Since when is “progressive” a pejorative term? Why is that? What’s wrong with being OK with, say, moving from fossil fuels to wind or solar energy, or opening a path for people to vote, or funding meal programs at schools, or making it possible for many more people to acquire health insurance, or following through on payments from Social Security that were, in the first place, paid into with the expectation of receiving financial sustenance once retired?
What’s so bad and scary about differing sexual identities, or simply caring for people who need a helping hand for a bit? Is “regressive” the logical opposite, the way to go? Backwards movement and neglect—is this the golden ring that we should be reaching for?
The height of irony, one could argue, is that those who critique progressive policy are often the vociferous “Christians” among us who apparently have a different understanding of what love is.
We should all be tired of being labeled. But I suppose if we downplayed certain words, we’d just come up with different ones.
Change is hard.
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