owebo
Gold Member
More people need to learn democrats started the kkk.....The Democratic party did not start the KKK...it was started by individuals pissed at loss of war, occupying Union forces and elections of black men to state legislatures...Was it anything like the dems with kkk or jim crow...Oh yeah, you must have missed the massive power grab that the GOP implemented during and after the Civil War... Care to put any real Wilsonian actions toward this progressive accusation?The Progressive Lust for Power
The Left's camouflage that hides its real motive.
May 18, 2016
Bruce Thornton
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been talking a lot about “fairness” and “equality” during their primary campaigns. Like most progressives, they pass themselves off as the champions of the ordinary people who are suffering beneath the boot of rapacious capitalists and the plutocratic “one percent.” Give us power, they say, and we will create “social justice” for all the victims of “white privilege” and capitalist greed, not to mention redistributing even more money from the selfish “rich” in order to finance such utopian goals.
Promiscuously displaying their hearts bleeding for the oppressed has long been the progressive camouflage that hides their real motive: the lust for power. Whether they want power to advance their failed ideology (Sanders), or to gratify their ambition for status and wealth (Hillary), in the end it doesn’t matter. History has repeatedly proven that the libido dominandi, the ancient lust for dominating others that lies behind the progressives’ political ambitions, in the end always leads to tyranny and misery.
When progressivism began in the late 19th century, progressives at least were honest about their aim to expand their power over the ignorant, selfish masses. A striking––and prophetic–– example can be found in Woodrow Wilson’s 1890 essay “Leaders of Men.” Wilson rejected the limited executive of the Constitution for a more activist president who has the “insight” to know “the motives which move other men in the mass”:
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The Progressive Lust for Power