Jonah Goldberg in National Review pens as concise a description of progressive tactics as I have ever read. It explains why Republicans always look like Charlie Brown in his annual Fall kick-the-football fiasco - they keep playing by the rules. Rules, schmules - rules are for chumps. Hence President Obama on immigration, Obamacare and the actions of lesser minions like Jonathan Gruber who made the huge faux pas of explaining the truth behind his actions. Thus saith Goldberg:
"... the story of the progressive movement can best be understood as activists going wherever the field is open. If the people are on your side, expand democracy. If the people are against you, use the courts. If the courts are against you, run down the field with the bureaucrats, or the Congress, or the presidency. Procedural niceties — the filibuster, precedent, the law, custom, the Constitution, truth — only matter if they can be enlisted to advance the cause. If they can’t, they suddenly become outdated, irrelevant, vestigial organs of racism, elitism, sexism, whatever. Obstruction, or even inconvenience in the path of progressive ends is prima facie proof of illegitimacy. The river of history must carry forward. If History hits a rock, the rock must be swept up with the current or be circumvented. Nothing can hold back the Hegelian tide, no one may Stand Athwart History. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. This is the liberal gleichschaltung; get with the program or be flattened by it."
The sooner that Americans realize that nothing coming from a progressive's mouth can be trusted, that everything is tactical and geared toward accomplishing their strategic goals which they will never reveal (except by mistake like Herr Gruber) because they know that a vast majority of Americans will never agree with them, the better off will we be as a nation.
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