{"id":36612,"date":"2018-10-30T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36612"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:05:34","slug":"qotd-the-progressive-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/30\/qotd-the-progressive-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Progressive strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[T]he story of the progressive movement can best be understood as activists going wherever the field is open. If the people are on your side, expand democracy. If the people are against you, use the courts. If the courts are against you, run down the field with the bureaucrats, or the Congress, or the presidency. Procedural niceties \u2014 the filibuster, precedent, the law, custom, the Constitution, truth \u2014 only matter if they can be enlisted to advance the cause. If they can\u2019t, they suddenly become outdated, irrelevant, vestigial organs of racism, elitism, sexism, whatever. Obstruction, or even inconvenience in the path of progressive ends is <em>prima facie<\/em> proof of illegitimacy. The river of history must carry forward. If History hits a rock, the rock must be swept up with the current or be circumvented. Nothing can hold back the Hegelian tide, no one may Stand Athwart History. If you\u2019re not part of the solution, you\u2019re part of the problem. This is the liberal <em>gleichschaltung<\/em>; get with the program or be flattened by it.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393246\/obama-congress-its-my-way-or-my-way-jonah-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Obama to Congress: It\u2019s My Way or My Way&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2014-11-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[T]he story of the progressive movement can best be understood as activists going wherever the field is open. If the people are on your side, expand democracy. If the people are against you, use the courts. If the courts are against you, run down the field with the bureaucrats, or the Congress, or the presidency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[1020],"class_list":["post-36612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612","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=36612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36613,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions\/36613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}