My idea of progress are governments that operate for the people in a manner that is characterized by its rationality, humanity and compassion, openness and accessibility, lack of extreme ideology, absence of superstition, paucity of magical thinking, and total absolute sanitation against corruptions actual or optical. These governments should only err militantly on the side of peace, liberty, and equality when conflicts of interest between constituents and outside corporate or oligarchical interests are raised, and yet, statistical research conducted in recent years on policy outcomes say that over 80% of the time this conflict comes up, the constituents lose in US policy.