Friday, April 18, 2014

The Founding Fathers created the most revolutionary society in the world

Are you a "progressive," who believes that conservatives want to "keep things as they've always been?" Sarah Hoyt has some words for you:
You see, in modern day, we vile “conservatives” are people who want to upend the social theories that have been in place (and largely driving people nuts) for at least fifty years: such as the idea that nothing is any individual’s fault or credit; the idea that laws SHOULDN’T be equally applied but equal OUTCOMES to any endeavor should be enforced; the idea that your taking my stuff is theft, but the government taking my stuff and giving it to you isn’t theft; the idea that if you just have enough self confidence you will never commit a crime; the idea– I could go on, but this is already too long. Suffice it to say that of the various isms of the twenty century, the only one that was proven real was Zionism, which was based on the idea that people would like to kill Jews, and so Jews needed a place where they could be safe. All others have proven poisonous fruit in various degrees.

And they’re not new. Or scientific. Or even “progressive.”

Sarah goes on to say that conservatives
claim intellectual descent from the Founding Fathers. Keeping things the way “they’d always been” was the least of their interests. Which is why they created the most revolutionary society in the world.

One we’re not going to allow you to destroy just to take us back to ideas that were old and disproven a 100 years ago.

You can call us names, and you can do your best to lecture us. But I suggest you start to read what we say and to actually pay attention. These straw men of yours are very pretty, but they bear no resemblance to us.

And we are infinitely more dangerous.
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