The Problem with Progressivism | Highlights Ep.24

The American Founders believed that the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution were not simply preferences for their own day, but were truths that the sovereign and moral people of America could always rely on as guides in their pursuit of happiness. This course considers the principles of the American Founding-which are described most famously and concisely in the Declaration of Independence-as well as key features of American government based on those principles. Led by Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, the course also examines the major challenges posed by Progressivism to American constitutionalism.
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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.

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  • @bobjones8864
    @bobjones88642 жыл бұрын

    I love the way you pull wisdom out of these youngsters, it gives an old man hope.

  • @sucapizda

    @sucapizda

    2 жыл бұрын

    My hope is that these youngsters don't use that wisdom to become even more evil progressives. Cause thats a easy thing to do.

  • @jeffreythornton428
    @jeffreythornton4282 жыл бұрын

    Thank God for Hillsdale College.

  • @proudmarine1154
    @proudmarine11542 жыл бұрын

    I'm so thankful for this college and it's stance on the Constitution and what it represents to us who consider ourselves patriots. I'm glad to see young minds learning real history and how it applies today. God bless! 🇺🇸

  • @bluecollarnobodysitaras6503
    @bluecollarnobodysitaras65032 жыл бұрын

    Less government intrusion more personal freedom and responsibility

  • @brianaubrey8786
    @brianaubrey87862 жыл бұрын

    If the citizens of any country want their votes to be counted accurately they have to take counting them as seriously as they take counting their money.

  • @starvedbaby2510

    @starvedbaby2510

    2 жыл бұрын

    But through the lord we must try every day.

  • @cherylmockotr

    @cherylmockotr

    2 жыл бұрын

    We can see the Dems do just that... they print new votes out of the blue just as quickly as they print new money out of the blue.

  • @theophrastus3.056

    @theophrastus3.056

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cherylmockotr And don't forget: "10% for the Big Guy!"

  • @mikwcas5110

    @mikwcas5110

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theophrastus3.056 On both counts none the less.

  • @coolroy4300

    @coolroy4300

    2 жыл бұрын

    The problem is they love wealth and power not the truth or God .

  • @djross95
    @djross952 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Arnn is a national treasure. I've had the privilege of meeting him twice, and he's every bit as delightful in person as he is on video. If only he could educate our entire nation's youth, we'd be far better off as a country.

  • @tetracor
    @tetracor2 жыл бұрын

    Self-reliance creates vitality; State-reliance creates atrophy.

  • @tomlopez7819

    @tomlopez7819

    2 жыл бұрын

    California pays for welfare in Red States.

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Founding Fathers had slaves.

  • @cfibb

    @cfibb

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891 Yet the founding fathers’ good ideas about governance [macro level] and self-reliance/responsibility [micro level] has proven to FAR outweigh/transcend their quite bad ideas about holding slaves. Nor are the founding fathers’ good ideas somehow “nullified“ by the fact that some were slaveowners. Nobody is perfect or perfectable. Not even leftists. Careful where you point that mirror. -a former Democrat

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cfibb genocide, slavery and apartheid aren't redeemable sins.

  • @cfibb

    @cfibb

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891...grumbles the un-ironic, collectivist type with a murderous cure-all, lecturing everyone of every race from every civilization EVER that genocide, slavery and apartheid are not redeemable sins. No one said they were great things. Except for Stalin and perhaps a zillion other dictators. Also, no one is asking for your forgiveness. NOTE: The founding fathers did not invent slavery. Or genocide. Or apartheid. These things have been around since PEOPLE have been around, perpetrated by every race/religion/creed/ethnicity/haircut against every other kind of race/religion/creed/ethnicity/haircut... often one’s own. Welcome to human beings in history. Yeah...but you still WANT something don't you? Life is so unfair. Understanding that this is yet again a whiny power grab by a cultural/political side that always (ALWAYS) promotes grievance over responsibility, the rest of us aren't particularly moved by the finger-wagging. We can wade into the weeds of disparity too if you wanna go there...

  • @RodMartinJr
    @RodMartinJr2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! Indeed, human nature does not change. The core motivations of a farmer are every bit the same as those of the technocrat. We all desire survival and pleasure, and want to get away from pain, disease and drudgery. Yet, we benefit from hard work and humility.

  • @RodMartinJr

    @RodMartinJr

    2 жыл бұрын

    @William Satire SIWTSDS!

  • @AmazingStoryDewd

    @AmazingStoryDewd

    Жыл бұрын

    You say that but I notice that when things come easy without effort. You have no sense of accomplishment and boredom sets in.

