| | | A New Commandment: In Government We Trust: The Progressive Religion
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In a column reeking of desperation on par with a kid hoping for a unicorn under his Christmas tree, the Washington Post’s Ryan Cooper complied a list of reasons “ Why millennials will come around on Obamacare.” Aside from a desperate lack of understanding of health policy and how people work, the second reason Cooper lists stands out. He writes, “Going without health insurance is morally wrong.”
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Cooper explains, “The only way insurance can work for everyone is if everyone is in the system so risk can be pooled. This one doesn’t carry much weight yet, since the system isn’t even operating. But as time passes, this will become an important norm — and for young people, the norm has outsized importance (older people already have a reason to get coverage; they get sick more easily). Getting insurance will be part of living in a decent society where everyone chips in when they can afford it, and free-riding is frowned upon — and over time, young people will come to see this as part of being a responsible citizen.”
Those 108 words are an incredibly inefficient way of rephrasing “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
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In nearly every way government has replaced religion in the progressive sphere. It is the grantor of rights, the arbiter of morality, the moderator of justice, the compass of true north. Government is the religion, and the agenda is God.
Any act done in service to the agenda is justified; the end is what matters, the means are irrelevant. That’s how you rationalize selling big lies, known lies, to a public wanting to believe your snake oil is the cure for what ails them.
Perhaps progressives were correct in their charge that religious zealots are the greatest threat to our liberty today. And if they want to see one of those zealots, they need only look in the nearest reflective surface.
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No doubt about it. Liberal progressives are religious zealots intent on using government to establish progressive liberalism's inverted morality on society at large. One problem, our constitution says there shall be no establishment of religion and no infringement on the free exercise of religion. So while liberals have the right to be liberal and live their lives by their religious beliefs, they don't have the right to force it on the rest of us. Liberals are violating the separation of church and state, in this case they're establishing the liberal church as the established church.
You could call it a theocracy except for the problem they have with God. Unless you visualize God as a socialist female goddess, call her something like Gaia or Mother Nature (like the goddess in the margarine commercials), then God's okay. |
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