Where are “progressives” progressing towards?
Do they have any clue?
Discussion
No. And that's the point.
At least Socialists have an end goal, as stupid as it may be.
Progressives seem to have no goal other than winning whatever latest battle they’ve chosen, regardless of if it contradicts other goals let alone what any second order effects might be.
It’s like fiat thinking became an ideology.
They are very good at naming stuff, but not so good at adding common sense to that shit
Towards the edge of a cliff…
seems like a catch all term for poorly defined causes that bleed into one another
some of which might be good ideas if they didn’t have the baggage of ALL the ideas all at once
like an anti-war stance, I generally agree with that, but why does every other cause have to lump itself onto that? makes the anti-war movement much less effective imo. Saw this in spades during the protests against the Iraq war
Power
That’s the political ones.
I’m talking your stock standard leftist who self-identifies as a progressive and is nowhere near power. Their normie base.
What do they think they’re progressing towards?
Justice, equality, freedom, prosperity.
That was me as a teenager, when I had a teenager's faith in authority.
Yeah that’s everyone before they have to work their way in the world.
Then you grow up when reality hits.
Except for progressives apparently - permanent adolescence
Yup.
To be fair, I know a lot of Conservatives in permanent adolescence too.
Establishment Progressives: Daddy Government will fix everything, he just needs more taxes and less accountability. Utopia for all is just around the corner!
Establishment Conservatives: Daddy Government will fix everything, he just needs more monopolies and less accountability. Utopia for me is just around the corner!
And then they are sad, and blame us.
Progressives don’t know what they’re progressing toward, and conservatives don’t know what they’re meant to be conserving.
Both retarded ideologies and yet they’re the dominant wings of every western two party system. I wonder why..
100%.
I think they are dominant because other voices are silenced. Because almost any other way of thinking has less opportunities for power without accountability.
People leading a “live and let live” life don’t get actively involved until these controlling types have gone too far.
A facade created by the administrative class of bureaucrats to give plebs an illusion of choice.