Ridgewood’s elevator to nowhere
Fending Off Progressive Fables
By Joshua Einstein | The Save Jersey Blog
“You wouldn’t be here if not for progressive policy.”
– Unknown NJ mass transit commuter
At some point in November 2013, Save Jerseyans, I was handing out cards advocating against a NJ ballot initiative calling for a minimum wage amendment to the NJ State constitution that would require yearly minimum wage increases pegged to inflation.
It was part of an initiative by The Coalition to Preserve Jobs and Our Constitution to distribute literature about the job killing effects of the proposal at over 10 major commuter train stations across NJ.
As with all panhandling, political and otherwise, most people I attempted to engage responded with the verbatim forward march of purposeful ignorance. As in all things political activism it was a numbers game. Sift through enough empty ignoring stares and get a few people whose pangs of humanity beat their perturbed indifference to anyone slowing their commute by even only a second.
Most of those with whom I spoke had no notion of the initiative; a number were glad for the work the coalition was doing spreading the word of this amendments dangers to NJ’s teetering economy. Naturally there were the naysayers and negative nellies, however there was one otherwise pleasant woman who said the above incongruous statement as she left for her train.
The statement, as historically ignorant and intellectual barbarous as it is, is illustrative of the liberal mentality that has a large swath of our nation in a mental headlock. There exists a strange breed of historical revisionist which has painted over American history as that of a progressive history solely of political liberal accomplishments. Gone is the intentionally limited government of the founding fathers, banished is the historical fact that abolitionism was a religiously inspired movement, exiled are the uncouth gun tooting Western frontiersmen who were the first to support women’s suffrage, scrubbed from history is the military desegregation and civil rights movement that was implemented and supported by the GOP.
In their stead is a dangerous world-historical view in which everything past was part of the onward march of progressivism. This ahistorical article of faith presents we on the right with a serious issue…
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