  • @RodMartinJr

    @RodMartinJr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AmazingStoryDewd I noticed that, too, but then I noticed that I was the one controlling whether or not I had a sense of accomplishment. I controlled whether or not the feeling was one of boredom. There is perception (effect) and there is creation (cause). A watched pot "never" boils; and time flies when you're having fun. And in between both of these sits you -- either allowing things to move forward by default, or actively taking responsibility.

  • @RodMartinJr

    @RodMartinJr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@depiction3435 How so?

  • @mowas8620

    @mowas8620

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@RodMartinJr Great quote! Thank you for that

  • @j.r.paulson4254
    @j.r.paulson42542 жыл бұрын

    The focus of the Declaration and the Constitution is on principles. Principles should be the foundation stones of government. Unprincipled government becomes anarchy and ultimately tyranny. God help our country!

  • @rkba4923

    @rkba4923

    2 жыл бұрын

    We're already there.

  • @rapidfire8202

    @rapidfire8202

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree that is already happening….

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    The principles were slavery and subjugation.

  • @rkba4923

    @rkba4923

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891 You're an ignoramus. Blindly believing lies you've been told rather than researching the truth for yourself.

  • @vladimirsotikov8751

    @vladimirsotikov8751

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891 Do you believe in a better "progressive" society without slavery and subjugation? Are you going to create it? They have already tried many times and always with the same result - more tyranny and more bloody slavery. Democracy may exist for a while as the rule of organized individual slave owners. Economic prosperity leads to "progressive" ideas, they lead to the formal abolition of slavery and to universal suffrage, which leads to ochlocracy. Ochlocracy ends in tyranny. Tyranny ends in the chaos of domination by tribal anarchy or organized crime. From now on, when new individual slave owners appear, human society can start with democracy again, and then go around in a new circle of life. The well-educated ancient Greeks learned this 500 years before Christ.The best we can do is prolong the time of democracy, but we have already missed this opportunity.

  • @1845Raven
    @1845Raven2 жыл бұрын

    And when progressive policies fail, put the blame on the other guy. Makes me wonder…in the simplest terms…too many people lie-not just to others but to themselves

  • @thomasallen6285
    @thomasallen62852 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad to see young students dealing with these issues and being prepared to take the cause of liberty to a wider world. Thanks Hillsdale

  • @tomlopez7819

    @tomlopez7819

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, just what the rest of the world needs, Americans spreading Democracy.

  • @robinroundtree1899

    @robinroundtree1899

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomlopez7819 yes. This is certainly what we need. True democracy! Not the Bs in the white house being tyrants,and dictators.

  • @robinroundtree1899

    @robinroundtree1899

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomlopez7819 Do you live in the USA 🇺🇸?

  • @ronfox5519

    @ronfox5519

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is the first time i have seen this guy. Who is he? Ill be subbing. Great stuff.

  • @masarati7315
    @masarati73152 жыл бұрын

    Perfect guidance, for me is the Bible which I read and try to abide by It. Whatever humans would do is imperfect and subject to corruption and downfall, the further we are from God's Word the worse off we are.

  • @IIIUMlNATI
    @IIIUMlNATI2 жыл бұрын

    Larry Elder for California Governor! Spread the word everywhere, especially cali residents! be an advocate, get the word out! theres not much time... the election is in less than 2 months, sept 14th! This election is all about turnout and might be the only serious shot we get to turn the state red! For freedom. Lets gooo!!!! "You can lose a fight, but you can't win a surrender." - Andrew Klavan

  • @rapidfire8202

    @rapidfire8202

    2 жыл бұрын

    He would do an amazing job with California. He is such a brilliant man

  • @rapidfire8202

    @rapidfire8202

    2 жыл бұрын

    @William Satire www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-history/ The state changed with legal and illegal immigration. No wonder Biden and Harris won’t defend your southern border. Your states a mess, you need a change.

  • @lukebetzner7714
    @lukebetzner77142 жыл бұрын

    If I could start my post-secondary education over again, it would include Hillsdale. So excellent.

  • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669

    @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed!!!👍

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    You want to go to Trump College?

  • @Pundit2k

    @Pundit2k

    Жыл бұрын

    With the power of the modern internet, you can. I've listened through almost 70 courses now, including almost all of the courses at Yale Open Courses. I've only discovered Hillsdale College's catalogue of courses a couple days ago, but I am now committed to doing these too--completing every single one if I can. I am taking these courses so that I can pass on as much as I can to future generations. These courses are eye-opening. I'm even starting to get into STEM, particularly mathematics, while I was absolutely uninterested in math growing up. I hope that these courses remain accessible and eventually overwhelm the typical videos that most young people watch on KZread. Our country and planet would be better for it, I believe.

