The left wins because they will settle for incremental gains on their journey. Our side insists on purity and uses purity as litmus tests. We’d rather lose 80/20 and say we stood for our principals.
They’re “progressive” because they’re always marching in the direction of their purity, and have done better than us in the last two generations. Perhaps we should take a page from their playbook.
Good observation: our modern conservatives forgot that patience is a virtue.
It is a humbling truth that because of the original sin — the fall in Eden — this world always will have some evil in it. That’s why God has to do away with both our earthly bodies and this world to make room for a permanent heaven. In the meantime, having accepted the divine proffer of salvation, we gather all the goodness we can from God and press against the evil, knowing that what we will get is progress against it but, in fact, never perfection in this mortal coil.
What calls itself progressive today scored a P.R. coup by the name. By looking to progress, the left at least kept a grasp upon the virtue of patience.