Today’s Lesson In Progressive Politics: Bill Press

July 15, 2010

Liberal radio host Bill Press on why Obama’s poll numbers are so bad:

The lesson, of course, is that Progressives believe that the American people are too 1) spoiled, 2) stupid, and/or 3) ungrateful to understand that what Progressives are doing is for their own damn good. Press uses the word “spoiled” here but in fact it’s another “S” word that he means: “stupid.”

It speaks to a wider mindset that bedevils and in many ways defines Progressivism/Liberalism: the belief that a small, elite group of intellectuals should rule and that the slovenly, unkempt, unwashed masses should simply accept this rule and understand that Progressives know best. The clue: he maintains that Americans are ungovernable and then proceeds to implicitly compare Barack Obama with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. What Press and other Progressives fail to understand is that in America it is not the people who are governed (i.e., ruled). The government is a construct of, by, and for the people and those who are elected serve at the pleasure of the people. The people are not subjects of the government; the government is a tool of the people.

H/T: Jonah Goldberg in The Corner.

UPDATE: I see Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is on this, as well, and makes the same basic point as yours truly.

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Obama’s Eugenicist Science Czar

July 15, 2009

This isn’t getting a lot of play in the media, mainly because it would require actual reporting and background investigations on the part of journalists, but the word is out now that John Holdren, the “Science Czar” appointed by President Obama, co-authored a book in the 1970s with population scare-mongers Paul and Anne Erlich that advocated forced sterilizations and forced abortions.

Michelle Malkin has a new syndicated column up, and Zombie is all over it like white on rice.

While this is certainly as good a reason as any for outrage, I’m not entirely sure why anybody would be surprised by this. One of the hallmarks of the Progressive movement of which Obama is a proud descendent is an absolute contempt for actual living, breathing people hidden under a cloak of a love of “humanity.” The Progressives always loved Mankind and hated people, and this was clearly evident in their advocacy of forced sterilizations, forced abortions, and eugenics in order to strengthen the overall human race.

If that sounds like the Nazis, it should. Fascism, Naziism, and Progressivism were cut from the same cloth and shared many of the same ideological tenets.

What reporter will ask Obama this simple question: “The man you have appointed as ‘Science Czar,’ John Holdren, is the co-author of a book that finds a Constitutional rationale for forced abortions and forced sterilizations, and has advocated, but not disavowed, those policies. Do you think it is appropriate to appoint a man who holds these views to be in charge of science policy for the United States?”

It’s a simple question, but not an easy one. Which is, of course, why no one in the mainstream media will ask it.

More from Michelle here.

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