"Focus, People" says Progressive Charles Blow

...then he follows with the typical Progressive litany of what he feels is important to focus on.

Missed again, Charles. You've picked an imaginary target that's simply impossible to attain.

My comment...

Mr. Blow, your comments seem reasonable, on the shallow surface, to any thinking man or woman. However, you still bitterly cling to the notions that your 'Progressive' President's abilities can and, somehow, magically and against all funding capabilities, bring about a Progressive nirvana that exists only in your dreams; as realizable as you say Conservative Constitutionalist's nostalgia is for reviving days past.

Even if Progressives could take away at gunpoint every dime from every 1% American, you could not fund the 'social safety nets' as you envision them.

Your dreams simply aren't feasible; and by taking away from those who have, those who've earned and legally acquired monies and goods, and redistributing monies, goods and services to those who haven't earned them and don't deserve them, you also take from those very people you want to 'help' their independence and their necessary ability to learn how to acquire goods and services responsibly. And to appreciate them once they've acquired.

You enslave them. As we've seen since Lyndon Baines Johnson gave birth to the so-called 'Great Society': we've seen inner cities become hovels of dependency. We've seen generations lost and individual's necessary competitive human spirits vanish, because we gave too much and expected too little.

That's not how Progressives envisioned a 'Great Society', I wouldn't think. But that's how it's turned out.

Sometimes looking back to 'how things were' isn't simply nostalgia; those ideals and principles give hope and can carry forward as fundamental structures to a better future; one that's not as Orwellian and Progressive as we see you running to.

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