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“Maybe if we tinker with taxes a little more, we’ll balance the budget.”
“Maybe if we print more money, everybody will be wealthier.”
“Maybe a few more adjustments to regulations will work.”
“Maybe just one more war will unleash democracy and prosperity around the world.”

Silly, isn’t it?

At least it would be silly if it weren’t so dangerous. These are the “middle of the road” policy questions, representing the progressive worldview. According to Joe Salerno, progressivism is based on the idea that utopia can be designed, that “history is an inexorable and ever-upward march toward the perfection of mankind.”

As Salerno explains in The Progressive Road to Socialism, such a program leads to socialism—it isn’t “middle of the road” at all. In fact, there is no middle ground.

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