Dirt Roads Scholar: Progressive Rights and Squandered Moral Capital

Michael Kilpatrick

Michael Kilpatrick is a painting contractor in Macon, husband of one wife, father of nine children. He is a firearms enthusiast, troubler of the 'progressive' elite, and a Christian, Southern, Constitutionalist.

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Dirt Roads Scholar: Progressive Rights and Squandered Moral Capital – Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick

The time is apparently ripe, after many years of historical revisionism and indoctrination of youth, to re-package Communism for the callow youth consumer class. After all, Fascist Amerika will need a new order once the evil Christian Theocratic Republic is overthrown from within by the heroes of the "Progressive" resistance.

While at the Mall recently I noticed some bright red shirts and hats emblazoned with the silhouette likeness of a long dead terrorist, popular in the sixties. The Che' (Guevarra) chic line of apparel (along with a Michael Moore style Hollywood make-over 'documentary' of that murderous Cuban thug), is simply a fishing expedition for allowance money from the newest generation of Stalin's "useful idiots," using fashionable terrorism for bait. One mitigating circumstance to this foolishness is that the pampered youth who are falling under the spell of this old siren song haven't the, ah....nerve it takes to walk it out anyway. They like to pick up their revolutions at the drive-thru, while driving daddy's Beemer.

As Steve Mayer has said, "Please get your political terms straight! 'Communism' means 'Everyone wearing glasses gets their heads staved in with rifle butts,' while 'Socialism' means 'Drinks and smokes on the middle class!' "

Enjoy your drinks and smokes. Progress is on the way.

Esse quam videri..... To be, rather than to appear.

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." ---Joseph Stalin

Did the champions of abortion "rights" even imagine 40 million dead since Roe vs. Wade? Have they been impressed by that figure so far? There are many more "rights" being paraded before our ever more tolerant culture in the process of civilization's death by a thousand cuts. Is there yet a greater precipice for us to step off of, than that which we already have?

Godless socialism requires a "living document" to facilitate the arrangement of a malleable societal cradle to birth the 'new' man. The one who survived abortion, one supposes. The one who is never flawed from within, but only oppressed from without. To achieve that utopian State, words like liberty, integrity, independence, personal responsibility, among a host of others must be continually redefined, and rendered meaningless - along with the Constitution, and law itself.

For murder to be legal right now, only requires a flap of skin to shield us from witnessing the act. If the skin of a mothers' belly suffices, what difference if we use the skin of a closed eyelid instead, thereby broadening the scope of 'inconveniences' we may legally dispense with, and at what point in their inconsequential and 'diminished quality of life' existence? Meaninglessness has progressed so far now, that we call delivering all of a baby but the head, stabbing it with scissors, and sucking its brains out, "exercising a Constitutional Right".

The vast horizon of progressive whateverism seems limitless from here.

I often use the extended metaphor of various kinds of “capital.” When it comes to what has happened to our moral capital in the past generation or two, I am stymied for a verb to use. It wasn’t “squandered” or “spent down”; it didn’t “trickle away.” The verbs that come to mind are destroyed and replaced. Traditional morality is being destroyed, and being replaced by something that claims to be morality, but ultimately has little social benefit or ability to sustain the democratic experiment.
In China during the so-called Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s, Chairman Mao ordered every town and village to participate in smelting iron for steel production. The promise was that through the new techniques of Communism, China would quickly surpass Western capitalist nations in steel. Obedient to their orders, peasants melted down pots and pans and farm implements, with the promise that shiny new and better utensils of steel would be quickly returned. What in fact happened was that these villagers were left with large lumps of useless iron — and with no tools left to farm with. One of the world’s greatest famines soon followed.
What we Americans did with our moral capital over the last generation is like what those Chinese peasants did with their capital tools for farming: On government orders — in our case, on Court orders — we melted it down, for nothing. -----Senator Rick Santorum, "It Takes a Family"

Where was it Pinocchio got suckered into going? Some kind of perpetual childhood amusement park without any rules or responsibilities wasn't it? As I recall, the deluded children there were made into asses and then sold into slavery.

"Veritas? Quid est veritas?".........Truth? What is truth?