EN FR TR Reflections on Global Change: Why Modern Elites Fail and Systems Must Be Restructured The Paradox of Progressive Thought Recently, a notable tendency has emerged among progressive American intellectuals . These intellectuals have sought to "challenge" the prevailing paradigms by remaining within the confines of established patterns of thought, thereby perpetuating the established system. However, it is hypothesised that such endeavors have precipitated an intellectual "skidding" within their own "ethos". This is due to the fact that the manner in which these intellectuals approach the profound structural roots of the problems and the complex consequences that can be argued to arise from them remains exceedingly "superficial", thereby engendering a certain "paradox". The present author's position is that the primary cause of the present crisis of the Democratic Party is the paradoxical si...