Learning To Think Like A Progressive

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Tony Heller

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28 Responses to Learning To Think Like A Progressive

  2. bleakhouses says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    Straw man, snow man; what’s the difference?

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  3. _Jim says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Is that Obama and his motorcade holding up traffic again – so HE CAN GET A GAME OF GOLF IN WITH A BIG-MONEY DONOR!!???

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  4. Slywolfe says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Fossil fueled snowplows are evil. Where are all the Greenies with shovels?

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  5. Joseph says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    I’ve been reading your exchanges with this moron. All he does is send you bullshit arguments from the left, which you easily dismantle. Pretty funny.

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  6. scott allen says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    Historygoon is an example of how liberalism has polluted our education system.

    This link is to a Oklahoma State study one of the questions asked was (PAGE 4 of the study) “mandatory labeling for food containing DNA” 80% of the people said yes. If I remember my biology studies doesn’t just about everything have DNA in it (even the water you drink, has some acceptable levels of plant and animals).

    http://agecon.okstate.edu/faculty/publications/4975.pdf

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  7. Frank K. says:
    February 5, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    I think history-goon’s little saying can be revised as follows:

    “When you spend more than a decade electing corrupt Democrats who run massive deficits, raise your taxes, and waste that tax money on left wing, progressive social programs (like climate change and free condoms for school kids), don’t be surprised when there is no money left over to plow your highway exit.”

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      • Matt says:
        February 5, 2015 at 4:10 pm

        So true.

        He has a country, and isnt finished yet. Nice budget proposal by the way. Lets hope that Republicans dont forget why they are elected

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    • DD More says:
      February 5, 2015 at 8:40 pm

      Of course there is no money left, after they spent it on non-highway uses. From

      Jul 30 2009 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report today on transportation spending entitled, “Out of Gas: Congress Raids the Highway Trust Fund for Pet Projects While Bridges and Roads Crumble.”
      According to the Senators’ report, GAO auditors found that over the last five years, $78 billion in Highway Trust Fund receipts have been used for “purposes other than construction and maintenance of highways and bridges” such as bike paths, pedestrian walkways and facilities, “scenic beautification” and landscaping projects, and road-kill prevention projects. Among the items noted in the reports:

      More than $2 billion has been obligated for 5,547 bike paths and pedestrian walkways, including $878,000 for a pedestrian and bicycle bridge for a Minnesota town of 847. An additional $2 million in stimulus funds will pay for a bike lane along a deteriorating road in Pennsylvania, where exasperated local officials say the road is so bad they may be forced to drive on the bike path instead.

      63 ferry projects and ferry terminal facilities accounted for $121 million, including $1.6 million for a ferry boat program in Oklahoma that features Saturday morning cartoon cruises with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote on the ferry’s flat screen T.V.

      Another $850 million has been obligated for 2,772 “scenic beautification” and landscaping projects around the country.
      http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=cc3e2a4e-af4b-7415-4e17-a7dcee191279

      12/12/2006
      According to the latest figures from the Federal Highway Administration, motorists gave state and local government $40.3 billion in 2005 for the ability to drive and own a vehicle. Gasoline taxes accounted for $20.5 billion in revenue while registration fees and miscellaneous taxes generated $13.5 billion. State and local toll roads also collected $6.4 billion from motorists.

      After accounting for administration and overhead, $28.5 billion remained for all fifty states to spend in 2005. Of this amount, only $13 billion was spent on state and local road construction and maintenance.

      A total of $8.9 billion of motorists’ money was diverted into unrelated uses. A total of $1.4 billion went to mass transit and $7.5 billion was used for social spending. The remaining amount went to related uses such as paying down transportation debt and funding highway law enforcement.
      http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/14/1494.asp

      And in the 1990’s, IIRC not all the trust fund was allocated to keep Clinton’s deficit spending lie going.

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  8. Lane Core Jr. (@OneLaneHwy) says:
    February 5, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    I used to navigate rush-hour traffic twice a day, five days a week, for 4 1/2 years. To me, that picture looks like normal rush-hour traffic with some snow on the road. To wit, the entrance ramp at the left is not snow-covered, and there doesn’t appear to be any vehicle backup on the exit ramp at the right.

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    • Neal S says:
      February 5, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      And considering how much space there is between many of those cars, they are likely not going as slowly as some would like you to believe.

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      • Gail Combs says:
        February 5, 2015 at 3:36 pm

        One of the main reasons I am ever so happy to be out of BosNYWash. I hate tailgating and you have no choice. Leave even two car lengths between you and the next guy and you have an endless stream of cars cutting sharply in front of you. I used to drive into work an hour early just to avoid that crap but after ~1985 even that didn’t work anymore. You got bumper to bumper even in the middle of the night on Sundays.

