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Here is a definition of a progressive:
And this is before the more radical elements of the Obama agenda are to be forced on the American people. Both the cap and trade and health care legislation currently moving through Congress will transfer unprecedented power from the private sector to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington. Search the texts of each bill for the phrase “shall” or “may establish.” Every time these phrases appear in these bills, the left in Congress is empowering unelected Obama Czars at the expense of your liberties. And this is not by accident. The empowerment of unelected bureaucrats is at the very core of Obama’s progressive agenda. Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Political Science Ronald Pestritto explains:


It is the Progressives’ desire to free bureaucratic agencies from the confines of politics and the law that allows us to trace the origins of the administrative state to their political thought. The idea of separating politics and administration–of grounding a significant portion of government not on the basis of popular consent but on expertise–was a fundamental aim of American Progressivism and explains the Progressives’ fierce assault on the Founders’ separation-of-powers constitutionalism.


The Heritage Foundation’s Center for American Studies Director Matthew Spalding details the rise of the progressive movement and their assault on the founding principles of our nation in his new book, We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future. The book is built around 10 foundational principles that created a free, prosperous and just nation unlike any other: Liberty, Equality, Natural Rights, Consent of the Governed, Religious Freedom, Private Property, The Rule of Law, Constitutionalism, Self-Government, and Independence.

The progressive movement represents a threat to these founding principles. For the left, “progress” means fundamentally transforming America with a new form of government that will engineer a “better” society by assuring equal outcomes. It would redistribute wealth through a distant, patronizing welfare state that regulates more and more of the economy, politics and society. President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society were grand steps toward achieving the progressive platform.

We Still Hold These Truths offers a different direction. Spalding makes the case that we don’t need to remake America, or discover new and untested principles. We need a great renewal of the true roots of American greatness–and a radical reapplication of America’s core principles to the great questions of our day.

From the Heritage Foundation should you need a resource.
The Foundry
Amazon.com: We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future (9781935191674): Matthew Spalding: Books
Amazon.com: The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World (9780880801485): W. Cleon Skousen: Books

Karl Marx and Joseph Engle had nothing going on but a disillusion to what is equal and what is liberty. You make the typical class-warfare issue of the left. In this country you are free...to succeed or fail at your own risk. The world always has had the wealthy and the poor. The typical Utopia of the left has never and will never work. Wealth redistribution did not work in Russia, Cuba, China or any other Communistic rule of government.

The progressives as stated earlier have incrementally changed and morphed our political system into where you and others still think the GOP is a conservative group. Wrong.....BUT conservatives are now starting to wake up and give the liberals in the GOP a kick in the pants.

You and many will never read the 5000 year leap...it would educate you into how and why this country is so great. It took this nation over 180 years to analyze the corruption of the European governments as they structured the Constitution that you seem to dislike.

Like the immature community organizer you keep bringing up Bush another one that added to our financial ruin and global nation building. HE's gone and thank God he is now we have your ACORN man.

Gold has kept us in financial prosperity for hundreds of years. You lack of understanding our history reveals you have understanding of Why Jefferson was against a Federal Banking system it was because he has seen the impact of financial slavery in Europe. He was against Hamilton because of it. Once we got off the Gold we went into fiat money. Paper printed out of thin air backed by nothing.

Your arguments reveal to the public your lack of historical understanding and merely like to contend under the pretense of different opinion.
Yes yours is different and I write for the benefit of others that have no clue since our public schools indoctrinate more than educate.

I would submit that Capitalism is not perfect ( and never will be hence the Leftist Utopian conundrum of equality failure in all Marxists regimes) but its very nature as originally espoused by Adam Smith and the Laws of God as expounded by John Locke and Honorable Blackstone has built this nation to be the most prosperous nation in the annals of written history. Yet you and your ilk like the Acorn nut want to "transform" this nation to be more like what.....Cuba........ The inherent nature of man to be free and live free will never allow the American spirit to be subjugated to continual encroaching of personal liberty....

This is for the public to read and to have their thinking challenged. For you and others that just like to argue when the argument for the left is obviously wrong for this nation. I hope you will live to see this nation recover from the corruption of both parties.