What American Progressives Will Never Get

By Semperpapa

I do find myself standing in complete astonishment as I hear some of the comments coming form Obama or other progressives in America.
It was already highly disturbing to hear the first black candidate to the presidency of the greatest country in the world stating that he wanted to radically transform this Nation. Well, if he loves this country as he claims, why would he want to "radically change it"?

But the disturbing aspect of all this is that there are so many people out there who espouse the radical ideology of the man.

I have had the chance to talk with a lot of people about this. The vast majority of those who are so bent on "changing" America are completely in the dark of what they want to change it into. Many say that America should be more like Europe. I say F U.
I come from there, Italy to be exact, and I can tell you that I don't want to see my beloved America become anything like the economic hell that Italy was and remains today.

The problem is that the vast majority of these ignorant idiots have never lived in another country and if they did, it was under specific circumstances. I had a conversation with a man who said he loved his time when he lived in Italy and that we, Americans, should pay attention to the way things are done in places like that.
What he confess to me, though, is that while he did live and work in Italy for two years, he was employed by an American aerospace company, was being paid in dollars, had access to American health care in American military bases, did not have to pay federal income taxes and received subsidies from his company for auto and gas expenses. Under those circumstances sure I would live in Italy too on a temporary basis, but they are NOT by any stretch, indicative of what life really is for the common people trying to make a living under dire economic conditions and a governmental system corrupted and overbearing.

So, the idea of wanting to be more like Europe is a bunch of crap. And it is also infuriating for me to hear someone like Obama accusing Americans and America of being arrogant. In the first place, it is hypocritical for Obama to use the word "arrogant" as he is forcing us to accept a socialist America in his own image. Nothing more arrogant than that!
Moreover, again thanks to the country I came from, I witnessed and learnt first hand what America really meant to Italy and the Italian social standing.
In other words, without the "arrogance" of America, I would have grown up in a third world country at best or a Soviet satellite country at worst.

Ultimately, America is the not only the last remaining bastion of freedom in the world, but it is the last refuge for those of us who refuse to kneel to despotic pressure like the ones from the current regime.
I don't want the government to tell me where to live, what to eat, where to go or what property I can or cannot own. The Constitution tells me the government cannot do so.

But progressives will never, ever understand that because they are the real arrogant morons who do not have a clue of what real freedom is. Their idea of freedom is being able to kill a fetus because the timing of pregnancy is not right. Freedom is hating those who have been successful at what they do.
Progressives would not recognize freedom if it smacked them upside the head. And that may eventually happen.

Just my thoughts!