Progressives are the opposite of Conservatives.
To be able to more easily define what Progressives is, it's much more easier to define what Conservatives (their opposite) is.
Conservatives typically as a general rule of thumb believe to preserve the original way of thinking, as well as traditions. The Progressives, on the other hand, seek to continue to tread towards a "different" outlook. They have their positives and negatives.
Depending on your own political and social views, you may lean one way or the other. The Progressives take up a number of issues.
1) Their main issue is the issue of civil rights.
The first topic that they mainly take up is that of racial civil rights. They believe that people are still very much <em>not equal</em> in terms of rights and the generalized term of "pursuit of happiness". After all, people are not able to get what they want all the time, but Progressives push to give people the most of each.
Examples of civil rights can be seen back in the Martin Luther days and the Peaceful Protests, in which they were successfully able to gain national recognition and equal rights.
Another more recent examples are the BLM riots, which destroyed the livelihoods of many people, and in itself was a fairly big disaster.
2) They push for aggrievement outlook of life.
Typically Progressives take up the failures of the system, and uses it in a fairly twisted way that seem to be about the fixing the failure, but rather is just trying to push their own narrative and to gain support, whether or not they will solve the problem or not.
3) To welcome diversity of people but not diversity of ideas.
Progressives welcome all people of color regardless of their ethnicity, but if someone does not believe what they believe belief by belief, they are pushed out. This can be seen especially in communities of minorities that have a minority of conservatives or conservative-leaning individuals. Essentially the follow the rule of "It's my way or no way".
4) They want group rights rather than individual rights.
Examples can be found in the group rights for African Americans, in which "Black Lives Matter", while they destroy the individual rights, such as the individual's right to a fire arm, an individual's right to press and speech, etc.
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