{"id":7146,"date":"2009-03-02T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2009-03-02T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:53:35","slug":"not-ideology-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7146\/not-ideology-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Ideology… Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you still wonder whether banks will be nationalized<\/em>?\u00a0 Does the idea of an auto manufacturer declaring bankruptcy scare you even just a little?\u00a0 Tell me you’re not still engaged in any discussions on whether or not the response to our economic crisis has been a step toward “socialism!”\u00a0 Please, come down off your soap box.\u00a0 This discussion of competing ideologies is so 20th century.\u00a0 Disco is dead baby and it’s time you adopted a new framework of thinking.\u00a0 What’s probably confusing you is that the ideology has already been settled.\u00a0 Once you see all of this to be purely matters of terminology, you’ll also gain an insight into what happens next.<\/p>\n

For a short while, President Obama’s critics tried to frame the discussion in terms of Socialism.\u00a0 This is a non-starter.\u00a0 I think if you were to poll this president and this congress – a few far-left nuts not withstanding – you’d find each of them expressing a love for this country and not a one expressing a desire to become a Socialist State – even passing polygraphs.\u00a0 You’re using the wrong terminology!\u00a0 Accusing this administration of moving us toward Socialism may have the support of a technical<\/em> definition, but it drips of ideological connotations where none belong.\u00a0 Think of it this way: the nuns in a convent live in a technically<\/em> defined communist system (from each according to her ability, to each according to her need).\u00a0 But would you call them communists<\/em>?\u00a0 Not only is the connotation unjust, the ideology is not accurate.\u00a0 This is what still causes those trepidations mentioned in the opening paragraph.<\/p>\n

Listen to me and find some peace.\u00a0 The new ideology has actually been in place and growing for some time.\u00a0 The recent election was only the crowning of its leader.\u00a0 We must move away from Democrats vs. Republicans (too often these days, a distinction without a difference) and understand the new dimension, which is Progressive vs. Self-Reliant.\u00a0 The progressives have been in power in Congress for some time now.\u00a0 The first $350 billion to banks, the AIG bail-out, the “loans” to GM & Chrysler and so Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you still wonder whether banks will be nationalized?\u00a0 Does the idea of an auto manufacturer declaring bankruptcy scare you even just a little?\u00a0 Tell me you’re not still engaged in any discussions on whether or not the response to our economic crisis has been a step toward “socialism!”\u00a0 Please, come down off your soap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251],"tags":[296],"class_list":{"0":"post-7146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"tag-progressive","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15256,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15256\/why-do-liberals-and-progressives-in-america-deny-their-beliefs\/","url_meta":{"origin":7146,"position":0},"title":"Why do Liberals and Progressives in America deny their beliefs?","author":"Al Lorenz","date":"October 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"While reading Jeff's post asking about how people can justify theft from others in the name of government, I was most stricken by the absolute denial from those who defended more and more taxation have over their own beliefs.\u00a0 Even though they clearly support socialism, and can put forward tales\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1040,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1040\/hillary-clinton-and-rotarian-socialism-whats-wrong-with-the-nar\/","url_meta":{"origin":7146,"position":1},"title":"Hillary Clinton and Rotarian Socialism: What’s wrong with the NAR?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Business Week's Hot Property wrote yesterday about the NAR's having gotten into bed with Hillary Clinton -- who is \"sponsoring a bill that bars commercial banks from hiring real estate brokers\/agents\" -- but that's just the tip of the iceberg. 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