Topic: Progressives

Portland backtracks on pro-drug policies in a bid to create a ‘more conducive business climate’ April 22, 2024 Olivia Murray And in a truly Orwellian twist, what we call “conservatism” is now “pragmatic progressivism.”
Environmental watchdog sues San Francisco for 1.2 billion gallons of raw sewage and trash-filled runoff entering the bay each year March 26, 2024 Olivia Murray Dirty needles, used condoms, and turds both on land and in the water: the charm of the most progressive utopia in America.
'Progressives' actually foster divisiveness, intolerance, and hate November 25, 2023 Eric Utter It comes down to individual rights versus group favoritisms.
Climate change is just about the only change progressives don't like July 14, 2023 Eric Utter 'Hope and change.' 'Fundamental transformation.' Change, change, change.
'Tradwife' trend enrages progressives March 17, 2023 Eric Utter Some young women are returning to traditional roles, and the left calls that the gateway to "extremism."
Progress Toward Terminal Dumbness January 22, 2023 Anthony J. DeBlasi Young people are being discouraged from thinking in this day.
The sinister strategy of the progressives running the Democrat party July 4, 2022 George Duran As an ex–longtime registered Democrat, I no longer recognize or support Democrat leaders or many of the members of the Democrat party.
Savor the progressives' apoplectic outrage over SCOTUS's Second Amendment vindication June 24, 2022 Rajan Laad The news incurred the wrath of a Who's Who on the left.
We Must Speak Out Against Attacks on Law, Liberty, and Natural Rights April 1, 2022 Jonathan Verlin and E. Jeffrey Ludwig "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty...." Now where have you heard that before?
The Strange History of Progressivism March 20, 2021 Terry Scambray “Constitutional government means limited government.”   But progressives see this proposition as limiting, anachronistic, even reactionary.
You'll never guess which major European country's scholars and political officials are attacking woke identity politics February 9, 2021 Thomas Lifson I would have guessed Poland or Russia. Nope, it's a rich Western European country American conservatives generally mock and resent.
In denying the existence of knowable truth and morality, 'progressives' ironically sentence us to a new dark age February 6, 2021 Eric Utter Progressives believe that the very nature of right and wrong, of morality itself, is fungible and changes over time. And since that is so, then no single morality can be deemed true.
Local progressives call out Governor 'Blackface' Northam for 'f----up' at Virginia Beach May 25, 2020 M. Catharine Evans Gov. Blackface went to the beach without his face covering and then posed for selfies with scads of adoring fans posing cheek to cheek with him.
Black-on-Jewish attacks in NY, black-on-Asian attacks in SF: Same progressive rule February 27, 2020 Monica Showalter Funny how this is happening in the country's most rabidly one-party cities run by the worst leftists.  
When the Left Snatches our Kids August 3, 2019 Sally Zelikovsky Conservative parents have learned the hard way that how your kids turn out depends on a host of factors that, at some point during the maturation process, are way beyond our control.
'Gagging' and 'dry-heaving': The left's love affair with public transit collides headlong into its homeless problem in Seattle June 21, 2019 Monica Showalter There's no compatibility between the socialist love of mass public transit and the socialist love of accommodating the homeless at every turn.
Joe Biden's video problem March 21, 2019 Thomas Lifson For the same reason that he is the Democrat most likely to run successfully against Donald Trump in 2020, Joe Biden is the most problematic choice for the Democrats' presidential nomination.
Progress Is Not Enough December 23, 2018 Anthony J. DeBlasi A major risk in any effort to advance progress, however defined, is not adequately considering the possible adverse consequences to the people it will affect.
The Permanent Adolescence of the American Left May 31, 2018 Steve McCann American leftism is a unique amalgamation of socialism, Darwinism, and oligarchism requiring an army of foot soldiers who dwell in a state of permanent adolescence.
Gaza? Nope, the Jewish Community Center April 7, 2018 Alan Bergstein There seems to be violent, pathological loathing and scorn emanating from Progressive Jews against anyone attempting to reason with them or even discuss a problem that affects...them, their children, and their grandkids.
Progressive propaganda machine already is faltering on Florida shooting February 16, 2018 Thomas Lifson Mass shootings spell opportunity to gun-grabbers.  But the old media tricks that progressives use to manipulate public opinion are now so familiar that Second Amendment civil libertarians are able to expose, debunk, and even turn them against the progs.
The Progressive Kingdom of Hate February 6, 2018 Chuck Hustmyre A little perspective, please
A week's worth of progressives accused of sexual harassment December 15, 2017 Thomas Lifson There were 71 high-profile leftist sex offenders on our list through December 7, 2017.  With merely a week's worth of revelations, input from readers, and research, there are now 19 more – 90 in total.
