Check It Out! Progressivism is Evil

Check It Out! Progressivism is Evil.

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Friday, March 28, 2014

http://www.lifesitenews.com/com/home/print_article/news/43980/  - 'Progressivism': the greatest source of death and terror in the twentieth century.

By George Neumayr: Feb. 14, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The English author George Orwell wrote that "political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." In the history of manipulated political language, the term "progressive" surely occupies a high -place.

The term is used incessantly to describe policies, political figures, and churchmen, among others, whom a liberal elite deem enlightened. Through repetitive us of "progressive," modern liberals have hoped to gull the public into equating progressive with progress. But no such equation is justified. The gulf between the rhetoric of "progress" and the reality of progress is glaring.

The darkness of the twentieth century is sufficient to dissuade anyone from confusing "progressive" with progress. It vilest ideologies were all presented as"progressive." In the name of bettering humanity, self described progressives felt emboldened to "progress" beyond the most basic precepts of reason and the natural law.

While some causes labeled "progressive" in the twentieth century qualify as either innocuous or at the least debatable, many were unmistakably evil. The century's eugenics schemes, for example, came not from so-called reactionaries but from proud self-described progressives. The West's leading judges and university presidents championed eugenics openly before World War II.

In the 1920's, Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered a pillar of progressivism, thought nothing of calling for widespread sterilization of whomever the elite considered inferior. After all, he wrote, "It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for the crime or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind ... Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Long before Hitler's Final Solution, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was writing about eliminating the "feeble-minded" and undesirable minorities. Long before the architects of Obamacare conceived of death panels for the elderly, the playwright, George Bernard Shaw, a darling of the progressives, blithely proposed extermination panels: "You must all know a half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?"

"Progressive" California, epicenter of eugenic in the 20th century, didn't pickup its schemes from Hitler's Germany. Rather, bloodless German social engineers picked up their eugenic ideas from California. Edwin Black, the author of "War Against the Weak," has noted, "Only after eugenics became entrenched in the U.S. was the campaign transplanted into Germany, in no small measure through the efforts of California eugenicists, who published booklets idealizing sterilization and circulated them to German official and scientists." Supposedly progressive places like Pasadena and Palo Alto (Stanford's president in the early twentieth century, David Star Jordan, was a loud proponent of eugenics) were beacons of enlightenment in Hitler's eyes, according to Black: ...

Self-described progressives also entangled themselves in the roots of Russian communism. " I have seen the future and it works," remarked the journalist  Lincoln Steffens after visiting Russia in 1921.Bolshevism and progress were viewed as one of the same. "Most liberals saw the Bolsheviks as a popular and progressive movement, wrote Jonah Goldberg in "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left" "Nearly the entire liberal elite," including much of FDR's Brain Trust, made the pilgrimage to Moscow to take admiring notes on the Soviet experiment." ...

George H. Kubeck

Progressivism is part of the culture of death which Blessed Pope John II warned us about. He will be sanctified in April. Progressivism is rampant in California. Thanks to Catholic-in-name-only politicians like Nancy Pelosi  who received the The Margaret Sanger Award on March 27. On Judgment Day, the Catholic Bishops in California will have to answer for this tremendous scandal.