Dear Editor,
Having just read in the Kingman Daily Miner, the article on the resurgent “Indivisible” movement in Kingman, I am struck by numerous inconsistencies.
The article’s banner promoting a local progressive revolution is a quite clear statement of intent. It does however raise the question, what flavor of progressive? Is it a desire to progress toward clean and safe gang-free streets to go with a drug free culture and safe, clean housing? Should we expect full employment and schools that produce motivated, productive young citizens? Or is it the desire to have progressive leadership that fosters massive tent cities infested with rats and disease, and legalized public defecation, as can clearly be seen in the major west coast cities? I hear “progressive”. I do not hear any specific, tangible, positive goals
One of the more glaring self-contradicting statements attributed to J’aime Morgaine is “even though the club considers itself non-partisan, it is motivated by need to resist the current administration on both national and local levels”. Her statement is a clear definition of the word partisan. Open opposition to a legally constituted government is, by its very nature, partisan. Where is the need to resist lower unemployment, better wages and a stronger economy and a healthier society?
Again, quoting Morgaine, “This is the beginning of a progressive revolution in Mohave County”.
Mohave County is, has been and will continue to be the home of God fearing, productive, conservative people who have worked for grace and harmony with one another and nature, it should remain so.
The pitch of a utopian “progressive” future falls sweetly on the ear. Sadly, it is a misty, vacuous picture painted on smoke. Nowhere, ever in this world has this philosophy delivered on its promises to those who have chosen to follow that dream. If one were to bother engaging in even a casual study of history, the truth is crystal clear. Call it what you will, progressive thought and planning lead inevitably to government by central control, collectivism and repression of the citizenry. The flame of human spirit withers and flickers out under the all controlling thumb of progressivism.
A clear and definitive description of “progressive” is a “progressive erosion of our liberties”. I call B.S. on this movement. If you want progressivism, move one state to the west.
Jack Hommel, Golden Valley
