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.

Your post is littered with misunderstanding and wrongness, nonetheless:

Gay sex is progressive because human rights is progressive. Gay sex is human rights. White slave owners would have said something similar to what you are "how is nigger voting progressive?", except they wanted blacks to reproduce so that they could work and rape their daughters, so they would be for sex.

Socialism is progressive because it is the future. The world will not sustain Capitalism forever, the world will not tolerate Capitalism forever. Progressives desire change for the better, and just about every single educated human being on Earth understands that the Socialist Democracy is the model of the better future.

Mass immigration .. Is not progressive. However, if we had Progressive politics to begin with, it wouldn't even be an issue.

In general, Progression is idealistic change. It's not crushing the poor to pump the economy, it's not invading foreign countries because we don't like them, it's not rejecting new ideas because of fear. It's thoughtful, clear judgement and hope. If you want to know what progressive means take a look at its polar opposite.