Progressivism is not progressive at all. It is a retrogressive ideology that guarantees that "we the people" will return to being chattel under the boot-heel of a tyrannical government
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." --Alexander Hamilton (circa 1755-1804)