To be fair, I do see a lot wrong with the progressive movement, just ask me about gun control, GMO hate, and nuclear power, but that makes a lot of sense since progressivism is forced to be a single party event in this country.
There are two general approaches to political change, the desire for something new or the desire for something old. Conservatives are by definition regressive. They wish for stasis or regression. Progressives are the other side, they wish for change and progress towards something new.
The problem is that there are many possible futures but we all share a past. It makes sense to have a single conservative party. However, in order to counter that you need a concerted effort to balance it, and that’s a problem because progressives can’t agree as easily as conservatives because there are many possible futures, some of which are mutually exclusive.
For example, I want to see a future with nuclear reactors and the freedom to own weapons. My reasoning isn’t relevant to this comment. The fact is that many progressives do not.
Now conservatives may disagree on which elements of the past to keep and how far back to emulate, but those difference are much easier to reconcile. Progressivism of any stripe is always going to be at a disadvantage in this context all else being equal.
My point is to prove that it isn’t logical to lump “liberals” together like it is to do so with conservatives, because of the shared past, divergent future, dichotomy.
That said, if any party is more guilty of ignoring facts it’s the conservative party (or conservative elements within progressive parties) since there are reasons we abandoned elements of the past when we did so.
Granted not all of them were valid and good reasons but for the most part we had good cause, at least at the time.
The right wing (be they overt or covert) in this country is completely fact immune on a whole slew of issues ranging from economics to climatology to sociology. When they aren’t simply lying for power on behalf of their 1% owners or pathological greed.
Basically we need a depth of process reform that simply isn’t going to happen prior to the singularity. And what I am hoping for is internal changes to the one party that overtly stands for change. Since currently the ship of state is headed for a waterfall.
Letting the 1% try to keep ALL the money is just insane. It will destroy the country. Though of course the wealthy can always just fly away. Realizing that they are a pathology at the systemic level is the first step towards finding an ethical cure.
That as opposed to merely executing them, French revolution style, which is perfectly possible given how few people we’re talking about here. And I should also point out that if this ever becomes the position of the government, there’s no where to run as our drone strikes have shown.
The opposite is not true I’m quick to add. They simply couldn’t win a war vs the rest of us.
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