Liberals stand for Freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom of choice.
Freedom of religion. Freedom to be who you are, to love who you
choose and raise your family the way you want.
Liberals stand for “liberty and justice for all” not
just some.
Liberals believe in such radical things as “all men (and
women) are created equal.” That was a radical belief, 250
years ago, but the generations of brave American men and women
who have died for democracy, have done so to protect those once
radical beliefs which are at the core of our beliefs as
Americans—our freedoms of speech, choice, and equality.
Those things are worth fighting for, because they are the
keystones of what our country was founded on. If you believe in
democracy, if you believe in our constitution and bill of rights,
then you believe in those things. If you don’t believe in
those things, then you can say you love America, but you are
confused as to what America is really about.
Liberals believe in an America “of the people, by the people
and FOR the people.” Not for corporations like Enron and
Exxon, but individuals—like you and me.
Liberals believe in the American dream—where every child can
grow up to be what he or she wants, where every immigrant can
make a better life for themselves and their children, the way our
immigrant ancestors did for us.
In short, Liberals stand for the very things that our forefathers
stood for—freedom of speech, religion. Freedom from
oppression.
Neo-Conservatives are now Regressives
Yet, strangely, “Regressives” (also called neo-cons or
the Right Wing) don’t believe in the most basic tenets of
our Republic. They say they do. They wave flags and sing songs
and call themselves patriots.
But their actions speak louder than their words. Regressives say
one thing, and do another. That’s called hypocrisy.
It’s also called lying. Their actions show they don’t
believe in freedom of speech. They don’t believe it’s
right to criticize your government, unless your government
consists of duly elected Democrats. If your government is run by
Republicans who didn’t win the popular vote, then you should
“shut up” or you are unpatriotic. But that, my friends,
is unpatriotic.
I’m not talking about real conservatives—those who
believe in less government interference for all. I respect real
conservatives. I don’t respect people who call themselves
“conservatives” but are really radicals in traditional
clothing who are actively trying to undermine civil rights and
our very constitution.
Regressives want fewer controls on corporations and more on
personal lives. They work to make discrimination a constitutional
amendment. Those people are not conservatives. They are radicals,
and their very actions show that they do not understand or agree
with the most basic tenets of democracy and our Republic.
Regressives don’t believe in freedom of choice. They
don’t approve of freedom of expression. They want to
restrict what you say, what you hear. They work tirelessly to
censor people’s freedom of speech, to intimidate those who
try to speak their minds, to punish and fine those who do.
They want to tell you how to live your life. They want to tell
you what you can do with your body—even who you can love.
They want to control you, personally, just like any communist,
fascist, dictator-controlled state.
Regressives don’t even believe in your most basic civil
rights—the right to be considered innocent until proven
guilty. They have already passed laws that let the government
arrest you—for no reason. Imprison you, for no reason,
without access to your family or legal representation. This is
the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships—it’s
not supposed to happen here.
And yet it can—and it does—because Regressives have
undermined your basic civil rights as an American. While doing
so, they’ve repeatedly told you how they’ve made you
safer. It’s a lie. You’re not safer from terrorists,
and worse, you are in more danger from your own government.
Regressives have learned from oppressive regimes how to say one
thing and do another, and as long as they keep repeating the
“good stuff” they keep doing the “bad stuff”
and people are confused. And scared. They want you to be scared.
Not happy. They want you to be angry and unhappy. No happy.
Liberals agree with Thomas Jefferson and what he wrote in the
Declaration of Independence, “the pursuit of
happiness.” Regressives believe in “the pursuit of
money and power.”
Regressives don’t even believe in family...
Regressives don’t believe in “America the
Beautiful.” They believe only in profit. Now, there’s
nothing wrong with profit—America is built on profit. But
Regressives believe in profit at other people’s
expensive—profit at your expense. For profit, they will
despoil your land, pollute your skies, and say it’s OK for
your kids to have more poisonous mercury in their milk. This is a
fact—this is what they have done in the last four years.
They have poisoned your children for their profit.
They have killed your children for their profits. They have sent
them to wars they knew were not needed, but wars from which they
could make profit. Billions and Billions of dollars of profit. So
much profit that it’s costing you, personally, at least
$31,000--this year. Oh, you can’t pay that all this
year—that’s OK, they’ll keep taking the money from
you in the future—and from your children, to pay for their
profits.
Regressives are stealing from you. Right now. And what do YOU get
from this? Do you get a more secure country? No. Do you get a
cleaner environment? No. Do your children get a better education?
No. Do you get better health care. No. What do you get out of it?
Screwed.
Regressives are immoral.
Let me repeat that, because it’s something people
haven’t seemed to notice. Regressives say they are
religious. But their actions show them to be immoral hypocrites.
A highly religious friend wrote this:
To those people who have studied the Jesus of the Scripture, - we
understand that he taught that evil often pretends to be
'righteous' and the hallmark of evil, is hypocrisy. Therefore, if
the large factions (denominations) are indeed following a false
version of Christianity (anti-Christos), -- then collectively
they will be the very thing they claim to abhor. Their primary
doctrines will be based on lies, and they will use a superficial
'study' of the Scriptures to allege their doctrines (of demons)
are "The Word of the Lawd".
This described regressives, neo-conservatives, the Republicans in
power.
They start wars. They kill thousands of innocent people. They
steal money from you—and worse, your children’s future.
They lie about what they do. They say they for education and they
cut educational spending. They say they are for the environment,
yet they eliminate environmental regulations designed to protect
you—and they destroy your world, and your health. They say
they are for health care, but they do nothing for you—while
actively working to ensure that drug companies make more money.
Regressives want to create amendments to the constitution which
deny rights to at least 10% of Americans. That’s downright
un-American. And it’s immoral. It’s immoral to deny
basic human rights, and yet Regressives want to turn their
immorality into law—law that runs so counter to the
constitution that it would require the constitution be amended.
That’s wrong.
So why don’t Regressives “seem” immoral? Because
they talk a good game. They talk about freedom and American
Values, and all they do is talk. Their actions speak louder than
words. Their actions show them to be dangerous revolutionaries,
true anti-American radicals who are tirelessly working to
undermine democracy as we know it.
They talk about how bad Communists are, then they use their
tactics against us. They work to remove our right to vote. They
try to not count our vote. They try to postpone and cancel
elections. They don’t bother counting votes, and instead
have their friends on the Supreme court decide the election. They
create presidential powers not in the constitution, upsetting the
balance of power, so the perfectly balance system designed by our
forefathers, the executive, legislative and judicial branches are
out of whack, the executive branch has all the power, unchecked.
This is not democracy.
The regressive agenda is not what Washington and Jefferson and
Adams gave their lives to create. What the Regressives are doing
is sliding our government into a Fascist Dictator state. Instead
of “freedom from oppression,” the Regressives are
turning our own government into the oppressors. http://www.will-harris.com/actor/
Neo-conservative
regressives stand for “the land of the oppressed, and the
home of the bully.”
Liberals stand for the “land of the free and home of the
brave.”
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thinkingblue comment Every thought you have
written so eloquently on this post is my thought. We have been
through so much, it is hard not to become cynical about anything
government. They have let us down greatly in the past years of
Republican rule. The saddest circumstance of their cunning is
that so many have believed their distortions. Even when it
is blatantly before them a lie, they rationalize it into
something innocent. If we were a people of enlightenment, none of
the events we've experienced could have taken place.
Unfortunately, so many people act like frightened little children
and instead of choosing strong leadership they rather have a Big
Daddy, supposedly looking out for them. Thanks for the
post. I will blog it on my http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com.
thinkingblue comment
