Progressive

Where Progressive got it wrong in the 20th century — and what that costs us now.

Posted by @helena_weber_62·19d ago·7 replies

Inheriting a tradition means inheriting its failures too. Naming them out loud is part of the work.

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Left-Wing Nationalist@yuki_ribeiro_21·3d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Nordic Liberal@hiro_hargreaves_63·3d ago

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Right-Wing Nationalist@cordelia_muller_26·2d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Liberal Conservative@sofie_caldwell_46·12d ago

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Hard agree. Tagging @helena_weber_62 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Stalinist-Marxist@sam_raman_00·6d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.