The Ideology of Progressivism

Progressives stand alone in our time as the greatest bastion of ignorance that has ever existed throughout the history of man.   The vast majority of progressives have no idea as to the sources of their own ideology.

The German idealist philosopher Fichte produced the so-called Hegelian historical dialectic in the years before the French revolution and the terror of 1794.  The basic idea was that every society has a weltenshauung  (world and life view), and that this weltenshauung was the thesis of the society.   This thesis would cause a rise in an antithesis in a competing civilization.  These two conflicting world and life views would come into violent opposition and what would emerge would be a synthesis.  The synthesis would be different from both the thesis and the antithesis but would merge elements of both.   The synthesis would become a new thesis in the history of man which would cause an antithesis to arise and another conflict to ensue producing yet another synthesis.

In this manner thesis + antithesis = synthesis and that this was the inevitable pattern of human history as man forever advanced until utopia was achieved.  The view was that man becomes better and better everyday in every way until he succeeds in perfecting himself within history.

Hegel picked up this idea of Fichte and wrote a number of works in which he put this theory into practice.  In this manner the theory came to be known as the Hegelian historical dialectic.  The philosopher who followed Hegel and became an intermediate figure between Hegel and Marx was Feuerbach.   Feuerbach's contribution to the discussion was a radical repudiation of the value of the individual.  Feuerbach read the parables of the lost in the New Testament and he took the position that the New Testament advanced the idea of  egoistic individualism.   Feuerbach rejected what he saw as egoistic individualism and repudiated the idea of value resident in individuals.   After Feuerbach all progressives repudiated the idea of value in individuals.  Value was only resident in groups.   All of the great fascists of the twentieth century including Hitler, Mussolini, and Roosevelt were avowed progressives.

Progressives believe that the fundamental existential truth of the universe is the punishment of man into submission.  Man is seen as a perfectible being who can be redeemed through the imposition of 
punishments. These punishments are imposed by the state.  In this manner man redeems himself.

The writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States subscribed to a totally different set of ideas.  In the first instance they subscribed to the view that man is not perfectible.   This lack of perfection is the driving force behind the idea of the separation of powers.
They believed that when powers were combined in one person, or any subset of all persons, that government would act in loco deus.   For these reasons they also constructed the Constitution as document of enumerated powers rather than a document of enumerated rights.

While the fascist powers were defeated in World War II, progressive thought and fascism survived and today is practiced by most powers in the world including the United States.   Ironically the over reaching corruption of various departments of the US government (State, Justice, FBI, CIA etc.)
will not be punished for their criminal acts. The corruption found there is so deep and so broad that pursuing criminal cases would destroy the credibility of the US government for many decades.  Instead,  the wholesale violation of 4th Amendment rights of all those who were victims will undoubtedly precipitate an avalanche of civil suits breaking the perpetrators of public corruption  and casting them into lives of poverty and squalor.   While criminal prosecution of violation of human rights under the color of law has been done in the past, the real punishments have come in the form of settlements of civil suits.