By Steve Eichler ——Bio and Archives--July 26, 2025

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When progressive ideals kill the soul of a free society, all that is left are the dry bones of a once great republic. So have the Progressive ideals, which strove to change what they perceived as marginalized and unjust systems, now metastasized into something darker and deeply destructive.

What was once a cultural and political force striving toward redefining social justice has morphed into a kind of ideological crusade, one that is no longer building society but dismantling it. America is now witnessing a seismic shift: not progress, but socialcide.

What Is Socialcide? It is an invented word that means the killing of the soul of society through the use of antithetical measures thought to be productive.

Socialcide is not a single event but a process, the slow, often celebrated unraveling of civil society. It happens when civil discourse collapses under the weight of ideological polarization. It thrives when misinformation is used as a political bludgeon, when communities are divided by race, gender, or class instead of unified through common values, and when institutions built to educate, heal, and support are hollowed out and repurposed for power struggles and to replace fecund achievement with inclusion rather than earned merit.

It is the death of a society not by sword or bomb, but by self-inflicted erosion of trust, civility, and shared........

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