Progressive.

Hi, I'm black college student studying human biology and medicine and I am a democrat, but thinking of voting differently next election.

Who decides what progressive means and what progress is?

The discovery of anti-biotics was progressive, the civil rights movement was progressive, Maya Angelou is progressive. So why exactly is having more promiscuous gay sex "progressive"? How exactly is socialism progressive? Why is mass immigration progressive? None of these things do any good.

P.S. Finland is a republic with a 50% tax rate, not socialist republic or a democratic socialism. If you want to look as socialist "republics" go to China, North Korea and Vietnam and if you want actual republics and democracies go to neighbouring Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. These countries, even though they have a wider poor-rich gap still provide better care for their worse off than countries who supposedly value equality.

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What, praytell, does people being prevented from voting due to their skin color have to do with "gay rights"? Granted, I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't affect me, but I find attempts to hitch causes to the civil rights movement to be dishonest, at best.

I'm kind of curious what the reasons are as to why "the world will not sustain Capitalism forever" when capitalism is the reason why the world, or at least the industrialized world, can sustain the number of people that it does. If socialist democracy is "the model of the better future," why do socialist countries have higher unemployment, lower productivity, and falling birthrates, unlike the evil capitalist U.S.? Oh, and here's a tip: the smug superiority isn't very endearing.

Also, if "progressive" politics mean mass immigration is no problem, why do "progressive" countries like France have such issues?

The conclusion of your post is similar tripe, but it does highlight the problem with labels like "progressive." The label can be stretched to fit basically anything, because the word "progressive" has a positive connotation. Who will describe themselves as "anti-progressive" or "regressive"?