re: #636 Mad Al-Jaffee

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who called themselves “progressive” who wasn’t very far left.

Left and right aren’t simply scalar values, where if you go left enough you’re ‘progressive’. Progressivism is close to a counterpart to reactionarianism; Teddy Roosevelt was progressive.

It’s main coherent meaning is seeking reform of laws based on the idea that modernization has changed society and government; that, for example, the modern scale of capitalism has fundamentally changed the outputs of capitalism and its interaction with the political system.