone to have sex with anyone and then abort the baby if you're unlucky enough to be fertile. progressives appear only to be in favor of death if it involves innocent babies or victims of crimes perpetrated by those "less fortunate" (oh, such pity we should have for them...)

progressives are all about progress. too bad they are progressing toward the destruction of society.

progressives have a heck of an agenda going. perhaps one day soon they'll speed up their progress towrad their own destruction. hopefully it'll be before they drag the rest of us down with them.

semper valor.