The Progressive Collective
A Critical Comparison Between a Political Movement and the Star Trek Borg
Antifa is a myth among intellectual giants with pea brains. In reality, this group is a highly coordinated assembly of mentally ill entities void of joy. Among other things, Antifa guards the entrance to drag queen shows to enable young children and their dopey parents to attend these evil events. Antifa creeps, which entirely resemble the Borg absent the goofy umbrellas, are the progressives’ police force, and it is a projection - they are the fascists.
Frederick R. Smith
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Foreword
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg Collective stands as one of science fiction’s starkest portrayals of totalizing control—a society where individuality is erased, personal history is stripped away, and each person becomes a mere component of a single, unyielding will. Their warning, “Resistance is futile,” is more than a threat; it is a declaration that identity itself no longer matters.
Modern progressive politics, at least in principle, seeks to expand rights, protect vulnerable groups, and build a more just society. Yet critics often draw comparisons between its methods and the Borg’s demand for collective thinking. These parallels suggest that progressive goals lead to destruction, and raise the question of how much the movement values ideological unity, group identity, and conformity of thought.
The Dimming of Individual Distinctiveness
The sharpest point of comparison lies in the tension between the individual and the collective. For the Borg, individuality gets treated as a flaw to be corrected; the Collective’s single voice replaces memories, personality, and free will.
Arguably, a similar dynamic can emerge within progressive circles. When social and political issues are filtered primarily through categories of race, gender, or sexuality, individuals may feel reduced to symbols of their groups. Personal experiences and independent moral judgment get overshadowed by a collective narrative that resists challenge. Those who question prevailing orthodoxy may be marginalized or silenced. In its stricter forms, the call for “solidarity” can resemble an expectation to think and speak in unison, leaving little room for dissent or individuality.
The Quest for a Perfect Order
The Borg pursue perfection through relentless acquisition of technology and elimination of anything inefficient, emotional, or unpredictable.
Progressive policy goals, in their own way, often rest on the belief that expert planning and centralized systems can deliver fairness and justice. Early progressives explicitly promoted governance by trained administrators, trusting experts to achieve outcomes that democratic debate might complicate. Contemporary versions pursue sweeping reforms—spanning equity, climate policy, education, and institutional structures—guided by technical expertise and regulatory authority.
The concern is not that these goals are inherently harmful, but that pursuing a perfected social order can foster intolerance toward alternative views. Training programs, mandated language, or broad institutional directives may give the impression that debate is a distraction—that “resistance” is not part of democratic life but an obstacle to progress.
Resistance Is Futile: When Politics Becomes Identity
The Borg’s mantra embodies their essence: opposition is not merely discouraged—it is impossible.
Critics see echoes of this when progressive activism fuses with personal identity. When political principles become inseparable from selfhood, disagreement can be cast not as a difference of opinion but as a moral failing. Those who resist specific ideas may be labeled backward, immoral, or complicit in injustice. Public shaming, deplatforming, and other forms of social punishment reinforce the sense that dissent is not only wrong but illegitimate. To critics, this suggests that some strands of progressive thought treat their conclusions as beyond debate—mirroring the Borg’s certainty that their path is the only rational one.
Reflection: Elements of the Borg Progressive
The above analysis notwithstanding, resistance is not futile! The following enumerates the contemporary Bogs’ weapons that we must work to expose, revealing what they are truly all about.
Literature in schools promoting sexual practices that are clearly “unnatural” (to say it nicely) are readily acceptable, defended, and even celebrated as a triumph of freedom of expression. Meanwhile, the Bible—a foundational text for morality and truth for many—is simultaneously being excluded or banned from the public sphere. At the same time, the sacred text gets effectively censored, signaling a cultural environment where sick-secular or transgressive values get embraced over traditional religious ones or even just plain old civil society. The Borg enemy today consists of a bunch of perverts.
Promoting gender identity in public life, including its incorporation into K-12 curricula, the implementation of non-discrimination laws protecting gender identity, and the adoption of the “affirmative care” model in so-called “health care,” is a concerted effort to normalize and encourage a funky-fluid view of the sex act and gender. Conversely, the forces that advocate for a natural, binary (natural law) view of sexuality and traditional family structures are actively repressed or prohibited. Efforts to promote biological reality in public settings are often met with legal challenges based on the Establishment Clause or are socially stigmatized as bigotry, leading to a profound conflict where one set of moral and biological values gets enshrined into institutions. Meanwhile, the natural goodness of the binary (heterosexuality) gets systemically marginalized. The Borg enemy today is a bunch of Frankenstein scientists who wish to make your children eunuchs.
The collective concept of non-existent borders is nothing more than a means to allow the unfettered flow of deadly drugs and the influx of criminals into the country. Progressives care more about the invaders than about the country’s citizens.1
Criminals get kid-glove treatment through cashless bail and early release. Repeated offenses are now commonplace, and up to and including murdering innocent people on public transit. The Borg mind-controlled crumb-bumbs say such things are “isolated incidents.” We will never see the Borg’s prime mover (CNN) report on the cry of the people who have lost loved ones due to this demonic and purposeful pogrom.
Universal basic income is the quintessential collective coup. It is a brilliant path to transhumanism where robots will do the work, and AI will think for the dumbed-down and lazy masses. Right before our eyes, the environmental movement is evaporating to generate the energy to make this transhuman ecosystem happen.
