Distributist Progressivism

Distributist Progressivism is a center-left ideology. He supports the widespread ownership of wealth-generating property, human rights, and a market economy. His parents are  and.

Beliefs
Distributist Progressivism believes the promotion of self-reliance and small-scale commercial activity is necessary for sustaining human rights and republicanism. (Human rights being both negative liberties and positive liberties.) He sees smaller firms as more innovative, greener, and friendlier to worker's rights; bigger firms, however, corrupt institutions, breed stagnation, are less accountable to workers, and give moneyed interests the loudest voices. As such, he advocates for an enviornment which allows small businesses, worker cooperatives, and local farmers to thrive while discouraging large concentrations in wealth. To achieve this vision, Distributist Progressivism advocates for measures like:
 * Strong(er) anti-trust laws with strict(er) enforcement (trust busting).
 * A tax on the unimproved value of land (land value taxation).
 * Subsidies for small-scale farmers, entrepreneurs, and worker co-ops.
 * Taxing contracts to discourage buying out small businesses.
 * Implementation of a basic income.
 * The abolition or drastic reforms of privleges like limited liabilty or patents.

Many Distributist Progressives are supporters of agrarianism; either idealizing self-reliant farmers, viewing rural societies as stronger and virtuous, or both. Some, though not all, Distributist Progressives are also supporters of an interventionist foreign policy, namely to promote human rights, democracy, and national interests abroad.

The Democratic-Republican Party (1790-1845)
The Democratic-Republican Party was founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to oppose Alexander Hamilton's policies. They were opposed to industrialization,  central banking (usually), and  protectionism (outside of war). They supported republicanism,  universal suffrage,  local-level production, and  free trade. Their strongest supporters were small farmers, low-level merchants, and craftsmen.

Thomas Jefferson called for maximizing financial independence. For a society where people are dependent on employers for survival will corrupt republican institutions. Wealthy industrialists will have the loudest voices, influencing their dependent workers into supporting their causes, buying out politicians, etc. Jefferson also predicted industrialization would force Americans to endure immense psychological suffering and less overall autonomy. Jefferson's solution was to promote the yeoman farmer—those who own their own farmland and subsist on it without external subversion. He also supported decentralized welfarism,  land-value taxation, opposed  central banking, and funded (debatably)  Robert Owens. At one point he introduced a measure into the Virginian constitution guaranteeing every Virginian 50 acres of land. Being the natural physiocrat he was, he supported free trade.

Jefferson's attacks on the Industrial Revolution and his agriculture-based solution would be mirrored, though likely unintentionally, by neo-Luddists like  Theodore Kaczynski centuries later. LibLeft ideologues would later claim Jefferson as one of their own. This includes Benjamin Tucker, who called himself an "unterrified Jeffersonian democrat."

The War of 1812 convinced James Madison of the need for a central bank and federal public works. But as President and working within Virginia's government, he pushed for universal suffrage, land grants for small farmers, and expanded American territory after Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Andrew Jackson as President of the United States would:
 * Dissolve the National Bank in favor of a decentralized banking system.
 * Expand voting rights to all white men, ending the property requirements favored by [[File:Hamiltonianism.png]] Federalists like Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
 * Promote free trade (apart from war-related tariffs which sparked the Nullification Crisis).
 * Push for westward expansion to give farmers more land to acquire and subsist on. The yeoman farmer ideal played a significant role in [[File:Imp.png]] Manifest Destiny.

Though an Independent like Benjamin Franklin,  Thomas Paine's vision for society was similar to Jefferson's. He viewed economic equality as essential to sustaining a republican system, which he defined as freedom from domination. He thus called for widespread ownership of productive property. In Agrarian Justice, Paine discusses how Indian tribes have no poverty—that their work is akin to play, that starvation doesn't exist food is available to all, and that they lead more fulfilling lives—and attributes this to them treating land and natural resources as common property. (His apparent admiration for indigenous Americans echoed later anarcho-primitivist appraisal of hunter-gathering societies.) To achieve the same thing in a modern context he proposed a tax on land. If one were to occupy or use land, they would pay a tax for excluding others from it. The revenue derived from that tax would fund a basic income—justice for denying to others what rightfully belongs to all.

The Progressive Era (1896-1918)
W.I.P.

Personality and Behavior
Distributist Progressivism can be depicted as irreligious or even a secularist. But he can also be depicted as a stoner Christian who believes marijuana can bring one closer to God and aren't sinful; as such, against the discretion of his uncle Classical Distributism, he can be seen with  Rastafarian Theocracy. He's also more revolutionary and violent than his pacifist aunt  due to his association with , another friend his uncle hates. Otherwise his personality is a combination of  and.

Stylistic Notes
Distributist Progressivism can be portrayed with red eyes like, a straw hat like  , or both.

How to Draw

 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) Draw a line in lime green (#32CD32) vertically on the leftmost third and fill it in. The rest of the ball should be white.
 * 3) Draw a hound in grey (#B0B4BC) carrying either a torch (#898E95) with green flames stretching leftwards (#32CD32) or the black [[File:Progress.png]] Progressive umbrella (#000000).
 * 4) Add the eyes and you're all set. As said before, you can make them red like [[File:Soul.png]] Soulism and/or add a straw hat like [[File:Farm.png]] Agrarianism.

Friends

 * [[File:Jeffersondem2.png]] - Mom.
 * [[File:NatProg.png]] - Dad.
 * [[File:ClassDistr.png]] - My strict, religious uncle.
 * [[File:Andist.png]] - My crazy aunt. My uncle can't annul their marriage.
 * [[File:SocDist.png]] Social Distributism - My more radical younger brother who likes crypto currency.
 * [[File:Distlib.png]] - My older, less statist brother who shares my love for small businesses and weed.
 * [[File:Jacksonian_Democracy.png]] - My deranged grandpa.
 * [[File:Georgist.png]] - I can start my own weed farm when you make the land so cheap!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Woodrow.png]] Wilsonianism - You continued and even expanded upon my father's legacy. But I'm not too big on central banking.