Progressive Conservatism

"I have always believed that wise progressivism and wise conservatism go hand-in-hand."

File:TeddyRoosevelt.png Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive Conservatism (ProgCon) is an opposite unity ideology that is the unity of the moderate File:Prgess.png cultural left and File:Trad.png cultural right.

Additionally, "progressive conservatism" can refer to an ideology that supports social reform and change but emphasizes the necessity of progressing in a way that preserves traditions, and believes that instant change can be damaging to society so progress must occur slowly and gradually. This belief is often combined with the idea of a limited and obligatory government that only steps in when necessary. Progressive Conservatism can also manifest itself in beliefs such as that traditional values are compatible, or even complimentary with, the march to social equality.

Variants

File:Modprog.png Moderate Progressivism File:Modprog-u.png

Moderate Progressivism, also known as File:Cultreform.png Cultural Reformism, is a culturally center-left ideology that supports File:Prog-u.png core progressive ideals while being in favor of keeping traditions that are worth preserving and rejecting more File:Ultraprogressivism.png extreme or 'fringe' ideas. What is and isn't considered fringe changes with the context since it adapts to the times.

File:ModConAlt.png Moderate Conservatism File:ModCon.png

Moderate Conservatism is a politically File:Moder.png moderate version of conservatism that is less demanding than File:TradConAlt.png traditional conservatism. While it preserves many File:Conservative.png conservative aspects, it is more open to certain File:Prog-u.png progressive ideas and opposes potentially File:Ultracon.png extremist conservative views.

File:PragmaCon.png Pragmatic Conservatism

Pragmatic Conservatism is an ideology that espouses making practical decisions based on current circumstances while upholding core conservative values. It recognizes that some reforms are necessary to protect traditions and respond to societal changes.

File:C. S. Lewis.png C. S. Lewisism

C. S. Lewisism is based on the ideas of the thought of Clive "Jack" Staples Lewis, a British author, scholar, and christian apologist. Lewis didn't touch on party politics often, but he would occasionally revile his unique views on various political issues. Lewis was socially conservative about most social issues, but was economically in favor of welfare programs and was anti-consumerist. Above all else, he was deeply suspicious of government involvement in people's daily lives:

"All the same, the New Testament, without going into details, gives us a pretty clear hint of what a fully Christian society would be like. Perhaps it gives us more than we can take. It tells us that there are to be no passengers or parasites: if man does not work, he ought not to eat. Every one is to work with his own hands, and what is more, every one's work is to produce something good: there will be no manufacture of silly luxuries and then of sillier advertisements to persuade us to buy them. And there is to be no "swank" or "side," no putting on airs. To that extent a Christian society would be what we now call Leftist. On the other hand, it is always insisting on obedience—obedience (and outward marks of respect) from all of us to properly appointed magistrates, from children to parents, and (I am afraid this is going to be very unpopular) from wives to husbands [...] If there were such a society in existence and you or I visited it, I think we should come away with a curious impression. We should feel that its economic life was very socialistic and, in that sense, "advanced," but that its family life and its code of manners were rather old-fashioned—perhaps even ceremonious and aristocratic. Each of us would like some bits of it, but I am afraid very few of us would like the whole thing.”

C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity", Page 44.

Lewis was generally very skeptical of what he called “chronological snobbery” or the view that ideas and movements from the past must be inferior on the grounds that they are from the past. Lewis claims that old ways of thinking are neither inherently better or worse, and we must try and understand why something went out of fashion before we dismiss it.

Other issues on which Lewis was outspoken was his advocacy for just war theory, his dislike of nuclear armaments, and his concern for animal welfare.

File:YanXishan.png Yan Xishan Thought

Throughout his life, File:YanXishan.png Yan attempted to identify, formulate, and disseminate a comprehensive ideology that would improve the morale and loyalty of his officials and of the people of File:Cball-Taiwan.png Shanxi. During his time of study in File:Cball-Japan.png Japan, File:YanXishan.png Yan became attracted to File:Strato.png militarism and Social Darwinism, but he renounced them after World War I. Throughout the rest of his life, he identified with the position of most File:Confucianism.png Chinese conservatives at the time: social and economic reform would progress from ethical reform, and the problems confronting China could be solved only by the moral rehabilitation of the Chinese people. Believing that no single ideology existed to unify the Chinese people when he came to power, Yan attempted to generate an ideal ideology himself, and once boasted that he had succeeded in creating a comprehensive system of belief that embodied the best features of "File:Mil.png militarism, File:Nation.png nationalism, anarchism, File:Dem.png democracy, capitalism, communism, individualism, File:Imp.png imperialism, File:World.png universalism, File:Paternalism.png paternalism and File:Utsoc.png utopianism." Much of Yan's attempts to spread his ideology were through a network of semi-religious organizations, known as "Heart-Washing Societies."

