THE Thorn for Progressivism

To understand the threat of Progressivism, you must first understand the obstacle that Progressives detest.  It is the Constitution. Progressives cannot accomplish their goal of a centralized government without first destroying the Constitution.  They can’t get to equalization (and ultimately control) of each person because the Constitution prevents them from doing so.
There’s no better way to illustrate this than through the Constitution itself.  So let’s start with the 9th Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The 9th Amendment tells the Federal Government that the rights enumerated to them does not mean that the people don’t have other rights that are not specifically addressed in the Constitution. It asserts that the Federal Government cannot violate those other rights retained by the people as well. That includes legal, natural, and inalienable rights of each individual. A perfect example is the right to privacy.

The 9th Amendment limits the scope and authority of the Federal government. It instructs us as to the construction of the Constitution. The Progressives must eliminate this in order to achieve their ultimate goal of centralized government to control the individual and violate the enumerated and unenumerated rights of the individual.

Next let’s move on to the 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Instructions by the people to the Federal Government, for the people, don’t get much clearer than this.  Each power that is granted to the Federal Government is enumerated in the Constitution.  If you don’t see a power delegated to the Federal government there and it is not prohibited by it to the States, then those powers and rights are reserved EXCLUSIVELY to the States or the people.

The 9th and 10th Amendments are the most hated amendments of the Progressives.  The 9th and 10th Amendments cover and clarify the 1st 7 articles and the first 8 Amendments of the Constitution.  Why do the Progressives hate the 9th & 1oth Amendments so? Because, when the Constitution is followed properly, it  eliminates their goal of a centralized government which exerts control into every aspect of an individual’s life.  It stops their ability to violate the rights, both legal and natural of an individual.

One merely has to look at the words of Progressives:

Barack Obama:

“Just five days until we fundamentally transform America”

“We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity”

I don’t know about you but fundamentally transforming and laying a new foundation means you have to destroy the original foundation – The Constitution.

But let’s not just use the President as an example. Progressivism is pervasive through out Congress. In fact, the Progressive Caucus counts 83 declared members.  Out of the 20 standing committees in the House of Representatives, 11 are chaired by Progressives.

There’s not a better example from a Progressive about exactly what Progressives are going to do to the Constitution than the most recent one from Nancy Pelosi on trying to pass their “health care reform”:

We’ll go through the gate, the gate’s closed. We’ll go over the fence, the fence is too high. We’ll pole vault in if that doesn’t work we’ll parachute in, but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the American people

That gate and fence that Pelosi and others talk about is THE Thorn of Progressives. That Thorn is the U.S. Constitution


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January 31, 2010 · Filed Under General Politics

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3 Responses to “THE Thorn for Progressivism”

  1. A pen on January 31st, 2010 3:03 pm

    That thorn is protected by the people with the first and second amendments. The fact the first has been held inoperable by the courts as proven during the CC2009 meeting and declared in the “Articles of Freedom” we are forced to battle an illegal POTUS using tax dollars to recruit children, illegal entrants in the country and others who are being salaried or otherwise funded by the congressional purse in the civil elections. Should the traitors triumph the last recourse will be unavoidable and that my friends ought to motivate you to stop the invasion into your schools by the Serve America propagandists and making darn sure you are heard right now by your friends, neighbors and local political entities. The alternative will result in civil unrest that will take a great toll on our lives and the quality of it for many years to come.

    The constitution is extremely simple to follow and there is absolutely no legitimate reason not to demand it be followed in order to correct the problems past administrations and congresses have created by ignoring it. We gave an inch, they now assume total rights to legislate under the guise of doing it for the people. If the government were governing for you would they have stopped the invasion of illegals who were not in any immediate dangers in their own country? Would they have prevented you from asking who our president is? Would they remove the visas of all who enter from nations that refuse to take responsibility for their own citizens acts? Would your government allow a group like ACORN to go uninvestigated because it supports any illegal act its members can profit from even if it is child prostitution? Would your government be so complicit with the fraud of global warming it can’t back away without exposing its guilt? NO. And that NO is the same NO that decent patriotic Americans will continue to send to DC until they are replaced with decent Americans that want to follow the law and prosper the way we were so lucky to have been afforded by our founders with their Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of rights.

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