David S – your opinions are just that, opinions, and unsubstantiated by facts or logical argumentation.
I agree with beauxdog’s comments – note that he isn’t simply stating an opinion but making a logical argument for that opinion. As he noted, it is shallow to define abortion as meaning the woman has control over her own body; this is empirically invalad. The embryo is not ‘her body’ but the body of another human being. That is a fact; it is how, biologically, our species reproduces itself.
Equally, as others have pointed out, the term ‘progressive’ is not about progress, implying a ‘better future’. It is a statist agenda, seeking to reduce individual freedom and insert state authority.
By the way, vivo, I find it odd that you didn’t critique the first definition”
“Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.”
Do you think that ‘established’ is semantically equivalent to ‘authoritarian’ or to ‘dogmatic’ or to bigoted’?
And you are hardly tolerant of other’s ideas! See, for example, your first comment.
And being in favor of ‘reform’ is hardly a desirable quality unless one insists that the current state of existence is always deficient.
Sharon – calling someone a ‘birther’ because they want to know Obama’s birth and educational records is disingenuous. After all, these are valid records of achievement and it is odd that Obama refuses to release them.
The term ‘deather’ is a red herring to obscure the very real problem of inadequate funds to care for the elderly.
I’m sure you don’t want to get into other conspiracy themes, held by the ‘left’, of the 9/11 attacks, of Jews controlling the world, and so on.
As pointed out, the left is about top-down authoritarian control, reducing the rights of the individual. Jenkins article is exactly right. Thanks for it.
