Exactly. Real human progress is forward, not backward. America has always been a nation of positive incremental progress -- if there's a problem, someone builds a solution and brings it to market.
"Progressives" are sentimental idealists, always looking for some idyllic time in the past or the future. They cannot come to terms with reality as it now is and build improvements patiently. They have to destroy, not build. .
“”Progressives” are sentimental idealists, always looking for some idyllic time in the past or the future.”
....that never really existed, and never will.
“Progressives” are sentimental idealists
Except for those that are actually “Oppressives”,
and seek to dominate and control their fellow humans.