Progressive Past

Progressive Past

I have a quote for you: “The world is going to change radically, and I am satisfied that governments will have to do many things which are now left to individuals and corporations. I am satisfied, for instance, that the government will have to take over all the great natural resources - all the water power, all the coal mines, all the oil fields, etc. They will have to be government-owned.”

Who said that?
A) Hillary Clinton
B) Barack Obama
C) Bill Clinton
D) None of the above.

If you answered none of the above you’re correct because Woodrow Wilson said it. He also believed that a President must be a philosophical man, capable of thinking in world terms … sound familiar? The current President (and other like-minded politicians) are saying similar things today. I bring this up because President Wilson was a progressive … so was Teddy Roosevelt. The progressive movement of today is not fielding new ideas, they are carrying on the tradition of liberal/progressive elites in power who wish to radically change not only government and business, but our way of life … not just here in the United States, but globally as well.

Their ideas are not new - they are the same old tries at growing government by promising help when the real intent is to control. They believe only a certain like-minded governing class should have controlling power and that the masses really cannot govern themselves. Their power is taken away from them periodically through elections, but they never give up on their (poor) ideology.

Here’s a quote from President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." Now we have a mortgage crisis, health care crisis, Wall Street crisis, economic crisis, employment crisis, and automobile crisis. Which one can we waste? Greed rules here because the White House and Congress are not willing to let any crisis go to waste … it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before. But what they could not calculate or foresee was that Americans love this country and are not willing to let the “smart ones” fundamentally change it.

Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed: and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Oblige it to control itself, imagine that.

Today we have a government that is out of control and has lost its way. We must take it back by adhering to the incredible plan laid forth by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and the rest. A plan that set us on the path to becoming a great nation and people. We must turn away from the liberal/progressive notion that says we are no longer that great nation of people, but just another member of a global community. The world depends on the United States of America being a country that is strong (economically and militarily) and never changing in our core beliefs or in our founding documents. Ultimately, a strong independent United States is good and necessary for the rest of the world.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie