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It was progressives who outlawed booze. Don't retcon that word to mean "whatever I approve of today."
by mynameishere 4y ago
It was progressives who outlawed booze. Don't retcon that word to mean "whatever I approve of today."
- gen220 4y agoI think we’re using different definitions of “progressive”. I’m using the dictionary definition “favoring liberal ideas”. I think you’re referring to big-P “Progressive”? Regardless of whether the temperance movement identified itself as “progressive” or which political party germinated it, prohibition is not a liberal idea: restricting the liberty to consume alcohol is not an expansion of freedom. The policy was bundled into the nominally “Progressive” platform of the 20th Century, but that doesn’t make it a progressive policy. North Korea and the Congo are nominally Democratic Republics, but their claiming the name doesn’t change the definition of democracy or republic.