I suggest you attempt to separate Progressivisms rhetorical ideology from their actual actions in the real world. Progressivism is not about equality, it’s about the dominance of group interests over the individual (i.e. corporatist or fascist), and only officially sanctioned groups.

Progressives highjacked the real left’s concepts and emptied them so they could trick people. It’s a shell game. If you dig under the surface of most mainstream political ideologies in the west, you see the same thing: dominance of group interests.

I have said this before on here, there is no actual left in the West. There are no real revolutionary actors on the good side, they are all already dead or still in prison since the 1970’s. What we have instead are fascists on all sides, in total agreement on fundamentals, wearing different masks to trick normies.

In fact, at the risk of sounding crazy, the real ideas of the left and of democracy dovetail nicely with bitcoin and are adjacent to those of Bitcoin. Of course, there are no real democracies, they are simply inverted totalitarian states since WWII.

Actual democracy, emphasizing thinking, deliberation over quick action, individual participation in power, non-scalability, and hence fundamentally decentralizing is nonexistent. They tricked everyone by pretending that voting = democracy. Even the civil right leaders in the US back in the day knew we were being tricked by getting the vote.