Progressive Left

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What Leftists hate and why

Some excerpts from a great list by Chris Weinkopf

These are the things that most infuriate "progressives," followed by a brief explanation of why.

The mere mention of these words will cause the typical left-winger to see (even more) red:

Cars - especially SUVs; the bigger and safer the vehicle, the worse. For leftists, cars are a polluting, annoying expression of individual freedom - a painful reminder that the longstanding efforts of social engineers to herd Americans into mass transit remain unfulfilled.

Guns - and the irritating insistence of "gun nuts" (anyone who owns a gun legally) to look after their own safety rather than trust in the benevolence and capabilities of the all-protecting state.

Suburbs, AKA "sprawl" - and the selfish desire of so many Americans to own their own homes with their own garages and their own backyards.

Straight white men - especially the dead ones that once dominated classroom curricula, and any institutions where they once flourished, such as military academies, prep schools, and fraternal organizations.

Jokes about sexual orientation, race, or gender - unless they're about straight, white men. Jokes about most anything else - except for the items on this list.

Traditional families - Heather's mommies both deserve full health benefits now, but married couples ought to be penalized with higher taxes until they either die or divorce.

Abstinence - and for that matter, all traditional sexual mores and anyone so backward as to demand them of their children, politicians, or clergy.

Religious "zealots" - that is, adherents of any faith that that makes claims on truth, especially Catholicism, Orthodox Judaism, Mormonism, and Evangelical branches of Christianity (but not Islam).

The rich - anyone who has earned a lot of money no doubt did something wretched to obtain it and deserves to have it forcefully taken away. (Rich leftists excluded.)

Vouchers - a threat to unions, social engineers, and the government monopoly on public education.

Home-schooling - a threat to unions, social engineers, and the government monopoly on public education - and a favorite among the religious zealots.

Standardized testing - or, for that matter, educational standards of any kind.

McDonalds - for selling fatty foods containing red meat and marketing them to minors, and for doing what socialism never could: feeding billions and billions on the cheap.

Pharmaceutical companies - for spending billions developing new, life-saving drugs, then charging money for them.

Successful businesses - they must be ripping off their "stakeholders."

Failed business - they must be ripping off their "stakeholders."


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