A note about California's Proposition 8

Before this gets flushed down the memory hole, it should be pointed out that California probably has the most "progressive" state constitution in the country.  This term "progressive" should be especially well-defined in terms of what "progressive" really means, or what it meant in the early twentieth century.  It needs to be because it doesn't mean what it used to mean.

California's electorate has the right to recall public officials.  This happened in 2003 or so with the removal of then Governor Gray Davis in favor of the actor Arnold Schrazennegger.   But they also appear to have the initiative and referendum.   That means the public can propose and pass constitutional amendments, which become the law of that state.  I'm not sure about referendum, but if they have it, it means they can repeal laws not their liking.

Now, Proposition 8 is one of those laws that the people passed by voting upon it.  The reason that this case is in front of the Supreme Court of the United States is because one of the lower courts decided that the California law, thus passed by the people of that state, was against the constitution of the United States.

Now, it was progressives who nominated these judges, and the judges themselves are presumed to be progressive, but it is not in the sense of "progressive" of the early twentieth century, as described above.  For if it were, the people of that state could remove the judges who violated their will when they voted for this proposition.

The word "progressive" therefore, has been hijacked by the left.  As they have hijacked a lot of the language we use today.  An example of that is the word "gay", which now means homosexual.   Forty years ago, if you said the word "gay" you weren't talking about sexuality.

But that has changed.  

The idea then was to get people to change their views towards homosexuals by de-stigmatizing the word associated with that group of people, and placing the stigma instead upon the current culture which disapproved of the practice.  This was done by calling those people "bigots".   The culture has been reversed 180 degrees and the left is behind the entire enterprise.

But they needed to redefine who they were, so they wouldn't be stigmatized any longer either. So they somehow became known as progressives.

Meanwhile, our society is crumbling.  It wasn't by the people's will.  If it were by the people's will, it would have been truly progressive.  Instead, it was done by the ones who are at the very top of our civilization, and these people are helping destroy the very civilization that they were sworn in to defend.  They are able to do this with words that they have hijacked.  With a media that they have hijacked.  With an educational system that they have hijacked.

When the civilization finally falls, you don't have to ask why.  The evidence is all around.  Just open your eyes and ears.  Remember that language is the tools of thought, and the left has hijacked the language.  Progressive isn't what it used to be, just like gay isn't what it used to be.  Our culture isn't what it used to be, but that change has occurred against our will.  It wasn't a progressive act, it was a leftist act.