Is Rep. Sciortino against Individuals but favors big government?

Recently representative Sciortino emphasis his high score with Progressive Mass on the Town Square Board. Rep Sciortino believes like many of the left today that call themselves “progressive,” and they do so not just because it’s a nicer way of saying “liberal,” but also because they very much intend to revive the political principles of America’s original Progressives, from the Progressive Era of the 1880s through World War I.  America’s original Progressives were also its original, big-government liberals.

The Progressives detested the bedrock principles of American government.  They detested the Declaration of Independence, which enshrines the protection of individual natural rights (like property) as the unchangeable purpose of government; and they detested the Constitution, which places permanent limits on the scope of government and is structured in a way that makes the extension of national power beyond its original purpose very difficult.  “Progressivism” was, for them, all about progressing, or moving beyond, the principles of our founders.  It seems, by Rep. Sciortino extremely high score with Progressive Mass, he wants to control people not allow the people to be free individuals.