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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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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