I Know Some Lazy "Progressives"

Don't get me wrong.  Of course they are not all that way, but some are very political, so-called progressive people who do not like to work.  They like to talk.  They like to mobilize.  They like issues.  They look for "victims."  They seek so-called injustice.  I used to think that they were really for freedom.  I used to think that they really believed in an open forum of ideas.  I used to think that they were reasonable.  I used to think that they were for the working masses.  How can they be for the working masses when so many of them do not like to work?  I used to think they were leaders, or that they had leadership qualities.  They are still leaders, but only in their imagination.  Oh, they are for the worker, alright, they just do not like to work.  Maybe they figure: "well somebody has to pay taxes."   Many of them consider themselves to be "thinkers," but among them are the severely lazy.  They only want to work as bureaucrats in community funded agencies that produce nothing, offer nothing and are full of rude people.  Getting a monthly check from the government without working is an ideal for them so that they can sit in front of a computer and just "look stuff up."  Please do not misunderstand.  I am not angry. Things happen in our society, culture and economy that produce certain conditions and attitudes.  But in this society, the idea of practicing laziness, getting high, blaming others  and then seeking entitlements does not fare well.  During the early part of the last century, a social philosopher by the name of Ludwig von Mises had them pegged pretty well.

"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!"

 Ludwig von Mises        (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher