8. "Like the phrases,
honest politician, genuine imitation, and
perfect child—each of which is joined by words with mutually exclusive meanings—evidence suggests that
Progressive Ethics has a place all its own in the Hall of Oxymorons.
For a group that has done much to further
one-parent households all across America, to rob our culture of unifying behaviors (standing for the anthem?), to
make religious freedom its own oxymoron, Progressive promises for our future are as empty as their memories. With them, we can count on one thing:
They will run from one constituency to another, promising everything, all the while dividing us and stripping us of our rights.
With Progressives, it’s nothing new. In
The Benedict Option (p89)
, author Rod Dreher reminds us of de Tocqueville’s belief that democracy in America “could not survive the loss” of its religious faith, that “self-government required shared convictions about moral truths,” ..."
Progressive Ethics
9.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author
Source: Atlas Shrugged, Francisco's "Money Speech"
10. "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is
eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
John Philpot Curran in a speech upon the Right of Election in 1790 (published in a book titled "Speeches on the late very interesting State trials" in 1808).
Waiting for Progressives to discover honesty and integrity presages the same fate as that of the Dodo.