  • @jaygbardo8781
    @jaygbardo87812 жыл бұрын

    Real Education ("Classical" logic, reasonings, debate, questioning.) Bring it back!

  • @ScottCleve33
    @ScottCleve332 жыл бұрын

    Watching this is interesting. An educator teaching but also listening. Giving the student room to speak and have open dialog and share their thoughts. Unlike universities today where students are lectured to and are indoctrinated. They are also discouraged from speaking unless they repeat what's told to them.

  • @jonathanbhatty8592
    @jonathanbhatty85922 жыл бұрын

    The problem with progressivism is that you become so open minded is that your brain actually starts to fall out your head.

  • @kromeknifemind
    @kromeknifemind2 жыл бұрын

    Cannot believe I didn’t know about this college as a teenager. I’ve been robbed of my education by my own government.

  • @blogintonblakley2708

    @blogintonblakley2708

    2 жыл бұрын

    No you have been robbed by greedy rich people.

  • @arminius504

    @arminius504

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blogintonblakley2708 same thing. More Government is not the solution. Limiting it is. Same goes for corporations that control the government to undermine and control society.

  • @callmelegendawight8298

    @callmelegendawight8298

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blogintonblakley2708 You need to move to a place that fits you. A deserted island where you can live in solitary and experience the fruits of your own efforts without having to put up with other people.

  • @blogintonblakley2708

    @blogintonblakley2708

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@callmelegendawight8298 If you don't like what I'm saying... you are welcome to move. See, how authoritarian you try to be?

  • @callmelegendawight8298

    @callmelegendawight8298

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blogintonblakley2708 You don't understand the term authoritarian. I give you the option that seem to best fit with your angry tirades over how oppressed you are by societal systems. If that's the case. you would be much happier in solitary existence where you control your own environment. Or, as my freedom system allows, you can live under this "oppressive" system. Your choice. You can even stay and bitch about it as you seem to enjoy doing. But I bet you'd be happier all alone.You seem to forget that you were ranting on society as the source of all ills.

  • @Caneyhead123
    @Caneyhead1232 жыл бұрын

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely

  • @dongaetano3687
    @dongaetano36872 жыл бұрын

    Though I am not a fan of the roundtable discussion format, and have taken a few courses at Hillsdale with a couple in progress at the moment due to busyness, this brief segment was excellent. I am a Hillsdale supporter under my real name, not this comment handle. The Federalist Papers is a magnificent course - I was awed by the comments of the Founders' sheer brilliance. Thanks Hillsdale, Dr Arn (Larry, who loves S Dakota for...no speed limits...and of course Gov Kristi...Presidential material I'd say 28 maybe? Vice Pres in 24?), the students and staff and all supporters and guest speakers, etc. of this amazing institution.

  • @lorenelkin9415

    @lorenelkin9415

    2 жыл бұрын

    Almost like a school of theology, wasn't it. Is Hillsdale a seminary??

  • @dongaetano3687

    @dongaetano3687

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lorenelkin9415 No Loren, it's a very old conservative Liberal Arts College I believe that is strong on the tradition of a Classical liberal Education. Where you read and study great literature, history, philosophy and understand the importance of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, in the classical sense, and I should add, exemplary character. Heavily Christian in it's view of who God is and the Bible but practical in application of those principles and patriotic in it's attitude toward America and its founders. I'm a 71 year old guy with high school ed Loren and have taken a number of the free online courses there. Most very enlightening and give you a deep appreciation of our country and freedoms, and the magnificent constitution that was given to us. Hope that helps, but ping me with questions if you like, or better yet, give them a call. Best to you.

  • @cinematic35
    @cinematic352 жыл бұрын

    Any form of government will work if the people are virtuous and no form of government will work if the people are corrupt!

  • @gracie2382
    @gracie23822 жыл бұрын

    This is reason why I want to go to this university

  • @denamarie6308
    @denamarie63082 жыл бұрын

    The problem with progressivism is its actually regressivism

  • @relentlessmadman

    @relentlessmadman

    2 жыл бұрын

    more explanation needed?

  • @scoobyDoo51280

    @scoobyDoo51280

    2 жыл бұрын

    relentlessmadman Since the focus of progressivism is consolidating power (in a federal bureaucracy of experts), instead of distributing it (between legislative, executive and judicial branches that can check each other), it’s really a return to a pre-Constitutional form of government - more of an oligarchy, than a representative republic.

  • @imkluu

    @imkluu

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scoobyDoo51280 It also wants to return people to their class or group rather than be thought of as a responsible individual. It takes away personal freedom and tries to instead give a kind of freedom from responsibility based on which group you may be considered a part.

