The Satanic Virus of Progressivism

For over 120 years America has been held captive by the satanic virus of Progressivism, first inflicted by the Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson. This incubus of collectivism infiltrated and seduced the body politic regardless of empty party labels.

Most notably, there is nothing new in the intellectually bankrupt public policy agenda of the Democrats for over 77 years. All major policy prescriptions and programs of modern Democratic Party regimes, from FDR to Joe Biden, can be traced back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s promulgation of his Second Bill of Rights that was filmed after he delivered his State of the Union Address via radio on January 11, 1944.

However it was Lyndon Johnson, who adored FDR and the New Deal, who created The Great Society, as an attempt to fulfill this collectivist legacy.

As Murray N. Rothbard notes:

The Great Society was the lineal descendant and the intensification of those other pretentiously named policies of 20th-century America: the Square Deal, the New Freedom, the New Era, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier. All of these assorted Deals constituted a basic and fundamental shift in American life – a shift from a relatively laissez-faire economy and minimal state to a society in which the state is unquestionably king.

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7:59 pm on July 4, 2021