A fashionable name for the left these days is "progressive." The use of this word hints that the progressive has already passed the rest of us and is moving on to some place where the normal rules of reality don't apply. Is it the Garden of Eden? Atlantis? Oz?

What will life be like in this destination? Will the moral standards be compatible with the society we want? How do progressive values compare with the traditional American ethical standards from the founding of the United States and from the major religions?

From the Founding:

The moral underpinnings of the United States of America were beautifully and concisely expressed in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Can we rely on the progressives to protect those unalienable rights derived from our nature as human beings? Will they uphold the standards in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?

Life - Progressives claim to be compassionate. Do the societies they create value life? Lenin's society didn't:

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.ⁱ

Nor did Che Guevara's road to his ideal society:

What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims... advancing fearlessly towards the hecatomb which signifies final redemption.ⁱⁱ

No wonder leftists like to call themselves a different name.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/progressing_toward_moral_darkness.html#ixzz1vN2ob2hw