~Progressive~ is a positive word.  I don`t think anyone considers their path regressive.
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The issue is what you are progressing toward.  Is the goal an improvement or not?
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Again, in your mind you believe it is an improvement.
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But that is subjective.  If you consider only yourself and people who agree with you then you have to be a progressive (in your own mind).
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Back to what you are progressing toward.  Is it <b>really</b> an improvement?
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To determine the truth you have to be objective and look at facts.
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1. Fact:  A progressive parent that passifies their child as a matter of course ends up spoiling the child.
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2. Fact: A progressive government which hands out money to unproductive people guarantees their nonproductivity.
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3. Fact: A progressive government which spends more than it  takes in will go bankrupt.
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4. Fact:  A progressive government which opens its borders will be overrun by riff-raff from other countries.
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I could go on but my point is that if we require objectively measurable <b>positive</b> results in order to claim ~progressive~ we see that the term is currently being used as a mask for the very opposite of progress.
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Use of the word ~progressive~ is just an example of WordHijacking by the Left .
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Progress is not always a good thing.
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The cancer has progressed to his kidneys.
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The termites have progressively destroyed the house.
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They are making progressing speedily toward the barricade.
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He has progressed from the ignorance of religion to agnosticism to atheism.
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He made good progress wasting the fortune he inherited.
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We are making progress on the national debt.  It is still increasing.
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We are making progress eliminating nationalism.
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We are making progress toward socialism.
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We are making progress undermining the Constitution.
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We are making progress converting the religious young into atheists.
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We are making progress fragmenting our society.
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You see the ugliness of Progressive when the target or goal is evil.
