Purge the Toxic

It is not our right to turn away from the ugliness of the world, but to examine it carefully and then live well in spite of it. Kjestine Gregory Evans

YES, I am quoting myself, but it is my blog after all and authorship has its privileges. Look I understand that it is sanity saving to bury one’s head in the sand or a book or…whatever stops us from seeing unpleasantness in the world, but doing those sanity-saving acts is a short term fix in a world that really needs reality.

Well here is my dose of reality…Teddy Roosevelt was not a saint. I know, but I liked him, and certainly he was not always wrong, but he was instrumental in dangerously expanding the office of the US President as well as mainstreaming the Progressive Movement. If you don’t know what the Progressive Movement is, well it is the precursor to fascism, communism and eugenics. Progressivism has given birth to some of the greatest social engineering evils ever executed in the history of the world.

Here is my concern: progressive ideas are so much a part of thought process that it is almost as impossible to remove them from our world view as it is impossible to remove them from our art work and social conscience. Frightening!

I am not saying that there are not any positive ideals in Progressivism; I am only saying that it is dangerous to buy into the whole bundle. Here is one concerning path: health care reform->government option->health care rationing->assisted suicide->euthanasia->eugenics. You think that is a stretch, yet it already happened in fascist Germany. Sure we look at the final solution, but we rarely examine how they got there; or: taxing the rich->wealth redistribution->nationalization of industry->communism, (need an example then pick one of many). Evil is never accomplished in on big step, but rather many baby steps until it is too late to fix the problem bloodlessly. Now is the time to learn the lessons from history so that we are not doomed to repeat them.

So my challenge to all of us is to look at our deeply held beliefs and see if those beliefs have their roots in progressivism. And if those deeply held progressive beliefs are not innocuous then purge them and regain the high ground. We cannot live well if our view is tainted by toxic ideologies.