This is an edited version of a diary posted months ago, when batshit-crazy Rand Paul won the Senatorial primary in KY. With the Rand Daddy now garnering praise from erstwhile thoughtful people including Bill Mahar, Cornel West, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, it seems more pertinent than ever that we ACTUALLY LOOK AT HIS...
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is not what Progressives do. On the contrary, it’s how major-party operatives, and those who seek to be, have co-opted, fear mongered, and quashed populist movements – like the Progressive Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – out of existence.
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The Progressive Era flourished from the 1890s to 1920s. Then as now, true Progressives questioned and ultimately chastened the major parties which were complicit in the oppression of American families and workers. The same two parties which are complicit in that very oppresion today.
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The energy resulting from my protest was used by you Democrats to regain political power. Four years later and a change of Executive, this nation is still mired in Arab countries waging a war against Arabs of all, or no, faith. Now brought to us by the Blue Team.
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Are you ready to join Cindy Sheehan, Jill Stein, Cornel West, Richard Winger, David Swanson, United Progressives, and the NPA's small corps of Volunteers in promoting electoral activism, and in uniting Progressives hungry to lead America - as long as we're in it anyway - into the 21st Century?
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Most of the rest of the civilized world has recognized that citizens-first social democracies are light years ahead of rightist, top-down, profit-first states. Most of us in the U.S. have realized it, too. Yet we’re allowing that knowledge - even as it becomes more and more intuitive! - to be subverted by a small...
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Want to stir up a hornet's nest? Just suggest boycotting an election – say, the upcoming midterms – to any dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Funny, though: Boycotting an election doesn't seem to scare the Burmese, despite their rulership by a military junta.
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Lefties tired of being demonized by the Fundamentalist Fringe should get religion.
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There is one clear difference between this president and that one.
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Robert Gibbs has given the president a perfectly timed opportunity to make Changes We Can Believe In.
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