What does being a "progressive" actually mean? When

>>2354821
"""Progressive""" is a meaningless buzzword invented to make liberal policies seem inherently good since how can """PROGRESS""" be bad????

>>2356920
>meaningless buzzword

the term is over 100 years old kiddo

>>2356925
Age doesn't give something validity. Freudian psychology, for example, is also roughly 100 years old but is widely discredited in almost every aspect by credible and respectable members of that discipline.

>>2356935

no it does not give it validity, but the fact that it has been in use for that long makes it not a 'meaningless buzzword". its age also predates the modern political definition of liberal politics, making that post completely incorrect and worthy of mockery

>>2356925
and it was a meaningless buzzword back then too
Progress is a meaningless word. People label things as progressive without knowing what they're progressing towards. Every action can be viewed as progressive. Me getting out of bed is progressive, it's progress towards something.

>>2356925
What makes you think these two things are mutually exclusive?

>>2356954
Is it not correct to equate """progressive""" in the current year (2017) to """liberal"""? WHen one says progressive, at least here in the states, they are undoubtedly talking about socialist policy, pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, etc. Liberal=progressive. Calling liberal policy progressive tricks brainlets into believing liberal policy is always positive.

>>2356960

by this logic 'democrat", "republican", and every other political identifier are "meaningless buzzwords" because they dont contain a full breakdown of the political platform in the name.

>>2356962
It survive a test of time. Meanigless terms die fast.

>>2356974
It's an artificial meaning though. Progress is quite literally everything but the political term 'progressive' refers to a specific set of liberal policies.

>>2356964
>socialist policy
Doubt it. Could you be confusing socialism and social democracy?

>>2356972
But a democrat is someone who advocates for democracy while a republican advocates for a republic. Progressiveness is neither a system of governance nor an ideology.

Progress will never end. It's the purpose of our life here.

>>2356979
Social democracy is just socialism achieved through parliamentary means. Birds of a feather.

As far as I can tell, it's to suggest that you're part of an ideology that believes in such a thing as societal progress, which implies some sort of end goal for society. Liberals and Marxists both fit the description by virtue of both believing that society is progressing towards certain things (increased liberty or communism, respectively).

>>2356985
workers control the means of production = socialism
welfare n shit in a democratic framework = social democracy

>>2357014
Not that guy, but socialism is an old term that refers to a broad range of ideologies. It's not a specific societal model except in Marxism. Socialism initially just referred to any ideology concerned primarily with the problems of the labouring class and how to resolve them; social democrats were a subset of this.

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>>2354821
The only progressivism that truly never becomes conservatism is Futurism.

>>2354821
Conservashits are still talking about rolling things like social security or minimum wage back in current year, the only way progressives of today are different from the ones of a hundred years ago is that they are shilling for trannies and multiculturalism.

>>2356974
Says who, though? Why should a meaningless term not survive due to its flexibility and breadth of application where a more precise and defined term quickly die because the exact context for its use is no longer relevant?

It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.

>What will be considered progressive 100 years from today?
Better working conditions for the conscious robots.

>>2354821
Some progressives adopt the new progressive ideas, others decide to mostly retire from social activism, others become conservative.

>>2358460
Robots do not have consciousness they only have a simulated appearance of one REEEEEEE

>>2354821
It means you want progress.

>>2358481
just like all humans except for me am i right

>>2358481
How can you tell the difference?

>>2354821
When a progressive accomplishes all his goals, then they become old and die off. Next generation of progressive takes their place.

>>2354821
Being a mindless moralfag.