The issue with progressivism is it’s an illiterate folk religion that seized the same cultural revolution ideological apparatus as maoism/leninism but to forward a mutant secular protestant universalism merged with folk post-marxism rooted in nihilist ressentiment, and unlike classical marxism, they maintain illiteracy, lack of coherent theoretical foundations or historical consciousness, so deeply uneducated and self-absorbed that they can’t even recognize or acknowledge their own protestant-marxist foundation. This illiteracy is why they’re known domestically as libtards and mocked in china as baizuo— confidently uneducated, motivated by the cheap racial grievances of bioleninism, convinced of their own righteousness without any critical self-awareness to back up their views, only the blind consensus of their fellows controlling correct thinking—mao criticized exactly this tendency of the veiled bourgeoisie to project onto everyone their own social-class rooted views, and they’re widely recognized in China as a corrupted, retarded branch of unread marxists merged with american religion. Our education institutions are so infiltrated and our critical faculties so atrophied they are barely cognizant of the basis for their own views, but it is rooted in a secularization of protestantism’s universalist ethics, and cannot be argued without an appeal to faith; with tools borrowed from marxist theory and ideological culture revolution methodologies, but with major theoretical gaps that do not have coherent arguments to fill them, due to favoring blunt soviet-style censorship of academic dissent instead of any dialectics.