[[Image:630px-Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Theodore Roosevelt, first progressive president]]
'''Progressivism''' (or '''Progressive Ideology''') is a narrow ideology born in America that puts a heavy emphasis on [[administrative state]], separated from the political process, engages in centralized [[economic planning]], promotes Social Control, and has the power and expertise to make quick decisions.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-on-administration Woodrow Wilson on Administration]</ref> Progressives are quick to point to their label and proclaim that they stand for "progress",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=khyQiT0HxIEC The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country], John Podesta</ref> but do everything they can to hide the fact that where they want to make progress to is a big government that is in control of every aspect of Americans' lives.
[[Image:HenryGeorge.png|thumb|110px|right|Henry George wrote the book that inspired the use of the word "progress" in the name of progressivism.]]
Since the 1960s and the [[New Left]] Movement, Progressivism has largely been synonymous with [[Communism]]/[[leftism]]. Earlier Progressivism, while staunchly in favor of [[Big Government]], was equally critical of communist and socialist viewpoints.
For 120 years, progressives have made clear that they are unhappy about how the country was founded and have sought to erase it at every opportunity.
==Social Control==
Progressives seemingly promote "the experts" in all aspects of life, relying upon ''expertise''<ref>[http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/socgospel.htm The Social Gospel and the Progressive Era]</ref> to partially promote their goals. What underlies this, however, is the concept of ''social control''.
For progressives, social control means molding "the masses" to the progressives' desires and controlling them without them knowing they are being externally manipulated.<ref>[https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/abstract/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-84 Progressives and Progressivism in an Era of Reform]</ref> Progressives seek to achieve social control early on in the lives of Americans and use the school system to achieve this goal.<ref>[https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-and-family The Progressive Era and the Family]</ref>
The phrase "social control" was first used by sociologist [[Edward Alsworth Ross]], however, the concept of controlling all aspects of society undergirds the actions every action that progressives take.<ref>[]</ref> Social control is at its core about remaking individuals into a part of the collective whole. Ross wrote:
<blockquote>As the moulding of the individual's feelings and desires to suit the needs of the group is the profoundest alteration of associated life, we must regard it as the highest and most difficult work of society, the achievement which most signally shows its presence and power.</blockquote>
And:
<blockquote>By Social Control, on the other hand, I mean that ascendency over the aims and acts of the individual which is exercised on behalf of the group. It is a sway that is not casual or incidental, but is purposive and at its inception conscious. It is kept up partly by definite organs, formally constituted and supported by the will of society, and partly by informal spontaneous agencies that, consciously or unconsciously, serve the social interest and function under constant supervision from above.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GqoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513 The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 1]E. A. Ross, March, 1896</ref></blockquote>
==Progressivism or Liberalism?==