Theodore Roosevelt was the first Progressive. He was a Republican. Now don’t get me wrong, he was a good, decent
man who wouldn’t be allowed inside of the Republican National Headquarters
today.
Long about the Clinton era if memory serves, the Democrats began to call themselves Progressives. It seems that this was done so as to become more credible to the Right - which is a bit like a man whose wife married against her parents’ wishes trying to become credible to his mother-in-law. To me the label “Progressive” means that we have all become Roosevelt Republicans and not Roosevelt Democrats.
FDR was a Liberal. JFK and RFK were Liberals. Teddy was a Liberal, and Bernie Sanders is a Liberal. That’s good enough for me.
I have become totally outraged at this slide of hand, this hiding of the great Liberal Cause like soiled underwear behind a word we don’t own. If in point of fact, we are to be altered, alienated and abridged by the Democratic Party machine then we should consider sliding on over to the Green Party. Here endth the rant.
Long about the Clinton era if memory serves, the Democrats began to call themselves Progressives. It seems that this was done so as to become more credible to the Right - which is a bit like a man whose wife married against her parents’ wishes trying to become credible to his mother-in-law. To me the label “Progressive” means that we have all become Roosevelt Republicans and not Roosevelt Democrats.
FDR was a Liberal. JFK and RFK were Liberals. Teddy was a Liberal, and Bernie Sanders is a Liberal. That’s good enough for me.
I have become totally outraged at this slide of hand, this hiding of the great Liberal Cause like soiled underwear behind a word we don’t own. If in point of fact, we are to be altered, alienated and abridged by the Democratic Party machine then we should consider sliding on over to the Green Party. Here endth the rant.
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