Definitions

Because you can't be fighting like hell to maintain the status quo while calling yourself progressive.

From Dictionary.com:

pro·gres·sive:  favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.

Status quo

the existing state or condition.

TheFreeDictionary Thesaurus

regressive - opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
backward - directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
progressive - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools