Everytime I hear the word “progressive” used in the context of liberals it makes me want to spit. What is progressive about higher taxes, abortion, gun control and cheerleading for homosexuals?
Everytime I hear the word “progressive” used in the context of liberals it makes me want to spit. What is progressive about higher taxes, abortion, gun control and cheerleading for homosexuals?
Absolutely nothing....
It’s Orwellian newspeak. By stealing that term, they set up in the mind of the listener/reader that their ideas are for progress, all others are for regress. It not only eliminates the argument of what is the “best” change to make, it eliminates the argument of whether any change is necessary. If the clock isn’t broken, don’t fix it. But Leftists constantly take apart a good clock until it doesn’t work, then blame the designer (the Founding Fathers), the engineers (business), the manufacturer (working/middle class), and the consumer (the free-market system) for the broken clock.
They then try to convince them that they can build a better clock and call that “progressive.”
I hate the mis-use of that word, “progressive”. Cancer is progressive too. It that a good thing?