Having so many combinations of races, genders, disabilities, and tax brackets that are used to classify people as good or evil, it can get pretty complicated even for the Progressives themselves. There are many entertaining videos on YouTube showing Progressive zealots berating people only to find out they are gay or moderately disabled which leads to them hilariously apologizing profusely for being so “oppressive”. It is like watching a parishioner tell a dirty joke to someone only to find out they are a priest when they remove their sweatshirt revealing a cassock underneath; the change in attitude is absurd.

The elephant in the room with Progressives, to their own chagrin, is the fact that their adherents are very often members of, and forgive me for saying this, the bourgeoisie. As with Marxists, these ideologues love waxing and ‘whining’ about the plight of the worker. They see themselves as champions of the black or Hispanic working class who exist to save them from their permanent helpless victimhood with the power of their whiteness (which they’re using for good, honest) while crushing their oppressors which they view as poor white working class men. It can be seen as the guilt associated with being raised in an upper-class household by overcompensating for that guilt by attacking other white people on the basis that they are also white and so must have benefited from the same kind of sheltered wealthy upbringing they benefited from themselves. This is where the religious aspect shines. They see people of the white race as suffering from the original sin of existence and therefore they must redeem themselves via a never ending ethno-masochist crusade. Progressives could not have a more classically Christian view of the world. They simply inserted race into the equation and took humans as a whole out.

To Progressives, LeBron James is a helpless broken sorry black man condemned to the hellish existence of extravagant wealth while they see themselves as higher beings sent to Earth to protect him from poor white people that could be rude to him someday.. or something. What a tangled web we weave with absolutist ideology; if something doesn’t fit within the constraints of reality, they make it fit rather than appending that ideology.