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They are critical of the Right because they believe the Right isn't "right" enough. >I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative". Well let's go through it
by frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago
They are critical of the Right because they believe the Right isn't "right" enough.
>I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".
Well let's go through it then, from your first link:
>Yet we can’t be blind to the realities of modern politics — Washington is dominated by progressive ideology in both parties.
Following that link, we get some real beauties.
>•Progressives overwhelmingly control both major political parties in the US;
>•Progressives control the federal judiciary, along with all federal departments and agencies;
>•Major corporations, both global and domestic, are run by progressives. Their boards are progressives. Their corporate branding and messaging is progressive;
>•Wall Street is progressive;
>Of course progressivism virtually always means left progressivism. While there are right-wing progressives (neoconservatives) with grandiose ideas about government and human nature, most of them came from and will comfortably return to the Left when it suits them.
>Let’s be clear about supposed conservatives like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, & company: they're all progressives. Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are progressive.
>Every realistic, potential, or actual threat to liberty in the western world today results directly from progressives policies.
This took me all of two clicks. Let's not pretend the Mises institute is something it's not.