A Book Review… Pointing Out Faces And Philosophies Fighting To Force Us Into Decline
By DEXTER DUGGAN
Deadly Progressivism: The Political and Scientific Threat to Humanity in 21st Century America, by Christopher M. Reilly, copyright 2016 Christopher M. Reilly, ISBN 978-1530742424, 159 pages soft cover, $14.99, to be available July 12 at Amazon.com.
The summer issue of a devotional magazine, Marian Helper, includes the story of a young U.S. soldier sent to the Vietnam War at its height in 1968. According to this account, he was seriously wounded 18 days after he arrived, and a young staff doctor quickly dismissed his chances of survival.
When the soldier screamed out in protest against his life being triaged away, the surgeon in charge overheard him and arranged for surgery that lasted about 20 hours.
The young doctor had been wrong in his evaluation, but it was up to the suffering 18-year-old soldier with no MD after his name to put up the resistance that led to saving his own life.
It’s nice and even blessed when someone lends a hand, but sometimes we have to take things into our own if we’re to secure what we need.
“The best and the brightest” of the U.S. bureaucratic elite, misled by U.S. liberal media, lost that war to the Communist dictatorship. But for all their errors, the Washington, D.C., mandarins never doubt their right to rule over us.
Now it’s 2016, and America’s elite is at war with this nation’s people. Citizens may feel their future is being unnecessarily condemned, like that of the soldier — and they have just as much right, and even his similar dire necessity, to shout out to obtain victory.
They don’t have to wait to put MD or Ph.D. titles after their names before they stand up against bureaucrats, judicial overreachers, even White House gender-benders.
In Deadly Progressivism, Christopher M. Reilly deals with the profound arbitrary revisions occurring in definitions and concepts about the very ways we live — drastic changes being made, to our detriment but to the enhancement of the power of social controllers who see us as putty to be mashed into compliance for their dream society.
Reilly explains he uses the word “progressivist” for a reason. “The word progressive has a positive meaning of being open-minded or enlightened, and I simply don’t see any relation between that meaning of the word and the nature of progressivists. They are anything but open-minded, and the ideas associated with progressivism have nothing to do with open-mindedness.”
Aside from their “really unforgivable intellectual errors,” Reilly writes, the transhumanists, secular moral philosophers, and overreaching geneticists “refuse to accept that humans are by definition imperfect….In fact, humans seem to make more mistakes the harder they try to avoid them. We thrive when we are relaxed, humble, and in tune with the vibe of the universe.”
Old errors are afoot, shod in 21st-century jackboots. But today’s dangers are even more widely malign.
At least the 20th-century liberal politician benignly promised a chicken steaming in every pot for the traditional family’s dinner table. But the 21st-century political schemer wants to steam everyone and every family in the pressure cooker, where everything traditional is leached away and the wildest concoctions are considered lip-smacking.
“Unfortunately,” Reilly writes, “some humans have embraced evil. These persons hate everything that makes us human. They hate everything that identifies us as created in the image of God.”
Leaders at Harvard and Yale and prestigious doctors, among others, insist on wicked ways including unending abortion and bathroom invasions now, just as their antecedents were thoroughly wrong in the 20th century by favoring deadly eugenics and the social restructuring that entailed. Each time, they think they have the winning formula that the mere stupid masses overlooked.
In the 20th century their powerful racial improvement theories led to the nightmares of National Socialist Germany burning off in the ovens what Berlin imagined to be human, or less than human, dross.
Progressivists’ ambitions to alter us utterly now place no more hope in human dignity.
“The U.S. model of promoting eugenics — dressing up its research to look official and using ‘science’-based legislation and executive enforcement to get around oversight by the courts — gained respect among eugenicists elsewhere,” Reilly writes of the 1920s.
Sound familiar about today’s strong-armers?
Trying to be in tune with those times, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927 declared forced sterilization to be quite constitutional, Reilly reminds his readers. And of course he recalls Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s contempt for what she detested as human weeds and the need to yank them up.
Today, as Reilly notes, Planned Parenthood practically is a political or government agency.
Names like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden turn up in this book for their misalignment with true moral values.
It’s no surprise the progressivists fight the family, Reilly writes, because it’s an important barrier against their exerting pervasive social control. Progressivists are less interested in people developing traditional self-discipline, but intense about imposing population control.
Deadly Progressivism was coming off the press when Americans were astounded yet again by grim Alinskyite Barack Obama in spring 2016, this time insisting that immoral bathroom invasions are a top presidential priority to impose on unwilling hundreds of millions of people.
“Progressivists have used . . . sexual ‘rights’ to burst through legal barriers to gender-bending, marriage-neutralizing, anything-goes relations among everybody with anyone else,” Reilly writes.
Although the abortifacient mandate in His Majesty’s Obamacare continues to be fought through the legal system, don’t forget that his national medical program also includes “free” sterilization, another element in the frenzy to frustrate childbearing and to separate sex from growth and social responsibility.
“It is no coincidence that the Title X program, 90 percent of which provides contraceptive and birth-control options to poor persons, is administered through the Office of Population Affairs,” Reilly writes.
As with probably any book, a few passages raise questions about their implications.
For example: A dominantly northern and eastern U.S. background might explain the author’s writing, in relation to “an atmosphere of resentment” about welfare spending, that “Americans perceive an immigration crisis, although this time it is focused on Hispanics and Latinos.”
We Westerners know it’s reality, not a questionable perception, that a virtually wide-open Southwestern border allows profit-reaping cartel drug and people-smugglers, sex traffickers, unvetted crossers, unidentified offenders, and other criminals to laugh at the venerable legal institutions and family values that Reilly respects.
Appropriately, Reilly concludes with suggestions about what people can do to combat the elite’s immoral onslaught. He has well delineated the faces and philosophies fighting to force us into decline.
