Is “Progressive” the Politically Correct way of saying the “Divine Right of Kings”?

This is part three of a three part series. As many of the facts and
premises for part two were laid out in the first two parts, it will
likely be helpful to read and/or review them. You can go to Part 1 by
clicking here http://goo.gl/ZWoC6C You can go to Part 2 by click here http://goo.gl/joiJCm

As a quick refresher, we are evaluating 3 different governance
doctrines in manner similar to purchasing a car. These 3 governance
doctrines are:

1. Divine Right of Kings;
2. Consent of the Governed (Natural law);
3. Progressivism.

To the best of his ability, the writer has attempted to frame
these analyses in a manner that creates unity and constructive dialogue
rather than emotional, political party-centric division. Further, the
writer is attempting to have you, the reader, use your own powers of
observation and reason to reach your own conclusions. This writer has
encouraged you to use Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve)
as a necessary component of your thought process. This as opposed to
managing and manipulating you in the manner of our current major media
and the one and only one ruling class pretending to be two major
political parties. In this writer’s humble opinion, the road to take
back our country, restore Natural Law, the Constitution and our Bill of
Rights, begins here.

We have already discussed and evaluated the governance doctrines of
the Divine Right of Kings and Consent of the Governed. We have mentioned
Karl Marx and Marxism as the governance doctrine behind Socialism and
Communism. We have discussed the Populists movement, and pointed out
that the conflicting sources indicate it ended during the
Spanish-American war or morphed into the Progressive Era/Movement. We
have discussed that the Populist Movement’s primary inspiration was the
corruption of government and corporations with particular ire caused by
the shenanigans of the “powers that be” involving our country’s money
and the valuation of that money. Those shenanigans created hardship for
rank and file Americans by enriching the “powers that be” at the expense
of the poor and the middle class. As all value is created (earned) by
Labor; Ergo, any enrichment of those to do not labor comes from the
value created by those that do labor. (After the writer finished the first part of this article, another
physical source was made available to this writer by the library. It
appears as the last item in the list of sources at the end of part 2 of
this article. )

With that, this writer will explain his conclusions and attempt to
explain his “thought process” and his “perspective of reality” in a
non-partisan manner. And in a manner intended to promote mutual
understanding, constructive conversation and unity, rather than
division. (The writer encourages all who share his perspective of
reality to engage in the exercise of expressing themselves constructive
ways, rather than the destructive ways the one ruling class pretending
to be two major political parties have conditioned us to interact. It
can be a difficult exercise)
In keeping with his desire to cause the reader to think for
themselves and not allow themselves to be manipulated, before writer
discloses his conclusions and thought process, this writer asks you to
select which mode of governance doctrine you would purchase:

1. The Divine Right of Kings Jalopy;
2. The stylish and reliable Consent of the Governed standard automobile, or;
3. The Progressive Sports car - new and improved German engineering -- bright, shiny and full of vigor and vitality.

At the same time, before making your free-will choice it is
important that you not only know and understand history, but that you
also consider the likely future outcomes of those choices.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into
account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

This writer urges you to please make your selection with the passion and attentiveness that Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve)
requires. Your opinion matters and may affect the course of human
history. With those caveats, please make your selection from the 3
governance doctrines above now.


Having made your selection, this writer respectfully requests the
reader to please view this writer’s conclusions as a constructive
dialogue exchange in the free market of ideas. If we disagree, please
resist the conditioning of the one ruling class pretending to be 2 major
political parties. In the current discussion, that conditioning:

1. limits your ability to establish the truth for yourself by
   causing you to think in artificial and parasitic, “false left/right, two
   party paradigm” terms, and;

2. has taught you to respond to ideas different from
   your own by not listening and/or responding with destructive, emotional
   drama ; rather than rational thought and constructive dialogue.

This ruling class conditioning prevents you from fully thinking
for yourself. The point of this ruling class conditioning is to divide,
conquer and distract the masses.