File:Nordcon.png Nordic Conservatism

Nordic Conservatism is an ideology that comes from Nordic parties and politicians who call themselves conservative but adopt parts of progressive policies. The main examples are various member parties of the Conservative Group and currently, Norway follows this model.

• File:Cball-Norway.png Norway is an example of conservative progressivism, as it is a constitutional monarchy, has Christianity as its official religion, preserves Nordic culture and programs of family protection, but also has guidelines such as multiculturalism, one of the best to be LGBT+, social assistance, liberalism in the prison issue and technological and social progress.
• File:Libconserv3.png Conservative Group - The Conservative Group is a group composed of conservative parties in the Nordic countries, some of which are really conservative like File:ModPartyicon.png Moderate Party (Sweden) and People's Party (Faroe Islands), but most parties are Progressive Conservatives, being:
  • Non-aligned Coalition: Non-aligned Coalition is a party from the Åland islands that emerged in 1987 and has participated in Åland legislature elections. The ideals are based on moderate conservatism and greater autonomy for Åland, in addition to Eurosceptism.
  • File:Hoyre.png Høyre is a Norwegian party whose current leader is former Prime Minister Erna Solberg. The party was one of those responsible (along with the Labor party) for making Norway co-found NATO. The party is openly progressive conservative and liberal conservative, in which it defends the military and the state church, but also defends LGBT rights and socially liberal policies. On the economic issue, they advocate Economic Liberalism, tax cuts, the Nordic Model and social welfare services.
  • File:DenmarkDKF.png Conservative People's Party is a Danish party founded in 1915 and is considered to be center-right. The party advocates civil and individual liberties and decentralization, a free market economy and private property, and a strong environmental policy.
  • File:National Coalition Finland.png National Coalition Party is a Finnish party led by Petteri Orpo founded in 1918. Its ideals are more left-wing compared to Høyre, in which it defends LGBT rights, immigration and multiculturalism, but unlike Høyre, he is pro-EU. Economically, it is similar to Høyre.

File:TradPrgess.png Traditional Progressivism

Traditional Progressivism, also clipped with Progressive Traditionalism, is a form of progressivism that is culturally conservative and wants to maintain traditional practices and customs while being socially inclusive towards groups like the LGBT community. This cultural model can be seen in many indigenous groups.

File:Ultraprogressive Reactionarism.png Ultraprogressive Reactionaryism

Ultraprogressive Reactionaryism is a concept in the PCM community that combines stances from File:Ultraprogressivism.png Revolutionary Progressivism and File:Reactcross.png Reactionaryism to describe historic regimes and figures who blended reactionarily traditionalist and revolutionarily progressive ideas. Ultraprogressive Reactionaries wish to dismantle existing some traditional values and institutions with a simultaneous desire to restore, rejuvenate, or idealize other aspects of the past. This hybrid approach, while contradictory at first glance, seeks to create a new societal order which destroys elements of the past, deemed outdated or oppressive, while reinventing or modernizing historical traditions to fit a desired future. In other words, they revitalize select traditions they feel creates a desirable society while destroying, through quick graduations, the rest. It can be seen as a form of File:ReactPix.png Reactionary Modernism applied to culture and society, not just technology.

The best example of this concept is File:RegDelCarn.png Fiume under D'Annunzio. His regime blended a desire to create new traditions and reject conventional morality, including a promotion of the Bohemian lifestyle, with a rejuvenation of Italian traditions and symbols (such as Roman imagery). This blend of tradition and progress would inspire both the File:Fut2.png Futurists and the original File:Fash.png Fascists.

