Quotes from James Ostrowski

under progressivism, the state will grow until it controls everything and absolutely. That is, it will grow into a totalitarian state.

Justin Raimondo warns us: "All the elements of a police state are in place: universal surveillance, arbitrary restrictions on travel, and, most importantly, the increasingly radical and aggressive political pushback by the NSA and its supporters in Washington – up to and including the open acknowledgment that they're fully aware of the online habits of whatever members of Congress are foolish enough to get in their way."[37]

The brilliant liberal Mark Twain had his number. He called Roosevelt "far and away the worst President we have ever had." Of course, this was before Woodrow Wilson had his turn.

FDR used tactics more popularly associated with Richard Nixon. He used the IRS to punish political enemies.[204] He illegally wiretapped political opponents. He illegally closed the banks under color of a war power but in peacetime.[205] FDR, not Goldfinger, was the biggest gold thief of all time. He was guilty of war crimes, a consistent theme with progressive presidential heroes.[206]

The ballot box is simply a means to determine how state violence is to be used against the losers of the election and how those losers will then be exploited economically and in other ways by the majority. Thus, the incentive for minority groups to attempt to secede or seize control of the state to avoid such domination and exploitation exists in democracies and dictatorships.

The point here is this: progressivism is best understood as a reaction to liberalism. Progressivism stands for the proposition that freedom, liberty, voluntary cooperation and the free market are not enough. To best improve life, the state must intervene with men and women carrying guns and willing to use them against resistance and break up those voluntary relations and impose its will by brute force to achieve different and presumably better results.

A bureaucracy is an agency that has power over us and therefore will use that power to advance its own self-interest. Bureaucrats have little or no incentive to serve the interests of the public as their compensation is received whether or not they do so and they lack the expertise to do so even if so inclined.

The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.