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Great minds think alike and think for those who will not think<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 29 October 2021 ~ Are Progressives Progressively Less Progressive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my pursuit of all things bright and beautiful, which is about as hopeful and hopeless as the quest for the Holy Grail, I read all sorts of things from all sorts of news media sources, some more dubious than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was how I came across a media outlet of which before I was blissfully ignorant, in which the contributors continually refer to themselves and their ilk using the self-elevating term \u2018progressive\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like a bit of back-slapping aggrandisement to you? Yes, me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is the definition of \u2018progressive\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first definition I encountered was this: \u201chappening or developing gradually or in stages\u201d. And the example given was, “a progressive<\/strong> decline in popularity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is interesting, because when we think of the term progressive in relation to the word progress, which I am sure is how \u2018progressives\u2019 use the term, we think of positive movement, of \u2018forward\u2019 and \u2018up\u2019, not, as in the example given, \u2018negative\u2019 and \u2018down\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if we allow ourselves a little latitude of thought, how many times have we heard the word \u2018progress\u2019 used ironically and\/or pejoratively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, a beautiful Victorian house is demolished to make way for a 1960s\u2019 block of concrete flats: \u2018That\u2019s progress!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or an old church or chapel is converted into a cattle-market nightclub: \u2018It\u2019s called progress\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From these examples alone, we can infer that \u2018progress\u2019 is like the small-print easily missed by the naive when entrusting their hard-earned cash to investments on the stock market ~ \u2018The price of shares may change quickly, and they may go down as well as up\u2019 ~ and that by extension, progressives, who see themselves wholly in a saintly and hallowed light, up there on a pedestal, can also belong to the twilight world, down there in the deluding shadows of fanatical devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in simple, layman\u2019s terms, what is this thing that calls itself progressive? In language other than complimentary, you or I would probably be tempted to say that progressive is just a fallacious synonym for the colloquialism ‘liberal-lefty’ and that the users of the misnomer have merely forgotten how the latter is spelt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are Progressives progressively less progressive?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The article that I chanced upon which goaded me to examine this aberration of linguistic etymology was published by an American online source, but there is no reason to suppose that the misapplication of the term ‘progressive’ is any less misapplied in Boris- as in Biden-land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article itself is not worth reading, so there is little point in referencing it, but the premise is a revealing one as it illustrates beautifully the way in which a progressive\u2019s mind works, or does not work as the case may be, and the way that as a group, progressives have no option but to conform to an ideological status quo that is about as liberal as a straightjacket. Succinctly put, the presumption is that  \u2018good progressives\u2019, \u2018good liberals\u2019, do what they are told to do, say what they are told to say and keep their minds shut whilst doing and saying it ~ although, as even the most cursory observation reveals, in average liberal circles (are there any others?) there is an awful lot more saying than actually doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you mean, you already know that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please, no heckling!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are Progressives progressively less progressive?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The story starts like this: Once upon a time in America there was a progressive living out his life in the New Restrictive Coronavirus Age. This progressive was thoroughly adjusted. He believed in and followed unquestioningly every rule and regulation handed down to him from the neoliberal globalists on high. Lockdowns, mask-wearing and vaccination in perpetuity were things that he subscribed to and, as is the way with liberal dogma, if he subscribed to them than everyone else in the world, or at least his world, must subscribe to them too, or else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loyal, devoted and brainwashed, this progressive nevertheless recognised that there are and would be dissenters, but the last place, the very last place, that he thought that he would find them was in the progressive heartland of the town from whence he hailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, when he discovered that a number, and quite a considerable number, of folk from the progressive place that he had once called home, contained people who, in spite of their ordainment, were ant-vaccine oriented, he was shocked to his liberal core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Are<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unthinkable as it was, a faction of the party faithful had turned their backs on the official narrative and instead of baahhing like sheep, \u2018Jab Today Pay-For-It Tomorrow\u2019, were standing together in opposition to enforced mass vaccination. What were these people thinking of? Why were these liberals thinking?!  Baaaahhhhh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devastated and confused, the author of this painful piece twists, writhes and hand wrings his way through something that is evidently quite beyond his comprehension. His fruitless journey takes him not in search of answers but in a desperate need to find an excuse, something, he hopes, which will look like a hook on which he can hang his confusion and leave it out to dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decree  handed down to loyal liberal subjects from the neoliberal globalists on high is as plain as the muzzle on your face: everyone should vaccinate and never cease vaccinating until either the word to halt is given or when common sense has been eclipsed and the Earth has frozen over, whichever happens first ~ and I think, children, we all know which of the two it will be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The progressive author of this progressive article openly admits, as if he is pinning a badge of honour to his rompers, that he has severed ties with people from the blighted town to which he refers \u2018because of their views on vaccines\u2019. By which he means views that do not expressly conform to his views and the ideological credos in which his views are parroted.  \u201cThanks for being my father, but I can no longer speak to or see you again because your views on enforced mass vaccination are different from mine. Your loveless, progressive son, A.W. Anchor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, throw my rattle out of my pram! A typical progressive reaction: do not agree with what you say, do not want to hear what you say, want to stick my fingers up, er, in my ears!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then asks (and note how illuminating this is about progressives!), I paraphrase: how can \u2018vaccine-hesitant progressives reconcile their decision not to vaccinate\u2019, presumably with a dogmatic, unyielding, inflexible ideology that says that they must<\/em> vaccinate. Here is the punch line: do they, progressives, ‘abandon progressivism and put personal choice first’?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, there you have it in a nuthouse: an either\/or situation. The implication is that personal choice is not something you can exercise if you want to be considered a good liberal and remain within the fold. (There are those sheep again!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to the self-illuminating manuscript: With no ladders in his progressive mind, the author of this curious work continues to slide down the slippery snake, until eventually, with nothing else to appease himself with and nowhere else to go, he lands on square one, which is occupied by a female liberal journalist. Unfortunately, this female progressive does not provide him with the answer that he so desperately wants to hear, but the frustrated witch hunt ends with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Englishman<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Poor, benighted, fallen-from-grace, gender-certain, female progressive ~ and you may all shake your heads sadly at this point ~ she does not see \u201cany disconnect between\u201d the progressive values she espouses and her willingness to lean towards the anti-vaccine lobby, which, as the media would have us believe, is a demoniacal cult that must be confined at all costs to the ghost town Conspiracy Theory, a town that they have conveniently buried many light years away in an arid socio-political wilderness, a town that bears, some say, more than a passing and chilling resemblance to Auschwitz, not least because of the motto raised high above the globalist gate: : \u2018Mass Vaccination will set You Free\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, hello there! Aren\u2019t you Enoch Powell?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGo! Hence from here, forthwith. This is no place for progressives!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

{The sound of sheep can be heard in the background.}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This poor outcast of a woman becomes, in one fell swoop, the personification of the liberal paradox: a first-class liberal who yet possesses enough resilience and independence of mind not to cow-toe to stereotyping mandates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To excuse, pardon and absolve this pathetic creature is more than clemency can brook. In Victorian times they would have had her committed. In days of yore they would have burnt her at the stake. But in 2021, the next best thing is to cast aspersions on her ideological credentials and curse her for eternity. Should she ever have the temerity to air her heresies again, she can be sure of falling foul of those juvenile snotty-nosed know-nothings who play at politics in university cr\u00e8ches, known as student unions ~ led in the UK, naturally, by Oxford ~ and, with the help of the  \u2018ban them, bar them, block them\u2019 social media mafia, will suffer herself to be finally hanged on the public deplatform of her own making. And doesn’t it serve her right! The deviating Bitch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus for all their progressiveness, progressives, it would seem, are not so progressive as to eschew ritual or to emancipate themselves from thoughts and actions that repeatedly define them as tedious and predictable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when neoliberals, those saints, those Gods on high ~ you know who I am talking about, the billionaire philanthropists, technology tycoons and the super-rich banking families ~ throw crumbs from their banqueting table, their otherwise submerged progressive pets obediently rise from the depths where no thoughts of their own are allowed to exist and gobble up what\u2019s tossed to them, hook, line and sinker. This is the liberal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like fish in a fish farm they mindlessly swallow everything that is fed to them, mistaking the net that draws them in as their masters’ reward for loyalty rather than see it for what it is, and all the while the clock ticks down to the hour of harvest festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Progressive<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, therefore, the article submitted by the angst-ridden progressive is nothing more than a touch of seismic disbelief: \u2018How could this possibly be?’ ‘How dare they think out of the box?’ ‘How dare these liberals think?’ ‘How dare they?’ ‘Just how dare they?’ ‘How?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this your last word on the subject?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not grant that privilege to Nigel Farage. He’s really rather good where last words are concerned, and if anyone can put a full stop to this, then surely he is the man! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farage: Western leaders’ Covid policy pushing us to a two-tier society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright [Text] \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Related posts:<\/strong>
Tracking World Vaccination with the Prickometer<\/a>
I have had my Covid vaccine<\/a>
UK Lockdown! a new and exciting board game!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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