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Progressives are not rational people or educated, they are indoctrinated and compliant in their ignorance. There is no more despicable, unwashed , unlearned masses than those claiming the mantle of progressive.
When liberal became a dirty word and a slur, those that demeaned the term by their actions changed their calling to a progressive.
The only hope for America and the free world is social and fiscal conservationism, progressive ideals will make America another fiscal Greece shortly with a populatoin aligned more with Sodom and Gomorrah than the Christian values this nation was founded on.
For some years now, we have been told about a major division within American conservatism: fiscal conservatives vs. social conservatives.
This division is hurting conservatism and hurting America -- because the survival of American values depends on both fiscal and social conservatism. Furthermore, the division is logically and morally untenable. A conservative conserves all American values, not just economic ones.
By "social conservatism," I am referring to the second and third components of what I call the American Trinity -- liberty, "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum."
It is worth noting that a similar bifurcation does not exist on the left. One...
Progressives are all about elitism, always have been, always will be, perception is not reality in the case of compassion when it comes to conservatives.
Quit allowing progressives to define the narrative
My father (a retired sheet metal worker) and mother (a teacher's aide) are socially conservative and fiscally liberal, and I took most of my political opinions from them.