The hypocrisy of the Progressive.

Progressives are hypocrites. Yup. Done. I don’t have to say anything more, right? We all understand how demanding rights while dismissing other rights makes you a silly git, right? Do we get that criticizing one type of violence, but not another is inconsistent? No? Dammit, alright let me break this down for you.

The so called “Progressive” left in the united states, in reality they are the collectivist right, like to think that they are the champions of the little guy, the enemies of corporate power, the peace bringers. They are wrong. They are merely the smuggest of the dupes in this country.  Don’t worry I am not going to make this assertion without trying to back it up.

Let’s start with the latest and newest darling of the progressive, The Affordable Care Act. There is an attitude that this law is the best way to get everyone insurance so that we all can be healthy. This was championed as a blow against corporate healthcare, a way to curtail the predatory practices of insurance companies. Who wrote this bill? President Obama? Mitt Romney? The Congress? Come on you know this one. Who always writes bills that effect an entire industry? The lobbyists who represent the industry most effected. The bill was written in partnership with the major insurance companies, and what is the average cost of the most basic insurance available to the private individual? According to my research it is one hundred and seventy dollars a month. Who do you think shoulders that burden? The rich? Please. The destitute? We already have programs for them. The lower middle class, the least poor of the poor, they shoulder this, WE shoulder this. We get to decide what bill doesn’t get paid because the law says we must have this expense. What we don’t get to decide is who gets rich off of us, we do get to watch the CEO’s get rich off of American “socialism”. Here is my accusation; the progressives have committed the biggest act of capitalist wealth redistribution in this nation’s history. You have stolen money from the poor and given it to the rich, all in the name of protecting the poor.

What’s next… let’s see… Gun control. Let’s tackle this issue, and for those of you who consider yourself on the “right”, don’t delude yourselves you are just as bad and I will get to you later. The “Left” is all about restricting access to guns, they use such sophist excuses as,  ”guns are scary and kill people”, “every other civilized country has restrictive gun laws”, “what about the kids!?”, “why do you need a gun, call the police.” These are not now, nor have they ever been valid reason to remove a person’s property, nor to restrict their access to the acquisition of property. It also ignores the history of gun control in this country. Throughout the history of our country the people who are targeted by, and most effected by, gun control legislation has been the marginalized minorities. In the eighteen hundreds the government of Illinois passed a law that limited access to cheap pistols by taxing them. Who do you think was the target? Well off white folk? No, it was the poor black man who was tired of getting picked on by the despotic police. What about in 1960’s California? Was Ronald Reagan’s gun registration bill about protecting children against nasty people? Absolutely not, it was about controlling the minority population; it was passed to keep fire arms out of the hands of the Black Panthers who were a direct challenge to police violence. Now at whom do you think modern gun control attitudes are focused at? Is it the crazy fucker who kills kids? The terrorist who shoots up a mall?  Nope, it is the people who most challenge the power of the police to beat, shoot, and harass the people. The progressives may not dress this up as racist or classist, but it is. The police always have and always will be a more direct threat to the poor, the underrepresented, and disenfranchised. While the comparatively wealthy progressives sleep in their homes the police will be out there endangering the homeless, the destitute, and the minorities. Are you ready for another accusation? American progressives do not really care about the violence in American streets, You only pay lip service to it. What you care about is that you feel good, that you can look down on the men and women who have been beaten to death by the police and feel vindicated that at least no one was shot. You want to be able to watch with satisfaction as armed men with badges point guns at children, and find no weapons.  In fact I will go this far, you do not fear guns or gun violence, you fear people who are “different” in any way.

I’ve got one last point that, to me, proves that the Progressive “left” is just as fascist as the “Conservative” right. During the Bush administration there was heavy criticism of the “War on Terror” and any action taken in its name. We invaded Iraq, the “left” complained loudly and rightly. We used drones to blow up people, the left complained. We passed the PATRIOT act and the left claimed it was a violation of our rights. NAFTA was criticized as bad for not only the economy, but for freedom. The list was long, the list was right. However now we have one of You as our commander in chief, and you make excuses, and you ignore the truth. Obama is often lauded for bringing us out of Iraq, yet you ignore that it was only pressure from the Iraqi government that got us out, he tried to keep our soldiers in that quagmire for another TEN years. The President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, yet he has been personally responsible for the murder of over three hundred innocents, he has even gone so far as to say that he can kill ANY ONE he views as a threat, where is your outrage? Or are you comfortable with being so transparently hypocritical? I heard your outcry when the PATRIOT act was passed, yet when the president passed a law that gave the military to detain any American citizen without trial, without charges, for an indefinite period of time who did you blame? You blamed the republicans. The man holds the pen, and the republicans didn’t have a two thirds majority, he could have vetoed and forced them to remove that portion of the NDAA, but no he passed it. He knew that you would defend him, because he knows that you don’t care about the rights of the poor, the working man, you only care about your self satisfaction.

TL:DR

The Progressives in this country are capitalistic war mongering bigots who have deceived themselves into thinking that they are socialists.

Yeah I know this was inflammatory, yeah I know it was full of generalizations. I don’t care.