In the arena of politics and government, you must TRUST NO ONE. Think
for yourself. Vigorously guard your own perception of reality. These
are the first steps in breaking the one and only one ruling class’s
control over you and, of the masses. All Politics is War (with less
overt violence). The absence of overt violence should not lull you into
complacency.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

 

George Washington

As part of his conclusion, this writer would like to express his
genuine belief that some idealistic, rank and file Progressives are
sincere in believing that the ideal implementation of Progressivism will
heal the unfairness and injustices that exist in modern day America.
This writer empathizes, agrees and enthusiastically embraces that desire
to right said injustice and unfairness.

Government Corruption Sucks. The rise of a plutocracy sucks. Unfair
labor practices suck. Couples having to work 100+ hour weeks to be able
to afford to raise children, sucks. Campaign Contributions, Bribes
and/or other consideration used to cause elected officials and
government officials to not act in the best interests of WE THE PEOPLE
sucks. Racism sucks .Sexism sucks. “Might makes Right” justice is an
illegitimate abdication of the Rule of Law by Judges. The growing
disparate income and wealth between the Wealthy and the Middle/Lower
classes through illegitimate schemes, sucks. And, finally, as the world
no longer appears as one of endless open space and unlimited resources,
policies of the past may no longer be appropriate policies for the
future.

This writer can even relate to the desire of some individuals to
immerse their selves in, and embrace the emotions of, community, team
work, natural simplicity and mutual benefactorial relationship that
Progressivism promises. However, Progressives and this writer will
disagree as to the manner in which to remedy the evils that the Populist
Movement and Progressivism were catalyzed by.

The enlightened reader will look upon this article as an exercise in
establishing the Truth for themselves. This writer has referred to
Critical Thinking many times in this article. If you seek the Truth and
you have exercised Critical Thinking in establishing your Truth, you
will view read and understand opposing perceptions of the Truth with
confidence and not trepidation. For the purposes of this article, this
writer has chosen to defend his selection of his preferred governance
doctrine universal beliefs which do not rely upon political party
affiliation. In this way, each reader can rely upon their own instincts
and beliefs in determining the truthfulness or falseness of each
premise this writer asserts, rather than having to rely upon handlers
from their political party for the answers.

At this point, this writer wants to more even closer to putting this
discussion into less esoteric and more common layman’s terms. This
writer submits to the reader, that the four most important elements for
assessing the legitimacy of any government and/or governance doctrine
are:

1. Legitimate Governance Doctrines maximizes the liberty of the individual;

1. The individual establishes truth using their
   own observation and reason, rather than the Government Establishing
   Truth for the Individual;

2. Legitimate Governance Doctrines strive to have
   Government adapt to the Nature of the Individual, rather than having the
   expectation that the individual should adapt to the nature of
   government;

1. Legitimate Government is founded on a true and correct understanding of the Nature of Man in the Natural State;

3. Legitimate Governance Doctrine embraces a social contract containing at least the following points:

• The individual consents to be governed of their own free will;
• The individual has certain unalienable rights which legitimate government protects;
• The individual has the right to peacefully dissent without fear of reprisal or punishment,
• The governed have the right to amend the governance doctrine in furtherance of its legitimate goals, and;
• The governed, when all else fails, and as a last resort, have the
  right to cast off the governance doctrine when it acts in a manner not
  consistent with the unalienable Rights of Individuals(except as
  punishment of crimes pursuant to the Rule of Law) and/or the social
  contract, through peaceful and/or violent revolution.

