OK, you guys have opened the door so here goes.
Fist of all of these "changes" that you guys are talking about are the result of PROGRESSIVE thought. The Progressive movement has always taught that the rich industrialists are the evil that destroys the innocent human being and that without capitalistic conservatism the world would be a perfect nirvana of equality and peace. Progressivism was created and taught by the likes of Marx and Engals, some call if Communism but the reality is that it's just a world view created by the rich narcissists that believe that they are the brilliant few that have an obligation to force us all in to a better societal norm, even if they have to kill a few thousand or million people in the process. They believe that the ends justify the means, that when the dust settles we will all bow to their brilliance and thank them for saving us from ourselves.
These Progressives belong to all political parties but the one common thread is that they became progressives through the teachings of our schools, colleges, and universities. The Progressive movement in the early 1900's was smart enough to realize that we needed to start the social change by indoctrinating our children, once the child's perception of right and wrong/ good and bad was adjusted to match up with the proper way to think then it would be easier to make the social changes that they wanted. This is easy to do. All they did was use the propaganda of pity for the children. The progressives sold us a bill of goods about allowing children to express themselves without influence from the preconceived notions of adults. The told us that it was healthier to allow a child to find out what they liked in the world rather than have an experienced adult tell them what works and what doesn't. In short, they cut the ties to parents and family and replaced them with a tie to the big brother government.
The government becomes the parent, it becomes the benevolent, kind hearted authority that wants to protect us. Progressivism manipulates the basic weakness of all mankind, they appeal to our desire for protection from hardship and danger and progressivism tries to substitute family and local community with national or global government as our protector. The goal being a global community that thinks and acts the same; kind, loving, peaceful, productive, happy robots that do what they are told because they don't question authority since all authority is benevolent and caring. This is why I reject the dogma that any President of this country is a father figure, a kind daddy that will take care of us, like people seem to think Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Clinton, Obama, etc. all were. They were all progressives that wanted to force the country to change to their view of the world. Modern big city people have all been indoctrinated in to thinking this way to their very marrow, that's why you hear people from Colorado, Utah, Montana all claim that they are conservative while they still support progressive ideals. Progressivism is a disease of the human animal, it appeals to the worst of our character, greed, selfishness, narcissism, while claiming just the opposite. Progressives will claim that they are doing something for the children, or women, or minorities when in truth it's a manipulation of the society to the advantage of the Progressive movement.
The fix is to grow a pair and learn to tell your family and friends that they are full of crap when they start telling you that The Great Oz in the Whitehouse will fix your world - we fix our world. We make the world reflect what we believe, but only if we get off our butts and vote and take affirmative action against those that we don't agree with. Hillary Clinton recently said that you aren't obligated to be civil to people that stand against what you believe in, that works both ways. We need to be verbal and loud when we get in to conversations with those that spout off that the Federal Government is our daddy, when they say that we shouldn't do something because it hurts the feelings of some minor group within the population, when they attack something that we believe in. One of the Progressive movements psychological tools is to teach our kids that it's important to be liked, bull crap, being liked is nice but isn't an imperative. If you are liked by everybody you know then you've never defined any standard that you live by and while your "friends" might like you at your parties, they sure as hell wont give a crap about you when you need their help. Freedom is all about the ability to do things that people wont like or saying things that some people wont agree with.
Freedom is the ability to be yourself without fear of retribution or harassment as long as you don't damage other people's property or person. That doesn't mean that you are free of the consequences of your words or acts but as long as you are prepared to deal with those consequences then you should have the freedom to express yourself. That's the problem with the people form these bastions of progressive thought, they think that they should be able to voice their opinions and take action without anybody opposing them. They think that they should be able to run the world without anybody standing in their way. When somebody does stand up to them they use every dirty trick to win including manipulating the press and the law - we need to use the same tactics if we expect to keep our freedom.