  • @relentlessmadman

    @relentlessmadman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please?

  • @OutnBacker

    @OutnBacker

    2 жыл бұрын

    To my thinking, Progressivism is the logical fruit of Secular Humanism. Since Humanism implies there is no God, then the natural order is that Humans must be Gods, and gods, and then....on down the line. This is Chaos. The end will result in the New Feudalism. There will be the Elites, their satraps, and then the rest of us. it's already here in structure. We have the Elites - that's for sure - their satraps who actually do the everyday heavy lifting for them - the beaurocrats, who make and enforce the rules, levy fees and taxes, and arrest you - all without representation, and then we have Us. The professor is correct: We are of two minds. One, the Fallen Kind. The other, the Redeemed. Failure to acknowledge the truth in this will bring the Chaos.

  • @davidtoda1751
    @davidtoda17512 жыл бұрын

    thank God for Hillsdale College.

  • @SamKGrove
    @SamKGrove2 жыл бұрын

    The incidence of sociopathy and psychopathy (rarer) in society is a perpetual issue and such people are keen to attain and wield power over others. Their aspirations combined, with a lack of moral restraint, enables them to tell people what they want to hear, to wear the facade required to beguile people into giving them power.

  • @howardemery1443
    @howardemery14432 жыл бұрын

    thank God the future is looking bright

  • @frederickdouglass9007
    @frederickdouglass90072 жыл бұрын

    It always remains Good vs Evil. We intuitively know the essence of each. The Golden Rule still applies. Do unto you neighbors as you would have them do unto you, has changed into the corrupted, do unto your neighbors as they have done unto you. Whoever makes the first evaluation steers the argument. The Inferiority complex and envy are the roots of all evil.

  • @hogg4229
    @hogg42292 жыл бұрын

    Very brilliant, humble man.

  • @patmark3059
    @patmark30592 жыл бұрын

    Pray an act of perfect contrition everyday

  • @healthcarecoord01
    @healthcarecoord012 жыл бұрын

    Thank You!

  • @tonymarino7391
    @tonymarino7391 Жыл бұрын

    Keep up the great work. Thank you.

  • @KiniAlohaGuy
    @KiniAlohaGuy2 жыл бұрын

    EXCELLENT!

  • @shivaramnair3288
    @shivaramnair3288 Жыл бұрын

    GREAT AND THANKS

  • @gaylewilliams4805
    @gaylewilliams48052 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @AndrewKendall71
    @AndrewKendall71 Жыл бұрын

    Hillsdale College needs to create a certification by which other universities with the will to do it can come alongside this teaching and curriculum and education process so more than just Hillsdale can be doing this.

  • @KathysTube
    @KathysTube2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent 🇺🇸👍

  • @ericpeterson5935
    @ericpeterson59352 жыл бұрын

    Good on ya, Hillsdale!

  • @vinrod34
    @vinrod342 жыл бұрын

    on point.

  • @cynthiacook1646
    @cynthiacook16462 жыл бұрын

    This a great video. Technology changes, people, i.e., human nature does not.

  • @machellelokersonvlog1273
    @machellelokersonvlog12732 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed! 🙏🇺🇸❤️💎😊

  • @TheMeaningfulWorkMaven
    @TheMeaningfulWorkMaven Жыл бұрын

    The problem with labels is that it limits our ability as a human race to connect to the heart of what is real and what is the next right step. We live in an energetic Universe where everything around us including ourselves comprises of atoms and molecules. Our thoughts are energy, our emotions are energy. What we see with our eyes, we believe and perpetuate by aligning with them. This includes the labels imposed upon us by doninant cultures like the term "conservative" and "progressive." When our leaders can learn to suspend judgement and get BEYOND "The Hatfield & McCoy" mentality, a space opens for collaborating with each other harmoniously. The suspension of judgement will then create a space for REAL SOLUTIONS to emerge! But it will NEVER HAPPEN if we keep focusing on LABELS! There is a saying, "Where our attention goes ENERGY FLOWS, and where energy flows GROWS". What does HUMANITY want to grow more of? More of the same or something new and better?

  • @machellelokersonvlog1273
    @machellelokersonvlog12732 жыл бұрын

    GOD Bless The USA and The World GOD Bless President Trump and The Leaders Of The World GOD Bless Those Representing and Defending The Civil Rights and Liberties Of Every American Citizen 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @Ralfountet
    @Ralfountet2 жыл бұрын

    i love your wall.

  • @relentlessmadman

    @relentlessmadman

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love 4 walls that protect me from the elements! I love not having to live in a cave! Of what wall do you speak?

