Originally posted by Locoman8
Academic elites hold George Bernard Shaw dearly in their hearts. Are they aware he was a Progressive that said, "I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly-appointed board, just as they might come before the income tax commissioner, and say every five years, or every seven years, just put them there, and say, "Sir, or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the big organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
That sounds more like an argument against welfare than against progressivism, excuse me, socialism. This is absolutely prosophobia, fear of progress, and xenophobia, fear of the unkown.
I have to note that the article specifically said, "The turn of the century," while referring to the turn of the 20th century, maybe they just don't want to think that time moves forward...
I would be happy to contradict Glenn Beck but I don't ever, ever watch him because he uses fear to get his message across.
Remember your fearful synonyms while watching Beck; Socialism=Hitler=Communism=Stalin=Mao=Fascism=Progressivism=Liberal=Democrat=Obama
So using Beck's method of guilt by association, Obama=Hitler.
