Next Update: Understanding the Progressive Movement
Oh, I really can't wait for this! Say what you want about politics, and I don't care where you fall on the spectrum ... the idea that "conservative" ALWAYS means favoring traditional policies/opposing change and "progressive" always means advancing society forward/abolishing age-old intolerance is disgustingly story-book and doesn't jive with history. The progressive movement of the early Twentieth Century, for example, had more than its fair share of racist thought.
What do you think the terms "conservative" and "progressive", in the sense of a dichotomy, mean, then?
And Mechaman won't be writing in the sense of a dichotomy, FYI (to my knowledge). Rather, he'll likely pose that progressivism was merely a softer and more proactive form of conservatism designed to curb more radical movements. And for Mechaman, paternalism is a big part of the right. Thus, racist progressives in his eyes will be no better than out-and-out conservatives in their placement on any sort of political matrix.
Just my guess, anyway. If Mech feels any impetus to post here again, he's free to contradict my musings.
Yeah pretty much, though I would argue that the term would later be distorted beyond it's original meaning by some liberals who adopted the term as a means to advance social welfare.
More on that later. Later hopefully being before the hammer falls down on me.
