The War on America's Founding Principles 

This table, based on my recent eBook, puts the issues in stark relief. Progressivism is dismantling and delegitimizing America's historical foundations. To download the book for free, click on the "Recent Books" tab.

16 Reasons Why America is 
Not a Racist Country

If you listen to the diatribes of many on the Left, you would conclude that this country is still hopelessly bound by the cords of bigotry and institutional racism.  “Brown skinned” people, we are told, are oppressed to ensure the continuation of white supremacy.   

Incidents of racism still occur in the United States and there is still work to be done, but we are far and away from being a nation of white oppressors.  Our progress has been both measurable and substantial.  Anyone comparing America today to America in 1960 would see a different nation. 

1.   America ended slavery in 1865 at a cost of 360,000 Union soldiers who paid with their blood.
2.   African-American men were given the right to vote in 1869 (women in 1920).
3.   Jim Crow laws were struck down in the 1950’s and 1960’s. 
4.   We have nearly 60 years of federal, civil rights legislation, beginning with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
5.  There are thousands of civil rights laws and regulations at the federal, state, county, and local level.
6.  Businesses, organizations, and schools throughout the country have strict, anti-discrimination policies.  
7.   There are affirmative action programs at nearly every level of society.
8.   Desegregation school busing was mandated across the country in the 1970's.
9.   The KKK, once numbering millions, now numbers less than 8,000.
10.   A black president was elected to two terms in office in 2008 and 2012.
11.   There are 64 black representatives in the U.S. Congress.  In 1869 there were only 3.
12.   Millions of non-white immigrants from across the globe still seek entry into the U.S.
13.   Indians and Asians are the top performers in many of our schools and professions.
14.   Black athletes are heavily represented in many professional sports.
15.   94% of Americans approve of interracial marriage (compared to only 4% in 1958).
16.   87% of Americans believe that DACA immigrants should be allowed to remain in the U.S.

DOWNLOAD THE POSTER VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE (Graphic)

See also:

Larry Elder on ”Is America Racist?” (Prager U. | 5 min video)

Civil Rights Activist, Robert Woodson on "Race Relations and Policing in the U.S." (C-SPAN @ 23:51)

Original: 1/28/18

Revised 9/4/20

 The War On America’s Founding Principles

How Progressives are Dismantling America One Plank at a Time

Though Progressivism has become the dominant philosophy of liberal politics, few Americans understand its principles and goals. They see individual issues, but are unable to discern how these pieces connect together. The same might be said of America’s founding principles, which are fast fading from our collective consciousness.

By carefully comparing Progressivism with the founding principles, a larger picture begins to emerge. The political battles of the day are a colossal struggle between two opposing, if not contradictory, philosophies—a struggle between two visions of America. In the end, only one will likely prevail.

This free eBook documents Progressivism’s relentless attempt to dismantle and delegitimize the historical foundations of America, one piece at a time, pushing us toward conflict and dystopia.

With over 100 illustrations and more than 200 linked citations, The War On America’s Founding Principles provides a compass for finding our way through the cultural and political chaos.

This free eBook links to a high resolution 

poster which can be downloaded (PDF)

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Celebrated Environmental Activist: There is No Climate Crisis

                                                  

If you only read one article on global warming this year, let this be the one.

Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner. He has been an environmentalist and socialist Democrat since his youth.

►"The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to."◄

Additional Reading:
The science behind the uncertainty, explained and illustrated in 5 pages:  The Global Warming Picture Book!

Progressivism: What's the End Game?

A friend asked me the other day, What are Progressives trying to achieve? The short answer is, “a just society.” But what does that mean? Here is a bird’s eye view of the Progressive agenda and its consequences.

1. Economic Justice: Redistribution of wealth to alleviate systemic poverty and income inequality. This involves government confiscation of private wealth and property (primarily through aggressive taxation) to whatever degree is necessary to bring about “economic equality“ (e.g., through welfare, free education, Medicare for all, etc.). But after nearly 60 years and $24 trillion, government efforts to eliminate economic inequality have largely failed because many causes of poverty cannot be fixed by money. 

2. Social Justice: Elimination of unjust social structures like racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, etc. Expanded rights and privileges are granted to “oppressed groups” in order to eliminate vestiges of systemic injustice and redress past injustices. But these rights are usually exercised by denying or violating the rights of others (e.g., LGBTQ rights supersede religious rights; abortion supersedes the unalienable right to life, etc.) and punishing “oppressors” (e.g., shaming, demonizing, deplatforming, demonetizing, fining, terminating employment).

3. Environmental Justice: Protecting the poor and minorities from the inequitable distribution of environmental hazards, sharing the benefits of increased wealth from energy consumption with those in developing countries, and implementing climate justice for impoverished people afflicted by climate change. This is carried out through a system of heavy-handed regulations and penalties imposed on businesses and free markets by government agencies (e.g., EPA, DOE, DOT) in an effort to end the use of fossil fuels. Ironically, the resulting increase in regulatory and green energy costs to the consumer has the greatest negative impact on the poor and middle class, especially in third world countries.

Finally, and most importantly, perhaps, Progressivism has no intrinsic principle for limiting the size and scope of government. Government wealth and power will expand to whatever degree is necessary to achieve a “just society.” As the American Founders feared, this is the historic pathway to tyranny. Writing in 1800, Thomas Jefferson said, "a single consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on earth."