The progressive goal is "progress" in generating a new version of human nature.
That's exactly what it is. That's why Saul Alinsky dedicated his masterwork to Lucifer.
“Conservatives say that they are ready to fight Obama on the still-looming federal borrowing limit. They had better be ready to take it all the way and actually start shutting down the government. The second-term Obama on display in the “fiscal cliff” fight looks like a man perfectly willing to do exactly that.”