Unpublished Letter
I submitted this letter to the editor a couple weeks ago. It was not published and unfortunately I did not save a link for the original letter.
A letter in today’s paper derided Sen. Sessions’ description of Elena Kagan as a “dangerous progressive”, saying progressivism is by definition forward-moving. I disagree. There is little forward-thinking about the poorly named progressive movement.
Our ancestors took centuries to reestablish the primary position of the individual in society. Those efforts reached a high point in the writing of our constitution with its underlying philosophy of limited, defined government powers that are carved out of the rights of the people.
From the beginning progressives have been trying to reverse this. They seemingly seek to turn us into wards of the state where we’re free only to choose from a list of options selected for us by the state. Their philosophy is that government power is the presumed default out of which a few individual rights are carved.
It is a gigantic step backwards in time to pre-enlightenment philosophy. One might even say the progressive movement would be better named the regressive movement.
[...] amazing to me that Progressives Regressives still pass themselves off has being pro-freedom. As far as I can tell their ideology is about [...]