[jude24]

Well, the reason I was a 16 was largely because the questions were false dichotomies where I had to pick yes or no - and I'm more progressive (in the old-style sense) than libertarian.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

and I'm more progressive (in the old-style sense) than libertarian. ~~ jude24

Why?

What is Biblically virtuous about Teddy-Roosevelt "Old-Style Progressivism"?

• Breaking up economically-efficient Trust Companies, which provided Wage-Paying Jobs to poor people who would have otherwise starved?

• Or maybe sectioning off prime Natural-Parklands to the Federal Government, who consistently lease off the acreage to Strip-Miners and Clear-Cutters at lower rates of return than that of State Parks and Private Parks (which do a better job of protecting the resource)?

• Or maybe it's that whole "Manifest Destiny", "White-Man's Burden" thing -- the Progessive Aim of bringing "American-Style Democracy", by Force if Necessary, to the benighted peoples of the Third World. YEAH, from Woodrow Wilson to Bush Junior, that Plan has worked really well. RIGHT-O.

When has "Progressivism" -- Old-Style, New-Style, Whatever-Style -- ever failed to make things worse?

Best, OP