Twenty-First Century Liberals pride themselves in being Progressives. Liberal seems to have turned into a dirty word or an insult for them. They claim to believe in progress, so the reason for their preferred title, Progressive. Liberal or progressive, whatever label you use, a flattering, ill-grounded mythology is at the heart of this ideology.
Science and progress is the Progressive faith. They speak of progress of humanity and civilization as if we evolve as a human race. They believe the government is and should be based on scientific knowledge. Their system of government is a bureaucratic government and the administrative state, distant from the people and independent of politics.
Progressive faith in direct democracy makes the ideology something of a hilarious paradox. They advocate universal suffrage, no matter how uninformed or uneducated a voter is, and the direct popular election of all elected officials, including the President. They introduced ballot initiatives, referenda, and direct popular vote on State Constitutional Amendments by the people, among other things, to give more of a legislative role to the people. These forms of direct democracy, no matter how well-intentioned they were, greatly threatens our national survival.
Progressives believe our problems and the issues of the day require a larger central government. They tell us only the Federal Government could eradicate poverty, alleviate suffering, raise our quality of life, end the long history of racism in the United States, and improve society and our living conditions. They tell us to surrender our rights, liberty, and our very being to them and give power to them without limit, and they will perform miracles. This leads to another Progressive belief the experts know best, have the expertise, and should have full power to create a great society.
The Progressives hope to translate their vision on to the global stage. They were instrumental in the creation of the United Nations for this purpose. Read the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and you will see Progressive ideals, written in the document. They push for the creation of a world government with full possible power to remake, rebuild, and transform the world into a global utopia. Progressives are both Marxists and globalists.
