The trouble with broad and sweeping labels is that none seem to fit. The "left" has not been the least bit liberal for many years and calling them progressive is meaningless. Progress toward what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. Is the "right" conservative? Conserve what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. …
The trouble with broad and sweeping labels is that none seem to fit. The "left" has not been the least bit liberal for many years and calling them progressive is meaningless. Progress toward what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. Is the "right" conservative? Conserve what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. As I mentioned in another comment, depending upon the individual issue, some would try to assign me to a political tribe, but it would be a lie since I don't check all the boxes on any tribe's statement of ideology.
There are traditional progressive causes like wealth equality, opposition to racism, environmental preservation. But the punch has a dead rat floating in it now as progressivism has come to be identified with grievances and by people who are looking for attention to themselves more than by better lives for all.
Take feminism. Please. What started out as a movement with measurable and tangible goals like wage equality—and achieved some progress toward those goals—quickly became a movement of grievance. where progress couldn't ever be claimed or measured.
When it comes to wage equality I am an ardent feminist; when it comes to "eliminating patriarchal attitudes" I'm not interested. I will continue to advocate for metrical progress but then I don't give a damn about definitions with broad consensus as having more functional utility.
The trouble with broad and sweeping labels is that none seem to fit. The "left" has not been the least bit liberal for many years and calling them progressive is meaningless. Progress toward what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. Is the "right" conservative? Conserve what? Opinions vary if it is to something good or bad. As I mentioned in another comment, depending upon the individual issue, some would try to assign me to a political tribe, but it would be a lie since I don't check all the boxes on any tribe's statement of ideology.
There are traditional progressive causes like wealth equality, opposition to racism, environmental preservation. But the punch has a dead rat floating in it now as progressivism has come to be identified with grievances and by people who are looking for attention to themselves more than by better lives for all.
Take feminism. Please. What started out as a movement with measurable and tangible goals like wage equality—and achieved some progress toward those goals—quickly became a movement of grievance. where progress couldn't ever be claimed or measured.
When it comes to wage equality I am an ardent feminist; when it comes to "eliminating patriarchal attitudes" I'm not interested. I will continue to advocate for metrical progress but then I don't give a damn about definitions with broad consensus as having more functional utility.