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My experience suggests most progressives don’t realize that: - they tend to be young; - political activists who have done nothing else; - or drug addicts. I
by bopbeepboop 5y ago
My experience suggests most progressives don’t realize that:
- they tend to be young;
- political activists who have done nothing else;
- or drug addicts.
I can count on my fingers the number of serious progressives I’ve met who aren’t one of those things during my entire life in Seattle.
The “progressive” movement is why we have addicts encamped at a school — they’re so out of touch with reality, they view that as “compassion”.
Meanwhile, most adults realize police sweeps don’t solve homelessness, but they do prevent violent drug addicts leaving used needles all over the children’s playground.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago>The “progressive” movement is why we have addicts encamped at a school — they’re so out of touch with reality, they view that as “compassion”. I would not classify that as progressivism. Things like voting rights and ranked choice voting, progressive taxation, environmental protection, increasing educational opportunities for all, more nutritional options for food at schools, access to mental and all other healthcare, etc would fall under progressivism in my book. Of course, I'm not the arbiter of what is and is not deemed progressive, but generally I was under the impression that the goals were to keep the bottom quintiles moving forward, not letting drug addicts establish camps on or near school grounds.
- bopbeepboop 5y agoThey call themselves Progressives here in Seattle, and purport to do those things you listed, but actually just destroyed our police force, left vagrants to camp at schools, and generally have destroyed the quality of life here in Seattle. Like most Marxist ideas, they claim Utopia and deliver Dystopia.