“Well...from your lofty place...what are YOU going to do about it?”
I’m gonna complain to my elders and wait for them to take care of me. After all that is what they taught me to do.
“BTW, it’s been growing for over 100 years.”
The progressive movement can be traced back that far. It wasn’t really a power until the last 50 years though.
The progressive movement can be traced back that far. It wasn’t really a power until the last 50 years though.
You're both right, though I would date the "progressive movement" back to FDR. The last innocent[1] President we had was President Taft. His successor, reelected on the basis of "He Kept Us Out Of War!!!", gave us World War I, the Federal Reserve and the IRS. The only president who tried to reverse any of that was President Kennedy, who was assassinated a few months after attempting to restore silver notes by executive order. A close second was President Reagan and he suffered a nearly successful assassination attempt as well.
[1] Innocent meaning - not trying to expand the power of the Federal Government.