http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Just Call themselves Communists and be done with it.
This started out as a good piece on the reason for the 'Rats midterm defeat.
But, there they go again; government creates "stuff".
The main difference between Progressives and Conservatives.
And what’s Salon trading at these days? Anything higher than penny junk?
Another thing that kept turnout low in 1942 was that Democrats in Mississippi and other parts of the South would not let black people vote.
I can't believe Salon readers agree so strongly with this article.
Shocked, I tell ya.
" We are the ones we have been waiting for."
It should be mandatory that all commie 'RATs infesting this country wear clown suits and clown makeup at all times.
The Left alliance of Marxists and Fascists continues inside the governing philosophy of “progressives”, which is, “we just need permanent government organs to regulate and decide things, away from the political tug and pull of democracy”.
You’re correct. The article starts with a decent exposition of Democrats problems and leadership issues. But it fails to ask the question of how a “big government” party can ever avoid the corruption and crony-capitalism of big government.
Some of the comments from Democrats in the article are quite common-sense. Rail against Wall Street, but then take them as your top advisors? Talk constantly about racial division, but then invite Al Sharpton to the White House 60 times?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Just Call themselves Communists and be done with it.
180 degrees out of phase ... as usual
This is bizarre. Progressives have gotten everything they want, with a Marxist President, the Senate, and John Bonehead leading the GOPe. When Americans are beginning to wake up and reject the Marxist agenda, they somehow need to change the Democrats.
What slays me is that white people, who progressives slander as "privileged" i.e. racist, continue to vote for these screwballs and fraudsters. Why?
Dem elites hate white people. They probably hate most of their constituency. But they make a point of smearing white people, especially white males. And white people continue to vote for them. Unbelievable.
“The main difference between Progressives and Conservatives. [that Government creates stuff]”
Unfortunately, that’s not even close to the main difference.
I wish it were.
In the Beginning there was Government
The Middle Class was without form and void
I like the prospective of Progressives having no power. They do not wear it well when they do have it.
Every lesson that can be drawn from the daily lives in which we are all immersed, they take away exactly the wrong conclusion. Strong government is the antithesis of the growth of this chimerical and mysterious “middle class” of which the Progressives speak. There is a very real “middle class”, made up of entrepreneurs, producers and distributors of the goods and services which are available to all for the mere business of making honest and fair exchanges in the marketplace. But this apparently unfettered expression of capitalistic practice is anathema to the Progressive mindset. The entrepreneurs and producers must be replaced with government-hired service people, paper shufflers who provide not one whit of “value-added” content to the exchanges, and are accorded a wage scale which may or may not reflect actual value contributed to the greater benefit of society as a whole.
Wow. Bill Curry is writing stuff now? He was a miserable excuse for a gov candidate in CT. If I recall he came in a distant third behind Weicker and Rowland, even risking the Dems’ major party standing in what is now a VERY blue state.
Of course, Malloy is the 2000s version of Curry, and the Republicans are somewhere to the left of Ella Grasso these days.
You could rewrite that article substituting conservative for progressive and it would read like many posts here on freerepublic.
I got bored after a few paragraphs. Didn’t Salon go broke? Judging from their list of articles, they’re just obnoxious left-wing whiners.
Since the 19th century, progressive movements have created the blueprints and the public groundswells needed to enact them. Can progressives build such a movement in this century? They can do it but they’ll have to take a time-out from electoral politics. They must declare their independence from the Democratic Party, its ineffectual politics and its current, clueless leaders.
“But, there they go again; government creates “stuff”. The main difference between Progressives and Conservatives.”
The low-level progressives see the same problems as the TEA party. It’s just that they have this unshakable faith that if they just elected the right people and gave them all the power and money they need, things would get better. The reality is, rulers with all the power and money they need will invariably turn into crony corporatist/unionists/planned parenthoodists/race baiters (i.e. fascists) in America because the corporations/unions/NGO’s/race hucksters are the ones with enough money to buy the use of the power and money.
To date, Obama is the apotheosis of progressivism precisely because his followers gave him control of more money and power than any American has previously known. And he shamelessly sold out to wall street, green energy, big labor, big racism and others. Were Warren to be elected, she would be a new apotheosis for them. But they view what they have wrought and scream “that wasn’t what we meant.” No, it wasn’t. But that’s what they will always get because more money and power to people who command the army and police will always end up in a similar place.
OTOH, the high-level progressives who run the show know exactly what they are doing and Dante needs to invent another ring of Hell for them. What they got was exactly what they wanted—control over money, power, and the lives of Americans.
Interesting that this far-left publication is admitting that the government shutdown did nothing to hurt Republicans.
Once again proving that today's po9litical conflict is less about liberal vs conservative or Democrat vs Republican, but about Washington vs The Rest of Us.