Progressives have a new nightmare November 24, 2017 Thomas Lifson A pillar supporting progressive political power could be about to fall into conservative hands.
The Identity Crisis of the American Left August 2, 2017 Joanna Rosamond Democrats are clearly in a state of confusion regarding the nature and direction of the dangerously morphing party.
One issue where the elite culture’s indoctrination efforts have failed May 14, 2017 Thomas Lifson The brainwashing reached its level of resistance.
Leftists, Ask Yourselves: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?' April 30, 2017 John Steinreich The question as to why liberals simply do not pack up and leave the United States has been on my mind, particularly after a recent conversation with a self-proclaimed "bleeding heart."
The Left’s Retreat into Fantasy December 7, 2016 Taylor Lewis Instead of going through the five stages of grief, they’ve taken to creating an alternative universe where their ideology is still unquestioned orthodoxy.
Progressivism’s Bigoted Past (and Present) November 27, 2016 Richard Winchester Progressivism embraced racism early in its history, a line of thought that continues to this day, only with different targets of scorn. 
The left is ‘projecting’ its own evil onto conservatives November 19, 2016 James Longstreet Psychology 101: It’s not us, it’s you.
The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama October 27, 2016 Richard Baehr The progressive goal is to achieve a new society that has never been seen before in this country, though it has been promised and has catastrophically failed in many places around the globe.
Pity the sexually frustrated left September 5, 2016 Thomas Lifson If we conservatives have the wit to exploit it, a new study offers ammunition to attack a critical process by which the left has recruited an ever larger share of adolescents.
The American Left Has Won July 6, 2016 Steve McCann What are you going to do when your disastrous policies collapse, American society is on the verge of disintegration, and the American populace finally wakes up and sees the turmoil you have precipitated?
March of the Orwellians May 11, 2016 W.R. Wansley A lamentation on the current state of humanity.
The left invents a ‘right’ for Obama February 16, 2016 Mark J. Fitzgibbons The left is notorious for taking away rights guaranteed by the Constitution and creating rights that do not exist under it.  Now leftists are giving President Obama a new right.
The American Left and the Death of Political Discourse January 6, 2016 Steve McCann Much has been made of the precipitous decline and near death of political discourse in the United States.  Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language.  However, this factor is but a symptom.
Illiberal Reformers: The Racist, Sexist, and Elitist Roots of Progressivism December 10, 2015 Lee Cary A Princeton University professor’s book could help frame an important political discussion as the 2016 election approaches and one likely nominee calls herself a “proud, modern American progressive.”
Some Logos for the Left November 15, 2015 Jay Michaels Fellow Multicultists:  We’re on a roll. But what we don’t have is a symbol -- a logo that expresses visually what we’re all about.  Here are a few suggestions with good multicultural logic.  
Progressivism: Easing the Way to Mass Murder September 26, 2015 Kenneth Levin Progressivism-informed foreign policy has had the effect of making the world safer for mass murder.
Every Day, A New Way to Hate July 21, 2015 Jack Cashill Progressives show less interest in celebrating the many colors of the multicultural rainbow than they do in condemning as "haters" those who resist the celebration.
How politically immature are you? July 7, 2015 Guy DeWhitney A quiz to share with progressives you know...
The Left Goes Insane May 31, 2015 Fay Voshell How and why did the Left (and sometimes members of the Right who join them) went mad.
Gay Marriage: A Trojan Horse Movement April 25, 2015 James Simpson The Left doesn’t care about gay rights.  The various “rights” the Left has aggressively promoted over the years are merely vehicles to advance the Left’s power.
Muslims and the Left's Death by Tolerance January 10, 2015 Selwyn Duke Lessons for the left from our Muslim friends.
The Left's Base Motive: Vengeance January 2, 2015 J.R. Dunn Leftism has always been about revenge. The works of Marx are filled with fantasies of retribution and judgment. Their tone reeks of resentment and paranoia, with blame cast for even the most trivial.
Former White House counselor to Clinton calls on progs to abandon the Democratic Party December 29, 2014 Thomas Lifson The real intra-party civil war is on the left, as failure begets bickering.
Liberal Heroes? December 8, 2014 G. Murphy Donovan Liberals are a lot of things, but hero is not usually the first thought that comes to mind.
What A High School Coed Can Teach Us About Getting In A Liberal College Professor's Face September 27, 2014 Richard F. Miniter Only the names have been changed, to protect the America-hating liberal blowhard
Progressives have nothing to fear (from conservatives) but fear itself September 5, 2014 Jerry Shenk “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
Redistribution and the Lesson the Left Refuses to Learn September 1, 2014 William Sullivan The government continues pitching the notion that a man isn’t entitled to the fruits of his labor and industry, but only the portion of those fruits which the masses and the representatives governing them might allow
Progressive phony of the day August 14, 2014 Thomas Lifson The property portfolio of a populist
The technocrats' dream crumbles May 24, 2014 Thomas Lifson The read of the day
Where is the Rehabilitation for 'Racists'? May 8, 2014 Selwyn Duke For decades liberals have lobbied against punishment and for rehabilitation.
