(06-11-2019 12:34 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-11-2019 10:28 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-10-2019 06:38 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I realized that at its core, the Democratic party is and always will be progressive. Unbridled use of government power is the core support of progressive thought (as it is with any collectivist-style political ideology)

For most of the last hundred years, the number one cause of intentional death has been government. Yet this -- and this alone -- is the institution that leftists want to make more powerful.

It has been noted before that the leftist infatuation with government control is too complete and too contrary to evidence to plausibly stem from altruism. Rather, it stems from a desire to boss other people around: to take things from them, to be the dispenser of permissions and prohibitions, to tell them what work they can or cannot do, how they can or cannot live, what they can or cannot wear or eat or say or think or do -- and ultimately to impoverish, imprison, destroy or kill those who are reluctant to obey. THOSE are the real goals of leftists: power for the pleasure of wielding it; confiscation for the pleasure of taking; destruction for the pleasure of destroying. It's a repugnant ideology, but one that too many people fall into time after time time, and to which the "educated" are especially prone, since they believe themselves specially deserving of that power.

And Dems are supposed to be the ones who are smug?

Yikes.

Not “supposed to be” — they are smug. No reasonable person would contend otherwise.