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Quick read on the quicksand under Progressive feet

BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 6,178 Standard Supporter
I have read this gentleman's stuff for a number of years. He is no Conservative (hates Trump and writes opinions for Newsweek) but in most cases he is fair. The article has many revealing stats but it just highlights the pitfalls of extreme power over the people socialists/marxists. At some point your average American (80% of the country's population) is going to say fuck you to the far left agenda because it is destroying their security and their future.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-middle-class-rebellion-against-progressives-is-gaining-steam-opinion/ar-AAKGpvT

A Middle Class Rebellion Against Progressives Is Gaining Steam | Opinion

A specter is haunting America, a great revolt that threatens to dwarf the noxious rebellion led by Trump. The echoes of a another potentially larger pushback can already be heard in progressive America. But it's not towards socialism, as many suggest. It's the opposite: a new middle-class rebellion against the excesses of the Left.

This new middle-class rebellion isn't rejecting everything that progressives stand for; the Left's critique of neo-liberal excess is resonating, as is the need for improved access to health care. But the current focus on "systemic racism," coupled with a newfound and heavily enforced cultural conformism and the obsessive focus on a never-ending litany of impending "climate emergences" are less likely to pass muster with most of the middle class, no matter how popular they are with the media, academics, and others in the progressive corner.

racial quotas, in hiring or in college admissions, are unpopular with three out of four Americans, including African-Americans and Hispanics; 65% of Hispanics, 62% of black Americans and 58% of Asians oppose affirmative action in college admissions.

Major pushback on how the progressive Left sees American history is also brewing. Americans by and large remain patriotic, including the poor and working class. This patriotism stands in stark contrast to the prevailing view among progressives, which casts America as the intrinsically and irredeemably evil spawn of slaveholders and racists. This simply does not constitute a popular program to the middle and lower classes, a gap that could become more and more meaningful—especially as the message of the Left spreads.
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