[quote=briansd1]I’m a progressive who doesn’t want to upset the apple cart too much to achieve my social goals.
How do we get to enjoy the society we have today? It was progress little by little.[/quote]
Brian: Progress, little by little? Tell that to Susan B. Anthony, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr.
No, you’re dead wrong and obviously haven’t read your history. Progress has come in fits and starts and, in some cases, huge upheavals. Progressivism, by its very name, is the antithesis of incrementalism.
Further, your “Progressive” views, such as they are, stand at odds with actual Progressives, like those named above. No, what you advocate is more of a Leftist, confiscatory Big Government approach to “prosperity”, which isn’t possible and hasn’t happened in history. Hence, my use of the word “discursive” to describe your views.
One last thing: Conservative doesn’t mean “to conserve”. When you speak about “conserving back in time”, the word you should be using is “conservationist”, as in “one who conserves”. Conservatives don’t conserve, conservationists do.