  • @Ralfountet

    @Ralfountet

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@relentlessmadman the wall on which there is reproduction of "the declaration of independence" by trumbull

  • @richardmillward8200
    @richardmillward8200 Жыл бұрын

    It all boils down to nature/Super Nature; one reflecting the other and recognizing Super Nature is our guide, has all power and knowledge because it is our source! Being progressive is progressing in the right direction.

  • @iwishiknew10
    @iwishiknew102 жыл бұрын

    with freedom and individual liberty comes the requirement of responsibility and ongoing effort. that is where progressives always win in every society to the point the society fails ultimately. Because with the ascendency of freedom, people are free to find success and capitalize off of it. Once capitalized, the quality of life improves for that person and ultimately everyone around them (assuming the society is a free democratic republic). Once the quality of life has risen to a certain point for most, then what once was a luxury that was worked hard for and earned is then passed on to those who have no idea how hard someone else had to work to earn it. That is when things fall apart for that society. Because people have a tendency to become lazy with generational luxury and once threatened with having to actually work to maintain luxury or "freedoms", these generations that inherited a society that was earned will squander it. A lesson of history that is always ignored, ridiculed and taken for granted...

  • @rev.stephena.cakouros948
    @rev.stephena.cakouros9487 ай бұрын

    In one of my essays I take Dewey behind the woodshed because the idea that we must now think differently since it is a new world is just an old idea looking for a new audience.

  • @jjamesfraley2903
    @jjamesfraley2903 Жыл бұрын

    When we fail to hand down truth to our children, we all fail. All men and women are not created equal. We are all special in our own way. God made everyone of us different and special in our own way. When we fail to educate, we discriminate. God loves all, not just a select few.

  • @hollyfoxThe
    @hollyfoxThe2 жыл бұрын

    I would have liked to see the Professor's entire session with these students. Where may I find this? A teaser is but that. Where did the teaching turn after the end of our glimpse? I am not sure I can like, or dislike based on the brevity of the content.

  • @callmelegendawight8298
    @callmelegendawight82982 жыл бұрын

    The solution to the problems of modern America is to return to strict application of the Constitution. This would remove power from the federal government and return it to the states and individuals. Cutting the federal government obligations to only those constitutionally allowed would reduce the cost of the federal government to around 1/20th to 1/40th of what we spend. The power acquired with distributing the amount of money it taxes and spends is what has corrupted it so badly. But if the amount of money is drastically cut and the constraints on how much the federal government can do is increased then the desire and reward to seek that power at any cost is greatly reduced

  • @BigJFindAWay
    @BigJFindAWay2 ай бұрын

    This is true education here. Not the garbage being taught in the legacy universities.

  • @unsensibleshoes6673
    @unsensibleshoes66732 жыл бұрын

    The problem with progressivism is that there is no end to the "progress". (God save us from the well-intentioned.)

  • @oldterry9356
    @oldterry93562 жыл бұрын

    For a view on this based on the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd, see the undergraduate philosophy textbook “The Myth of Religious Neutrality” ch. 10-13 by Roy A Clouser (of course understand ch. 10-13 requires understand ch. 1-6) Available on amazon, amazon blurb “written for undergraduates, the educated layperson, and scholars in fields other than philosophy”

  • @ronfox5519
    @ronfox55192 жыл бұрын

    New to this channel and loving it. Great work here. It has always seemed to me that one of the main problems with progressivism is the concept of progressing. It kind of implies fashion over actual effect. My clumsy rhyme about it is- 'A progressive is no longer a progressive if he ever stops progressing on anything.' Because they cant stop moving forward, they cant ever settle on a good idea. By defualt, they wind up changing everything, even their own ideas. And thats how we got 72 gender pronouns. Im sure that some deep thinker from the past has already said this much better than i have. If anybody could point me in that direction, it would be appereciated.

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    You need to read a history book.

  • @ronfox5519

    @ronfox5519

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891 Witch one?

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ronfox5519 start with elementary school and work your way up.

  • @ronfox5519

    @ronfox5519

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sentientflower7891 Oh. I thought you were being serious.

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ronfox5519 I am being serious. Did you go to school?

  • @georgegeller1902
    @georgegeller19022 жыл бұрын

    Sooner, rather than later

  • @JennyB957
    @JennyB9572 жыл бұрын

    This man is so clean and well groomed looking .

  • @TacticalSquirrel
    @TacticalSquirrel2 жыл бұрын

    Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

  • @bigbubba4314
    @bigbubba43142 жыл бұрын

    Government IS people. Government will never be better than the people that comprise it.

  • @1nvertedReality
    @1nvertedReality2 жыл бұрын

    Beware of those that require restraint to be abolished in order for their good intentions to flourish.

