Stratification is the antithesis of the Progressive agenda.
Stratification is THE primary strategy of Progressives. You divide up everyone into categories then define what they can and can't do based on those categories. You define what is politically correct and what is acceptable speech based on those categories.
The Progressive ideology has absolutely nothing to do with individual empowerment, it gives lots of pretty words but the actions do the exact opposite of those words. It creates slaves to the Progressive ideology with the goal of, eventually, doing away with all national borders and identity in favor of a singular government.
Split people into identity based groups, turn them against each other with promise's to each one to help against the others. Once the society is in turmoil, offer to create a new unified society under unconditional Progressive ideology. It's been going on for decades and is known as the "Long March Through the Institutions".
For those wondering WTF I'm talking about, early in the Communistic movement there was a group that studied why the western nations didn't join in the Communistic movement. Why did the individual workers, the proletariat, not identify with other workers in other countries to throw off the shackles of the capitalistic owner class. Turns out that those workers had stronger ties to their national and religious identity then they did to their socioeconomic class. No revolution could take place as long as the popular culture in the country supported strong religious and nationalistic identities. Basically as long as Americans thought of themselves as Americans first and working class second, they would never join with the working class of other countries to overthrow the capitalistic owner class. Thus the response strategy was formulated that the only way to accomplish this was to change a countries culture, one institution at a time, so that it no longer held strong nationalistic or religious ties, and in fact would view both of those as antiquated and useless. To create a new culture were people identified with race and socioeconomic class before their nationality and replace religion with political ideology so that they could be easily convinced to overthrow the capitalistic class and usher in a Communistic revolution.
I'm not shitting people, that's the actual plan that happened sometime during WWII before the cold war. It was the plan the Soviets followed throughout the cold war with the subversion of various university professors and media personals into the progressive ideology. Even after the Soviet Union fell the effects and goal of those idea's live on and have taken on a life all their own. People actually believe the *** the Communists were selling them and turned it into a platform of the Democrat party. Actual liberal ideas of personal responsibility and express of the individual were pushed aside in favor of identity based political strategies designed to turn individual groups of the proletariat against the capital owning class. That was decades ago and hasn't changed.
Here is another tidbit, originally Hitler and his Nazi party was very friendly with the German Communist movement, the ones that started all this. Hitler used their idea's to win political support in Germany and once he had power, he then persecuted them and they fled to Columbia University (yes that one). He didn't want them in his nation to push their ***on his people.
Anyhow the Progressive movement is just bad business. It creates nothing but strife and war because its' designed to do that. It's an ideology designed to break down a nation and render it vulnerable to a revolution sponsored by an outside entity. This isn't to be confused with liberal ideology which is something much different.