The Progressives, Socialists and Marxists
The “Progressives and Socialists” are basically the same people: socialist-leaning liberals, which describes most Progressives these days. It’s possible that some of them might be pure socialists who don’t fully advocate their ideals for pragmatic reasons, though that still makes them progressives for all practical purposes. The somewhat vague right-wing concept of “Marxist” doesn’t describe anything real, so there are none of those. Don’t know about real Marxists.
have purposefully infected and now permeate throughout The US guv’mint,
“Infected” by… being open about their beliefs and getting elected legitimately? Also, “permeate” would be an exaggeration; there aren’t all that many right now (despite the media attention some of them get) and they don’t have any real ability to influence the Democratic Party, let alone the Government as a whole. You might as well say that Libertarians have “infected and permeated” the Republican party in the same fashion. I suppose you could count someone unelected but with a small degree of independent power like Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (who I don’t know enough about to say for certain is progressive, so I’m guessing here), but even that’s not (yet?) at the same level as the power wielded by the Federalists for whom “permeated” would be a rather accurate description when it comes to the Federal Courts.
They have preached and PREACHED about how “They” are going to make their behaviors and policies transparent! It is my firm conviction that “They” have finally achieved their lofty goal.
Isn’t that a good thing? Even from the position of them being your ideological enemies, wouldn’t you want to know everything they were doing? The only way this makes any sense is if you see that openness as a “we can do anything and you can’t stop us” (and if such a sentiment would be largely correct if anyone did intend it to mean that) or you suddenly changed subjects between sentences and accidentally omitted the new subject.
I wanted the world to be REAL…
I mean, as much as we can determine that anything is “real”, the world will not become any less real in either the physical or metaphysical senses of the word just because society and/or humanity changes into something different. But, if you’re starting to feel pangs of derealization because the world seems to be moving away from whatever you find safe and familiar and [if correct in that assessment, justifiably] fear it worsening as time goes on, then sucks to be you that is a serious problem and you should get help with that. It’s not everyone else’s responsibility to make the world revolve around your personal comforts.
entities who can choose to be anything they want to be
This is bad because…? It’s hard to tell if you consider this to be an unrealistic promise, or bad because that would mean people “going against what God created them to be”, or if you fear your descendants erasing your genetic contribution to and ending your genetic line. Or possibly ending some sort of abstract spiritual/cultural/legacy descendant line, or some combination of the above.
For the first, it remains to be seen. The second, I’m an atheist, so I don’t personally consider that relevant, otherwise no comment. The third, a mere 7 generations practically erases any meaningful genetic link, as (barring inbreeding or separate family lines incidentally crossing generations later) there is less than 1% contribution remaining, and that tiny fraction is going to have partially been erased by mutation and sometimes partially washed away by genetic drift. For the fourth, all legacies end eventually, but so long as a sufficiently detailed record exists, cultural legacies can at least potentially be picked up again further down the line.
Of course you (and those who descend from you) can still choose to be an unmodified human if that’s what you/they want to be. If you’re afraid of forced (or heavily coerced) conversion, that’s not at all in the spirit of what anyone’s aiming for. Barring a hegemonizing capture à la something like the Borg, anyway, but nobody wants *that* to happen, and even if it never is or can’t be reversed, that’s not really worse for your “line” than someone just dying of the plague or something. Though I suppose there’s a horror in the idea that you or such descendants will be treated as pets at best (and probably a lot worse), which seems me the kind of thing one only worries about if you’re the sort to treat “different” people as subhuman.
Get ready to enjoy your breakfast of mealworms and your hovel of mud and straw;
Don’t be ridiculous. No one’s going to force-feed you bugs just to gross you out or humiliate you. For pure economics reasons, maybe, but that would be a rather contrived scenario. Even in the worst dystopias, your hovel would be made of low-grade steel and low quality concrete, or maybe polystyrene or wood paste, any of which would ironically be cheaper to build and easier to maintain than mud and straw in that economy. Also I’m not sure how a society of “entities who can choose to be anything” would put up with that, especially considering that the dragons would just eat anyone who tried to go there. 😁