  • @faith4freedom76
    @faith4freedom762 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely beautiful!! However, how is the world different from 300 years ago till now? How?

  • @YuliArmstrong
    @YuliArmstrong2 жыл бұрын

    ♥️

  • @cottonclarksa
    @cottonclarksa2 жыл бұрын

    A millennium ago, Catholic Cannon highlighted the seven deadly sins along with its counter-balancing seven heavenly virtues. Some 500 years ago, William Shakespeare put keen emphasis on the seven deadly sins again in his character Mordred in the play Camelot. Obviously, all of this was originally highlighted in the Bible over millennia, which keenly states that “Man is born a sinner.” And of course, the Apostle Paul wrote it out first in his letters to the people of Corinth (Corinthians 13). Truth is, we don’t have to look far throughout recorded time for evidence of this dyadic - and absolute - tenet of the human condition. Every one of us has both good and bad in us. I personally like how Dr Jordan Peterson puts it: we - each of us - have the capacity for evil. So, the question is: how do we control it? The oft answer almost always leads to some form of collective governance, yet again, I point to Peterson, who as a psychologist points to the individual. THAT is where any form of governance starts. Yes, sure… there ultimately needs to be a form of communal governance; after all, humans are social creatures. My pastor put it in brilliant form in his sermon this morning (about the loaves and fishes parable - John 6: 1-16): “Our humanity is connected to our proximity.” Our Founders knew the perils and absolute destruction of this dark side of the human condition, ie, the seven deadly sins. They knew the sway and slippery slope it proffered. And that is precisely why they wrote our Constitution the way they did with the ubiquitous “checks and balances” approach. More recently, former Justice Antonin Scalia (RIP) scoffed at European leaders who mocked and criticized our form of government by saying, “it is messy!… it is gridlock!” Yes, it can be. And it can be a rather maddening process to work through it all. YET, it is a beautifully - and I believe divinely - inspired form of governance that protects the individual sovereignty “endowed by our creator” from the pursuits of power and control by anyone, by the slippery slope of the seven deadly sins. More than anything, though, such individual sovereignty must be fueled and constantly reinforced by the individual pursuit of good. We all must awaken our own desire to embody the seven heavenly virtues: faith, hope, charity, prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. BOTTOMLINE: this struggle ain’t new, y’all. Not by a long shot.

  • @richbattaglia5350

    @richbattaglia5350

    2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant comment and contribution to the video. I’ve laminated and saved the seven deadly sins and seven heavenly virtues just because I saw wisdom. You are right about the significance of the individual and organizing yourself before you critique the world.

  • @anonygent

    @anonygent

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare's play "Camelot"? What are you smoking?

  • @anonygent

    @anonygent

    2 жыл бұрын

    p.s. The "seven deadly sins" are not Biblical... you should not take them seriously. Essentially all sins are deadly (for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God) and none are (for God so loved the world, etc.).

  • @sucapizda
    @sucapizda2 жыл бұрын

    Today, the suspicion is of a human who says I want to be free and speaks the truth.

  • @ejluczak7015
    @ejluczak70152 жыл бұрын

    The days of our government (citizens) having a desire to think and act sensibly are gone. Recent poll 60% of Democrats want Socialism instead of Capitalism.

  • @williamhutcheson6511
    @williamhutcheson65112 жыл бұрын

    When I hear the word 'progressive' I think progressing toward what, then what?

  • @johnk2452

    @johnk2452

    2 жыл бұрын

    *_Hutch, with many others, it's been my opinion that LEFTIST's use of the word "progressive" has ALWAYS been part of their efforts as a means of duping, indoctrinating, etc._* Where, IN FACT, there is absolutely NOTHING "progressive" about them. They ARE LEFTISTS; textbook anti-liberty LEFTISTS. *_I refuse to play their BIG LIE propaganda word games: they are pro-big state LEFTISTS and in any democracy, their anti-liberty notions need to be crushed and trash-canned._*

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    Progression to women's rights, labor rights and civil rights.

  • @jimmysanders4813
    @jimmysanders48132 жыл бұрын

    Money is power and if you look and see where all the money is concentrated then you see the power.

  • @DML575
    @DML5752 жыл бұрын

    Great open dialogue but unless I missed it, they didn't directly discuss the issues or problems that arise from progressivism.

  • @ericwestervelt4606
    @ericwestervelt46062 жыл бұрын

    It’s nice to see that these kids aren’t saying this is all coming from entitled, slave-owning, white men and thus null and void.

