Well its the lefties way. They use children like Greta as human shield, like terrorists do, to protect themselves from any criticism and to exploit people's sympathy. Think of the children kind of thing. Pretty disgusting in typical lefty fashion.

Karl Marx in his book on Capital used children working in factories as big part of the book, not because he cares about people in general or children but because he was trying to exploit readers to sell his political cause. Think of the children.

Now there is a leaked document "panic paper" from German government about the whole Globalist reset communist agenda with covid, where it seems the agenda is to put propaganda machine to work and try to force guilt on children for killing their parents with covid so they won't resits the communist takeover.

They try to do the similar thing with Great telling children that whole humanity will die in 12 years unless we implement communist takeover, remember that? Kids going to the streets with protests signs in hand repeating the lies.

Or BLM in Portland having children as young as six years old carrying kill all cops signs in protests. Lefties are truly the most disgusting people I've ever had the disprivilege of meeting.

Now they want to usher in Pedofilia as sexual identity, because you know, fuck kids, who needs them. Feminists carrying signs about children they didn't kill yet with abortion and calling them parasites.

Lefties make me sick to my stomach. They have no honor or self respect. The most sick bunch of sociopaths and psychopath crazies you will ever meet.

@Lightman The left here is the term that I use for ideologues who want to tear down the system to establish tyrannical dystopia. You can't go more left than Fascism, Nazis, Communists, BLM, Antifa, Feminism, or however you want to call current collection of ideologies of the left. I find term "progressive" they use insulting, since there is no progress.

“The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

Kirk Russell defined the ideologue as one who “thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature.” Unleashed during the most radical phase of the French Revolution, the spirit of ideology has metastasized over the past two centuries, wreaking horrors. Jacobinism, Anarchism, Marxism, Leninism, Fascism, Stalinism, Nazism, Maoism—all shared the fatal attraction to “political messianism”; all were “inverted religions.” Each of these ideologies preached a dogmatic approach to politics, economics, and culture. Each in its own way endeavored “to substitute secular goals and doctrines for religious goals and doctrines.” Thus did the ideologue promise “salvation in this world, hotly declaring that there exists no other realm of being.” ― Russell Kirk, The American Cause

I don't see welfare or unions as positive, since both are not libertarian ideals, they are the by product of Marxist socialists world view. Wealtfare is about paying people not to work and using other working people's money to do it. Easy to abuse. And unions are about as marxist as you can get "workers of the world unite". Off course tyranny and corruption of unions is well known. The works think the union leaders are there for the works, while the union leaders see it as factory inside the factory. A way to be in charge of workers and use is as leverage. That is why mafia likes to own unions so they can blackmail companies and government.

As a result of workers of the era, Europeans mostly in big industrialized cities, organized into trade unions that embraced the ideals of Marxism.

Workers strike: E.g: Tyranny of Trade Untion Leadership in India

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Now if you want to talk about libertarians, they are technically on the left and so are republicans, but since we are dealing with new form of liberals, the radical communists types, they are very far from classical libertarian.

What was liberalism? The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. “Classical liberalism stressed not only human rationality but the importance of individual property rights, natural rights, the need for constitutional limitations on government, and, especially, freedom of the individual from any kind of external restraint. Classical liberalism drew upon the ideals of the Enlightenment and the doctrines of liberty supported in the American and French revolutions. … The writings of such men as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill mark the height of such thinking.”

Classical vs. Modern Liberalism

Classical Liberalism: Interested in protecting the freedoms of individuals in economic affairs. Maximum rights and freedoms for certain individuals (entrepreneurs). Government rules, regulations, and social programs, are kept to a minimum, with every person acting on his or her own behalf.

Modern Liberalism: Interested in creating equality of opportunity for all individuals. Freedoms and rights favour the individual, with more individuals in society receiving rights. Government intervenes to ensure that the most vulnerable people are cared for.

“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.” ― Camille Paglia

@Krunoslav But it is the term used to describe all the wokeness and stupidity that these people stand for and want to saddle the rest of us with... Progressives cannot tolerate dissent.
You can be left or right and be a traditionalist or a Conservative.
I have no idea who came up with the brilliant term Progressive since to me mostly they are simply regressive.

@Lightman Regressive. Yes indeed.