Burn-loot-mayahem (BLM) is considered a peaceful protest within the rubric of progressive collectives seeking to enshrine the Borg worldview. It gets viewed within the Borg’s subjects’ mushy minds as a noble form of civil disobedience. Meanwhile, to love the Constitution and the country is deemed sedition by the Borg collective.
Antifa is a myth among intellectual giants with pea brains. In reality, this group is a highly coordinated assembly of mentally ill entities void of joy. Among other things, Antifa guards the entrance to drag queen shows to enable young children and their dopey parents to attend these evil events. Antifa creeps, which entirely resemble the Borg absent the goofy umbrellas, are the progressives’ police force, and it is a projection - they are the fascists.
The mRNA fix - Borg’s nuclear option to enrol the masses. Facts get cancelled as directly related to the known deaths and maladies caused by this COVID “remedy.” It is a complete and perfect tool, as it blocks the mental acuity of progressives and others from comprehending what is occurring. Even non-Borg entities with credentials are duped and bribed with the showering of money to administer this witch’s brew of toxins. Let’s not forget who coined the term “operation warp drive.” Do you see it now, my dear MAGA friends? It does not matter how much of the downside of this wretched injection program sees the light of day, as the stock retort by the machine is to claim “conspiracy theory.”
Autism. See above.
“Didn’t Earn It” rewards go to select Borg-like people within the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework. The key component is equity, the Borg’s replacement for equality. In a sane world, it is equality, an element of Meritocracy, a system in which individuals get evaluated, rewarded, and advanced based on ability, talent, effort, and achievement rather than on wealth, social status, or identity. In theory, a meritocratic system promises equality of opportunity, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to succeed according to their merits. Often, equity is defined as adjusting outcomes or resources to compensate for differences in starting positions, creating a false sense of fairness. Thus, equity destroys true equality of opportunity—the core of merit-based fairness. Dear reader, if you travel by air or have a scheduled major surgery, do you really want DEI to be the governing factor? If you do, you are unquestionably fully assimilated into the Borg. DEI, properly ordered DIE, is another tool of the progressive Borg pus to enshrine their creepy-crappy-crummy common-ist goals.
A never-ending phobia makes any semblance of debate and discussion vanish. Dare to whisper about the natural goodness of monogamous heterosexual marriage and face the homophobic slur. Discuss the facts of terrorism, and here comes the Islamophobia slur. Talk about the horrors of the “gender affirmation” pogrom and how it mutilates children, and we get the transphobe tort. The list goes on and on. “Phobia” is the Borg’s quintessential linguistic tool.
Fairness and compassion under the false pretence of socialism constitute a Borg psychosis for collective consumption. Socialism inevitably fails because it undermines the link between work and reward, which saps individual motivation and productivity. Once everyone receives the same, regardless of effort, innovation, and diligence, decline sets in, leading to stagnation, declining standards, and ultimately economic collapse. Socialism and all other forms of collectivism repeatedly fail not because of flawed leadership, but because their core structures conflict with human nature and financial reality, turning well-meaning ideals into cycles of dependency, scarcity, and loss of freedom. Despite the failures of commonist goals, the dopey masses feel good about this crapola, even though their own “leaders” like burning Burnie that they worship constitute the rich who rule and have abundance. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” It’s George Orwell’s satirical way of showing how regimes that claim to promote equality often create new hierarchies and privileges for those in power.
The list goes on and on: “you are racist,” defund the police, money (worthless), environmentalism, affordability, victimology, abortion. These are all sacraments and sacramentals of the Borg collective. Cast aside the shackles of this pogrom.
Conclusion
Equating progressivism with the Borg is a dramatic, if exaggerated, analogy. But keep in mind, the Borg conquer and enslave, while progressive politics seems to seek “equity.” Yet the comparison carries a warning: movements that emphasize unity, efficiency, and ideological conformity risk suppressing the independence essential to a free society.
The Borg illustrate what happens when individuality vanishes. Their collective is anything but utopian, serving instead as a reminder of how harmony can slip into uniformity and how shared purpose can drown out personal voices. The strength of the analogy lies in its caution: healthy societies depend on a balance between community goals and individual freedoms. When one overwhelms the other, the equilibrium that sustains a genuinely liberal order begins to falter.
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Until recently, our southern border was no longer simply “porous”; in practice, it operated with minimal effective control. Since 2021, millions of unauthorized (illegal) migrants (a.k.la. undocumented visitors) have entered the country, many of them adults traveling alone, raising legitimate questions about screening, enforcement, and national security. This situation is not merely a matter of bureaucratic missteps. It reflects a political approach that uses large-scale migration to reshape the electorate and the long-term balance of power—framed publicly in humanitarian terms, but carrying profound civic consequences. With the change in administration, however, the Trump team has moved to halt the influx and reestablish operational control, demonstrating that the flow can in fact be stopped when federal policy prioritizes enforcement.
De-fund the police, the Antifa become the police Interestingly, it appears that people subscribing to Borgism are reproducing at well below the required 2.1 per female, while those living traditional religious and family lives are reproducing above it. The Borg seem to be erasing themselves.
Excellent post Frederick! Comparing how fiction is actually a chilling reality!