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  9. Jason Calley says:
    February 5, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    The thing that continues to amaze me is that often, the Progessive zealot is not actually stupid — at least not in a traditional sense. I mean, you can discuss perhaps some recent movie or book. they can speak intelligently about Shakespeare or Bach. Or maybe they can tell you about their latest vacation and get the names and the locations correct and even use good grammar while they tell you. They may even know basic (very basic) history or science.

    It is the lack of depth in their knowledge. It is the inability to question, or to synthesize a conclusion based on a set of facts. A bright Progressive is like a three mile wide river that is only 12 feet deep. There is no cohesion to their knowledge, no rounding together of information, no sense of the inter-relation of different fields. They consistently miss the mark, but never learn to compensate for their errors. If a Progressive could raise people from the dead, they would do so — but the restored person would probably be missing a leg or be blind.

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    • Gail Combs says:
      February 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm

      This is the result of John Dewey’s Progressive Education and the inability to actually think is the goal of todays modern school system.

      ….the purpose of the school [funds profided by John D. Rockefeller] was to show how education could be changed to produce little socialists and collectivists instead of little capitalists and individualists. It was expected that these little socialists, when they became voting adults, would dutifully change the American economic system into a socialist one.

      In order to do so he analyzed the traditional curriculum that sustained the capitalist, individualistic system and found what he believed was the sustaining linchpin — that is, the key element that held the entire system together: high literacy. To Dewey, the greatest obstacle to socialism was the private mind that seeks knowledge in order to exercise its own private judgment and intellectual authority. High literacy gave the individual the means to seek knowledge independently. It gave individuals the means to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. This was detrimental to the “social spirit” needed to bring about a collectivist society. Dewey wrote in Democracy and Education, published in 1916:

      When knowledge is regarded as originating and developing within an individual, the ties which bind the mental life of one to that of his fellows are ignored and denied.

      When the social quality of individualized mental operations is denied, it becomes a problem to find connections which will unite an individual with his fellows. Moral individualism is set up by the conscious separation of different centers of life. It has its roots in the notion that the consciousness of each person is wholly private, a self-inclosed continent. intrinsically independent of the ideas, wishes, purposes of everybody else.

      And he wrote in School and Society in 1899:

      The tragic weakness of the present school is that it endeavors to prepare future members of the social order in a medium in which the conditions of the social spirit are eminently wanting …

      The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of merely learning, there is no clear social gain in success threat.

      …. Dewey wrote in 1896, after the Laboratory School had been in operation for nine months:

      It is one of the great mistakes of education to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of the school work the first two years. The true way is to teach them incidentally as the outgrowth of the social activites at this time. Thus language is not primarily the expression of thought, but the means of social communication … If language is abstracted from social activity, and made an end in itself, it will not give its whole value as a means of development … It is not claimed that by the method suggested, the child will learn to read as much, nor perhaps as readily in a given period as by the usual method.

      http://www.ordination.org/dumbing_down.htm

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      • Jason Calley says:
        February 5, 2015 at 4:15 pm

        Hey Gail! I believe you…

        When I first ran across the idea that public schools were (at least to a certain group of people) primarily a means of brainwashing I could not believe it. The very idea was so at odds with all my former information that I filed it in the “Sounds pretty far out” category. Maybe 20 years ago I still doubted it, but about 10 years ago I read some of the speeches and articles written by Dewey, and had a moment of epiphany.

        Yes. There really is a group of people — actually “class of people” is perhaps a more accurate expression — who think that they were born with spurs and everyone else was born with a saddle. It is not a conspiracy, it is a mindset, and one which is pervasive in a certain class. It is the class that believes “We know what is best for you. We will be a good master for you.”

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        • Gail Combs says:
          February 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm

          It is a pretty horrifying wake-up isn’t it? You go along minding your own, thinking the criminals in DC are good hearted if bumbling idiots only to find out they have a hidden agenda and that agenda is to place a serf’s collar around your neck.

          Pascal Lamy made it very very clear that our government back in the 1930s (FDR) agreed to give up the national sovereignty of the USA and become a vassal state of a world government. I have seen nothing that makes me think this has not been an on going agenda since then.

          ….The reality is that, so far, we have largely failed to articulate a clear and compelling vision of why a new global order matters…

          All had lived through the chaos of the 1930s — when turning inwards led to economic depression, nationalism and war. All, including the defeated powers, agreed that the road to peace lay with building a new international order — and an approach to international relations that questioned the Westphalian, sacrosanct principle of sovereignty — rooted in freedom, openness, prosperity and interdependence.
          (wwwDOT)theglobalist.com/pascal-lamy-whither-globalization/

          We even have the US military (Department of Defense) publish a 133 page document entiled: AFSS 0910 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND TREATMENT INCIDENTS (EOTI) LESSON PLAN. The whole document obtained by Judicial Watch.
          http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-department-teaching-documents-suggest-mainstream-conservative-views-extremist/
          That document has

          D. Extremist Ideologies
          1. Introduction
          • As noted, an ideology is a set of political beliefs about the nature of people and society. People who are committed to an ideology seek not only to persuade but to recruit others to their belief. In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.

