They Will Always Be Attracted To Force

The NYT writes:

"In a period when all politicians are either dull or unwilling to break away from routine – “tradition” ; when it seems that in every Western nation the spring of imagination is dried up, Mussolini gives the impression of an ever-welling source. One may object to any for of dictatorship, but one cannot help being stimulated by the phenomenal vitality of this man who, in his role of dictator, has commanded the barren soil of Italy to produce wheat within a given time; ordered his territory to be expanded (by reclaiming swamps) without extending his fronters; and, not content with summoning new cities into existence, is changing the face of the Eternal City by diggin up the buried glories of Imperial Rome….

In order to create a new Italy he is returning to the old sources of Roman strength and domination. He wishes to resuscitate the materlal vestiges of ancient Rome because they are beautiful and invaluable, but also, andd mainly, because in so doing he hopes to revive the old virtues of the rugged men who under Iron discipline once fashhioned Roman power…. Here I had the feeling that there is no limting condition imposed on any Fascist project; a strange impression that whatever Mussolini commands is executed without being hampered by problems, practical or financial."

The last line cuts right to the chase of what progressive thought is all about: A desire and fetish for control and power free of any opposition to instill their vision of an ideal world.

They're totalitarians are heart. 

I hadn't realized just how long the NYT had been diseased.

Alas, the NYT weren't alone. There were no shortage of writers, poets, celebrities, liberals, politicians and criminals who praised and admired the defunct ideologies of Mussolini and Hitler. It's right there in plain sight for all to see if they care to research and pay attention. It didn't stop there. They praised Mao. Castro. Che. Right up to Chavez.

With a track record like this, how are they not leftist reactionaries?

What I've noticed lately is the attempt by the left slowly change and shift the narrative in a way such that to extricate itself from their past fetish and alliances to such failed movements. Suddenly, somehow, the people who had the foresight to stand against the madness (notably conservatives and classical liberals as well as people of any political stripe endowed with a sober and intelligent mind) are being spun into the reactionary extremists.

The mind spins at their penchant for revisionism.

If progressives were an identity, they'd be degenerate gamblers and junkies.

It's...Progressivestan.