Who can possibly be against progress, and how can stagnation or regression be better than progress? While many of us know that Progressivism has led to some of the most brutal, violent, oppressive regimes in the modern world, those who apply the term to themselves obviously do not see it in a negative way. Conservatives who still use that term in what they think is a derisive, negative, or insulting manner will watch their statist/progressive opponents laugh at them as they fall into the progressives’ trap.

The correct term should be “oppressive,” not “progressive,” because statist/progressive/totalitarian governments have to oppress individual freedom in order to force people to conform to the will of the state, which invariably just ends up in one form or another of enslavement, from confiscation and “redistribution” of earnings all the way up to gulags and show trials.

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