John Locke was an amazing man. His ideology of government was a main source of reference for our Founding Fathers in their work to give birth to the United States of America. If You get the opportunity to read his works, I suggest a large up-to-date dictionary and a big package of notebook paper. I have gone through more paper taking notes, reading his First and Second Treaties of Government than I care to talk about.
When Locke wrote his Treaties, during the 17th century but his work has influenced politics ever since, in my opinion. The biggest take-away from the Second Treaties is that for a society to even be formed it must get the CONSENT of the INDIVIDUAL to even exist. To go further, a government must have the CONSENT of the PEOPLE to even form, much less set up rules of law. With that being said, we should look at what the Progressive movement looks at and how it goes totally against the Consent of the People and Consent of the Individual.
The Progressive Movement started back in the 1800’s and it proposed that society was more important than the individual, totally opposite of what the Founding Fathers proposed in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Their idea that government could cure any societal issues and that society outweighed that individual, thus saying that the Law of Nature was not as important as society, in other words, the individual as a person was not as important as the whole. Kind of idiotic in my opinion but the Progressives have pushed their agenda from that time until present, pushing for laws to be made to protect certain groups over all others and basically arguing that “All MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL” is not what the Founding Fathers was meaning. Making claims that certain minorities were excluded from that, which in reality, it was Societal NORMS of the time that prevented those equalities. Moving forward, now the minority groups who have gotten their ‘rights’ actually are given something they already had but the norms prevented them from having in the past. Silly idiots, they couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
With the Progressives pushing their wild agendas with the Green Movement, One World Order and other silliness, they have forgotten that for ANY of this to occur the CONSENT of the PEOPLE for a government CAN BE REMOVED, thus nullifying the whole thing. In other words, The PEOPLE can say we have had enough of the monkey shine and declare the government null and void, returning us all to the LAW OF NATURE (very man for themselves) in which most of those Progressives would not survive as they depend upon the government in a way that leaves them helpless, weak and ignorant of what the REAL WORLD is and how cruel it can be.
It is said that a country boy and girl will survive, perhaps it is time to remove the consent for society and government for a while, then after a while, those of us who remain can come together and reform what out Founding Fathers created.