{"id":30359,"date":"2016-08-23T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30359"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:33:14","slug":"qotd-american-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/qotd-american-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: American Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The progressives have a lot of problems with America. That is the entire point of their politics: They don&#8217;t like what America is, and wish to change it.<\/p>\n<p>This is what it means to be &#8220;progressive&#8221; &mdash; you want to move away from what actually exists.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, by and large, defend the current order, because they like it, and do not wish to &#8220;fundamentally transform&#8221; America.<\/p>\n<p>This is what it means to be &#8220;conservative&#8221; &mdash; one conserves, or keeps, what already exists.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives play this game where they launch nothing but nasty Marxist Critiques upon America, agitating for the country to remake itself entirely, but want to claim simultaneously: <em>We love America as much as anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh you most certainly do not! Definitionally, you do not: One who &#8220;loves&#8221; with a long list of caveats and criticisms does not love as much as someone who loves completely (or with a much shorter list of caveats and criticisms).<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, progressives take patriotism itself to be <em>the sanctimony of the unsophisticated<\/em>. Or, as Oscar Wilde called it, &#8220;the virtue of the vicious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Progressives, when they&#8217;re speaking honestly (that is, when they&#8217;re not speaking in front of TV cameras), love to lampoon their fellow countrymen&#8217;s unsophisticated, stupid, and obese love of country.<\/p>\n<p>They have in fact defined themselves as being <em>Those who are too smart to buy into this &#8220;patriotism&#8221; nonsense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ace, <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc:1080\/?post=355101\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rudy Is Right&#8221;, <em>Ace of Spades H.Q.<\/em><\/a>, 2015-02-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progressives have a lot of problems with America. That is the entire point of their politics: They don&#8217;t like what America is, and wish to change it. This is what it means to be &#8220;progressive&#8221; &mdash; you want to move away from what actually exists. Conservatives, by and large, defend the current order, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[431,1020],"class_list":["post-30359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-conservatism","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7TF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30360,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30359\/revisions\/30360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}