What I Learned About ‘Progressives’ When I Came to America – Phelim McAleer

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When I first came to America about 12 years ago I found out that so much we “know” about the country and its people is just not true.

 

In Europe everyone is told and we all believed that there are these weird American conservatives, who want to tell you what to do – particularly in the bedroom.

 

I got here and all I saw were so called “progressives” who want to interfere with you in every other room in your house and garden and holiday and travel and grocery store, you name it they’re everywhere, controlling. They want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what kind of house you can live in, what kind of fertilizer you can use in you garden, how long you stay in the shower, even how you flush the toilet. They want to ban your light bulbs. I never thought coming to America would involve Standing Up and shouting Get Out Of My Light bulbs but it’s a cry for freedom and it is actually a cry for progress.

 

One of the first things I learned when I came to America was that American Progressives don’t much believe in progress. In fact they are among the most conservative – even regressive – people I know. They look backwards fondly to a golden age when apparently the weather was perfect before America and her evil fossil fuels destroyed it.

 

As I got to know my new country I discovered that very often leftism debased terms so badly that they meant the opposite of what they should.

 

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