Progressivism is just Marxism in fake democratic clothing and just as bad or worse than Nazism for most people, except for the Jews for whom Nazism was far worse.
Progressive ideals have little to do with science and democracy.
Science and democracy rest on reason, progressive ideal like DEI, open borders, transgenderism is stuff inspired by Marxism, the anti religion “”religion”.
Marxism is based on the irrational idea that society is divided in two groups; capitalists and proletarians, oppressors and oppressed. In some ways is just like religion, irrationally and simplistically dividing people into “good” and “bad”, “virtuous” and “sinners”.
Reality is more complex; the same person, even the same behavious can be good in some situations and bad in others, even killing is like that.
No wonder that when irrational Marxists try to apply irrational Marxism to society it turns into an abject failure, worse even than when the Church run society and even worse than supremacist Islam.
Marxism has caused the deaths of far more humans than slavery, wars, human sacrifice in all of modern history.
Like religion, Marxism rests on the idea “revealed” to “messiah” Marx that human society is intrinsically evil. Not only that, he focused on Western Capitalist Democratic societies as the only evil.
Capitalists “exploited and oppressed” all humans in their own countries and the colonies.
The idiot was unable to see that Capitalism and all the inventions it produced; like electricity, lightbulbs, steam engine, gasoline and diesel motors, the telephone, radio, radar, airplanes, modern medicine, moderm farming, trains, cars, internet, clothes washers, refrigerators, air conditioners, rockets and orher advances have done the most to lift humans out of misery and death, and they are mostly the products of individuals with the freedom to initiate new business and with money they or other capitalists provided.
In fact, the whole World is in the process of being civilized by Capitalism and democracy.
Even China had to throw out economic Marxism and its even nuttier derivative, Maoism.
Unfortunately, the Chinese of the Mainland have not figured out yet that to achieve long term prosperity and stability the Chinese people also need freedom and democracy. The Chinese of Taiwan have figured that out.
Please, do not include progressivism with freedom and democracy.
We saw it clearly during the Biden administration and with Starmer and Trudeau. Not that conservatives are much better, at least those who still support Trump like in the day they voted for him.
Progressivism is totalitarian because it is Marxism in disguise; it pursues the Marxist goal of destroying bourgeois democracy to implant Marxism.
In fact, psychologically, Marxists are very similar to religious fanatics, as much or more than the deranged Moslem supremacists; both are convinced they have The Truth.
Judaism, Christianity share the same core but Greek thought brought about the Renaissance and the Enlightenment which obviously did not penetrate Marx’s and Engels’ thick skulls but penetrated those of European Christians and European Jews. Sadly, it has not reached most Moslems yet.
What we really need is not progressivism, we need more democracy and more capitalism, which is what the Swiss did in the 1800s.
They decided then that ordinary citizens would be the final authority over the politicians and iver any law or policy they produce.
The Swiss also decided the supreme court of the land will have no jurisdiction over political matters, that on such matters, including the constitution, the people are the final authority.
They also decided the people will exercise their suprem powers by initiating referendums and by having the Constitution mandate popular referendums, with the results of such referendums being binding and final, until another referendum changes or invalidates the results.
That is why Switzerland is the most democratic nation in the World (never mind the elitist shenanigans of the Economist, IDEA, Freedom House and others placing countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark as more democratic and freer than the Swiss people.
How can they be so if they have far less power and freedom to decide their fate? Precisely because it is more democratic, Switzerland is also the most stable.
Swiss real democracy has produced the best, most rational results, for ordinary Swiss ( highest take home pay than even in the US, Japan, all of Europe, best 100% universal health care in the World, cleanest, orderly, stable, safe, great and affordable education, etc.), but also for the rich from Switzerland and foreign rich residents, (all know Switzerland is the safest place for their money)
So, if you consider yourself progressive because you consider capitalism bad in most democracies, you are right, but the problem is most formal democracies are not such thing but elitist oligarchs, and their capitalism is fake capitalism because it is in the hands of elitist capitalists who often control the politicians.
So, if you want real democracy, real freedom and also prosperity, do not look at progressive or conservative ideology, look at the ideas and practices behind the Swiss system.
