When employing the word "progressive," always use air quotes.
Explain to a liberal that you cannot fathom what is remotely "progressive" about the kind of ideology which seeks to reduce U.S. per capita income to levels last seen in the 1860s.

Psalms 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
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