Editor's Note - You just gotta read this one!
By Matt Barber, on October 10th, 2015 | Share on Facebook
I recently caught up with Progressy, iPhone in hand and sipping a Cinnamon Dolce Latte at a packed SoHo Starbucks between angry and aimlessly incoherent protests against the evil corporatocracy. He/she/ze/it graciously agreed to sit down and give me a brief, though refreshingly unguarded, interview. MB: The Declaration of Independence is America's founding document. Tell me what you think of it. Progressy: It's crap. It's not worth the parchment it's written on. Selfish nonsense about "unalienable rights" given by some "creator" who fashioned "mankind" in "his own image" is the stuff of grand superstition. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" Try choice, equality and the pursuit of pleasure. Rights come from government, not some imaginary god. Ideas about pre-eminent worth of the individual have, over the years, simply proven too harmful in efforts to advance the greater good of the collective in all its identifiable, divisible and perpetually put-upon subgroups. The Declaration's sister document, the U.S. Constitution, has to go as well. They're both outdated and completely at odds with progressive thought. As such, they must be circumvented, if not completely ignored, at every opportunity……To Read More......
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