President Barack Obama hasn't been in office one full year, yet he has traveled the world “apologizing” for America and has declared War on Rush Limbaugh, War on Fox News, and labeled peaceful Tea Party protesters as terrorists.
It's easy to understand why one may be a little puzzled at the president's bizarre behavior, but in the worldview of transnational-progressivism, this all makes complete sense.
Unfortunately, the dangers to our free America do not reside in the remote caves of Afghanistan, but exist within our own borders and within our own government. Unlike any other time in our history, the sovereignty of the United States of America is in serious jeopardy.
What is Transnational-Progressivism?
Transnational-progressivism is an ideology that is opposed to traditional liberal democratic nation-states and in particular, the American republican form of government.
In the philosophical and constitutional perspectives of the United States, the key in determining whether a government is a democracy or not, is whether the governed choose their governors. Transnational-progressives however, believe they've found a “democracy deficit,” and thus are working to establish “new democracies.” And the European Union (EU) is the perfect example to show us how this “new democracy” works.
The EU is a large supranational government with a post-democratic structure. It is composed of 3 governing bodies: the Council of the EU, made up of one cabinet-level representative from each member state; the European Parliament, which is elected by the citizens of each member state; and the European Commission (EC), the EU's executive body.
In theory, the European Commission is accountable to both the council and European Parliament. However, neither the council nor the European Parliament initiate policymaking. Their power is mostly a negative one, the ability to withhold approval of policies formulated and adopted by the European Commission, and even this checking function is exercised infrequently.
Without doubt, the European Commission is the most powerful EU institution [and] the true source of its policy and legislative initiatives. - Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr., Europe in the Balance:The Alarmingly Undemocratic Drift of the European Union, Policy Review, June/July 2001, pp. 41-53.
In other words, the unelected and unaccountable EC, runs the whole show.
Transnational-progressivism is a direct threat to our traditional concepts of citizenship, patriotism, assimilation, and even the meaning of democracy itself. It's an ideology that denies individual rights, promoting group rights in their place.
Transnational-progressivism is “post-liberal,” “post-democratic,” “post-constitutional,” “post-American,” and demands the dissolution of nation-states, to be replaced by “global governance.”
This post is not meant to be an entire thesis on transnational-progressivism, but simply an introduction. In our next post, we'll look at The Key Concepts of Transnational-Progressivism.
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