Saturday, April 24, 2010

There Were "Progressives" for the Last Centrury

Even in 1957 Atlas Shrugged references the blight of "progressives" on society -

"By that time it was too late. ...the freight cars were in California, where the soybeans had been sent to a progressive concern made up of sociologists preaching the cult of Oriental austerity, and of businessmen formerly in the numbers racket.  In Minnesota, farmers were setting fire to their own farms, they were demolishing grain elevators,and the homes of county officials because their wheat could not move...

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  1. Thanks for featuring Atlas Shrugged. It's a novel which makes clear that progressives are thugs. See also: "Liberal Progressive Muggers."
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