Category Archives: Progressives

America Has Been Warned

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     M.E.P. Daniel Hannan spoke at the Free Market forum at Hillsdale College speaks about the economic idiocy and bureaucratic overreach of the European Union, and warns America that it is on the same path.      Alas, that warning was ignored last … Continue reading →

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Common Core: Creating the NEW Soviet Person

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The 1987 miniseries Amerika depicted life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.  A scene, near the end, depicts a young American boy in a Komsomol style uniform wax poetically about the wonders of … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Description of the Left’s Mindset

Posted on October 29, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Gov. Moonbeam (AKA Jerry Brown) of the Fools’ Golden State of California has unwittingly summarized perfectly the very description of the Left’s core mindset: Jerry Brown: "Government can best solve the problems that it, at first, creates." #CAP10 — daveweigel … Continue reading →

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Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness

Posted on October 28, 2013 by The Political Hat

     In the role playing game Paranoia, set in the future where an insane all-powerful computer runs a domed city, fun and happiness are mandatory.  In the game, one player can be assigned the mandatory bonus duty of being the Happiness … Continue reading →

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Socialized Healthcare: Rodents Eating Your Face

Posted on October 28, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The quality of socialized medicine is yet again demonstrated in Canada: “A patient immobilized in bed, waking up to find mice eating her face. “It has the makings of a health-care horror story — Friends of Medicare says the night-time … Continue reading →

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Obama Summarized in a Single Speech

Posted on October 27, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Commentator “mysterian” suggested in a previous post about a modern day parallel of the Praetorian Guard and the Roman Emperors Commodus and Pertinax, that perhaps Nero would be a better analog for Obama.      The following speech from Quo Vadis, then, … Continue reading →

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Public School Collecting Political Information on Parents… Through Their Children

Posted on October 26, 2013 by The Political Hat

     A public school in Colorado handed out assignments to students that collected information about the students’ political beliefs… as well as the beliefs of their parents.      The questions had a subtle bent that painted the “liberal” side in a good … Continue reading →

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The Mexican War Propagandized as the “North American Invasion”

Posted on October 25, 2013 by The Political Hat

     High school educational material from Brown University’s “Choices” program, which included required reading about Mexico, is little more than anti-American propaganda.      “Bookworm,” of Bookworm Room blog, shares with us a selection from his kids homework assignment.  Aside from blaming America, … Continue reading →

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How Marx is Conquering America

Posted on October 23, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Progressive Left have been slowly substituting America’s civic heritage with their own delusional ideology, based in large part on Cultural Marxism.      How is this coming to pass?      Author Sarah Hoyt mused recently about the infiltration of society by Marxists … Continue reading →

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Progressives’ Double Standard on Women

Posted on October 22, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Progressive Left fancy themselves as champions of women, ready to defend women against misogyny and the Patriarchy™.  Yet they are quite willing to attack a successful reformist governor who is pro-life and otherwise conservative.  That is but one of … Continue reading →

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