Re: Terrible Definition of Political Conservatism
Progressive = Progress. Going Forward with a new idea. For example, at the time, Civil Rights was a progressive movement, since there had never been such a thing in the USA. On the same token, Communism was also a progressive movement for the same reasons.
Regressive = Going to a past system. People that, for example, prefer monarchies or other absolutist regimes would be regressive. Fascism was all about yearning to recapture the past glory of Germany, which made it regressive. Abortion is a conservative value because it is based in tradition and was illegal in the (what Conservatives perceive to be a better) past.
These descriptions do not necessarily apply to Democrats or Republicans. In my opinion, most people in the United States, whether they describe themselves as Conservative or Liberal are fairly close to each other when it comes to political ideology and both are pretty close to the center on the leftist-right wing scale. That is a discussion for another day though, since that would be getting off topic.
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