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Progressives use ===Colonialism and the term Enlightenment===Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in contrast to Europe, out of the [[racist]] belief that white Europe was demonstrating that societies could "regressiveprogress" policies in civility from uncivilized conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of their opponents[[Empiricism|empirical knowledge]] as the foundation of society. For example, progressives will ask rhetorically, Figures of the [[Enlightenment]] had the racist belief that "Do you want progress" had universal application to go back all societies and that these ideas would [[colonialism|spread across the world]] from [[Caucasian|white]] Europe. By the early-20th century progressivism was tied to [[eugenics]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the 1950sProgressive Era |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |year=2005 |last=Leonard |first=Thomas |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=207–224 |doi=10.1257/089533005775196642 |url=[https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf]] |accessdate= |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170820132528/https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf] |archivedate=20 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|date=2005|last=Freeden|first=Michael|authorlink=|title=Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought|pages=144–165|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=[[Princeton]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?" implying that women were oppressed id=1Lpu8wwvA1AC&pg=144|isbn=0691116776}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4026900|title=Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia|last=Roll-Hansen|first=Nils|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|volume=22|issue=3|pages=335–346|date=1989}}</ref> ===Marxism===[[File:Death-by being forced -government.png|right|350px|thumb|Extermination of opponents by Progressive regimes, in millions.]][[Karl Marx]] took the [[Hegelian]] conception of linear-progressive history and applied the idea of [[class warfare]] to be address [[housewife|housewivesincome inequality]] . In the mid 19th century [[Social Darwinism]], with its racism and men were oppressed by being falsely accused commitment to [[science]], was an important facet of favoring Communism (see Progressivism; in America however, after the [[McCarthyismCivil War]]), many adherents of the [[Social Gospel]] movement called themselves "progressive" and advocated for [[equality]] for [[Blacks]] and social reform. For a time there was an odd admixture of atheists and racists citing a scientific basis for their beliefs, and church people, all claiming the name progressive. In Europe however, after the [[First World War]], Progressive [[atheist]]s won a great victory with the [[Bolshevik]] Revolution in Russia, the suppression of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and overthrow of the existing social order. In explaining the ruinous upheavals Progressivism brought to his homeland, [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] said, {{quotebox|"while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen [[Russia]]: Men have forgotten [[God]]; that’s why all this has happened."<ref>http://orthochristian.com/47643.html</ref>>}}

It was also meant to create a belief that [[conservatives]] are not able to think of a progressive future for the [[United States]]. The most famous historical usage of the term in America was in the 1890s to 1920s, sometimes called the [[Progressive Era]]. During the Progressive Era, politicians of both parties and various ideologies adopted the term, notably [[Theodore Roosevelt]], a Republican who founded the [[Progressive Party]] (also known as and implemented the Bull Moose Party) [[Civil Service Commission|Civil Service Act]], and [[Woodrow Wilson]], who impossed [[segregation]] throughout the federal government.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/04/progressive-racism-paul-rahe/amp/</ref>

The [[Progressive Party]] of 1948 was a creation of the [[Communist Party]],<ref>Barry Loberfeld, "[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11398 The Real Meaning of "Progressive" Politics], FrontPageMagazine.com, September 28, 2004</ref> growing out of [[CPUSA]] General Secretary Eugene Dennis' February 12, 1946 order "to establish in time for the 1948 elections a national third party."<ref>Eugene Dennis, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TafcYQEACAAJ What America Faces]'' (New York: New Century Publishers, 1946), pp. 37-38. Cf. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=yeoSSLzr-jAC The vital center: the politics of freedom]'' (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009896, p. 115; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LLyNX6hMDCIC A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950]'' (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000) ISBN 0618219250, pp. 455-456; Karl M. Schmidt, ''[http://ia700307.us.archive.org/34/items/henryawallace006268mbp/henryawallace006268mbp.pdf Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948]'' (Syracuse University Press, 1960), p. 265 (PDF p. 291)</ref> The Progressive Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1948 was [[Henry Wallace]], one of [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s former [[Vice president|Vice Presidents]]. Wallace was reportedly "most impressed" with Soviet collective farming,<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Henry_Wallace.htm Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd Vice President (1941-1945)], Senate History, United States Senate</ref> and in 1933 had urged FDR to become a "farm dictator."<ref>"[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4061FF83C5C16738DDDAB0994DB405B838FF1D3 Roosevelt Is Urged to Ask Wide Power as 'Farm Dictator']," ''The New York Times'', March 12, 1933, p. 1</ref> Wallace said if he were to become President, he would appoint as Secretary of State the pro-Soviet [[Laurence Duggan]],<ref>Ethan Bronner, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/18/weekinreview/witching-hour-rethinking-mccarthyism-if-not-mccarthy.html?pagewanted=all WitchMay 9, 2008ing Hour; Rethinking McCarthyism, if Not McCarthy]," October 18, 1998</ref> now known to have been a Soviet agent.<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18nov_lawrence_duggan.pdf 1613 KGB New York to Moscow, 19 November 1944]</ref> Had [[FDR]] died 82 days earlier, Wallace would indeed have become President.<ref>William C. Martel, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZvWBQAAQBAJ Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 1107082064, p. 472</ref> Wallace finally recanted his support for the [[Soviet Union]]<ref>Linda Rodriguez, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080512163401/https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/09/almost.great.men/index.html A celebration of almost-great men], CNN.com, May 9, 2008</ref> in 1952.<ref>Henry Agard Wallace, “Where I Was Wrong.” ''This Week'', September 2, 1952</ref> In 1955, the [[SISS|Jenner subcommittee]] cited the Progressive Party on its list of [[subversive ]] organizations, identified as a [[Communist front]].<ref>[http://www.joincalifornia.com/party/Independent%20Progressive Independent Progressive], joincalifornia.com</ref>

Progressives accused liberals who voted for the [[Iraq War]] and the [[Patriot Act]] of betraying the cause of [[socialism]]. Ironically, it was progressives in the [[Obama administration]] who used provisions of the Patriot Act that allowed for spying on domestic groups sympathetic to [[Al Qaeda]], and applied them to the Trump campaign from 2015 on to further the anti-democratic objective of single party control.

Far leftists have historically used re-education camps and gulags [[gulag]]s as the basis of incarceration policy, and offenders graded on ideological grounds.

Obamacare with its individual and employer dictates was designed to fail. The progressive objective of a [[big government]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-style [[single payer]] system was too radical a change to implement during the brief window of opportunity given between 2009-2011, when Democrats controlled both the [[White House]] and a veto-proof Congress. Progressives settled on a system that allowed private insurance companies to continue to operate , provided they sold only policies dictated by progressive regulators. A dictate that all American adults - working or not working - be required to purchase insurance, or submit to eligibility requirements for [[entitlement]] care by income means testing, was also implemented. Penalties accrued for anyone non-compliant. The plan was phased in over a period of election cycles with the hope that those who recieved a subsidized entitlement would appreciate "free healthcare," and when the plan failed would support a progressive single payer system. The single payer system then would need progressives in Congress perpetually to insure its annual funding.