Always The Progressive
Personally, I am well and truly done with this retro-nationalism and racist demagoguery – where we’re always weepily look backwards at some imagined ‘Good-Ol’-Days’ – forever patronising the Aboriginals, LGBT and women – while terrified little men and low-grade intellects parade the latest American conservative nonsense from a so-called Think Tanks that rather unsurprisingly can give you the results of “research” – before any research is even conducted.
There was a time when conservativism was the balancing force to the over enthusiasm of progressive idealism.
Nowadays, the greatest feats of conservatism seems to be little more that cheap demagoguery, a perpetual squealing of “we poor white-guys”, and complaining about women in yoga-pants because they “friend-zoned” them.
It’s enough now.
I really don't want to live in a never-ending ground-hog day where it is forever the 1950s … or whatever the latest Conservative-in-Charge insists was the ‘Golden Years’.
I want to live in a world where it’s better today than it was yesterday.
Where there’s more to share and more to experience - because our scientists and explorers have simply discovered more.
Where our children and their children are safer, happier, healthier and wiser.
Where education teaches of new discoveries and new ideas.
Where people are taught how to think – not what to think.
Where people have more opportunity than they had the day before … and that their horizons are far broader with each new generation.
I really don’t want to be in some backward gazing wilderness - where doing nothing leaves us further and further in the past – while the world marches on … and we stay behind … stagnating and stagnating.
NO! Give me tomorrow.
I don’t want yesterday – yesterday wasn’t so good.
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