Francis Menton on progressivism and reality

To be a woke progressive the first requirement is that you must refuse to acknowledge the real world as it exists.  You must pretend that the world is something else, something immediately transformable into a fantasy of perfection through coercive collective action.  You also must firmly close your eyes to any facts or evidence that might contradict such progressive fantasy, and indeed you must demand that any such facts or evidence be suppressed and never mentioned.

~ Francis Menton, The Essence Of Progressivism Is Refusal To Deal With Reality, Manhattan Contrarian, December 9, 2020