Of all the bullshit and intellectual dishonesty in modern politics, the names "Liberal" and "Progressive" top the fucking charts. Think about it, "Liberals" spend all their time trying to expand government authority, and "Progressives" spend all their time blocking human advancement. They want to take us from cars back to trains, from nuclear power back to windmills, from individual liberty back to fucking central planning. If the hardcore progressives had their way, amazing shit like iPad's wouldn't exist. They would have cut us off at the knees a long time ago:
Apparently, Jesse Jackson Jr's a big fan of Huxley's Brave New World (if you haven't read it, do):
"The Inventions Office is stuffed with plans for labour-saving processes. Thousands of them." Mustapha Mond made a lavish gesture. "And why don't we put them into execution? For the sake of the labourers..."
Also, by the looks of this progressive propaganda video (for kids), if they had their way, you'd be lucky to even get your hands on a Zack Morris cell phone:
"In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live? Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no liberty without dependency."-- Cass Sunstein.
Un-Fucking-Believable. He sounds like a whore, talking about his pimp. Someone needs to take him to a goddamn battered women's shelter. He must have been molested as a child or something. (Cass... show us on the doll where the government touched you… it’s not your fault.) Regardless... Sunstein says your money isn’t really yours, and besides, you couldn’t even spend it without the government. Cass rejects the Founders' idea that liberty is natural, and governments are instituted to defend it! Nope, Cass says the government creates liberty and property; they're blessings from the almighty government. "...no liberty without dependency." Really Cass? So if you were the only person on earth, you would have no liberty? That's a state of total liberty! No oppressor means no oppression, you dumb fuck. The word you're looking for is "tyranny." "...no tyranny without dependency."
"In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live? Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no liberty without dependency." -- Cass Sunstein.