File:RevProgcon.png Revolutionary Progressive Conservatism

Revolutionary Progressive Conservatism is a variant of progressive conservatism that seeks to combine stances from File:Ultraprogressivism.png Revolutionary Progressivism and File:RevCon.png Revolutionary Conservatism. It seeks to utilize revolution as a means to change society for the better, but thinks there ought to be a slight moderation in cultural attitudes within the revolutionary movement. This is clearly shown by File:Hochi.png Ho Chi Minh and his concept of “revolutionary morality”.

File:AltModern.png Alternate Modernism

Alternate Modernism is a variant of modernism that supports File:NatRev.png National Paligenesis (national rebirth), File:Fut2.png technological Futurism, emulation of ancient society and ideas, File:RevNat.png Revolutionary Nationalism, File:Romanticism.png Romanticism and idealism, extreme militarism and economic modernisation, with some variants including traditional institutions like an aristocracy and religious influence, be it File:Mythic.png mysticism or organised religions. This variation of progressive conservatism is most common to File:Fash.png Fascism and its adjacent ideologies and File:Nrx.png Neo-Reactionary movements. File:ReactPix.png Reactionary Modernism is its most far-right interpretation as it mostly rejects the enlightenment and is explicitly religious while supporting rapid technological advancement.

File:Progconsoc.png Progressive Conservative Socialism File:ProgConSoc.png

Progressive Conservative Socialism is the progressive conservative version of socialism. It is culturally moderate and supports the idea of both File:Prog-u.png progressive and File:Conservative.png conservative elements in them that are needed for society to prosper. This cultural model can be seen with File:Soc21.png 21st Century Socialism.

File:Anti-Colonial.png Anti-Colonialism

A File:Progconsoc.png type of progressive conservatism could be arguably applied to various left-wing anti-colonial movements that seek to revive certain traditions while also promoting social progress, such as File:Native.png Indigenism or File:Anarkata.png Anarkata, which tend to promote social progress within the context of Indigenous traditional structures. They argue that social progress is inherent to their traditional ways depending on the context, or seeking to protect indigenous traditions from imperialism, alongside promoting socially progressive ideas and promoting co-existence between those ideals. Although this identification is debatable and can still be compared to typical File:Prgess.png Culturally Left political ideas.

Personality

He either has a split personality that causes him to switch between progressive and conservative modes, or he advocates for both conservative and progressive positions at once, contradicting himself in the process.

How to Draw

Bicolor Design

File:Progcon flag.svg

Flag of Progressive Conservatism (Bicolor)

1. Draw a ball
2. Draw a blue diagonal line across the ball
3. Fill the lower half blue, and the upper half green
4. Add the eyes

You are done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Green	#49DB0B	rgb(73, 219, 11)
	Blue	#0183BE	rgb(1, 131, 190)

Feather Design

File:Prog-Con Alt Flag.svg

Flag of Progressive Conservatism (Feather)

1. Draw a ball
2. Color it lime green
3. Draw a black feather, going from bottom left to top right
4. Add the two eyes

Done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Lime Green	#49DB0B	rgb(73, 219, 11)
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)

