Progressives
America is an ideal. We have equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We believe liberty is more final than death. Believing we've achieved this ideal makes you inherently conservative. If you see the ideal as unmet and strive towards it, you're a progressive.Like conservatives, progressives believe in the American ideal. Some philosophy guides conservatives. We spent the last couple of weeks exploring Edmund Burke’s conservative approach. There is no one progressive philosopher. But even if progressives don’t have an underlying philosophy, they still have an ethos.The…
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