I want to push back on the line that progressives always want progress (especially when it comes to race). I think that is sometimes true, but not always. While many on the left now want progress, abundance, and thriving lives for all, that wasn’t always the case. Expansive government power (with the government’s monopoly of violence enforcing it) was something that Southern Democrats loved in order to enforce Jim Crow and enforce racial hierarchies. That Southern Democratic coalition wanted to use the force of the state to keep minorities “in line.” In modern times, I agree that the racists fled Democrats and prefer conservatives, but I think that just shows that racists don’t actually care about the size of government, they just care about whatever group will give them the political power to enforce racial hierarchies. The fact the Trump is improving Republican votes with Black and Hispanic voters further muddies this whole picture.
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I think this is true of SOME conservatives, but conservatives fall under a huge and wide umbrella. There are a lot of reasonable folks too. Maybe the later parts of this section will address that. But I feel like this is akin to calling all Democrats “Godless communists.” Some are, but definitely not all of them.
However, I do agree with this point “…the stereotypical liberal doesn’t believe in belief itself. When some progressive ideas are taken to an extreme, they result in the conclusion that there’s no reason to believe in anything—like truth, right and wrong or unchanging reality—because reality is continuously evolving” Very true when some people take it to the extreme