The progressive forces are not running the immigration system nor the concentration camps.
"progressive forces" should not equate with deliberate organized politically-motivated folks on hire from "Capitalists" who fund NGO-class efforts to promote migration of ignorant poor mis-educated low-grade labor into the United States, to reduce their breeding or to provide low-wage labor for casinos, motels/hotels/resorts, meat packers, agricultural corporates, quarries, mines, corporate building contractors, trucking companies, fast food joints, janitorial contractors, groundskeeper contractors, ranchers, porn operations, strip joints, brothels, and apparently innumberable other abusive racketeers who love not paying living wages while bribing Democrat and Republican legislators on every level to "take care" of the indigent, needy workers with taxpayer funds..... free everything for the illegals.... while we don't take care of our own citizens including veterans needing medical care, and our own homeless who live in ramshackle camps along every flood-prone creek and river in the country.
It might be "incremental" progress to you, but it is massively organized and politically supported by people who just plain don't like citizen rule or the US Constitution. Importing a dependendt class already accustomed to peony and servile work for the jefes is not "human progress".
rather, we should be expanding the principles of human rights and human liberty, and undermining the power of elites, cartels, and immoral corporates by teaching people worldwide the origins, the false beliefs and false narratives of Marx and the whole "progressive" movement. +
Progressivism is taught like a religion, and enforced by State authority. This violates the principle that the government should not be permitted to establish a belief paradigm of any kind and perpetrate it via state education systems.
My real commie buddy used to explain this to me, saying China, Russia, Albania, Cuba, and Viet Nam and Cambodia are not "real Marxists" but "State Capitalists". While I never persuaded him either to stop doing booze or drugs or denying the human right of property ownership, he convinced my of the hypocrisy of progressives who love to run governments that are in fact repressive.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was such a progressive. He had no second thoughts about establishing concentration camps for a clsss of US Citizens he did not trust.
Progressives established the Indian (Native American) Reservations and put the formerly self-reliant bands on the dole. Made reservations a sort of concentration camp, denied citizenship to these native Americans for many years.
Progressives were the carpetbaggers who ran the South in a many repressive to the former slaves.
The word has been hijacked and has always represented the exact opposite. It is not "progress" to take the world back to feudal society, to human subservience to the wealthy and elite.
It is a grand delusion to speak derisively of "Capitalists" while you are a trench digger in their service, helping them to reduce actual human opportunity and choices.
The right of humans to own property and make their own decisions in life is fundamental. No one whose efforts cut down or cut into those rights is "progressive"
The right word is "regressive". And it is no kind of utopia.
