Progressives had a major conference in Barcelona over the weekend where leftist leaders from around the world came together to talk about how to gain more control over their populations and the need to force the United States to relinquish her power. In attendance were plenty of American leaders, such as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was almost our vice president, Senator Chris Murphy, Biden aide Neera Tanden, along with Hillary Clinton, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Bernie Sanders by video message.
I listened to much of the Global Progressive Mobilization meet up on live stream and what I heard from the mouths of these globalist leaders was alarming. They have flowery language that all sounds great until you peel back the onion skin and find that the deeper you get into their plans the less room there is for the very working people who they pretend to champion.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa received mad applause when he spoke about the need for developing nations to join against the West and the United States as part of a "global progressive revival." Ramaphosa wants all debts from the global south forgiven as a way to cripple the interests of western nations. He demands a global progressive movement for developing nations to seize power from the West.
New York City's socialist mayor held a Tax Day summit last week where economist Gabriel Zucman said we're at the "beginning of a global movement" to tax the rich and redistribute wealth. Zucman was there in Barcelona, too, and spoked about his proposed minimum 2% tax globally on billionaires. To achieve this, he needs to get nations on board. In New York last week, he got Mamdani on board.
He said it's not "radical to ask the super rich to pay as much tax as the rest of the population. What's radical is to accept the current status quo where they are allowed to live in their own parallel society."
Mamdani believes socialism can and will spread across the US. When asked about the potential for such a thing, he said, "I was told you that can only be a Democratic Socialist in northwest Queens, then I became the mayor now the next question is the state, then the next question will be the country."
The progressives touted plans for a global, 2% tax on all billionaires, they protested about our insistence on using fossil fuels, the cleanest, cheapest, most efficient fuel—other than nuclear—that we have available to us. They touted the success of their own nations at being welfare states that are moving forward a transition to green energy—all while eschewing defense spending or upholding civil liberties.
The message was clear: the wealthy have too much and their wealth must be taken from them and experts must then decide how best to dole it out to those with less. This is not just for individuals but for wealthy nations. Progressives do not believe our rights come from God but from government. They do not believe in God, but they believe in power. The mission of taxing the rich is about depriving all us little people of our liberty.
This is how that works: when you hear the call for billionaires to pay their fair share, that at first sounds great. I'm no billionaire, I have no hope of ever being one, so why not squeeze those fat cats? Because it's not about the money, it's about what the progressives want to do with it.
Progressive leaders promise free things to everyone. Free money, free housing, free transportation, free pensions, free childcare, free medical services, in some places, like San Francisco, free drugs.
The money will be used to move global economies away from fossil fuels and into so-called green energy, which is neither green nor efficient. Nor is it affordable or good for the environment. Solar covers and destroys land. Wind farms kill birds, pollute landscapes with noise pollution, and when the turbines expire, which they do, they cannot be recycled.
The money will go to governments to buy housing and distribute that among all us who will no longer be able to afford our own homes on our own terms. New jobs will be government jobs. Those who don't want to work or whose skills don't fit will be on government funded welfare.
These government homes will run on electricity and will tell us what temperature we can set our thermostats to. The idea will be that the government will dictate energy usage so it's, as they will surely say, fair and equitable, but those are just pleasant sounding words for control.
Once the gas powered car is eliminated, as is the goal with the 2030 plan, electric cars will be strictly controlled, and we will be taxed per mile driven, which the government will know due to the smartness of the cars. That's already happening in England.
Government run health care, complete with abortions and euthanasia, will be implemented and it will be government regulation, not doctors that decide what treatment a patient is eligible for. We've already seen this in Canada, where cancer patients are offered government assisted death only to flee to the US to get life-saving treatment. In some nations, like Spain and the Netherlands, suicidal young people are killed by government and it's called compassion.
And governments will continue to run our schools in a way that eliminates primary source resources, only read the graphic novel version of Shakespeare and not the real deal, and indoctrinates our children into a progressive hegemony that will prevent them from ever questioning the authority of the state because they will never even learn the vocabulary to do it.
It doesn't matter to a progressive government what happens to us so long as they can keep us under their thumb. Pliant, compliant, stoned, fat, zoned out on SSRIs and legal weed, and stupid because the education we've trusted them to provide is nothing more than ideological indoctrination in progressive activism.
Everywhere we look, ideologies of progressivism are again on the rise across the world. These are the same ideologies that led to mass slaughter in the 20th century but for today's progressives, they are a means to gain power and control.
We give up liberty when we accept ease, when we accept government control of every aspect of our lives. Progressives believe government grants rights, but what is granted can also be taken away. We've seen it before and if they take power we will see it again.