Progressivism and Unnatural Selection May 4, 2014 Jim Gammon It is ironic that Progressives identify their cause with the green movement and claim that their goal is a balance with nature
The Suffocating Neo-Puritanism of 'Progressive' America May 2, 2014 Jack Cashill Hawthorne described his seventeenth century ancestors as “being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived,” but these “little Puritans” had nothing on the big ones that would flourish four centuries later.
Obama is Bursting the Left's Bubbles April 23, 2014 J.R. Dunn Early 2014 will be viewed historically as the period when most of the American left’s bubbles detached themselves completely from reality and wafted off to Unicornland.
More prog-on-prog class warfare in San Francisco April 16, 2014 Thomas Lifson If you live in flyover country, lay in a supply of popcorn and get ready to watch a continuing comedy drama being staged for your amusement by the progressives of San Francisco
The American Left is Positively Putinesque April 14, 2014 Jay Haug Many of these same tactics are currently being employed by the American left and the Obama administration, minus the military invasions, of course
It's prog-on-prog class warfare in San Francisco April 14, 2014 Thomas Lifson The internal contradictions of the progressive alliance that dominates San Francisco have erupted into violence, and there is every sign it will continue. There is opportunity for conservatives.
Ugly divorce exposes spoils of progressive shakedown racket April 11, 2014 Thomas Lifson Two of the biggest and best-connected lobbyists in Washington, DC are divorcing each other, and in the process they are placing on the public record the amazing wealth that can be generated by helping rent-seeking powerful interests in the regulatory state
The Progressive Beehive April 4, 2014 Bill Starr Homo sapiens are not a collectivist species like bees or ants. Except to progressives.
Equality Fever: Turning the Tables on the Left April 3, 2014 Selwyn Duke If a famine befell us and you couldn’t save everyone, would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just saving some?
Zero Tolerance, Evil Objects, and the Psychosis of the Left March 19, 2014 Jeffrey T. Brown The progressives’ ideation of guns fully crosses over into the talismanic realm. 
Utopia Now! in New York City March 16, 2014 Mike Razar A few suggestions for Mayor de Blasio
The Persistent Problem with Progress-Pushers March 14, 2014 William Sullivan When a politician shouts “Progress!” (…or “Forward.”) as an abstract and guiding political principle, people who understand history will rightfully become wary
Change the Name to Change the Game January 9, 2014 Jim Yardley Using Orwell as a handbook.
ObamaCore Public Education December 30, 2013 Lee Cary With the nationalizing of the American healthcare system well underway, nationalizing public education pre-K through 12 is the next big thing on the progressive agenda.
Discredit Liberalism Utterly September 10, 2013 Christopher Chantrill An opportunity to defeat them and humiliate them, and get their hardest-hit followers -- the young, the women and the minorities -- to desert the liberal colors.
Where's the Progress in Progressivism? April 10, 2013 Daren Jonescu Perhaps the ultimate explanation of every progressive atrocity, real and prospective, from the Communist Manifesto to Bill Ayers' projection of the need to kill twenty-five million Americans who resist re-education
Call the Irony Police March 20, 2013 Thomas Lifson At slow motion speed, progressivess are acting out the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Good News: You May Be Spared Execution January 8, 2013 Daren Jonescu Those who continue to live on the Russian Roulette principle with regard to progressives and their recent proposals -- "oh come on, surely they don't mean it literally" -- can take heart: your odds of survival are getting better
'Women in Binders' and the Fantasies of the Left October 22, 2012 Oleg Atbashian The phrase "binders full of women" speaks to the progressive psyche in ways that the non-initiated can't possibly understand. Once again, the progressives are letting their primal fantasies choose their battles for them.
Inequality: The Cudgel of Progressives September 11, 2012 Jon N. Hall Just about every issue that progressives fulminate about is dressed up in the garish garb of equality. Progressives invoke equality as though there were no arguments against it, as though no decent, sane person could possibly have a beef with it.
Is America's Dance with Utopian Socialism Ending? September 7, 2012 Lee Cary Since January 2009, America has been dancing with utopian socialism -- whether we wanted to or not. Many of us haven't liked it. Just how many remains to be seen.
The Left's Rights Scam January 5, 2012 Steve McCann The left invariably frames its policy pronouncements under the mantle of so-called "rights" that only the government can guarantee.