Relationships

Fellows

• File:Conservative.png Conservatism - My father recognizes the need for stable values as society's bedrock.
• File:Prog-u.png Progressivism - My mother recognizes that we need to make progress in order to evolve.
• File:Liberalconservative.png Liberal Conservatism - I vote for him every election!
• File:NatProg.png Bull Moose Progressivism - My most famous advocate and the one who popularized my ideology.
• File:Radcent.png Radical Centrism - He admires me for my pragmatic approach to solving social issues.
• File:Native.png Indigenism - So you're saying you want to revive your traditional ways of life while protecting LGBTQ+/women's rights while using modern technology to kick out racists? Absolute GIGACHAD!
• File:Anarkata.png Anarkata - You are similar to the one above. Seeking to mend traditions with social progress is truly great!
• File:Zio.png Zionism - You are similar to the one above. Liking tradition while having better social progress like with LGBT/women when compared to most of the Middle East (and Muslim Countries as a whole) is great. I hate File:Kahan.pngFile:Revmax.pngFile:Revzion.png some of your variants though.
• File:Hcon.png Homoconservatism - Me but G A Y. Though I'll admit you're often a bit more conservative than what I'm comfortable with. But still.
• Tridemism - Wanted to get rid of all the backward parts of Chinese culture while keeping the good parts. Very based indeed. If only modern China still followed through with your values 100%.
• File:Cdem.png Christian Democracy & File:Islamic Democracy.png Islamic Democracy - Practising religions while accepting modernity? Great job!
• File:Girondi.png Girondism - You were the best option for France.
• File:Antrans.png Archeofuturism - Me but applied to technology.
• Liberalism - We may be different, but one of your family members like File:Soclib.png Social Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism and File:Clib.png Classical Liberalism seems to be alike. So, we're cool.
• National Liberalism - Patriotic version of above, he's usually a fan of mine.
• File:Hochi.png Ho Chi Minh Thought - Probably the best communist ideology I’ve come across.
• File:Vpered.png Vperedism - Another decent communist.
• File:Soc21.png Socialism of the 21st Century - A socialist that perfectly understands me.
• File:Guildsoc.png Guild Socialism - Another socialist who wishes to mend modernity with tradition.
• File:Ancon.png Anarcho-Conservatism - Abolishing the oppressive state whilst preserving culture? Nice! Your File:AnProgcon.png Progressive variant is especially based.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - Another based Anarchist.
• File:TLeveller.png Diggerism - Abolish oppressive Feudalism whilst preserving our religion!
• File:RelProg.png Religious Progressivism - Like the above but more focused on abolishing outdated social structures in general. But you're usually more Culturally Progressive than what I'm comfortable with.
• File:Socauth.png Social Authoritarianism - A based Authoritarian.
• File:RamaV.png Chulalongkornism - Preserving traditions of absolute monarchy while opposing colonialism and slavery? Based af.
• File:ProtTheo.png Protestant Theocracy - Again, not the biggest fan of theocracies, but the Puritans were based.
• File:Contrans.png Conservative Transhumanism - Technological progress whilst preserving culture? Awesome!

Frenemies

• File:Capcom.png Capitalist Communism & File:Antot.png Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Fellow opposite ideologies. But too far.
• File:Enlightenment.png Enlightenment Thought - Don't get me wrong, most of your ideas are pretty good, but sometimes you went overboard in promoting reason over emotions. Not to mention the... less-than-enlightened attitude among some of your followers towards File:Native.png indigenous cultures.
• File:Fash.png Fascism - You're a confusing extremist, but your concept of alternate modernity sounds pretty cool.
• File:Hfash.png Homofascism - This is not exactly what I had in mind when mixing progress and tradition...
• File:Baizuo.png White Progressivism - Ok, this is really not what I had in mind when mixing progress and tradition. Also, racism is needlessly exclusive.
• File:Nrx.png Neoreactionaryism - Weird geek reactionary alt-right edgelord, but for some reason they say you're related to me. Well, at least you tolerate gay people.
• File:Kemal.png Kemalism - Too pure progressive mostly, but I do like Bayar and Akşener.
• File:Plcn2.png Paleoconservatism - He keeps saying I'm not a "real" conservative, but at least Pat Buchanan was a good friend of Perot.
• File:ReactPix.png Reactionary Modernism - Agrees with my dad on social issues and agrees with my mom on technology, but you're very edgy. I like the concept of alternate modernity...to a degreeFile:Fash.png.
• File:Consocf.png Conservative Socialism - Sometimes you can buy into too much conservative culture war bs, but Dore, MacIntyre, and Yan Xishan are very based.
• File:Trad.png Traditionalism - You're pretty important in certain cases, but we definitely shouldn't have you around too much, otherwise we would just be excluding a lot of people for no good reason.
• File:Pinkcap.png Pink Capitalism - Whoa whoa over there! You went a little overboard in promoting identity politics, or whatever.
• File:Confem-alt.png Conservative Feminism - Potentially an ally, but most of you lean too heavily on straight cultural conservatism for my liking. And Jesus Christ some of you are just downright annoying.
• File:Hcon.png Homoconservatism - Similar to the above.
• File:Radfem.png Radical Feminism - You are sadly a hateful radical, but you seem to take policies from both sides of the cultural spectrum.
• File:Mansphere.png Manosphere - Same as above but with a different gender... and Please don't go any further while complaining about Feminism and Women, ok?
• File:Ingsocf.png Ingsoc - An eternal present where the past never happened and the future never will happen? That's certainly something...
• File:CountEn.png Counter-Enlightenment - The File:Romanticism.png Romanticists were somewhat agreeable, as they were opposed to an uncritical proliferation of Enlightenment at the expense of local traditions and customs as well as nature. But File:Hangman.png some of your variants are downright scary, I mean, why do you really need that torture chamber?
• File:Polpot.png Pol Potism - Wait, you want to have a revolution but return to Cambodian traditions of farming? Wouldn't be that bad if not for the killings I guess…

