Progressives

Progressives

Thomas Allen

In “A Tale of Two Americas," Chronicles Magazine of American Culture (July 2021), pages 10–11, Bruce Frohnen describes progressives and compares them with traditionalists. These two represent a fundamental divide in character that has led to a political divide in America. Nevertheless, only one of these two “is capable of self-government in a free constitutional republic”: the traditionalist.

Americans fall into two major groups. One group is the traditionalist, who is “centered on family, faith, and freedom.” The other group is the progressive, who is “dominated by abstract ideals of the administrative state.” “The first is a constitutional order of limited, decentralized, separated powers that protect the more fundamental institutions of local life. The second centers on ‘diversity, inclusion, and equity’ implemented by a centralized government that protects people against disease with lockdowns, crime (and ‘domestic terrorism’) with a surveillance state, poverty with a welfare state, and against all kinds of dangers to life, limb, and self-esteem through a seamless web of administrative agencies and rules.”

This progressive new world order began during the Progressive Era, gained a foothold during Wilson’s New Freedom, and accelerated during Roosevelt’s New Deal and especially Johnson’s Great Society. Progressives have indoctrinated people into believing that America is “irredeemably racists, sexist, and homophobic.”

Under progressivism, order, safety, prosperity, and justice depend on a bureaucratic elite of “experts” telling everyone how to live their lives.  Consequently, these “petty commissars have replaced independence and public service with fear and loathing as our necessary virtues, rendering roughly half our people unfit for and even hostile to our inherited constitutional order.”

Frohnen writes, “Progressives feel justified punishing supposedly disloyal Americans who try to defend electoral integrity, personal responsibility, and institutions such as the family.” Progressives are convinced that traditionalists are not suited for the new world order that they (the progressives) have built —and rightly so.

Progressives believe in training (forcing) people to trust and depend on technocrats to control their lives. Thus, technocrats decide what school children attend, what businesses stay open, what is said on social media, and just about everything else.

By contrast, traditionalists believe in a constitutional order that rests on independent people who are left to live their lives within their families, churches, local associations, and communities. Generally, they love and fear God and are mostly churchgoers. They marry, spend time with their families, work hard to support their families, and participate in their communities. Furthermore, they value integrity over advancement.

In contrast, progressives have ceased living and valuing the lifestyle of the traditionalists. If they go to church, it is one that teaches the prosperity gospel, the social gospel, or some similar nonscriptural gospel. “They value comfort and status, but see manual labor as a burden.” Also, progressives focus on self-improvement and support the “currently approved opinions on race, gender, climate changes, and public safety.” Even if they are married and have children, their family is secondary.

Although many progressives are decent people, they “have no real attachment to America’s constitutional order even denying that to has a right to exist.” They promote a “living constitution,” which politicians, bureaucrats, and especially judges can twist and mold to fit their personal prejudices and biases. Consequently, they reject the rule of law and free government. Instead, progressives advocate the unlimited power of the government — a government powerful enough to enforce any program that the progressive elite desires, such as, disarming the people, establishing socialized medicine, and silencing anyone who opposes the progressive agenda.

Moreover, progressives seek to transform the country by destroying what is left of free and self-governing people. To accomplish this goal, they use massive immigration of nonwhites (most of whom are unskilled laborers who are dependent on governmental support) and no-work welfare. Further, progressives use public health policies to destroy people’s independence by destroying their livelihoods. Antiwhite programs are also used to transform America into a technocratic state ruled by an elite of “experts.”

Traditionalists are found mostly outside New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, the Upper Midwest, and the West Coasts. Progressives predominately inhibit these regions . While traditionalists are more common in the Red States, progressives are more common in the Blue States.

Frohnen writes that American has three options to choose from:

1) restore traditional values and, with them, America's constitutional order; 2) accept continued political dominance by a new culture, a new, unconstitutional order, and a new, unfree people; or 3) split these United States into two separate political entities, with some remaining political ties, such that each culture and people can go its separate way in peace.

His preference is option one followed distantly by option three.

One option that he does not mention is a civil war where the traditionalists and progressives battle each other with arms for control of the country and the federal government. If the traditionalists prevail, this option is less destructive than option two. If the progressives prevail, fewer people will be around to enjoy their enslavement.

Appendix.

The following compares the progressive approach to COVID-19 with the traditionalist approach:

Progressive: Force everyone to be vaccinated with an experimental drug and with no exemptions.

