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As a species we need a mix of progressive and conservative people. Progressives act as a sort of antennae force finding new ways to approach the world while conservatives are there for if we progress in a way that is ultimately harmful. Finding the right balance and control system is the hard part, not fitting everyone into a progressive or conservative ideology
We need less progressives and less conservatives. What we need more of is radicals.
You're thinking in terms of political ideology a radical progressive is someone taking out all the stops to fix things. It's a bell curve not a checkbox saying what alignment you are
"Progressive" is merely another word for reformist... ie, people who will (at best) achieve absolutely nothing except the continuation of "business as usual."
What meagre labor protections (for instance) the working class in the west has wasn't won because of reformists... it was won in spite of them by militant and thoroughly radical labor organising.