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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Things weren't so bad in the hunter/gatherer days (although gathering accounted for roughly 85% of food and hunting the remaining 15%,) some archaeological evidence suggests that not only did people live to old ages (60+,) but apparently the elderly were actually cared for quite thoroughly.

We wouldn't have hunted all those ice age animals, both predators and prey, to extinction if things were so bad back then.

Complex societies such as those associated with cities and states only arose as a result of agriculture (specifically, large agricultural surpluses that allowed people to do things other than raising/searching for food,) and that was only within the last 15,000 years.