Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Australian law professor Mirko Bagaric, a utilitarian, wonders why progressives are so vile. I've wondered that myself, having been smeared by them repeatedly since coming out as a conservative. I think it's because progressives haven't grown up. Like children, they live in fantasy land. When they don't get their way, they resort to name-calling, bullying, lying, hooliganism, and other forms of juvenile misconduct. As for the direction of causation, I think it's clear: Progressivism doesn't cause vile behavior; rather, those suffering from arrested emotional development gravitate to progressivism, which rewards, enables, and encourages it.