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These things I assumed you knew.
Where would I go to find them? Or is it just something which is "in the air" or extropalated from the latest Indy rock hits?
Does progressivism have any basic and immutable principles? What are they?
Making politics or policy out of a vague desire for things to be nicer is commendable (I think), but it's a quick road to being co-opted.
When someone says some action or policy is "progressive" what do you check it against to see if that's true. Or does anything which makes you feel good, there and then become progressive.
Oh BTW, who gets the short end of the stick under progressive government. Or are you going to say that no-one does? Okay, sure. Who gets the shaft under progressivism, or is it just Utopianism, without the sex and drugs?
