"Progressives" don't want progress

I'm reading this anti American stuff with a link gotten from Drudge.

It occurred to me from reading it that the so-called progressives really don't like progress very much.  Everything that has happened to the betterment of mankind has been blocked by these people at some point.  The same goes for nuclear power.

Look, I'm reading this book about the oil industry.  There can be no doubt that the oil industry has improved the hell out of living conditions.  But the people who made it happen were treated as villains by these so-called progressives.  If it were up to them, we'd all still be getting around by horse and buggy, and living shorter lives.

The beef I have with the rich is that they don't do even more of it.  But you can understand the reason they don't.  If you are going to be treated as a villain, why bother?  In the end, everybody holds on to what they've got and the wealth of the nation begins to ebb away, little-by-little.  A caste structure begins to take shape, which takes the place of upward mobility.  The left desperately needs this outcome so that they can continue to control everything and make everyone miserable with all their do-goodery.