Extremists

• File:Mao.png Maoism - If only you realized that you can both promote social progress and preserve traditional heritage before you went off and destroyed millennia of Chinese culture. But File:Zhang Chengzhi.png Zhang Chengzhi and File:ChinaCyberLeft.png Some of your modern theorists in china are based.
• File:Ultraprogressivism.png Revolutionary Progressivism - No, not all traditions are bigoted and hateful. Believe it or not we can advance women's and LGBT+ rights without persecuting innocent people because you think they have the wrong way of life. Thanks for the support to my indigenous variants though. Also I have some File:RevProgcon.png revolutionary File:Ultraprogressive Reactionarism.png variants.
• File:Reactcross.png Reactionaryism - "Rejecteth modernity embraceth tradition muh littleth darketh age." If you could File:Ultraprogressive Reactionarism.png merge with your opposite, that could be nice
• File:Crusadism.png Crusadism & File:Heart-Integralism.png Integralism - File:Reactchrist.png Christian version of that above
• File:Hindutva.png Hindutva - File:HinduReactionary.png Indian version of the above.
• File:Jihad.png Jihadism - File:MuslimReact.png Islamic version of the above.
• File:Nazi.png Nazism - Calls File:Prog-u.png my mother a 'degenerate' and File:Conservative.png my father 'lame'. Also, you slaughtered so many people...
• File:Esofash.png Esoteric Fascism - Same as above but even worse.
• File:Nazcap-Hat.png National Capitalism - You aren’t improving anything and you’re culturally reactionary! Also my American followers are saying you’re the Republican Party post-2016, and I can’t exactly blame them for that.
• File:Altr.png Alt-Right - Edgy scumbag who called me a cuckservative.
• File:Altl.png Alt-Lite - Though we agree wokeness is harmful and brainrotted, all you really do is present your own form of identity politics. You also called me a cuck :(
• File:Trumpism.png Trumpism - Can you stop being so hostile to anyone who's even slightly to the left of you? The fact that you quit File:RPUSA.png one of the few parties that had my values in mind to become who you are now is just sad.
• File:Anqueer.png Queer Anarchism - Marriage equality is not some sort of scheme to promote "queer assimilation" or whatever. How can you look at all the happily married same-sex couples out there and still think the idea of marriage is bad for the community?
• File:StateathFedora.png State Atheism - Just because religions have been used to justify some pretty horrible things before doesn't mean they can't also be a source of genuine good for many people. Also, you're barely any different than the tyrannical File:Fundamentalism.png fundies you hate so much.
• File:Post-Genderism.png Postgenderism & File:Xenofeminism.png Xenofeminism - Look, transphobia and sexism are indeed very bad, but your idea on how to solve them is simply beyond stupid.
• File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png Authoritarian Conservatism - While you're right about the importance of traditions, your overbearing ways at enforcing them and general hostility to progressivism make me very concerned.
• File:Ford.png Fordism & File:Statlib.png State Liberalism - And let’s not forget that forcing an equally extreme (left-wing) cultural position down people’s throats is detrimental to our society’s conservative cultural foundation.
• File:Prim.png Primalism and File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png Post-Humanism - [comment removed by moderator]

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Pink Tory
• Pragmatic Conservatism
• Progressive Conservatism

Parties

• File:Cball-Canada.png Progressive Conservative Party of Canada File:CanadaProgCon.png
• File:Cball-Norway.png Høyre File:Hoyre.pngFile:Nordcon.png

Gallery

Portraits

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Comics/Artwork

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Alternative designs

• Flag of Progressive Traditionalism
  Flag of Progressive Traditionalism
• Flag of Traditional Progressivism
  Flag of Traditional Progressivism
• Flag of Yan Xishan Thought
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• Yan Xishan Thought
  Yan Xishan Thought
• Yan Xishan Thought 2
  Yan Xishan Thought 2
• Ultraprogressive Reactionaryism
  Ultraprogressive Reactionaryism