Traditionalist: Freedom of choice whether to be vaccinated or not.

Progressive: Favors vaccine passports.

Traditional: Opposes vaccine passports.

Progressive: Force everyone to wear a mask.

Traditionalist: Allow each person to decide whether to wear a mask.

Progressive: Make vaccination a requirement for a job.

Traditionalist: Opposes discriminating against the unvaccinated.

Progressive: Require vaccination to enter a restaurant, theater, sports arena, school, etc.

Traditionalist: Opposes discriminating against the unvaccinated.

Progressive: Favors lockdowns.

Traditionalist: Opposes lockdowns.

Progressive: Favors closing down churches.

Traditionalist: Favors leaving churches open.

Progressive: Favors imprisoning people in their houses and not letting them leave without governmental permission.

Traditionalist: Favors allowing people to leave their houses as they desire and without governmental permission.

Progressive: Only allow vaccinated people to travel.

Traditionalist: Favors freedom of travel for all.

Progressive: Favor denying medical treatment to the unvaccinated.

Traditionalist: Opposes discrimination against the unvaccinated.

Progressive: Charge the unvaccinated more for medical treatment and insurance.

Traditionalist: Opposes discrimination against the unvaccinated.

Progressive: Favors censoring information that contradicts the official story.

Traditionalist: Favors allowing open, rational, civil discussion of pros and cons.

Thus, the progressive approach to COVID-19 is highly controlled and highly restricted. Politicians and bureaucrats (self-appointed “experts”) should boss the people and force them to do whatever the politicians and bureaucrats want them to do. Contrariwise, the traditionalist approach is one of freedom and nondiscrimination. Traditionalists trust the people to do the right thing. Unlike the traditionalists, progressives do not trust the people especially themselves; instead, they trust politicians and bureaucrats.

Copyright © 2023 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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COVID-19 and Its So-Called Vaccine

 COVID-19 and Its So-Called Vaccine

Thomas Allen

The following discusses whom to trust; the benefits, safety, effectiveness, and necessity of the COVID-19 vaccines; and masks.

Whom Are You to Believe

Whom are you going to believe about the COVID-19 gene-therapy drugs erroneously called vaccines? Are you going to believe known liars who relentlessly push the vaccines and who benefit financially and otherwise from people being vaccinated? Or, are you going to believe people not known as liars who have nothing to gain from opposing the vaccines except condemnation, ostracism, and unemployment? While the drug pushers lust for power, wealth, and death, the opponents of these drugs only want to save people’s lives.

Who Benefits from the So-Called Vaccines and Who Does Not

Three major factions are behind pushing the so-called COVID vaccines. They are big pharma, governments, and population reductionists.

Money drives big pharma to push these gene-therapy drugs. It makes a great deal of money selling these drugs. More importantly, it stands to make even more money selling drugs to treat people whom these gene-therapy drugs have maimed.

Power drives governments to push these gene-therapy drugs. Governments stand to gain a great deal more power over the people with vaccine passports, forced vaccinations, and the like.

Narcissism and hatred drive the reductionists. Their narcissism and hatred of others drive them to cull the herd. They hope that these gene-therapy drugs will kill billions of people in the next few years.

The goals of big pharma and the reductionists seem to conflict. Big pharma wants a large number of sick people to whom to sell their drugs. On the other hand, the reductionists want dead people as long as they are not among the dead. Maybe, they have compromised and have designed the vaccines to sterilize people and to maim people with debilitating diseases for several years before they die.

Who does not benefit from these so-called vaccines? People who have received the shot. They risk a shortened life span and the deleterious effects from the shot.

Beneath the level in Dante’s hell where the likes of Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, and Hitler reside will be the presstitutes, politicians, and health officials who have vigorously promoted these so-called COVID vaccines while suppressing the truth about them.

Safe and Effective

Contrary to the government’s, medical industry’s, and presstitute’s false indoctrinating propaganda, these so-called COVID vaccines are neither safe nor effective. Proving that these so-called vaccines are not safe is that more people have died of these vaccines than of all the other vaccines administered over the last 50 years. When corrected for the underreporting of deaths, between 90,000 and 900,000 people have died in the United States of the so-called COVID vaccines. (When corrected for overreporting, about 63,000 have died of COVID-19 in the United States. Additionally, less than 12 percent of the population has tested positive for COVID-19, and of these about 0.2 percent actually had COVID-19.) 

