Progressives are folks who think that using a structure that empowers folks to rob folks to finance assault by folks against folks, is the proper way to address their own discomfort at other folks' behavior on real estate to which the uncomfortable folks have no individual claim. Progressives ascribe to this structure superior social status over that of individuals. Most folks call this structure government.
Punitive progressives think that folks are evil and that the structure empowers some folks to punish, through using up to lethal force, other folks for being human, that is, for being evil. Other folks, (and these progressives) call them(selves) conservatives.
Palliative progressives think that folks are good and that the structure empowers some folks to punish, through using up to lethal force, other folks for being human, that is, for not being good enough. Other folks, (and these progressives) call them(selves) liberals.
Socialism is a method that folks use to manage folks behavior through reward and retribution. It is based an illusion that a structure manages anything, or that a few power-lusting folks are smart enough to manage most other folks.
Socialism is just a way to advance progressives' objectives: the subjugation of many and the death of others.
Think of progressivism as a form of carcinoma.
Cancer has been among humans for a long, long time. You might think that folks would come to understand that cancer is part of life, that it is a natural thing. Instead, folks fight like mad to defeat a scourge that ravages lives, spending huge amounts of money and time to find cures for the various forms of this crab-like-monster system.
Folks do not accept cancer as a natural system to be tolerated.
Folks have accepted the coercive abrogation of our natural self-ownership for the benefit of the ‘common good’ for a long, long time. Folks have accepted that other folks have the right to use folks' labor and folks' property in exchange for their promises. Folks have accepted that they have a duty to labor for the common good to the best of their abilities and that they have a duty to appreciate what they receive as they need. Folks have accepted these beliefs for most of human existence.
Folks accept progressivism, a belief that aggressive state interventions into the market and private voluntary behavior will improve human life, as a natural system to be tolerated.
Both systems are parasitic, feeding on bodies.
Some cancers mimic other systems. For example, folks have mistaken lung cancer for pneumonia, bronchitis, or other serious ailments. Cancer starts out as a small anomaly, usually benign, usually unnoticed. The anomaly becomes malignant, displacing/devouring flesh, spreading through-out its host-body until the body dies. If the body owner notices and excises or neutralizes the anomaly in time, his body continues to live.
People try to keep from getting cancer, and if that fails, they try to get rid of it without dying.
Progressivism mimics other systems. For example, folks have mistaken progressivism for patriotism, communitarianism, or other collectivist systems. Progressivism starts out benign, providing a way for people to help other people, by using other people’s resources. The system grows, consuming more resources from more people. Eventually productive resources become near-extinct. If the body politic understand that they are being robbed and are able to refuse to continue to be robbed, they continue to live.
People try to live in liberty. Failing that, they try to cope without dying.
Doc Ellis
Agua Dulce CA
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