I can think of two prominent examples of incoherent contradictions within modern progressivism:

1.) favoring a liberal (open) immigration policy WHILE promoting generous social benefits, single-payer healthcare, housing & unemployment assistance, etc. NO COUNTRY has been able to maintain both (it is literally impossible) and the countries which create a generous social safety net IMMEDIATELY make themselves more restrictive on immigration. If the reasons why aren’t obvious to you please just think about it for 5 minutes… and pretend that you’re a regular working class person (because if you advocate both of these things you’re almost certainly not).

2.) favoring surgeries, prescriptions, and cosmetic procedures to modify primary and secondary sex characteristics for people who identify as trans WHILE advocating for single-payer health systems (where the government pays for all medical care). This betrays a profound understanding of scarcity and other basic economic principles and these two goals would eventually be in tension: ALL countries with single-payer health systems have become deeply skeptical of the GD phenomenon and the claims of trans activists as the rates of disorder have zoomed upwards.

There is simply not enough wealth for all of these things to be achieved simultaneously for very long. People who believe there is are refusing to recognize scarcity and necessary trade-offs.

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