Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 19, 2011
April 18, 2011
April 20, 2011
Transcript:
Donald Trump: So people have been asking me, "Donald, why are you having a major press event?" Fair question! And the answer is that people keep stopping me on the street saying, "Donald, we need you to take our country back from that Kenyan!" It's incredible! They've been begging me to use my unbelievable wealth to investigate the truth! It's crazy! Roland: How many people we talking here, sir? Trump: Thousands! I'm mobbed! I can't even get a hot dog! It's incredible!
pschearer wrote: ” And to anyone who uses the word “Progressive” for the Far Left, it was a major coup over a century ago when they redefined progress to mean only movement to socialism. It was almost as big a win as when they changed “liberalism” from advocating limited government and a free market to advocating the welfare state. ”
People who managed to get beyond the second grade understand the concept of “false dichotomy”. NOTHING is that simple.
Progressive is someone who wants to move society forward. The opposite of progressive would be regressive, someone who wants to send society BACKWARD.
The wafer thin line between progressive and regressive is called “status quo”. There is NO ONE ALIVE who is happy with EVERYTHING that is, as it is, so these people DO NOT EXIST.
You may substitute left for progressive and right for regressive.
EVERY SINGLE liberal,moderate,conservative, and ultra-conservative BY DEFINITION is a leftist. Only those called reactionaries are right wingers.
To show you WHY your staggeringly ignorant statement on socialism and the far left is a crock, let’s examine some of those who are on the right have DEEP socialistic roots.
Evangelicals are right wingers who are socialistic to the core. even the most far left person you can find is not as socialistic. Proof? read Acts 4:32-5. An evangelical’s Constitution is the Bible, and Paul is his god.
Neocons (named such because Kristol did not want to be confused with conservatives) get their entire methodology from Trotsky. EVERYTHING THEY DO, from fundraising, to pamphleteering comes from his model.
Baggies (don’t EVER call them members of theTEAPARTY because baggies would have fought against the Sons of Liberty FOR King George as Tories) are simply dishonest evangelicals.
Finally, the ONLY people who have defined progressives as socialism and liberalism as welfare state are the drooling imbeciles of the right whose COMPLETE lack of education makes it IMPOSSIBLE for them to discuss ANYTHING without creating straw men they can knock down. They are INCAPABLE of winning discussions based on fact or logic.