We’re up to 18 parts and there aren’t that many remaining. I figure in another 2-3 weeks, we’ll be through the list and I haven’t found one talking point that I remotely agreed with yet, or that I think for one second the left is serious about. It’s all pandering to stupid people who are looking for handouts. If you think this is any different, I’ve got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

I’m taking this from The Progressive Promise, which is a platform statement from the House of Representatives. Unfortunately, like all platform statements, what it says doesn’t stand up in actual reality. Yes, I know that this is not what all progressives believe and that it is being stated in the most attractive way possible to attract people to vote for them, but still, this is why I cannot stand any of these positions.

Ensuring that all of our economic and tax policies address or decrease income inequality.

There is no income inequality. It has been against the law for DECADES to pay anyone less based on gender, race or any other protected factor. This is just a lie.

More accurately, as I’ve said a lot lately, they’re just pandering. I heard Thomas Sowell say recently that if blacks, who currently vote Democrat at the 85-90% rate, were to suddenly drop down to 60% left wing voting, the Democrats would never win another election. I don’t know how accurate that is but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true. the Democrats depend on certain demographics of people in order to get elected, as do the Republicans. Neither of them are remotely interested in representing ALL people because that’s more difficult than it’s worth. The moderates and centrists get ignored and only the people on the fringes get pandered to, because they know that the rest of us in the middle, we really don’t have a choice. We hold our noses and pick one of the two major parties, we throw our votes away on parties that have no chance in hell of winning, or we just don’t vote.

That’s why the far left pushes things like slavery reparations, whereas for people who were serfs (thanks Allison) or, say, people of Irish or Chinese descent who were treated every bit as badly as the blacks were under slavery, those people get ignored because they don’t pad the votes for the left wing.

In fact, they make a living lying to people, saying “everyone is out to get you” when that is simply not true. Granted, the right wing does exactly the same thing for Christians, but you don’t see me agreeing with that, do you?

Therefore, I absolutely disagree with this because it’s just scare tactics or appealing to middle-class white people who want to be white saviors for minorities. If you want to “save” minorities, tell them to take responsibility for themselves. Granted, the left will never do that because responsibility is a bad word for progressives. It gets in the way of people relying completely on the government. Screw that.