Posts Tagged ‘progressives’

Dan Sherrier

Remember that ordeal in New York recently? When the Republican establishment backed a left-leaning candidate, until conservatives led by Sarah Palin rallied around a third-party candidate who held views more strongly in line with their values?

Pundits had a field day with that one, as they carried on about the GOP being taken over by the “radical right,” which sought to purge the party of moderates.

Sorry, not progressive enough. Gotta go.

This was hailed as a horrible situation for the Republican Party that would no doubt favor the Democrats in elections. The general tenor equated to “those stupid conservatives, sabotaging their own party!” followed by a “Ha! Ha!” similar to that bully kid from The Simpsons.

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine said in a Nov. 4 statement, “However, perhaps the most consequential race of the night was the special election in the 23rd Congressional District of New York in which the Republican candidate, a moderate, was purged from the Republican Party by the most extreme elements of the conservative right wing including Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

I don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming.

I’m not anti-science. I’m not a “flat-Earther.” I’m not burying my head in the sand. I’m not stupid. (Though environmentalists will accuse me of all these because of our difference of opinion. They’re a sensitive bunch, deeply devoted to their apocalyptic religion. I suppose it makes their lives feel more dramatic, somehow, if the world is about to end, and only they can prevent it.)

Lights out.

I am, however, for progress and human achievement–two things some environmentalist “progressives” seem to have issues with. I also don’t accept “everyone says so” arguments. Nobody’s perfect, and that includes climate scientists. You expect me to believe that they’ve proven, beyond all shadow of a doubt, how the climate is going to change over the next several decades? (Please see my case for skepticism here.) Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Sherrier

I’m not going to write about President Obama’s Nobel win–not directly, anyway. Instead, I’ll reprint some quotes from the other two members of the “I won the Nobel Peace Prize as a sitting U.S. President” club.

Obama now joins the company of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson–one Republican president, one Democratic president, but two “Progressives.”

Today, we'd call him a "RINO."

I’m still working to educate myself on these two. I don’t profess to be an expert, and I’m not going to say either one was all good or all bad. But from what I’ve read so far, both became deeply infected by the “Progressive” ideology.

In simplest terms, that ideology asked people to turn, progressively, toward government as the solution to our troubles. The early 20th century “Progressive” movement was the pivot point when some Americans began shifting away from individualism and toward some degree of collectivism. The private good was seen as subservient to the public good. Read the rest of this entry »