I hear this a lot. Mostly from corrupt politicians, regardless of stripe, while they are railroading something through against wishes of the local public…
Then the media repeats the lie. And then idiot NPCs all chime in to back it up, usually either because they have a vested interest, or alternatively no skin in the game, and so lose nothing as a result of the decision being made (my parents do this all the time, too, which is frustrating)…
“Progress” can be anything the politician/bureaucrat/developer//corporation wants it to be.
Drag story time is “inclusion”, so it is “progress”. Destroying a forest for a wind farm is “progress”. Or alternatively, knocking down a whole row of houses using “eminent domain” can be “progress”, if you can somehow argue that replacing them with high density tower blocks, to fill with immigrants, is “good”, and should not be questioned… Because it’s “progress”…
Of course, progress in reality is not linear. It is not about endless growth. And just because you claim to be “progressive” doesn’t mean you have a monopoly on fucking human “progress”…
Progress used to be about going to the moon, or scientific achievement, or fucking inventing something useful. Now it’s “free abortion clinics” on one side, and a completely useless new highway bypass (with the associated eminent domain destruction of housing, *of course) on the other…
It’s all “progress” to someone, and of course most of the public just laps it up. Because the media tells them to, naturally…
As someone posted earlier, a large proportion (but still a minority, thankfully) of Americans support drag queen events for kiddos now…
How the fuck did we “progress” to that point, hey?
Modern “society”. Woo-fucking-hoo.
Progress is not necessarily good, it just means moving forward. Communism/ Socialism was progress and yet it ended up killing millions.
progress is just a word that essentially means movement from one state to another. much like hope, change, and even "make America great again", it means whatever the audience or reader wants it to mean.
when they say "You stand in the way of progress", they allow the audience to project whatever they want onto what progress is towards. by saying it in an accusatory manner, the audience will project whatever the good thing is on top of progress.
it's just another way for politicians and grifters to say nothing at all, and have an audience think they mean anything.
"let us progress to break the bonds of morality and reason God has enslaved us with"
(trannies, synthetic over natural, feminism corrupting the natural order of the man being the head of the family, etc)
Pride, idolatry, secular humanism (aka Satanism, man is now his own god, do as thou wilt).