nihilismnoun
1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
4. Philosophy.
a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
b. nothingness or nonexistence.
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.
The author is apparently a congenital idiot.
Definition #5 perfectly describes the Progressive Movement though.
By the logic of his stated positions, the author appears to be a Gnostic-Progressive ideologue for whom reality is an illusion.
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5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a [Clinton/Obama] revolutionary group, active in the [early] half of the [21st] century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination. [Best expressed by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright]