Newtown

Evil fell upon Newtown, Connecticut this morning. No term other than evil will fit. Over two dozen were murdered, most of them mere babies, between the ages of 5 and 10. In light of this abomination, I was reminded of these lines I wrote just a few short months ago.

The uncomfortable fact is that this twisting of the language is not coincidental, nor is it merely academic. It circumscribes our very culture, altering the relationship between the individual and their governmental bodies, on various levels.

Worse still, and by design, it places an artificial and profane barrier between citizen and citizen, forever distorting their view of each other, the economy, and society at large.

This method is at the very core of an ideological movement which wraps itself in the language of “progress,” while fanning out the smokescreen in an ever-widening arc, all in a vain attempt to mask the stench and stigma of its true garment: a shroud.

Yes. I said “shroud.”

Make no mistake, the language of the “Progressive” movement is the language of death, decay, and degeneracy. It worships at their altar.

Why else would we hear uttered, incessantly, phrases such as “food deserts” or “environmental justice” or “social justice” or “living wage” or “less fortunate” or “middle class”? All of these concepts place an emphasis on the struggle to achieve, as a society, what?

The almost.

Mediocrity. Egalitarianism. Equality for its own sake, at whatever expense necessary, the costs of which are to be paid by a select set of individuals.

All of this is antithetical to liberty. And, by extension, antithetical to life itself.

This latter should not be a controversial statement, but an accepted, logical, objective fact. Yet, it’s not.

In our modern society, such a declaration is scoffed at, mocked, derided, and deemed pessimistic or even conspiratorial.

I pray to God it were. Any of the above.

But it is, indeed, objective fact. The core of “progressive” ideology is anti-life. The long, dark corridor that is the history of humanity bears this out. Today’s culture, likewise, throws this fact into stark relief, for those bold enough to dare look.

Mass shootings, on school and university campuses, in theaters, and in the streets of our major cities, carried out by individuals steeped in the pervasive secular humanist dogma taught in those schools, viewed in those theaters, and carried forward into reality on those city streets, in the ultimate display of disregard for human life.

Cultural rot. The legacy of Progressivism. The underlying culprit behind unconscionable acts like those carried out in Newtown, Connecticut.

When a society’s moral compass is set askew, what else can we expect?

God help us.

About Bradley S. Rees

Spent 15+ years in the fields of regulatory, tax, and education reform. Ran in GOP primary for VA-5 Congressional seat from Nov. '08 to October '09. Host of "The Brushfire Hour" (now only in podcast form at BlogTalkRadio) and "The Sons Of Liberty Show" sponsored by Conservative Broadcast Media on spreaker.com Primary author at http://sonofliberty2k10.wordpress.com

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  • kimvy

    And they’ll blame the inanimate object rather than look inwards at the moral degeneration that they bow to. When they’ve spent decades telling everyone that they’re special and all that matters is their feelings, it’s no wonder that a society of emotional basketcases learn nothing else but to run on raw emotionalism. So when they hear the word “no” or keep failing because they’re really not all that special and don’t really understand why (the government or my mommy wouldn’t lie, right? RIGHT?) they can’t handle it emotionally. This is the new normal. We had better get used to it.

    • http://twitter.com/BradleySRees Bradley S. Rees

      Indeed, Kim.

      Not to mention the contradictions. The generation that removed monkey bars from playgrounds and replaced them with “No Running” signs now launches “nutritional guidelines” for school lunches and “Play60″ and “Get Up, Get Out” ad campaigns promoting vigorous exercise.

      A 14yo girl can have an abortion without parental notification, but a grown adult is being put upon by “the man” if asked to identify themselves before voting.

      We can’t possibly expect people to pay for their own food or housing, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with forcing those who produce that food and housing to comply with tens of thousands of Federal regulations. And, if they seek to recoup these compliance costs in their pricing structure, we vilify them as “robber barons.”

      The “new normal” would have been labeled “insane” just a couple of decades ago. But, that’s not PC anymore.

      Add moral decay on top of it all, and you have a recipe for… Well, 2012 America.

      • kimvy

        The liberal way. Find something that really isn’t a problem and “fix” it. Then you have the perpetual make work project where you can spend endless hours and dollars trying to fix something that didn’t need to be fixed in the first place.

        Double bonus when you can make someone “feel good” doing it.

        A nation of infants and idiots courtesy of liberals. It’s nice to find an oasis – thanks for the thoughtful and spot-on post.