Further, if these so-called vaccines were effective, vaccinated people would not be contracting the virus in such large numbers that the vaccinated people are now being forced to wear masks. Moreover, if these vaccines were effective, vaccinated people would not be contracting the virus in ever-growing numbers.

Also, if vaccinated people thought that these vaccines were effective, they would not fear the unvaccinated. Yet, many vaccinated fear that the unvaccinated will inflect them with the coronavirus. On the contrary, the vaccinated are more likely to contract the virus from the vaccinated than they are from the unvaccinated. Likewise, the unvaccinated are more likely to contract the virus from the vaccinated than they are from the unvaccinated. Generally, the viral load of vaccinated individuals is much higher than that of the unvaccinated, and vaccinated people are known to spread the virus. Furthermore, some (many, most?) of the vaccinated may have gotten their infection from their own bodies.

Contrary to the propaganda, getting the coronavirus from unvaccinated people is highly unlikely. As the almost ten-million-person-Wuhan study shows, asymptomatic unvaccinated people do not transmit the virus even if they are infected. (Only a racist Sinophobe would disagree with this study.)

Is the Vaccine Needed

Is a vaccine even needed? No, a vaccine is not needed because 98 to 99 percent of the infected recover from the disease, and only about 15 percent of the infected have serious issues with the disease. Moreover, a large percentage of the population is protected from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 because of the immunity they have acquired from previous coronavirus infections. Also, several highly effective and safe treatments are available to treat those who become ill. However, governments, big pharma, and their presstitute collaborators suppress these effective treatments.

Thus, the so-called COVID vaccines are not needed, not safe, and not effective. Moreover, being around unvaccinated who are not showing symptoms of COVID-19 is far safer than being around vaccinated individuals.

The Difference Between the Forced Vaccinators and Their Opponents

Forced vaccinators want to coerce everyone to be vaccinated — especially people who do not want to be vaccinated. Like all good Puritans, forced vaccinators have seen the light. With their inter voice guiding them, forced vaccinators seek to inject their poisonous vaccines in all. Of course, they claim that they are doing it for the good of the victims. If a victim resists, then the victim is selfish for not wanting to sacrifice his life and the lives of his family to satisfy  power-hungry, micromanaging, narcissistic, selfish Puritans in their lust for power.

On the other hand, people who oppose the agenda of the forced vaccinators are altruistic. They preach freedom of choice: Individuals should choose whether to be vaccinated. (If the vaccines work, the vaccinated have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated.) Vaccination opponents just want to live their lives and go about their business without restrictions or interference. That is, vaccination opponents just want to be left alone. However, the forced vaccinators are determined not to leave them alone.

Masks

The masks that most people commonly wear have pores that are 25 to 250 times larger than the coronavirus with larger gaps around the edges. How is a mask with such large holes going to stop the virus? Moreover, most people do not even wear masks correctly or discard or wash them frequently. Obviously, politicians and bureaucrats who are forcing people to wear masks are not concerned with their health. They are concerned with power — bossing other people and controlling their lives.

Appendix. Calculations.

The following is an explanation of how the numbers in “Safe and Effective” are calculated. These calculations are based on the information that I had available at the time that I wrote this article. The numbers have been rounded.

Vaccine Deaths. The number of deaths from the vaccine is reported to be 9,000. Since only about 1 to 10 percent of the number of deaths are reported, 9,000 has been multiplied by 10 and 100 to get 90,000 to 900,000 deaths.

COVID Deaths. According to the CDC, only about 6 percent of the COVID-19 deaths reported are from the coronavirus. The remaining deaths are from other causes where the coronavirus was or may have been present. The reported number of COVID-19 deaths is 630,000. To err on the high side, 630,000 has been multiplied by 0.1 (10 percent) to get 63,000 deaths.

Cases. The number of cases of COVID-19 is 38 million. However, the primary approved test used to measure COVID-19 yields 98 to 99 percent false positives. That is, only 1 to 2 percent of the people testing positive for COVID-19 have the disease. To err on the conservative side, 2 percent or 760,000 (38 million times 0.02) of those testing positive are identified with COVID-19. The 12 percent of the population testing positive is derived by dividing the number of cases (38 million) by the US population (331 million), which yields 11.5 percent —thus, the less than 12-percent. The 0.2 percent who actually had COVID-19 is derived by dividing 760,000 by the number of cases (38 million).

Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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COVID-19 Vaccine and Capitalism

 COVID-19 Vaccine and Capitalism

Thomas Allen

Most neoconservatives, establishment conservatives, and other conservatives point to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative on getting a COVID-19 vaccine from conception to into people’s bodies in less than a year as proving the superiority of capitalism over socialism. (Russia, which many conservatives consider a communist country, accomplished the same feat, and it did so with a true vaccine instead of a gene-therapy drug that is called a vaccine to avoid liability like the ones used in the United States.) This goal was achieved because the federal government bought large quantities of doses before big pharma manufactured them and because it suspended much of the required testing and allowed the vaccines to be used experimentally, i.e., the vaccines are experiential drugs, on the American people.

Among the steps skipped has been animal testing before human testing. Probably, the reason for skipping the animal-testing step is that when other vaccines using the mRNA technology were tested on animals, the animals died.

Moreover, the FDA authorized (not to be confused with approved) the use of the COVID-19 vaccines before Phase 3 Trails have been completed. Phase 3 Trials are not expected to be completed until 2023. Thus, the federal government is allowing vaccine manufacturers to test their experiential vaccines on tens of millions of people without their informed consent, which is a violation of the Nurnberg Code. Furthermore, the vaccine manufacturers have no liability for injuries resulting from their vaccines. 

However, these boasting conservatives conceal that this capitalism is not free-market capitalist. It is Hamiltonian-Lincolnian crony capitalism, which is a mild form of fascism.

Under free-market capitalism, big pharma would have developed and distributed the vaccines without any governmental financial aid or purchases (except, perhaps, for the military). Consequently, the federal government would not have subsidized the development of the vaccines, paid for their advertisement, or promoted them as it has done with the COVID-19 vaccines. The only governmental intervention would be to punish the executives of pharmaceutical companies that sell as medicines poisonous substances that will injure or kill people. Since vaccines are concoctions of poisonous substances that injure some people, the government should be filling prisons with high-ranking executives of pharmaceutical corporations. Instead, the government shields vaccine manufacturers from liability. In the United States and most other countries, vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any injuries or deaths that their vaccines cause. Thus, the manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States are more akin to a socialist economy than to a market economy.

Moreover, on behalf of big pharma, the federal government has colluded with the presstitutes to create mass hysteria and terror. Such hysteria and terror have created a high demand for big pharma’s vaccines. This type of government-business partnership is illustrative of crony capitalism.

Furthermore, the federal government is colluding with big businesses to institute  “vaccine passports” to travel, work, buy, and otherwise participate in society. To bypass constitutional problems, the federal government is having big businesses require their customers and workers to have vaccine passports before selling or employing. To ensure uniformity, the federal government will issue and track vaccine passports. Thus, another government-business partnership is created, which is nothing more than crony capitalism. Also, vaccine passports are more illustrative of socialism than of capitalism, especially free-market capitalism. (Our fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers fought the Nazis to keep us from having to show papers to travel, work, and buy and from having to wear badges [such as bracelets showing that the wearer has been vaccinated] to identify our status. Now the presstitutes and governmental officials are terrorizing people to demand vaccine passports. And big businesses are using this terror, hysteria, and fear to demand that people present their vaccine passport before they can work or buy.)

Who benefits from vaccine passports? People who are forced to carry them to travel, work, buy, and otherwise participate in society do not benefit. They are the biggest losers. The primary beneficiaries are big businesses, especially big pharma,  — money — and governments — power. Vaccine passports will create enormous markets for big pharma to force its vaccines for which it has no liability on people and then to sell the drugs to treat the side effects of the vaccines. Furthermore, big pharma gains access to everyone’s medical records. For governments, vaccine passports greatly increase their opportunities and abilities to control people.

Although many conservatives oppose vaccine passports, many conservatives support crony capitalism out of which vaccine passports are a natural outgrowth. Ironically, while railing against Nazism and fascism, most liberals embrace vaccine passports, which are a natural outgrowth of Nazism and fascism.

The way that the COVID-19 vaccine has been developed and distributed in the United States and most of the rest of the world is more kin to fascism, which is a form of socialism, than to market capitalism. As mentioned above, under market capitalism, the only involvement of government with vaccine manufacturing and distribution is to prosecute executives whose companies manufacture and sell vaccines that injured the vaccinated. Instead, most governments exempt vaccine manufacturers from all liability for injuries or deaths caused by their vaccines.

Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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