By Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.)
The American left has perfected the art of changing the
meaning of words or phrases. For example, gun confiscation is reshaped to now
mean “sensible gun safety measures.” White male now means privileged.
Republican and racist are now interchangeable words. Voter ID laws for fair and
clean elections means voter suppression to liberals. Moreover, political
violence—torching buildings and bludgeoning innocent Americans on the street is
now synonymous in their lexicon, as a peaceful protest.
The American left has struggled for a long time dealing
with another term: liberal.
Conservatives were successful at demonizing the
term when George H.W. Bush labeled his presidential opponent, Michael Dukakis
as a card-carrying liberal. The term turned into a political pejorative and
liability, so they went back in time and now proudly refer to themselves as
Progressives.
They are counting on people not researching the history about the
founders of the Progressive movement.
Liberals have become skillful in revisionist history
about their Party’s past, bamboozling voters along the way.
[For More Civil Rights History Details See: Republicans And Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism]
They skillfully
separated black people from their history ignoring the fact that the Democratic
Party was the party of slavery whom pre-civil war fought hard in Congress to
uphold the ugly institution.
They ignore the reality that the Democratic Party
opposed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s.
They want
voters to forget that the Ku Klux Klan was their fighting force during the
post-reconstruction and Jim Crow era that enforced southern Black Codes.
They
are hoping voters never learn the Klan’s mission was to maintain white
supremacy by violence and threats against newly freed blacks and Republicans.
They hope voters are too intellectually lazy to research and discover it was
the Republican Party that was founded on the principle of ending slavery and
later pushed for and passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act.
The Democrats’ love affair with the idea of a bigger role
for government in the lives of Americans was spawned in the Progressive
movement of 1890 to 1920—a period that saw an increase in social activism. The
architects of Progressivism were the leading college and university so-called
intellectuals of that time.
As proud as Democrats are with the term Progressives,
they don’t tell voters that the Progressive ideology architects were racist to
their very core, who ignored the plight of blacks and were eugenicists.
Author and historian, Professor Thomas C. Leonard, in an
article on the Progressive movement titled Illiberal Reformers, details several
Progressive facts.
He directly quotes works from these Progressive racists,
like Progressive Economist John Commons who said, “By the cataclysm of a war in
which it took no part, this race (blacks) after many thousands of years of
savagery, was suddenly let loose into the liberty of citizenship and the
electoral suffrage.
Black suffrage was not an expansion of Democracy but a
corruption of it.” Let that sink in for a moment. There’s more.
Another Progressive Economist Richard T. Ely then said,
“Negroes are for the most part grown-up children and should be treated as such.
We have gotten far enough to recognize that there are certain human beings who
are absolutely unfit and should be prevented from a continuation of their kind.
Ely referred to minorities as a “human rubbish heap.”
Additional stunning evidence include when University of
Wisconsin Progressive President Charles Van Hise had said, “Human defectives
should no longer be allowed to propagate the race. We know enough about
eugenics so that if knowledge were applied the defective classes would
disappear within a generation.”
As if you are not already sick to your stomach,
Progressive Sociologist Edward A. Ross had said, “Blacks given the right to
vote is the root of political corruption. One man, one vote does not make Sambo
equal to Socrates.”
The irony here is irrespective that Ross had made these
racist remarks, former University of Wisconsin President Van Hise named the
student housing building on the liberal campus after him. Why have there been
no protest or demand that the university remove his name from that building?
At Yale University, student protests and activism led to the university
changing the name of a building named after former vice-President John Calhoun,
an ardent supporter of slavery. Apparently, news of this has not reached the
University of Wisconsin campus activists, or they are clueless, or maybe they
don’t care.
As you can tell, these leading Progressive architects
weren’t reformers—they were arrogant, elitist, racists whose attitudes had
shaped public policy.
Leonard further points out in his article that they supported
forced sterilization and believed in socially engineering a master race.
They
despised Jews, Asians, Catholics, women and the disabled. They thought these
groups were too stupid to vote and should be prevented from doing so. Their
interpretation of Democracy was control of the masses by a small group of
bureaucratic experts.
Progressivism defined the Democratic Party then. I
maintain it still does today.
Look at their support of abortion, which was the
eugenic idea toward population control for minorities during the Progressive
era.
Today more black babies are murdered by abortion than any other
demographic.
In 2014 in New York City, more black babies were aborted than were
born.
That same year 73 percent of all abortions were either black or Hispanic.
The eugenicists of the 19th-century Progressive era would be proud to see they
are continuing to control the population of minorities slyly by changing the
meaning of the murder of babies to ‘women’s reproductive health.’
Need more evidence of Progressive’s link to their sordid
past?
Look at the state of K-12 public education. Black and Hispanic students
are shackled to these failing schools.
Many black and Hispanic children cannot
read at grade level nor can they add, subtract, multiply or divide.
Progressives
oppose choice and charter schools that offer struggling parents a lifeline out
of poverty. One would have to be a sociopath to keep these kids trapped in this
abysmal environment.
Embracing the term Progressive is appalling.
Noted columnist George Will said in a column that, “As
long as we are cleansing the public square of names and statues tainted by the
historical connections with racism, the Progressive term’s racist pedigree will
be forgiven if the term serves the left’s agenda.”
I am calling on Democrats and liberals to scrub the label
Progressive from their vocabulary and never refer to themselves as Progressives
or that disgusting period ever again.
