What makes you progressive?
I don't know what your ideals are but progressivism seems to have been co-opted by statists who want to exert control over everyone else's lives and who want to punish and censor those that disagree with their purported ideals. They purport to want freedom and human rights for everyone but are gleeful when the power of the state impedes the freedoms and rights of those they disagree with. Progressives in Canada clapped like trained seals when the Canadian government shut down the bank accounts of protesting truckers, demeaned everyone who supported the cause as racists and nazis. Supported mandatory vaccination and financial surveillance in order to ensure everyone stayed in line. These are the ideals of the modern progressive (Is this really the kind of folks you align with?). I appreciate what folks like you and Jason Maier are trying to do to not make Bitcoin simply a partisan right leaning issue and maybe you guys want to expand the worldview of modern progressives to actually care about important things like financial inclusion and property rights but I doubt you are going to get much support from your fellow progressives. Certainly not progressive politicians who can use "progressive" policy to expand the state and further entrench their own power.
Thanks! Eventually someone is articulating a thought. :) I agree with almost everything you say.
progressivism seems to have been co-opted by statists who want to exert control over everyone else's lives and who want to punish and censor those that disagree with their purported ideals
In certain countries there are certainly signs of this happening. Nonetheless, this means that we need to retake control of what progressivism actually means and fight for its political implementation.
I personally find myself quite aligned with the ideas of the so called social liberalism "that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited government and an overall more laissez-faire style of governance" (from the Wikipedia entry for "Social liberalism").
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It's difficult to achieve "social liberalism" without granting the state an absurd amount of power.
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What is a mixed economy?
In your opinion who should decide what everyone civil and political rights are? And who should mediate if a person or group of persons disagrees with another group on what civil rights are?
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