Dear Friends,
It seems to me, when progressives are in control of government, they believe there should be no limits, but when anyone else has power, progressives strongly believe in limited government. Even the authority justly given under the US Constitution is withheld by progressives. You see this clearly in the scorched earth policy democrats are using to destroy Trump. The attitude that leads to such hubris is a total lack of self awareness and a blind faith in the moral superiority of their position. Only a zealot is unable to see another as having a valid point of view, and only a zealot will deny another the very right, to that differing point of view. In this we find that progressives cover both bases. It’s self evident that someone who denies another the very right to a point of view… shouldn’t be in charge of anything.
The progressive Obama, a sycophant of the Administrative State, could do no wrong in the eyes of progressives. His railing about the Constitution as a set of negative liberties, showed not only his antipathy for it, but his arrogance as well. Weaponizing the bureaucracy, that was all too willing to go along, against his political foes was a level of criminality unseen in the US to then. When he was caught arming Mexican drug cartels he exerted Executive Privilege and the matter was dropped. When Obama spied on reporters personal computers the progressive media gave it a good leaving alone. Examples abound where Obama was allowed to surpass his authority without consequence, but when Trump tried to reign in those extra constitutional acts, the courts stopped him. So progressive!
Now that Trump, a non progressive, who is not in love with the Administrative State, is in charge, his every action is litigated and stopped by some bench seat driving judge. Then, the entire mechanism of government must grind to a halt until the matter is litigated to the Supreme Court, where Trump has won almost every time. Nevertheless, he is severely hampered from even executing the basic prerogatives of his office. Meanwhile, he has been impeached for “Obstruction of Congress.” For exerting Executive privilege, something Obama did on many occasions, to cover up obvious crimes. Voted on a party line to impeach and bipartisan not to impeach, showing that progressives deny any other faction the legitimate right to govern… even as they demand unlimited power themselves.
Can you imagine the lack of self awareness this requires? Not only are progressives acting as hypocrites, they are doing it publicly, and lack the ability to see it. To demand unlimited power when one wins an election, but denying others even the basic right to govern when they win, is not only hypocritical, it is psychotically pathological. Which seems to be a quality of progressive governance, psychopathic manipulation of people into self harm, for fun and profit. Fortunately, psychopaths always eventually get discovered and have to move, this has been the progressive faction’s downfall before. The reaction to the progressive era’s indulgences forced progressives to change their label to “liberals” for decades. Since our historical memory is that of a guppy… progressives have reemerged.
The hypocrite is the epitome of hubris. When Obama said, “Elections have consequences…” apparently he meant only when progressives win. The hubris in that attitude is clear for anyone with eyes to see. Moreover, the progressive faction’s machinations since the election of Trump, prove their hypocrisy. Progressives went on and on, that when Trump lost, he would endanger democracy itself if he called the election into question… then went on to do exactly that. The latest stunt, impeaching Trump without letting a single witness for Trump be called, and now holding the articles, show utter contempt for the rule of law, Constitutionality or even moral and social norms. In this, the progressive’s Administrative State has shown itself to be unfit to manage a deli on 7th street… let alone rule the world.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
