Progressivism Quotes

“This is not an accident.  Progressivism is a mindset that favors the use of aggressive government force to solve social problems.  Prison is one of its main tools.  Prison is the threat behind every progressive edict.  If you don’t directly merit prison by violating a criminal statute, you can earn prison by interfering with a government agent enforcing progressive policies or by ignoring a court order to obey the law.  A large number of prisoners are incarcerated either because they violated a progressive drug law or because their illegal drug habit drew them into a criminal lifestyle. ”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“under progressivism, the state will grow until it controls everything and absolutely. That is, it will grow into a totalitarian state.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“Progressivism thus becomes a kind of faith for the faithless.  The State replaces God.  Heaven will be achieved here on earth and by means of Godvernment.[48]”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“Just as a baby thinks he will disappear if he covers his eyes, the progressive thinks state force will improve life and believes this without evidence or logic and in the face of all contrary and obvious evidence of the failure of this approach.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“FDR used tactics more popularly associated with Richard Nixon.  He used the IRS to punish political enemies.[204]  He illegally wiretapped political opponents.  He illegally closed the banks under color of a war power but in peacetime.[205]  FDR, not Goldfinger, was the biggest gold thief of all time.  He was guilty of war crimes, a consistent theme with progressive presidential heroes.[206]”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“Since the progressives have canonized FDR, it is imperative that this saint be defrocked. Saint Franklin was a scoundrel in both his private and public lives.  He was a serial adulterer and illegally spied on his wife’s own dalliances.[201]  Lying was second nature to him.  He covered up his serious health problems to get elected to an unprecedented fourth term.  He called one of history’s worst villains, Stalin, “Uncle Joe,” had a warm relationship with him and covered up his infamous massacre of 22,000 Polish Army officers and prominent citizens.[202] Several close associates of FDR were communists or communist sympathizers.[203] FDR conspired to get us into war with Japan while pretending to be a peace candidate.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“The brilliant liberal Mark Twain had his number. He called Roosevelt “far and away the worst President we have ever had.”  Of course, this was before Woodrow Wilson had his turn.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“Justin Raimondo warns us: “All the elements of a police state are in place: universal surveillance, arbitrary restrictions on travel, and, most importantly, the increasingly radical and aggressive political pushback by the NSA and its supporters in Washington – up to and including the open acknowledgment that they’re fully aware of the online habits of whatever members of Congress are foolish enough to get in their way.”[37]”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“The ballot box is simply a means to determine how state violence is to be used against the losers of the election and how those losers will then be exploited economically and in other ways by the majority.  Thus, the incentive for minority groups to attempt to secede or seize control of the state to avoid such domination and exploitation exists in democracies and dictatorships.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“A bureaucracy is an agency that has power over us and therefore will use that power to advance its own self-interest.  Bureaucrats have little or no incentive to serve the interests of the public as their compensation is received whether or not they do so and they lack the expertise to do so even if so inclined. ”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America

“The point here is this: progressivism is best understood as a reaction to liberalism.  Progressivism stands for the proposition that freedom, liberty, voluntary cooperation and the free market are not enough.  To best improve life, the state must intervene with men and women carrying guns and willing to use them against resistance and break up those voluntary relations and impose its will by brute force to achieve different and presumably better results.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America