“PROGRESSIVE” DOUBLE-SPEAK AND THE POLITICS OF REGRESS

 

Liberals, left-wing ideologues, and secularists are well aware that their ideas —because they’re on the fringe– are not well-received by rational, morally mature individuals. Because of this, they employ Orwellian doublespeak, promoting their agenda as “progressive”. But are their views really “progressive”, or merely a regression into ancient paganism and decadence?

Take a hot-button issue like abortion. Is this truly a “progressive” practice? The real fact of the case is that the practice predates Christian history by more than a millennia. Moreover, pagan cultures routinely sacrificed their infants. Abortion, rather than being “progressive” is a regress into the mire of barbarism.

How about homosexuality? It’s common knowledge that the very act of male homosexuality takes its name from ancient Sodom. The acceptance of deviant sexual behavior is, again, nothing remotely approximating “progress”, but is another regress into behavior that was, in many ancient cultures, practiced openly.

How about environmentalism? Today it’s devolved into a fanaticism to rival Gaian worship of “mother earth” (often referred to as “mother nature”). But there’s nothing “progressive” about such an ideology. Again, just ancient paganism in a space-suit.

How about social engineering, the agenda of today’s public schools? Such ideas go all the way back to Plato’s “Republic”. Again, nothing “progressive” there.

How about the state’s usurpation of parental rights? Rousseau peddled that pablum way back in the 1700s.

How about the tenuous theory of evolution? Anaximander beat Darwin by almost three millennia. Nothing progressive there.

What about “progressive” confiscatory tax schemes? Our Founding Father’s fought to create a nation with the intent to escape just such oppression. There’s nothing new or “progressive” about governments stealing from its citizens.

So why all the doublespeak about “progress”? To reiterate, because rational, morally mature persons would, should they see left-wing liberalism for what it is, never accept it. Unfortunately, Liberalism, because it has, by definition, broken free of the shackles of moral standards, feels no compulsion to obey the ninth commandment, and so mendacious methods of promoting leftist agendas are acceptable in their worldview.