Type 4: "Progressive"

Democracy has passed into the abnoxious worldview of the politically correct modernist, where truth is routinely murdered and people are ridiculed for their beliefs. Politics has become so vastly compromised that all mainstream parties feel the need to self-censor and conform to the degenerate assumptions of the Progressive. The result is political brand loyalty hokum, partisan roll playing and spin doctoring bunk in which a de facto one party state hands off leaders in an election every four years.

Mindset: Government cannot be all things to all people, however I support all the existing unproductive government programs because I am a compassionate and tolerant person. And tolerance is the highest of high temple virtues.

Resulting Government: De facto one party state - Liberal Labour Tory, same old Big Government story. All levels of government all told take about half of our earnings to pay for whatever it is they do, plus about 17 cents each to run the monarchy.

Intellectual: The brilliant Aldous Huxley long ago predicted our dystopia in Brave New World, where (and I'm paraphrasing here) humanity is carefree, healthy and technologically advanced; where warfare and poverty have been eliminated in the West and everyone is permanently happy due to government-provided stimulation, which is achieved by social engineering and eliminating things once considered central to our identity — family, history, culture, art, literature, science, religion and philosophy. The hedonist nihilism of society beckons toward a painless, amusement-sodden, and stress-free consensus rendering a truly blissed-out and vacant servitude where no serious history is taught or remembered. Read Christopher Hitchens on why Americans are not taught history.

Manifestations: Religious secularism, postmodernism, materialism, utilitarianism, cosmopolitanism, transnational progressivism, moral relativism, multiculturalism, Gorish environmentalism, peacekeeping pacifism, nihilism, narcisism... socially, it's 'Cool Britannia', our poisonous mingled celeb culture and ageing rock stars like Sir John Elton, Sir Mick Jaegar and other esteemed nobles of the 'Aristorockracy'; it's globe-trotting 'starchitects' with their abnoxious designs; it's the institutionalization of the 'Bob and Doug MacKenzie' "I-Am-Canadian" beer commercials mentality, etc. where not taking anything too seriously represents the highest form of sophistication. It's politicians who embrace our proseltyzing gay culture in public by marching in parades/riding on floats to show how tolerant they are. Politicians who don't ride in gay floats or engage in ethnic pandering are considered to be ipso facto homophobic and racist.

Poll Question: Do you favour getting rid of the Queen? Response: "We have a Queen??? Yes, I support getting rid of the Queen." Anectodal: Staffers of former Prime Minister Paul Martin who were aware we have a Queen and a Queen's representative were reported to have shown up at the residence of the Governor-General in jeans and sneakers to meet with Her Excellency. I guess they didn't think much of the position.

Practitioners: Bill Clinton, Paul Keating, Tony Blair, Paul Martin, Jean Chretien, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark, Pierre Trudeau, ...you get the idea. It's the forever young Bono crowd (remember Trudeau meeting Lenon), the need to be modern, hip and cool. Barbara Streisand eat your heart out.

Contemporary: With few exceptions, this mindset is shared more or less by all modern day politicians, mainstream media and popular culture icons...Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Kevin Rudd, Helen Clark, Nicolas Sarkozy, Romano Prodi, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, Dalton McGuinty...though there does seem to be a welcome retreating of late in regards to multiculturalism, 'human rights' and Sharia Law.

Not Included: Obviously the Teddy Roosevelt who pronounced himself a 'Progressive' a century ago is a very different thing to what we have today. Modern day exceptions to the 'type 4' mindset might be George Bush, John Howard, Stephen Harper and Jacques Chirac, though they all lead governments that result in marginal difference from the status quo.

Comments: This political mindset that lends itself to compassionate, tolerant, mediocre and decadent statism cannot be broken over night, only bent ever so slightly over time. What we have today is nothing more than Machiavellian partisan gangism/gangsterism organized for the selfish purpose of winning power and to take the reigns of the modern super state. No real principles here, mainly just power for power's sake.