Get Off Our Ass

Once upon a time, in a land that seems far, far away, ‘Liberal’ was a term used to describe people like Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Locke, and Thomas Paine. They weren’t exactly those mad eyed leftists that argue for more and more government programs and higher taxes on those evil rich people who work for a living. Somewhere in the early 20^th century the ‘socialists’, ‘fascists’ and ‘progressives’ somehow became ‘liberals’. It was right around the time when people started becoming aware of the prison camps and ovens that became associated with the European socialists, fascists and progressives. So, instead of looking at themselves and their ideals and the human destruction that those ideals led to in Europe… instead of changing the ideals, they changed the language and ‘progressives’ became ‘liberals’.

Then, 50-60 years later, the term ‘liberal’ started to lose its shine so, the progressives have started calling themselves ‘progressives’ again.

Not that they’re all that ‘progressive’. They want to ‘progress’ from the industrial world back to an agrarian world. They want to ‘progress’ from a world that embraces individual liberty and freedom back to a world of serfdom and dependency on the state, not unlike the feudal system that Europe was in until the United States of America smashed over 200 years ago. That’s not ‘progressive’, that ‘regressive’.

I try to avoid speaking for anyone else, but I don’t care to go back to farming my own little plot of land that was allotted to me by any lord, but I digress.

I’m still not thrilled with the term progressive, but that’s their term, so we’ll let them have it, but we should be clear in the fact that these people are going to ‘progress’ us right back into the dark ages… but that’s their term.

It should be noted that every ‘progressive’ regime that the world has ever known has led to an oligarchy. Even here in the United States, we have certain families, whether they’re the Clintons, the Kennedys, or the Bushs, we have a certain small percentage of the population that enjoys the power to decide for the rest of us. In Korea they have Kim jung il; in Russia, Putin; in China they have the ‘party’. All around the world, you can change the names and the nation, but there is little difference between the progressives of today and the lords and ladies of the middle ages. There’s also no difference between the great unwashed masses of today and the surfs and peons of days gone by.

The point is that progressivism is regressive. The progressives have created a caste system, where people of certain classes are set in a caste system. Notice the lines drawn by progressives between the rich and the ‘middle class’, and which oddly enough seem to exclude the political class from the evil rich class.

That, for reference, is how I define ‘Progressive’, which can be interchanged relatively easily with ‘Liberal’ and occasionally ‘Socialist’ and/or ‘Fascist’. 

Yes, we are all now well aware that Edward Moore “Teddy” Kennedy is dead.

Now, I cannot say that I knew the man as an individual so I can’t say anything about the man personally… but I can about the man as a senator.

First off all… I think the Kennedy clan as a whole represents one of the two worst extremes in this country… and neither of the two extremes know what a days work is worth. The first is the poor slugs that sit on their ass sucking off the tit of the hard working people in this country… and the other is the rich slugs that sit on their ass sucking off the tit of the hard working people in this country.

Kennedy is just in the later group. As it happens, Kennedy spent his life as a member of the later group sitting in Washington DC, taking money from hard working Americans and giving that money to other members of his group… in the name of being compassionate to the former group.

Now, please do not misunderstand me, my gripe isn’t with “rich” people. I’d love to be rich people. My gripe is with the “rich” people, who believe that because their Daddy left them money, that they have the right to dictate to the rest of us.

Edward Kennedy’s only qualification for Senate was that his daddy was rich… the only thing that disqualified him for the presidency was that he was a drunk SOB who killed a young lady… but not enough for the liberal New England voters to disqualify him from the senate. Of course, any of the rest of us would be in prison for the last 40 years… Kennedy was sent to the senate.

One of the things I will remember about ‘Teddy’ Kennedy is his work for “healthcare” reform. It’s just like anything else in the Kennedy world… he fought to impose his ideal of “healthcare” on all of us… a system that would have seen him dead long ago… but what’s good for the rest of us isn’t good enough for him, because he spend his last days in the most expensive elite medical institutions in the world.

Again, daddy’s money gave him the right to dictate to us small people, while he lived above us all.

I for one… am not sorry to see him gone. One less person on our ass.