What part of the progressive agenda means
A. less government spending and taxing
or
B. less government regulation and legal action?
Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny calls this the politics of Statism: the evergrowing power of the State in all aspects of life. Under progressive ideas, there is no reason for it ever to stop. As a nightmare image, a secular Sharia.
Maybe this is partly what feeds the extremely strange affinity that leftists, liberals and progressives have for Islam. On the surface, they should be deadly enemies. One is secular, one religious, but both are totalitarians-for-your-own-good.
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Progressively more taxing and spending, progressively more regulation and law.
... but I wonder when exactly "liberalism" became plausibly "totalitarian"? In contrast to anarchism, liberatarianism, it doesn't insist that the state be wither'd away into mere value-neutral administration and police power, but a doctrine of "state" (Hobbes', Locke's, Kant's, Hegel's) isn't ipso facto totalitarian, is it? I thought "totalitarianism" came as an attempt to escape Nietzsche. ...
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