          • While not all ideologists are violent in nature, it is characteristic of ideology to be action-oriented and to regard action in terms of a military analogy. How often have you heard words such as struggle, resist, march, victory, and overcome when reading about or talking to ideologists about their beliefs?

          2. Ideologies
          a. Nationalism – The policy of asserting that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations. Many nationalist groups take it a step further and believe that their national culture and interests are superior to any other national group.

          b. Supremacy – The belief that one’s race or ethnicity is superior to all others and should dominate society. Supremacy, as with racial supremacies in general, has frequently resulted in anti-Black and anti-Semitic violence.

          c. Separatism – Setting oneself or others apart based on culture, ethnicity, race, or religion.

          d. Anarchism – A political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or undesirable. National anarchists appeal to youths in part by avoiding the trappings of skinhead culture—light jackets, shaved heads, and combat boots—in favor of hooded sweatshirts and bandanas. They act the part of stereotypical anarchists as envisioned by most Americans outside of far-left circles: black-clad protesters wreaking havoc at political conventions and anti-globalization rallies.….

          Is this the US Military or is this the United Nation writing this crap?

          The document also gives “The following references are additional sources for current extremism information: “
          The list includes these goodies:
          • Southern Poverty Law Center – (wwwDOT)splcenter.org
          It is a far left legal and activist organization created in 1971
          [SEE attacks on Catholic Church and shooting targets from their list cnsnews(DOT)com/news/article/southern-poverty-law-center-our-hate-map-doesn-t-cause-anybody-attack. also DHS employee behind website promoting race war on paid leave ]

          • Teaching Tolerance – www(DOT)tolerance.org
          Seems Teaching Tolerance is a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
          look at this one titled Progressive City Planners It is a lesson plan for schools.
          http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/progressive-city-planners
          And then look at the links at the bottom.
          You might also like:
          Reporting on Environmental Racism
          Introducing Kids to the Idea of Environmental Racism
          Environmental Justice: High School

          Are we in the USA or the USSR? It is getting really hard to tell anymore.

        • Jason Calley says:
          February 6, 2015 at 2:50 am

          Hey Gail! “Are we in the USA or the USSR?”

          The answer is “yes.” We are in the USSA.

          I am sure you remember the pamphlet given out in Missouri on how to spot a domestic terrorist.
          http://thekansascitian.blogspot.com/2009/03/mo-domestic-terrorist-report-how-to.html

        • Gail Combs says:
          February 6, 2015 at 5:35 am

          Yes Jason, I had read that on a different website.

  10. B says:
    February 5, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    One thing about these Obama years is watching Illinois / Chicago/ Cook County politics go national and watching progressives from other places fall for it. The sequester was classic Illinois politics. When denied increases the Obama administration simply started shutting down the most public things people expected of government such as the national parks. In Illinois they start cutting back police, fire, transit, etc until they get more of our wealth. It’s what they do. They hold the basic services they are supposed to do hostage. Roads are typically allowed to fall apart as the money is taken for other things. Then they go on a road show about how they need to raise taxes for the roads.

    Now snow plowing…. since ’79 they don’t dare mess with that. It’s the one thing the peasantry will bring out the torches and the pitchforks for and these cowardly bastards that hold elected office are still quite afraid of the masses when they can’t bamboozle enough of them to break them into arguing groups. They will cut whatever they have to make sure the plows are rolling and the salt pile does not run out. If the streets don’t get cleared well enough they know that makes openings for people who are not part of the system to get elected. It takes huge majorities to overcome the cheating and not getting the snow cleared can do that here.

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  11. Colorado Wellington says:
    February 6, 2015 at 2:10 am

    To understand this we must learn to think like someone who started out as a complete moron, sniffed glue, heard a Barbara Boxer speech, suffered more brain trauma, bought an Obama t-shirt, sniffed more glue, watched evening news, read a New York Times editorial, and realized that global warming will kill us all if Steven Goddard is not stopped.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM69Y9Dvcxs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm05Mcah0i8

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    • Colorado Wellington says:
      February 6, 2015 at 2:45 am

      After repeated trauma, some say fiscal conservatives won’t plow highway exits while others say things like this:

      “Climate … is a big phenomena. We all know this, we all feel it in our hearts.”

      “The main thing is, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change got a Nobel Prize! They got a scientific prize for making a discovery! They didn’t get a minor award. This is a big deal! They discovered climate change, through all kinds of evidence!”

      “This thing of denying science … to deny what scientists or scientific evidence is showing is inappropriate and as I said earlier, to me when I get wound up, it’s unpatriotic.”

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