See more generally: Acceleration.
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"Progressive acceleration" has been used to refer to the acceleration of Progressive (Leftist) processes. The acceleration in instances in history has tended to end in a Thermidor.
"As Americans’ views on a range of issues change, leftists enact legal and institutional reforms. Each new round of reforms leads to massive changes in multiple social spheres. The reforms create both winners and losers but on net losers (and over time, more and more losers). They also increase the power of the reformers, generate rent-seeking constituencies, leave the institutional framework exposed to further reforms, and create new social problems (remember all those losers!) for reformers to try to solve." («Recipe for Reaction» 17f17.)
"Progressive" acceleration refers to acceleration in Leftism, . Progressive acceleration tends to produce "a huge pool of people who have been hurt in complicated ways by social degeneration, and thus have grievances against the Left." («Recipe for Reaction» 17f17).
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In the last two centuries elite political consensus has moved rapidly towards the Left. The pace is only accelerating. Radical theories go from absurdity to orthodoxy at ever-increasing speeds. Institutions forged to hold back the left are coopted so quickly that some of them seem to have been born pozz’d.
— «Memetic Lebensraum, Part 1 (Resisting Assimilation)» 1f17
Gottfried’s list of (actual) conservatives purged from the conservative movement also functions as a reading list of witnesses to everything the twentieth-century Right was failing to conserve.
— «Recipe for Reaction» 17f17
See related: Social decline; Leftism.