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Hello people.
So I'm not political analyst or anything but really, stop using the term 'progressive' as a substitute for the term liberal or socialist.
Progressive is not about being FOR higher minimum wage
Progressive is not about having state quotas in schools or jobs or anything. If you support affirmative action, you're not a progressive. You're using this term wrong.
Progressive is not about egalitarianism at the point that it is choking every single diferentiation that makes each individual unique.
Progressive is not about big spending on big govt programs like healthcare and pensions.
Progressive is not what most people who call themselves progressives is about.
I understand that the term PROGRESSIVE is a really positive one. Who wants to be a regressive? Nobody. Nobody would go and call himself: hello, I'm a regressive. So the fact that the extreme left took this word and made it it's own is a really disgusting affair. time to take the word away from them and make it what it really is supposed to mean.
This is what a progressive SHOULD look like:
-If you are anti-partisanship and think that de-facto allegiance to a party is bad, then you are a progressive
-If you think that it's a good idea to have tehnocrats in government instead of people who earned political favors from those in power, you are a progressive
-If you think that instead of throwing money at a problem we should put brainpower to solving it first, you are a progressive.
-If you think that equality should only be in face of the law, and not force everyone to obey the same set of rules that YOU are comfortable with, then you truly are a progressive
-If you deny the hippy agenda that everyone is THE SAME and understand that the dumbest kind of diversity is racial/sexuality diversity.... and that the real kind of diversity is in thoughts, education, background ,experience basically what makes you an unique human being, then you truly are a progressive
-If you support secularism and don't want to live under a theocracy, but still understand and support the right of religious institutions to exist, then you are a progressive.
-If you think that education should be a process by which individuals discover themselves and it should be tailored to suit the needs of the people receiving that eduaction, and not to fulfill a bureaucratic checklist, then you are a progressive.
-If you think a job/award/position should go to the best qualified individual instead of having the primary target to accomplish a certain quota by race/gender, then you are a progressive
-If you think that supporting scientific advancement and a cultural environment that promotes the real kind of exceptionalism is a good thing, then you are a progressive
-If you do not try and shut up unpopular opinions and support their right and defend them for saying those things, you are a progressive.
So my dear friends, this what a real progressive should be. And because the people who are exactly the opposite of this have hijacked this term and are using it as cheap PR propaganda to make themselves look good is disgusting and needs to be stopped.
So I'm not political analyst or anything but really, stop using the term 'progressive' as a substitute for the term liberal or socialist.
Progressive is not about being FOR higher minimum wage
Progressive is not about having state quotas in schools or jobs or anything. If you support affirmative action, you're not a progressive. You're using this term wrong.
Progressive is not about egalitarianism at the point that it is choking every single diferentiation that makes each individual unique.
Progressive is not about big spending on big govt programs like healthcare and pensions.
Progressive is not what most people who call themselves progressives is about.
I understand that the term PROGRESSIVE is a really positive one. Who wants to be a regressive? Nobody. Nobody would go and call himself: hello, I'm a regressive. So the fact that the extreme left took this word and made it it's own is a really disgusting affair. time to take the word away from them and make it what it really is supposed to mean.
This is what a progressive SHOULD look like:
-If you are anti-partisanship and think that de-facto allegiance to a party is bad, then you are a progressive
-If you think that it's a good idea to have tehnocrats in government instead of people who earned political favors from those in power, you are a progressive
-If you think that instead of throwing money at a problem we should put brainpower to solving it first, you are a progressive.
-If you think that equality should only be in face of the law, and not force everyone to obey the same set of rules that YOU are comfortable with, then you truly are a progressive
-If you deny the hippy agenda that everyone is THE SAME and understand that the dumbest kind of diversity is racial/sexuality diversity.... and that the real kind of diversity is in thoughts, education, background ,experience basically what makes you an unique human being, then you truly are a progressive
-If you support secularism and don't want to live under a theocracy, but still understand and support the right of religious institutions to exist, then you are a progressive.
-If you think that education should be a process by which individuals discover themselves and it should be tailored to suit the needs of the people receiving that eduaction, and not to fulfill a bureaucratic checklist, then you are a progressive.
-If you think a job/award/position should go to the best qualified individual instead of having the primary target to accomplish a certain quota by race/gender, then you are a progressive
-If you think that supporting scientific advancement and a cultural environment that promotes the real kind of exceptionalism is a good thing, then you are a progressive
-If you do not try and shut up unpopular opinions and support their right and defend them for saying those things, you are a progressive.
So my dear friends, this what a real progressive should be. And because the people who are exactly the opposite of this have hijacked this term and are using it as cheap PR propaganda to make themselves look good is disgusting and needs to be stopped.