PROGRESSIVE TRUE BELIEVERS

As former New Left leader David Horowitz explains, progressive true-believers “regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future which is imaginary.” He explains the strange thinking inherent in this political ideology:

Think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. 

Like fundamentalists, they look at the world as fallen — a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division.

But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity.

In contrast, progressives see themselves as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous, because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned.

Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone’s life.