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'''Progressivism''' (or '''Progressive Ideology''') is a narrow ideology born in America and spread throughout the world that puts a heavy emphasis on [[administrative state]], separated from the political process, engages in centralized [[economic planning]], and has the power and expertise to make quick decisions.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-on-administration Woodrow Wilson on Administration]</ref> Progressives are quick to point to their label and proclaim that they stand for "progress",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=khyQiT0HxIEC The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country], John Podesta</ref> but do everything they can to hide the fact that where they want to make progress to is a big government that is in control of every aspect of people's lives.
'''Progressivism''' (or '''Progressive Ideology''') is a narrow ideology born in America and spread throughout the world that puts a heavy emphasis on [[administrative state]], separated from the political process, engages in centralized [[economic planning]], and has the power and expertise to make quick decisions.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-on-administration Woodrow Wilson on Administration]</ref> Progressives are quick to point to their label and proclaim that they stand for "progress",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=khyQiT0HxIEC The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country], John Podesta</ref> but do everything they can to hide the fact that where they want to make progress to is a big government that is in control of every aspect of people's lives.
[[Image:HenryGeorge.png|thumb|110px|right|Henry George wrote the book that inspired the use of the word "progress" in the name of progressivism.]]
[[Image:HenryGeorge.png|thumb|110px|right|Henry George wrote the book that inspired the use of the word "progress" in the name of progressivism.]]
After the horrors of the [[Peoples Temple]] [[mass murder]]/suicide in late 1978, Progressivism fell into disrepute in America for 30 years until it was revived by [[Barack Obama]] and opponents of America's "cultural hegemony" during the [[War on Terror]] and [[Crash of 2008|Financial Crash of 2008]].
American Progressivism originally favored [[Big Government]], but was also critical of communist and socialist viewpoints. Since the 1960s and the [[New Left]] Movement however, Progressivism has largely been synonymous with [[Communism]]/[[leftism]]. After the horrors of the [[Peoples Temple]] [[mass murder]]/suicide in late 1978, Progressivism fell into disrepute for 30 years until it was revived by [[Barack Obama]] and opponents of America's "cultural hegemony" during the [[War on Terror]] and [[Crash of 2008|Financial Crash of 2008]].
==History==
==History==