The Rise of Progressivism

progressive politicians like brocco bama who are at best ambivalent about America and openly hostile to american power are usually shrewd in expressing those opinions. Progressives replaced nature as a guide for our politics with history you might say history of the capital age a kind of historical determinism. They were heavily influenced by german romantic philosophy most notably hagel one of his famous things with the all of the nerve-off lies only at dusk which means you can only achieve true wisdom at the end of human history these ideas are still very influential today.