  • @user-ys9to2ie7k
    @user-ys9to2ie7k2 жыл бұрын

    Treating people is one aspect, but the true essence of a civil society is Justice and Justice needs to be consistent. Our judicial system isn't broken - it flat-out does not work because of its inconsistency ¿`_

  • @loisr8217
    @loisr82172 жыл бұрын

    The Serpent in the Garden was the original "Progressive" This an unattributable quote but defnitely worth repeating. Hits the nail on the head.

  • @spenner3529

    @spenner3529

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why did you capitalize "progressive"?

  • @SociallyTriggered
    @SociallyTriggered2 жыл бұрын

    This could have been much easier said. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • @alexross5714
    @alexross57142 жыл бұрын

    As Professor Arnn affirms at the end of the class (4:55), "we have to be a little bit suspicious of concentrating power." With this statement he has astutely identified the problem. To find out the source of the problem, I recommend this 12-minute video. (The 30% rule will blow you away.): kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpqFy8xtkbTXYc4.html

  • @jsnadrian
    @jsnadrian2 жыл бұрын

    it frustrates me to no end when my progressive friends complain about all the horrible government policies. and they're solution is to give the government more unchecked power.

  • @domingazelaya2500
    @domingazelaya25002 жыл бұрын

    🇺🇸🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏🇺🇸

  • @johnchambers2996
    @johnchambers29962 жыл бұрын

    Dewey's new religion encompassed three forces; science, education, and technology; big state control of these was to be the panacea for pretty much every societal ailment. The salient contrast about big-state operations is readily observable when one looks at most of the wars of the last two plus-millennia; the less they do the safer we'll be.

  • @jimmyjones2896
    @jimmyjones28962 жыл бұрын

    There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Problems are not solved, only traded for new problems. Every solution comes with 3 more problems of its own.

  • @Mayamax3
    @Mayamax32 жыл бұрын

    Progressing toward what exactly?

  • @SLVBULL
    @SLVBULL2 жыл бұрын

    Progressivism leads to heresy

  • @teresaleake4777
    @teresaleake47772 жыл бұрын

    When I voted for my better government. I agree with this in

  • @user-ys9to2ie7k
    @user-ys9to2ie7k2 жыл бұрын

    The true Excellence of a human being is the capability and ability in which not to falter. Every person at that table strives for this, which is, attainable ¿`_

  • @FuzzyMarineVet
    @FuzzyMarineVet2 жыл бұрын

    The very best form of government is that which God ordained in Israel before the anointing of Saul as king. "There was no king in Israel. And everyone did what was right as he saw it." Of course it only works with a people who have dedicated their lives to God.

  • @mobiditch6848
    @mobiditch68482 жыл бұрын

    We’re solving the wrong problems.

  • @whyidrink40
    @whyidrink402 жыл бұрын

    For anyone not familiar with progressive political theories, please don't mistake this as what progressives really think about the constitution...

  • @levi5459
    @levi54592 жыл бұрын

    Mosiah 29: 13-17

  • @Carolline323
    @Carolline3232 жыл бұрын

    Kama always happened again to be learnt .

  • @lindaanthony7890
    @lindaanthony7890 Жыл бұрын

    In the video “The Problem with Progressivism” it or you considers a question. . What is it or your question?

  • @doyouseewhatisee3183
    @doyouseewhatisee31832 жыл бұрын

    🇺🇲

  • @user-ys9to2ie7k
    @user-ys9to2ie7k2 жыл бұрын

    At the 2:40 minute mark - all men are created equal under the law! The vast difference in human beings is a totally different issue and that includes mental capabilities. It was once thought that the most intelligent should be the ones that lead this country and that, over time, has gone to the Wayside ¿`_

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard10002 жыл бұрын

    30th

  • @MrATPCO
    @MrATPCO2 жыл бұрын

    Is that ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE is stepping on eggs.

  • @seanwallace89
    @seanwallace89 Жыл бұрын

    Immediately the blonde woman up front nodding her head in agreement very early on... if you are nodding your head in agreement before he even finishes speaking his statement, are you really critically thinking, or did she already hear an emotional connector that she associates w comfortable and familiar vocabulary that has already "pre-stoked" her proverbial "fire" towards agreement?

