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Flat White

Why ‘progressives’ are going nowhere

30 November 2019

9:00 AM

30 November 2019

9:00 AM

As the Labor Party, following its unexpected loss in the recent federal election, is forced to question the progressive worldview on which so many of its policies are based, it may be worthwhile examining whether there is any coherence within this worldview in the first place.

Progressivism is a religion, as religion is an inescapable concept and everybody is religious.

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