{"id":34595,"date":"2016-04-27T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34595"},"modified":"2016-04-19T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:42:44","slug":"qotd-the-essentially-bipolar-nature-of-progressive-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/qotd-the-essentially-bipolar-nature-of-progressive-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The essentially bipolar nature of progressive ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Historians and political theorists have long puzzled over how to resolve the glaring contradiction of Progressive ideology \u2014 namely, that Progressive \u201creform\u201d emphasizes greater \u201cdemocracy,\u201d and championed innovations like the direct election of Senators, the initiative and referendum, etc. Give the <em>people<\/em> what they want! Up with democracy! At the same time, Progressives also advanced the theory of government administration deliberately remote from politics and popular accountability \u2014 the Administrative State staffed by elite \u201cexperts.\u201d We can\u2019t have those grubby <em>people<\/em> telling the government what to do! Down with democracy!<\/p>\n<p>Steven Hayward, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/04\/resolving-the-contradiction-of-progressivism.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Resolving the Contradiction of &#8216;Progressivism'&#8221;, <em>Power Line<\/em><\/a>, 2016-04-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historians and political theorists have long puzzled over how to resolve the glaring contradiction of Progressive ideology \u2014 namely, that Progressive \u201creform\u201d emphasizes greater \u201cdemocracy,\u201d and championed innovations like the direct election of Senators, the initiative and referendum, etc. Give the people what they want! Up with democracy! At the same time, Progressives also advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[622,1020],"class_list":["post-34595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-ideology","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8ZZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34597,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions\/34597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}