Woke Lunatics Aren't Really Progressives

The Word 'Progressive' is Very Loaded and Misleading

The Word 'Progressive' is one of the Most Misleading in Modern Political Discourse

The word 'progressive' perhaps had suffered the most from Western radical Woke Left, who had redefined it so drastically as to strip it of its original meaning almost completely, and weaponized it to serve their political cause. To see all the grand scale of this yet one more logical fraud of the Left we need to recall the original meaning of the word 'progressive' and to trace its evolution up to current toxic Woke usage of this word. In short, the meaning of the word 'progressive' had changed from someone who embraces positive societal change to someone who is radical Left, and that is pretty toxic and entirely incorrect.

Originally, the word 'progressive' meant embracing progress, e.g., change to the better, in any domain (scientific progress, technological progress, economical development, societal progress, etc.), as opposed both to regress, e.g., change to the worse, and to the status quo, e.g., no change. Later in the discourse of social sciences in the Western academia, the word 'progressive' began to denote people who embraced ANY change, not necessarily to the better (perhaps because it was hard to predict whether a particular change would be to the better or to the worse in the long run, after all), as opposed to maintaining status quo (not regress any more), and ONLY in societal domain (no doubt because social scientists deemed social domain the most important one).

So, the word 'progressive' due to this evolution of the term began to denote people who embraced social change, as opposed to conservatives, who wanted to maintain the status quo. This what already slightly redefining the original meaning, which had equated progress, e.g., change to the BETTER, with ANY change. This was already somewhat harmful, since it implied that even a change to the worse, regress (which somehow was gone out of discourse completely) is BETTER compared to maintaining of the status quo, and that was incorrect. This is I suppose how modern demonization of conservatives had started.

In our modern discourse, it was presented that to want a societal change is ALWAYS better than to maintain a status quo, and I strongly disagree with that. I believe that everything depends on which change and which status quo exactly are we speaking about. For example, I strongly believe that to maintain a status quo of liberal democracy with human rights respected is ALWAYS BETTER than a 'societal change' to totalitarianism where human rights don't matter and freedom doesn't even exist. However, if one believes that ANY change is a progress, and ANY status quo is bad, then one might believe that even a GOOD status quo (like liberal democracy) needs to be changed. Hence we had seen the rise of toxic Woke ideology which denounces our Western civilization of human rights and freedoms as 'systemically racist' and 'oppressive', and demands to radically change and even to upend and destroy it. See now where the redefining of the word 'progressive' had led?

Now, abovementioned Woke Left had redefined the word 'progressive' even further, to denote with it basically themselves. So now, all radical Left activists and politicians, from AOC and her Jihadist Squad, to Twitter trans radicals verbally abusing JK Rowling, were called 'progressives'. That was even more toxic than the first redefining. Yeah, in general Left wing politicians embrace societal change more, true, while right wingers are more conservative. However, change in general isn't the same as RADICAL change, and to equate them is very dangerous and toxic. Even more importantly, the agenda of modern radical Woke Left often has nothing to do with any progress, and with any societal change to the better indeed, but rather pretty dark, regressive and destructive.

For example, what's progressive in 'destigmatization of pedophilia'? Sure enough, it's a societal change, but DO WE NEED THIS KIND OF CHANGE? What's progressive in demonizing Israel and spreading of Anti-Semitic rhetoric? What's progressive in demonizing white people and restoring old racist views in new modern guise? That's not even bringing up of something new but rather returning to something old, and very toxic as such. That's rather regressive, not progressive.

Yet, those radical Left politicians and activists with their pretty toxic and dangerous, utterly nihilistic agenda define themselves as 'progressives'. Why? And here's the main Woke evil fraud at play. The Woke want to conflate the old meaning of 'progressive' as someone GOOD, who embraces a positive societal change, with their new definition of 'progressive' = radical Left. Hence, they want to give positive connotations to themselves and their agenda by this mere definition. And this again works because it creates positive associations in people's subconscious minds, and the Woke are masters of those manipulative techniques and mind tricks. People know that 'progress' and 'progressive' means good, so how can 'progressive' people possibly be bad? This is what the Woke count on.

The toxic play with definitions is the Woke hallmark overall. They used the same con with BLM, Antifa and 'anti-racism' - indeed, how people who say that Black Lives Matter and support Anti-Fascism and anti-racism can be bad indeed? Use noble words and stuff them with new toxic meaning to disguise your true toxic agenda - this was the main strategy of American radical Left for a long while.

Now, what if the Woke radical Left wouldn't have disguised themselves as 'progressives' but presented themselves for who they really are? Well, no one likes to describe themselves as 'radical' (even if they are really radical!) but the Woke could have attempted to call themselves True Left, New Left, Core Left, or something. But then, this definition would have had neutral and not positive connotations. So it would have been easier for people to see the real toxic agenda under the neutral name rather than under the noble disguise. See all the devilry of that?

But remember, Woke radical Left aren't progressives! There's nothing progressive in their toxic, radical, dangerous, nihilistic, immoral and borderline fascist agenda. There's nothing progressive in neo racist thinking, in Antisemitism, in pedophilia and grooming of children by 'sex educators'. The Woke agenda is extremely REGRESSIVE, in the contrary. So never call the Woke PROGRESSIVE! They aren't progressive, and they don't deserve to be called like that. Don't play with their rules, don't promote their fraud. NEVER USE THE WORD 'PROGRESSIVE' TO DENOTE THE RADICAL WOKE LEFT! Call them who they really are - radical, far Left, cultural Marxist and neo racist at the same time.