“They are Progressives.”
NO THEY ARE NOT PROGRESSIVES!
I hate that word.
They are REGRESSIVES! They want to re-institute the old authoritarian past where tyrants and kings ruled the land and people belonged to the ruler and were not free.
I wish people would not use the word progressives since the true progressives were the Founding Fathers to devise a new style of government that recognized the people as sovereign and not the other way around.
(and Nazis)
>>NO THEY ARE NOT PROGRESSIVES!
>>I hate that word.
>>They are REGRESSIVES! They want to re-institute the old authoritarian past where tyrants and kings ruled the land and people belonged to the ruler and were not free.
>>I wish people would not use the word progressives since the true progressives were the Founding Fathers to devise a new style of government that recognized the people as sovereign and not the other way around.
You are wrong. They are “Progressives” because they see themselves as a movement to change humanity by “progressing” us to a higher level, the New Man. They have called themselves Progressives for a full century, so for communications purposes, we use their own term. Calling them “Regressives” (which they don’t think they are because they see those old authoritarian days as something that “Old Man” did) is just name-calling and prevents any possibility of conversation.
On a superficial level, they seem to be succeeding in changing minds (Millennials), but the hypocrisy of their movement is exposed in how these “New Men” choose to interact—by resorting to “old Man”, authoritarianism.
Don’t get mad at the word. Use it. Show them their hypocrisy.
Note: the Founding Fathers were progressive, but were not Progressives. You can see this by the Bill of Rights. They understood that the nature of Man would not change in the new nation and they put safeguards in place to keep the old European lust for power in check. A Progressive foolishly believes that you can change the nature of Man in the absence of divine action. This is why I call them Progressives, as they wish, because it proves the folly of their beliefs.