4. The actual outcome of the governance doctrine as
   it is practiced in the real, physical world fulfills the terms expressed
   in the Social Contract(Void for Fraudulent Representations);

To test whether you the reader agree with this writer’s most
important, non-political elements of a legitimate government/governance
doctrine, ask yourself these questions. Please respond with the first
answer that comes to mind:

1. Should you have the right to determine truth for yourself or should you have to accept truth as established by your government?
2. Should your government be created as a reflection of your nature or
   should government be designed and implemented with the expectation that
   they can force you to conform to government’s expectations of you?
3. Should the individual have certain rights that the government cannot take away (except for punishment of criminal acts)?
4. Should you be forced to accept any form of governance or should you
   have a choice to accept or refuse any particular form of governance?
5. Should you and a majority of the governed be able to alter, abolish
   and/or amend any form of governance that you originally accepted?
6. If your government represented a set of terms in the social contract
   to induce your acceptance of that form of governance, and its
   implementation in reality, whether deliberate and/or accidental, does
   not deliver the promised results, does that government lose its
   legitimacy?

Now, before we even get to your answers, did those questions
seem like legitimate points you yourself would use to analyze any
government and/or government doctrine? If you said yes to the just
previous question, then you concur with this writer’s method of analysis
of these 3 governance doctrines of Divine Right of Kings, Consent of
the Governed (Natural Law) and Progressivism.

Next, did you have to rely on political party dogma, a political
party‘s platform and/or call a political party representative in order
to answer those questions. If you did not, then I submit to you that
these points of analysis are non-political and your answers are your
own. Therefore, the writer's 4 points of analyses are based in
establishing the Truth rather than mere regurgitation of political party
dogma.

How you actually answered the questions is of less importance than
whether you found them legitimate points of analysis and the thought
process you underwent in reaching you answers. The exercise was
intended to cause you to honestly assess for yourself the writer’s
assertion that these four points are legitimate, non-political points of
analyses of government doctrines.

This conclusion continues on the premise that you found these 4
points to be legitimate points of analyses for government doctrines.

1. LEGITIMATE GOVERNANCE DOCTRINES MAXIMIZES THE LIBERTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL;

Of the 3 governance doctrines we are analyzing, only....

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Those were my thoughts.

In Closing:

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.

If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps another helpful
exercise would be to ponder why you have not heard about this in your
local paper or in the major media. [You may find articles about issues
from this writer's local area posted in your area and wonder why. The
reason is this: Remember those travel junkets taxpayers pay for (the
ones the bureaucrats skip to go to the beach or the casino) but
allegedly used for training? Well some government apparatchiks actually
attend those training seminars. And learn nationally en-mass techniques
to "manage" WE THE PEOPLE. Since they all receive similar training in
oppression, it is likely the problems you are experiencing with
government in your area are similar to the problems in your area (unless
you live outside the USA). With that commonality in mind, it is this
writer's intent that insight garnered from this writer articles about
his local issues can be used by the reader to understand and applied to
their local issues.]

Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow
citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual
endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE
as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last Paragraph,
Declaration of Independence http://bit.ly/ruPE7z ]

This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

Keep Fighting the Good Fight!

In Liberty,

Don Mashak
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Critical Thinking Notice - This author advises you as no politician would dare. Exercise Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve)
in determining the truthfulness of anything you read or hear. Do not
passively accept nor believe anything anyone tells you, including this
author... unless and until you verify it yourself with sources you trust
and could actively defend your perspective to anyone who might debate
you to the contrary of your perspective

PHYSICAL SOURCES

The Progressive Mind 1890-1917 David W. Noble (1981)

America Enters the World – A People’s History of the Progressive Era and World War I – Page Smith (1985)

The Annals of America 1895-1904 Volume 12 Populism, Imperialism and Reform Britannica (1965)

The Annals of America 1905-1915 Volume 13 The Progressive Era Britannica 1965

Rebirth of a Nation – The Making of a Nation 1877 – 1920 Jackson Lears 2009

The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins 1976

A People’s History of the United States 1492 to Present – Howard Zinn 1980, 2003

Special thanks to Monticello and Elk River Minnesota Public Libraries

And many internet and/or other sources too fluid and/or non-credible to cite as references