koshergrl
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Progressives love the STATE above all!
"For the Progressives, to begin, the power of government is NOT limited in principle to securing the natural or āinalienableā rights of man, as the Declaration of Independence has it. āIt is not admitted that there are no limits to the action of the state,ā as the German-trained progressive political scientist and future New Dealer Charles Merriam concludes in a 1903 survey of progressive thinking,
'...but on the other hand it is fully conceded that there are no ānatural rightsā which bar the way. The question is now one of expediency rather than of principle . . . each specific question must be decided on its own merits, and each action of the state justified, if at all, by the relative advantages of the proposed line of conduct.'
ān general,ā as the German-trained progressive economist Richard T. Ely likewise affirms, āthere is no limit to the right of the State, the sovereign power, save its ability to do good.ā[12] The first step toward bold, experimental reform was to untie the hands of government."
"For the Progressives, the governmentās obligation in this regard was perfectly compatible with treating different races (whom they believed were at varying stages of development), differently in law and policy.[13] It also trumped not only the ability of individuals to exercise their now āso-called innate or ānatural rights'ā āe.g. the right to live, enjoy oneās physical liberty, acquire and use property, marry, speak, worship God according to the dictates of oneās conscience, etc.ābut also an individualās fundamental right to attain his own highest development where the prospect for development was believed to be relatively small, or his restraint was believed to be advantageous to the development of a greater number.[14]
"Perhaps nowhere is the Progressivesā willingness to run roughshod over individual liberty, for the sake of improving America generally, as stark as in their support for eugenics."
Progressives LOVE Nazis (I mean the old ones, who liked to *experiment* on "lesser" people):
Eugenics, American Progressivism, and the 'German Idea of the State' - Online Library of Law & Liberty
"For the Progressives, to begin, the power of government is NOT limited in principle to securing the natural or āinalienableā rights of man, as the Declaration of Independence has it. āIt is not admitted that there are no limits to the action of the state,ā as the German-trained progressive political scientist and future New Dealer Charles Merriam concludes in a 1903 survey of progressive thinking,
'...but on the other hand it is fully conceded that there are no ānatural rightsā which bar the way. The question is now one of expediency rather than of principle . . . each specific question must be decided on its own merits, and each action of the state justified, if at all, by the relative advantages of the proposed line of conduct.'
ān general,ā as the German-trained progressive economist Richard T. Ely likewise affirms, āthere is no limit to the right of the State, the sovereign power, save its ability to do good.ā[12] The first step toward bold, experimental reform was to untie the hands of government."
"For the Progressives, the governmentās obligation in this regard was perfectly compatible with treating different races (whom they believed were at varying stages of development), differently in law and policy.[13] It also trumped not only the ability of individuals to exercise their now āso-called innate or ānatural rights'ā āe.g. the right to live, enjoy oneās physical liberty, acquire and use property, marry, speak, worship God according to the dictates of oneās conscience, etc.ābut also an individualās fundamental right to attain his own highest development where the prospect for development was believed to be relatively small, or his restraint was believed to be advantageous to the development of a greater number.[14]
"Perhaps nowhere is the Progressivesā willingness to run roughshod over individual liberty, for the sake of improving America generally, as stark as in their support for eugenics."
Progressives LOVE Nazis (I mean the old ones, who liked to *experiment* on "lesser" people):
Eugenics, American Progressivism, and the 'German Idea of the State' - Online Library of Law & Liberty