  • @chrisgreco4249
    @chrisgreco42496 ай бұрын

    America's founders made a great breakthrough in designing a system of self-government based on separation of powers, checks and balances, as opposed to the centuries of rule by oligarchs and monarchs who pretended to be God's chosen rulers on earth. Yet, even a cursory reading of what Christ actually taught shows that neither the kings of Europe throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, nor America's founders truly followed Christ's teachings. "Do nothing to anyone you would not have done to you. Treat all others as you would be treated for that sums up the Law and the Prophets." ~ Christ Jefferson plagiarized George Mason heavily when he wrote that "All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain alienable rights chief among these being Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." I visited Jefferson's home, Monticello, when I was a student of architecture. I walked through the rooms in the basement where his slaves labored to create the wealth that produced all the beauty in the rooms above. Geo. Washington kept slaves. Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners. Had America's founders truly honored the words in the Declaration of Independence they would never have ratified the Constitution in 1789 that stated slaves would be counted as 3/5's of a human being for the purpose of providing more congressmen to the southern states than their population of free white men would allow. In contrast, England abolished the slave trade in 1807 without the loss of single human life. The problem is NOT "big government" as the leader of this discussion hints. The problem is that faithful believers in Christ, most of whom were illiterate, were misled for centuries as to what Christ actually taught and did. Even today I find that I have gone into churches from coast to coast and not heard Christ's name even mentioned. I have yet to hear a sermon quoting Christ from the New Testament and teaching how his words can be applied in daily life. "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." If we take Christ at His word then that was as true 2,000 years ago as it is right now, today. Clearly, therefore, those who call themselves God's representatives on earth have not fulfilled our Creator's intentions for all mankind. "Let the little children come unto me and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, no one who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will ever ever it. I thank you, Father, for hiding these things from the learned and the wise and revealing them to little children." Could Christ speak with any more clarity, or divine purpose? So, why not study His words and leave the veiled political agenda here in this clip and others to those who would rather perpetuate the darkness of the past than stand in the light, the truth, and the way that has always been within reach of every generation of beautiful children for literally eons? "Come, oh beloved of my father and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world." That statement tells me Christ was not just focused on the after-life, but on this life in our beautiful, life-sustaining, richly abundant, irreplaceable world.

  • @panagiotiskostastheoktisto6709
    @panagiotiskostastheoktisto67092 жыл бұрын

    You will not take truth in to fictional ways

  • @dannyjohn4358
    @dannyjohn43582 жыл бұрын

    THE AMERICAN DIFFERENCE.... THE YOUNGER AND MORE EXCEPTING GENERATION HAVE DECIDED THEY WANT TO LIVE AND LET LIVE.... ITS MUSIC TO THEIR EARS.. TOO BAD SOME OF THE OLDER FRIGHTENED GENERATION WANT TO KEEP THE SAME OLD SAD SONGS GOING.... ITS MUSIC TO THEIR EARS.... WHEN WILL WE GET ON THE SAME SHEET OF MUSIC.... SO WE CAN BEGIN TO DANCE...

  • @blackquiver
    @blackquiver2 жыл бұрын

    4:19.. R.O.L..

  • @11kravitzn
    @11kravitzn2 жыл бұрын

    Glad we have our plutocracy and a government beholden to it, rather than any sort of democracy capable of taking care of its citizens. You fools.

  • @user-ys9to2ie7k
    @user-ys9to2ie7k2 жыл бұрын

    To even think you can design a society is naive! The abuser was once the abused and this cycle will never end. NEVER ¿`_

  • @ScottCleve33
    @ScottCleve332 жыл бұрын

    The problem with Progressivism? And it's only five minutes long? Oh. This is only the highlights. You can probably make a docuseries about it.

  • @paulyisgoingagainstthegrai2952
    @paulyisgoingagainstthegrai29522 жыл бұрын

    Angels do govern men in government. One angel in particular. Lucifer.this is why I’m an anarchist. No man should be governed by another man. We should all be free.

  • @KJ-jo6mz

    @KJ-jo6mz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anarchist? If anarchy is the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, who, then, controls the individual who is, as you say, controlled by Lucifer? As Madison said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Your argument that Lucifer governs men is exactly why we need a government and why it needs to be limited.

  • @paulyisgoingagainstthegrai2952

    @paulyisgoingagainstthegrai2952

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KJ-jo6mz no. I said satan governs men in government. Not all men. Authority brings out the natural demons in men. Men should not try and control other men because of the natural instinct to destroy others comes out with authority. Eliminate the authority what evil can men do. Except to themselves. Someone who has no power over me cannot hurt me unless I allow them too. With government I don’t have the option.

  • @relentlessmadman
    @relentlessmadman2 жыл бұрын

    what does progressivism Have to do with concentrating power? I agree, that to much power in the hands of One man (MM)is not good! no man should be god! I'm not even sure how much power god should have???? who gets to decide what is good and what is evil, beyond the truths that the framers found to be self evident!

  • @BirdWhisperer46
    @BirdWhisperer462 жыл бұрын

    The problem with progressivism is EVERYTHING.

  • @sentientflower7891

    @sentientflower7891

    2 жыл бұрын

    Go back to the 9th century.