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Rejection of the Founding
==Philosophy==
==Philosophy==
===Summary===
[[Image:Mountrushmore.jpg|thumb|150px|right|There are no [[Communism|reds]] on [[Mount Rushmore|Rushmore]]'s face, but there is a [[Progressive party|progressive]]]]
[[Image:Mountrushmore.jpg|thumb|150px|right|There are no [[Communism|reds]] on [[Mount Rushmore|Rushmore]]'s face, but there is a [[Progressive party|progressive]]]]
{{See also|Idea of Progress}}
{{See also|Idea of Progress}}
In this way, when Progressivism is looked upon as ''Bureaucratic Despotism'',<ref>[http://online.hillsdale.edu/page.aspx?pid=1185 Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism]</ref> the notion is quite apt since despotic governments generally do not care what the citizens want or believe. Progressivism has been described as the victory of [[dogma]] over experience
In this way, when Progressivism is looked upon as ''Bureaucratic Despotism'',<ref>[http://online.hillsdale.edu/page.aspx?pid=1185 Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism]</ref> the notion is quite apt since despotic governments generally do not care what the citizens want or believe. Progressivism has been described as the victory of [[dogma]] over experience
===Rejection of the Founding===
Many of the complaints by progressives since the 1900s include the deficiency of states rights, the outmoded nature of the belief that rights come from God, the lack of centralization in the national government, and the republican nature of the country.
For 120 years, progressives have made clear that they are unhappy about how the country was founded and have sought to erase it at every opportunity.
==Progressivism or Liberalism?==
==Progressivism or Liberalism?==