What I'm
"ignoring" (or trying to anyway) is your ranting about how "progressives" have ruined this country when in fact, it's been the
'me first/greed is good/leave us alone to rip people off' conservatives that got us into this mess in the first place.
BTW - What is the opposite of
'Progressive?'
Yup - It's
'REGRESSIVE' 
Main Entry: re·gress
Pronunciation: \ˈrē-ˌgres\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English regresse, from Anglo-French, from Latin regressus, from regredi to go back, from re- + gradi to go — more at grade
Date: 14th century
1 a : an act or the privilege of going or coming back b : reentry 1
2 : movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state or condition
3 : the act of reasoning backward 
Sounds about right to me.
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