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So the crypto currency people who support Trump aren't progressive or does it only count as the progress is in a direction you like? If this is an unprecedented
by shkkmo 2y ago
So the crypto currency people who support Trump aren't progressive or does it only count as the progress is in a direction you like? If this is an unprecedented constitutional crisis as so many keep claiming, how is that 'conservative'?
The 'left' isn't a rigorously defined term, so it is pretty hard to make a tautological argument like you are implying.
- jhbadger 2y agoLibertarian capitalists like crypto currency fans idolize capitalism without any government regulations. That isn't anything new -- that was what we had in the late 19th/early 20th century when "robber barons" like John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had free reign and workers had few rights. It's regression to return to that "Gilded Age".
- bee_rider 2y agoBecause these things aren’t rigorously defined it is helpful to follow the convention rather than to go to the dictionary definition of a similar word. I mean surely you wouldn’t say something along the lines of “I often see socialists who aren’t invited to many parties, so are they really social?”
- shkkmo 2y agoWhile "Socialist" has a relatively specific meaning, "progressive" has a much wider variety of similar meanings, which definitely include the usage I indicated, without any need for recourse to the related word "progress". Attempting to now restrict the word "progressive" to just one of its meanings in a politically biased way reeks of newspeak style attempts to control what people can express.
- bee_rider 2y agoWell, I’m fine with definitions-as-description, but it doesn’t really leave me any room to call you wrong. All I can say is that I’ve never encountered anybody else who uses your definition.