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Originally Posted by Guest
Could you please take a moment and define clearly what you consider a PROGRESSIVE ?
You use the term in almost every post and I am trying to grasp who you refer to.
You do not say liberal, or Democrat....you say PROGRESSIVE.
Not sure who you are criticizing actually.
I am trying to define the terms thrown around here including alt right, conservative, liberal, etc. You use this term almost exclusively and just want to understand.
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One person`s response and a bit of inconvenient history :
The term " Progressive " actually was introduced during and by the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson who was a Dem and extremely liberal .
As the President of Princeton he continued the proud tradition of the University as a school for Upper Class Whites Only .
The use of the word Progressive was first associated with the then popular philosophy of the benefit to society of the practice of " Eugenics " which advocated racial purity and the forced sterilization of citizens who were born with genetic defects and physical or mental shortcomings of any type .
US President Wilson initially as a professor and then the President of Princeton was an outspoken advocate for these practices and in addition the philosophy disapproved of inter-racial marriage and sought to make it universally illegal .
In fact, he authored or co-authored a book on this subject and while at Princeton he gave many talks advocating the practice of Human Genetics .
Today there is a huge dilemma at Princeton as some are advocating the removal of President Wilson`s name from any building at the University but are faced with the notion that this man was after-all the President of the US and played a huge role in the diplomacy associated with WW ! .
You just may have had the horrid thought that the above sounds quite a bit like the Nazi`s and the answer is correct there is a relationship between the early thinking of " The Progressives " and the early philosophy and beliefs of the Nazi Party .
P.S. Now for all of the high IQ experts on this site who like to pretend that they are from Missouri and say to me " show me " , I say do your own research .