Dear Friends,
It seems to me… all of history is an indictment of progressive policies. Maybe that is why progressive so despise history? Every policy that progressives hold near and dear to their hearts, has been proven a catastrophe by history, over and over. One of the core beliefs of progressives is that they are above the common lot of mankind. Smarter, more educated, wiser and more politically intelligent… just ask their professors. They believe themselves so far above the rest of us it is their duty to run our lives for us. Not out of hubris or a lust for power but out of charity, that we be elevated to the sublime reaches of the possibilities for us… if only we accede to becoming their lab rats. Yet even that “enlightened” mindset has been discredited by history, no wonder progressives openly avow to rewrite history.
Humanity has tried socialism before. The Pilgrims wanted to live as eclectic lives as possible. To that end they eschewed owning land and instead owned the land in common. The first winter almost all of them starved. They then adopted property rights and each was given a lot of his own for his family. Then they thrived. Every time socialism has been tried it has resulted in famine. The extermination of the Kulaks, the Ukrainian famines, the Famines in China, the hyper inflation that destroyed family legacies in places like Argentina, the suffering from economic hardship caused by socialists and socialist policies, are as gut wrenching as they are numerous. Socialism always ends up making almost everyone impoverished… but those at the top of the political hierarchy extremely rich.
Humanity has tried despotic government before. Many of Plutarch’s stories are those of despots and those who sought to unseat them. Dion versus Dionysius for example. Despotic government is perhaps the first kind of government that ever came into existence. The form has never gone out of style in some circles, but has been out of vogue in general since the Enlightenment. The progressive faction embraces the possibilities that despotic government offers them for the betterment of humanity. If not for the negative connotation that autocracy has, in the minds of those who know history, Progressives could get on with it, again, history is a conundrum. Yet if the progressive faction could effectively change the minds of the people, by rewriting history, this problem could be overcome.
Humanity has tried appeal to authority before. Appeal to authority is one of the primary goals of the progressive faction. The underlying philosophy of modern progressivism, is post modernist theory. It is the idea that all history is best characterized as the struggle between groups of people. They have evolved Marxist historiography, from the class struggle, to group struggle. In this notion of group struggle, they propose that all facts are subjective, to the group struggle and the power of that group. Even science, mathematics and history, post modernists argue, are untrue because they promote the established patriarchal hegemony. Since truth is a mere means to power, to a progressive, appeal to authority, (the ability to decide what is truth) makes it a super highway to absolute power.
It is no wonder that progressives are intent on rewriting history more to their liking, every part of it proves their philosophy to be pernicious, evil, destructive and corrosive to the soul. It is a testament to their audacity that they tell us openly they intend to rewrite history. It shows they believe they cannot be stopped anymore. This is of course made possible by the fact they have rewritten history, in the public school system, for several decades now. The student, sufficiently inculcated in progressive philosophy, and held in historical ignorance of the consequences of those policies, is made the puppet of the progressive faction. So it might be a good idea to hold on to some old history books. In a few decades it will be amusing, and saddening, to compare them to the “modern” versions.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
