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I don’t understand the progressive mindset

Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:59 pm
Posted by TulaneFan
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2008
14037 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:59 pm
How can anybody look at the U.S. Government and say:

“Gee, these guys are doing such a good job! We should give up more of our rights so the federal government can grow even more powerful, because they have our best interest in mind!”
Posted by td01241
Savannah
Member since Nov 2012
22849 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:00 pm to
You’re not supposed to. You’re normal and well adjusted.
Posted by Gaggle
Member since Oct 2021
5621 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:00 pm to
Evil people at the top
Broken people at the bottom
Posted by Isaiahprophet
Member since Jun 2022
248 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:02 pm to
The left have always had ideals that aren't practical. That's their problem. They are irrational, emotion motivated humans who can't understand nuance and cannot accomplish what their unrealistic ideals pursue. Some of their ideals are.good. most are bad. But they don't know how to implement even their good ideas with rational, practical governance.
Posted by Rip Torn
Member since Mar 2020
2286 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:08 pm to
In general people who subscribe to liberal philosophies are younger, immature, with little to no life experience or they have been sheltered their entire life from the real World.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20405 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:12 pm to
I can’t wrap my mind around how people support it, especially the radicals. I mean, how can they honestly believe that horse shite? Can’t people think rationally and use common sense anymore? Has the modern education system robbed them of that ability?
Posted by Isaiahprophet
Member since Jun 2022
248 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:15 pm to
Yes. The culture has been purposely dumbed down, by many means. Schools are just one way. The entertainment, the food, the toothpaste... It all has the effect of dumbing down the masses, which is dangerous because most are only of moderate or poor intelligence in the first place. If people still talked today how we talked in this country a hundred years ago, many people wouldn't even comprehend what they were saying.
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
71916 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:15 pm to
Seems to me they believe we have a democracy that they control, and they want that control so they can force everyone to think like they think. But, as someone said, they're too young and ignorant to understand that we don't live in a democracy where the mob gets to step on the rest.
Posted by JetDawg
Los Angeles, California
Member since Oct 2020
7241 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:26 pm to
I do. I understand it easily and completely. It's Marxist. It's evil. It's destructive. It's anti-God. It's demonic.
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 7:27 pm
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:29 pm to
Able minded people don’t understand the disease of mental illness, called Progressivism.
Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
44875 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:37 pm to
If you replace the word progressive with communist or Marxist, it makes a lot more sense.
Posted by beachdude
FL
Member since Nov 2008
5648 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:42 pm to
What are they “progressing” towards? What is so bad about American society in the last 50 years that one somehow thinks that radical change is necessary? If it’s such a bad place that needs to “progress”, why do so many people try to come here? Why do our opponents (and many of our friends) envy us and fear us? Why is it that most everywhere I go in America I meet honest, decent, hardworking, and for the most part happy people? What do the ideologues want to progress to?
Posted by NashvilleTider
Your Mom
Member since Jan 2007
11378 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:46 pm to
I’ve been reading DU to try to understand them - the main problem is they are getting all their news from msnbc - they live in an alternate reality. And they will never venture to a right leaning news source to get a different perspective.
I think they are mainly sad miserable people
Posted by Zap Rowsdower
MissLou, La
Member since Sep 2010
13267 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:48 pm to
Just have to remember your typical prog was probably a loser in high school and college (if they made it there to begin with); they’ve got this mentality that it’s really been others (especially those that come from a small town) holding them back and not their own dumbass decisions and have such an inferiority complex that it morphs into some kind of weird superiority complex where they think they’re better than the rest of us plebes because they hold the same viewpoint celebrities (the ultimate popular kids) and the media dish out and use it like some kind of security blanket. Parroting what they hear on tv and social media makes them vicariously get to be the popular kids they never had the opportunity to.
Posted by jbird7
Central FL
Member since Jul 2020
5246 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:50 pm to
I was having a political conversation with a guy I see at the local pool I swim at this last week. He’s a good guy but he’s def a progressive lib. He honestly thinks Biden isn’t anyway responsible for high gas prices or the record high inflation. I was just mind blown at how someone can sit there and think that. Even after relaying facts to him he still didn’t want to believe it. I just changed the subject and talked to him about something else. Some people will believe what they want to believe no matter what. And those same people will def will never admit that they’re wrong.
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 7:51 pm
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15664 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:57 pm to
You must have a triple digit IQ. Most progstains are stupid and/or crazy.
Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Member since Jul 2019
4408 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 8:01 pm to
It’s a spiteful mindset driven by a desire to punish those they look to with seething envy (usually wealth driven but can even be anger towards those who just appear to have “happy lives”).

You have a lot of younger idealistic college age self styled intellectuals who believe they (of course) will someday be among the Marxist utopian leadership and will (rightfully) live as part of the ruling class due to their intelligence, lol.

Then you have others who hold no such fantasies but are happier than pigs in mud to imagine everyone knocked down to their own level and will happily follow anyone they believe will accomplish that task for them.
Posted by burger bearcat
Member since Oct 2020
8867 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 8:21 pm to
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Then you have others who hold no such fantasies but are happier than pigs in mud to imagine everyone knocked down to their own level and will happily follow anyone they believe will accomplish that task for them.



I think this is right on the money. Progressivism and Marxism at its heart is about vengeance, it is not at all about making for good communities and healthy families. Most progs are just happy with the destruction as long as everyone else can be as miserable as they are. Then you have the elites at the top who actually benefit from it all, they are much more conniving and malicious.
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 8:22 pm
Posted by Bass Tiger
Member since Oct 2014
46151 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 8:32 pm to
quote:

How can anybody look at the U.S. Government and say:

“Gee, these guys are doing such a good job! We should give up more of our rights so the federal government can grow even more powerful, because they have our best interest in mind!”




The vast majority of Groomers can’t agree on the definition of what’s a woman. Is it any wonder why the US is in complete disarray?
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
60063 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 8:35 pm to
You're not going to. Seeking to find reason among the unreasonable is a fool's errand.
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