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The difference between a Progressive, a communist and a fascist is the difference between a wolf turd, a bear turd and a bobcat turd — which is to say — no significant difference at all.
Teddy Roosevelt did this country a terrible disservice by running in 1912 as the Progressive “Bull Moose” Party candidate, thus splitting the Republican vote and ensuring that the disastrous Democrat Woodrow Wilson would become the first true Progressive president.
And by the way, now — more than a hundred years later — it’s the Democrats who are the true reactionaries. All they do is react, because they are completely out of workable ideas.
Sadly, Utopia for all does not exist and never will exist except in the Kingdom of God known as heaven.
The Horst Wessel Lied tells of attacks by both the Communists and the Reactionaries. “Kam’raden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen”
“We are revolutionaries! THEY are the reactionaries! They will say anything, they will do anything to stop us from achieving our agenda.” - Newt Gingrich in November 1994 - Commenting to the press question of whether the new Newt Gingrich-led republican congress would be reactionaries to the democrat-controlled government.
Remember that even at the time, socialists were split between internationalist socialists, such as Woodrow Wilson; and national socialists, such as Teddy Roosevelt.
For example, TR was such a believer in the theories of Friedrich Nietzsche’s writings, almost unknown in the US of the time, and translated by TR himself, that he felt free to widely plagiarize Nietzsche in his speeches. (As an aside, TR had a rather higher pitched, squeaky voice, oddly enough.)
For his part, WW, while he deeply disliked “anarchists”, and early on associated communists with anarchists, later agreed with the left’s embracing of communism, after the ineffectual San-Francisco-like weakling socialist-democrats (Mensheviks) overthrew the Czar in Russia, and were just six months later themselves overthrown by the communists (Bolsheviks).
The left’s glee at communist Russia was their dream come true, which was somewhat short lived because of Lenin’s brutal efforts at creating a communist system, it proving to be utterly worthless, and Lenin pragmatically turning back the clock, restoring capitalism and bureaucracy, before dying and turning the reigns over to Stalin.
So by the time of FDR, the truth of the brutal failure of the communist ideology was really obvious to all but the true believers on the left, so FDR was much more inclined to experiment with national socialist economics in his New Deal.
The Progressive Utopia is really a Dystopia.
Dystopia represents artificially created world or society in which human population lives under the rule of the oppressive government.
Sound familiar?
Progress is movement toward a goal.
What is the goal of Progressives?
A perfect society, a utopia.
Who decides what is perfect?
Progressives believe government decides.
The Conservative Utopia is freedom.
The Progressive Utopia is a government controlled society, which experience shows us, ex. Communist Russia, Communist China, is a dystopia.
We “reactionaries” want to conserve the revolution of 1776. From our POV so-called “progressives” are the real reactionaries against revolutionary absence of “nobles” and government-imposed thought systems.